Sporulation and enterotoxin production by mutants of Clostridium perfringens.

abstract：:The genetic marker for sulfadiazine resistance was transferred by means of purified deoxyribonucleic acid from sulfadiazine-resistant Neisseria meningitidis and N. perflava to a sulfadiazine-sensitive strain of N. meningitidis. Over 80% of the isolates from these experiments, selected on the basis of sulfadiazine resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physical arrangement of cell envelope components leads to the exposure of selected structural motifs which in turn may influence host-parasite interactions. To gain insight into the exposed epitopes, the present study describes a flow cytometric method designed to probe defined molecules on dispersed mycobacteria....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ozanne V,Ortalo-Magne A,Vercellone A,Fournie JJ,Daffe M

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterocyst development was analyzed in mutants of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 bearing inactivated cox2 and/or cox3 genes, encoding heterocyst-specific terminal respiratory oxidases. At the morphological level, the cox2 cox3 double mutant (strain CSAV141) was impaired in membrane ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valladares A,Maldener I,Muro-Pastor AM,Flores E,Herrero A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay modeled on a known polymorphism in the PE_PGRS9 gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was designed to assess the mutability of a sequence containing interspersed PGRS repeats. Application of the assay in Mycobacterium smegmatis revealed sequence plasticity: in addition to recapitulating the mutation on which it ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Machowski EE,Barichievy S,Springer B,Durbach SI,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions in the rpoBC region have been transferred to phage lambda and characterized in detail by genetic, structural, and functional tests. We thus extend and confirm knowledge of the organization of this part of the chromosome. The new phages are useful tools for studying the genes for the bacterial transcription a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Linn T,Goman M,Scaife J

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citrate utilization (Cit+) transposon Tn3411 was shown to be flanked by directly repeated sequences (IS3411L and IS3411R) by restriction enzyme analysis and electron microscope observation. Cit- deletion mutants were frequently found to be generated in pBR322::Tn3411 by intramolecular recombination between the two...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishiguro N,Sato G

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the fact that phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) activity has been measured and in some cases even purified from some Archaea, the gene responsible for this activity has not been elucidated. Using sensitive sequence comparison methods, we detected a highly conserved, uncharacterized archaeal gene family th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ettema TJ,Makarova KS,Jellema GL,Gierman HJ,Koonin EV,Huynen MA,de Vos WM,van der Oost J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Youmans, Anne S. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.) and Guy P. Youmans. Effect of mycosuppressin on the respiration and growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Bacteriol. 84:708-715. 1962.-A substance, called mycosuppressin, was found in the lungs of guinea pigs and rabbits vaccinated with BCG or...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： YOUMANS AS,YOUMANS GP

更新日期：1962-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enterohepatic Helicobacter species Helicobacter hepaticus colonizes the murine intestinal and hepatobiliary tract and is associated with chronic intestinal inflammation, gall stone formation, hepatitis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. Thus far, the role of H. hepaticus motility and flagella in intestinal colonizatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sterzenbach T,Bartonickova L,Behrens W,Brenneke B,Schulze J,Kops F,Chin EY,Katzowitsch E,Schauer DB,Fox JG,Suerbaum S,Josenhans C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli the SOS response, induced by DNA-damaging treatments, includes two systems of cell division inhibition, SfiA and SfiC, which are thought to prevent cell division by interacting with the division protein FtsZ. It is shown here that SfiA-mediated division inhibition is readily reversible, even in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maguin E,Lutkenhaus J,D'Ari R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas vesicles, isolated from lysed Halobacterium halobium cells, gave an amino acid analysis which accounted for 78% of the weight, and the balance was mainly salt and water. One percent of tightly bound d-galactose was found, as well as 2% of phosphate that was not released by treatment which promotes beta-elimination...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krantz MJ,Ballou CE

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-dependent exonuclease activity was produced by sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis 168. Nuclease activity was released into the culture medium at approximately the same time as sporulation proteases, and production of these enzymes was tied to DNA replication. Results suggest that nuclease production is a f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burke WF Jr,Slinker BS

