Mercury and cadmium resistances mediated by the penicillinase plasmid in Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Two inhibitors of replicative deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis, nalidixic acid (NAL) and 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil (HPUra), showed different effects on genetic recombination and DNA repair in Bacillus subtilis. Previous work (Pedrini et al., 1972) showed that NAL does not interfere with the transformation pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Canosi U,Siccardi AG,Falaschi A,Mazza G

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Rhizobium phaseoli mutants, isolated previously by Tn5 mutagenesis, elicited infection threads which ceased development prematurely, usually within root hairs. These infection threads were wide, globular, and otherwise altered in morphology, compared with normal infection threads. Anatomy and division of the root ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Noel KD,Vandenbosch KA,Kulpaca B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia sp. strain TH2, a 2-chlorobenzoate (2CB)-degrading bacterium, metabolizes benzoate (BA) and 2CB via catechol. Two different gene clusters for the catechol ortho-cleavage pathway (cat1 and cat2) were cloned from TH2 and analyzed. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and Western blot an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suzuki K,Ichimura A,Ogawa N,Hasebe A,Miyashita K

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.1) from Bacillus cereus T was examined at hourly intervals during growth and sporulation. The enzyme has maximal activity in extracts prepared from cells during stages I and II. The activity during exponential growth is only 6.6% of the maximum and that in free spores is only ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Englebrecht HL

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequencing of the EcoRI-HindIII fragment complementing mutations in the structural genes of the L-rhamnose regulon of Escherichia coli has permitted identification of the open reading frames corresponding to rhaB, rhaA, and rhaD. The deduced amino acid sequences gave a 425-amino-acid polypeptide corresponding to r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moralejo P,Egan SM,Hidalgo E,Aguilar J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XerC and XerD are site-specific recombinases of the lambda integrase family which resolve multimeric replicons to monomers by acting at specific sites such as cer, ckr, nmr, parB, and psi, which are found in plasmids, or at the dif site found in the Escherichia coli chromosome. By using Southern hybridizations to clon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sirois S,Szatmari G

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants that require exogenous D-glucosamine for growth were isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae X2180-1A after ethyl methane sulfonate mutagenesis. Class A auxotrophs fail to grow on yeast extract-peptone-dextrose and minimal media, whereas class B auxotrophs grow on minimal medium and readily revert to grow on ye...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Whelan WL,Ballou CE

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vir locus of Bordetella pertussis apparently encodes a trans-acting positive regulator that is required for the coordinate expression of genes associated with virulence: pertussis toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), hemolysin, and adenylate cyclase toxin. DNA clones of vir and of genes required for the synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stibitz S,Weiss AA,Falkow S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of plasmid NR1 concerned with resistance to Hg2+ and organomercurials consists of sequences found on restriction endonuclease fragments EcoRI-H and EcoRI-I. When both fragments were cloned together into a derivative of plasmid ColE1, the hybrid plasmid conferred properties indistinguishable from those of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakahara H,Silver S,Miki T,Rownd RH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembedding staining of intracellular carbohydrates on thin sections of Staphylococcus aureus was studied by the silver methenamine and the wheat germ agglutinin-gold techniques. Staining of silver grains was observed on both the cell wall and the cross wall. The staining was interpreted to be due to teichoic acid. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morioka H,Tachibana M,Suganuma A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified an analog of SspB, the proteolytic adaptor for transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA)-tagged proteins, in Caulobacter crescentus. C. crescentus SspB shares limited sequence similarity with Escherichia coli SspB but binds the tmRNA tag in vitro and is required for optimal proteolysis of tagged proteins in vi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lessner FH,Venters BJ,Keiler KC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus is an opportunistic pathogen. It has caused a very large economic loss in the swine industry of China and has become a threat to human health. We announce the complete genome sequence of S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strain ATCC 35246, which provides opportunities to understand i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma Z,Geng J,Zhang H,Yu H,Yi L,Lei M,Lu CP,Fan HJ,Hu S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene coding for the Escherichia coli enzyme 7,8-dihydro-6-hydroxymethylpterin-pyrophosphokinase has been cloned and sequenced. This gene, designated folK, codes for a protein of 159 amino acids, including an amino-terminal methionine. The protein was overexpressed in E. coli MC4100 by cloning the gene behind the l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Talarico TL,Ray PH,Dev IK,Merrill BM,Dallas WS