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of plasmid gene cadB did not affect Cd2+ accumulation, whereas plasmid gene cadA reduced Cd2+ accumulation by whole cells but not by membrane vesicles. Membrane vesicle studies indicated that Cd2+ uptake occurred via the Mn2+ transport system which was energized by the membrane electrical potential. Mn2+ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perry RD,Silver S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercoiled double-stranded DNA molecules (plasmids) were isolated from plants infected with three laboratory strains of western aster yellows mycoplasma-like organism (AY-MLO) by using cesium chloride-ethidium bromide density gradients. Southern blot analysis, using plasmids from the severe strain of AY-MLO (SAY-MLO)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuske CR,Kirkpatrick BC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms protecting nitrogenase in Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus from damage by oxygen were studied. Evidence is provided suggesting that in G. diazotrophicus these mechanisms include respiratory protection as well as conformational protection in which a putative FeSII Shethna protein is involved. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ureta A,Nordlund S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugative plasmid pTR2030 has been used extensively to confer phage resistance in commercial Lactococcus starter cultures. The plasmid harbors a 16-kb region, flanked by insertion sequence (IS) elements, that encodes the restriction/modification system LlaI and carries an abortive infection gene, abiA. The AbiA ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Durmaz E,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SigB is an alternative sigma factor that controls a large regulon in Staphylococcus aureus. Activation of SigB requires RsbU, a protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C)-type phosphatase. In a closely related organism, Bacillus subtilis, RsbU activity is stimulated upon interaction with RsbT, a kinase, which following an activati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pané-Farré J,Jonas B,Hardwick SW,Gronau K,Lewis RJ,Hecker M,Engelmann S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens food poisoning is caused by type A isolates carrying a chromosomal enterotoxin (cpe) gene (C-cpe), while C. perfringens-associated non-food-borne gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are caused by isolates carrying a plasmid-borne cpe gene (P-cpe). C. perfringens spores are thought to be the importan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paredes-Sabja D,Torres JA,Setlow P,Sarker MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic 2,3-diphosphoglycerate synthetase (cDPGS) catalyzes the synthesis of cyclic 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (cDPG) by formation of an intramolecular phosphoanhydride bond in 2,3-diphosphoglycerate. cDPG is known to be accumulated to high intracellular concentrations (>300 mM) as a putative thermoadapter in some hyperthe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matussek K,Moritz P,Brunner N,Eckerskorn C,Hensel R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division in Caulobacter crescentus involves constriction and fission of the inner membrane (IM) followed about 20 min later by fission of the outer membrane (OM) and daughter cell separation. In contrast to Escherichia coli, the Caulobacter Tol-Pal complex is essential. Cryo-electron microscopy images of the Caul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yeh YC,Comolli LR,Downing KH,Shapiro L,McAdams HH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa severely deficient in outer membrane protein F levels was isolated by screening heavily mutagenized strains for membrane protein alterations on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. To provide a basis for phenotypic comparison, three independent spontaneous reve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nicas TI,Hancock RE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of deoxyribonucleotides for DNA synthesis is an essential and tightly regulated process. The class Ia ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), the product of the nrdAB genes, is required for aerobic growth of Escherichia coli. In catalyzing the reduction of ribonucleotides, two of the cysteines of RNR become oxidize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Feeney MA,Ke N,Beckwith J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direction of chromosome replication in a temperature-sensitive initiation mutant of Escherichia coli (CT28) is shown autoradiographically to be bidirectional. This mode of replication persists even when the rate of replication is reduced by slow growth in succinate minimal medium or in the presence of chlorampheni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rodriguez RL,Davern CI

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the toluene-responsive sigma(54) Pu promoter of the pWW0 TOL plasmid of Pseudomonas putida is down-regulated in vivo during exponential growth in rich medium and also by the presence of glucose in the culture. Although the Pu promoter already performs poorly during log growth in minimal medium when ame...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cases I,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly efficient protoplast transformation system for Streptococcus faecalis has been developed by systematically optimizing different parameters. Up to 10(6) transformants per micrograms of DNA were consistently obtained within 3 days, and cell wall regeneration of protoplasts was virtually 100%. A systematic searc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wirth R,An FY,Clewell DB

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diploid cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae underwent meiosis and sporulation when placed in 1% potassium acetate sporulation medium. In unbuffered sporulation medium the pH rose very rapidly, reaching pH 8.4 after 2 h of sporulation. Under these conditions, the uptake of radioactive adenine and lysine was extremely lim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCusker JH,Haber JE

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed mercury resistance operon-luciferase (mer-lux) transcriptional fusion plasmids to evaluate in vivo gene expression rates of the mer structural gene promoter (PTPCAD) of transposon Tn21. In vivo gene expression kinetics corresponded well with those previously determined in vitro, yielding an apparent K0....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Condee CW,Summers AO

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The A-subunit polypeptides of Shiga toxin, the Shiga-like toxins (SLTs), and the plant lectin ricin inactivate eucaryotic ribosomes by enzymatically depurinating 28S rRNA. Comparison of the amino acid sequences of the members of the Shiga toxin family and ricin revealed two regions of significant homology that lie wit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson MP,Deresiewicz RL,Calderwood SB

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of Escherichia coli purR, which encodes the pur regulon repressor protein, is autoregulated. Autoregulation at the level of transcription requires two operator sites, designated purRo1 and purRo2 (O1 and O2). Operator O1 is in the region of DNA between the transcription start site and the site for trans...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfes RJ,Zalkin H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive mutator gene, mutU, was identified in Escherichia coli K-12. The mutation mutU4 is very close to uvrD, between metE and ilv, on the E. coli chromosome. It was recessive as a mutator and as a UV-sensitive mutation. The frequency of reversion of trpA46 on an F episome was increased by mutU4...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siegel EC

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00