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive similarities between the genomes of the Streptomyces temperate phages phiC31 and phiBT1, the attP-int loci are poorly conserved. Here we demonstrate that phiBT1 integrates into a different attachment site than phiC31. phiBT1 attB lies within SCO4848 encoding a 79-amino-acid putative integral membrane...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory MA,Till R,Smith MC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigmentation mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, selected by observed visual differences in coloration from the wild-type strain, were examined for altered patterns of phenazine synthesis. Three classes of mutants that were incapable of pyocyanine production were identified. Pigmentation patterns that were found to cha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Byng GS,Eustice DC,Jensen RA

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of urea to an uninduced culture of Saccharomyces at 22 C results in appearance of allophanate hydrolase activity after a lag of 12 min. We have previously demonstrated that both ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein synthesis are needed for this induction to occur. To elucidate the time intervals occupied by kno...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bossinger J,Cooper TG

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic survey for the presence of plasmids in 17 different xenobiotic-degrading Sphingomonas strains was performed. In almost all analyzed strains, two to five plasmids with sizes of about 50 to 500 kb were detected by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. A comparison of plasmid preparations untreated or trea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basta T,Keck A,Klein J,Stolz A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature and attractants on chemotaxis in psychrotrophic Pseudomonas fluorescens were examined using the Adler capillary assay technique. Several organic acids, amino acids, and uronic acids were shown to be attractants, whereas glucose and its oxidation products, gluconate and 2-ketogluconate, elici...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lynch WH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covalently closed circular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was isolated from two strains of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2), representing two of the known fertility types. In each of the two strains circular DNA of about 20 times 10-6 daltons could be detected, amounting to about 1.5% of the total cellular DNA. The possible...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schrempf H,Bujard H,Hopwood DA,Goebel W

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium contains a transport system for sn-glycerol-3-phosphate that is inducible by growth on glycerol and sn-glycerol-3-phosphate. In fully induced cells, the system exhibited an apparent Km of 50 microM and a Vmax of 2.2 nmol/min . 10(8) cells. The corresponding system in Escherichia coli exhibits, u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hengge R,Larson TJ,Boos W

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium-resistant Pseudomonas putida GAM-1, which was able to grow in concentrations of CdCl2 as high as 7 mM, was isolated from soil in a rice paddy. This bacterium harbored a DNA plasmid of about 52 kilobases. The plasmid (pGU100) transformed Escherichia coli C600 to cadmium resistance. A cadmium-resistant transform...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Horitsu H,Yamamoto K,Wachi S,Kawai K,Fukuchi A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae was grown in a continuous culture at a single dilution rate with input ammonia concentrations whose effects ranged from nitrogen limitation to nitrogen excess and glucose limitation. The rate of ammonia assimilation (in millimoles per gram of cells per hour) was approximately constant. Increas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ter Schure EG,Silljé HH,Verkleij AJ,Boonstra J,Verrips CT

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of pneumonia produced by intranasal inoculation of Mycoplasma pulmonis in gnotobiotic mice provided the opportunity to study the localization and identification of the infecting organisms in the tissues by immunofluorescence techniques. Frozen sections of pneumonic mouse lung were fixed in acetone, layered w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Organick AB,Lutsky II

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive, psychotrophic, food-borne pathogen which is able to grow in osmotically stressful environments. Carnitine (beta-hydroxy-L-tau-N-trimethyl aminobutyrate) can contribute significantly to growth of L. monocytogenes at high osmolarity (R. R. Beumer, M. C. te Giffel, L. J. Cox, F....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verheul A,Rombouts FM,Beumer RR,Abee T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific changes in the chemical and microbial composition of Thermoanaerobium brockii fermentations were compared and related to alterations of process rates, end product yields, and growth parameters. Fermentation of starch as compared with glucose was associated with significant decreases in growth rate and intrace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ben-Bassat A,Lamed R,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Pseudomonas (P. putida HS1) was found to resemble P. putida (arvilla) mt-2 in its ability to degrade toluene, m- and p-xylene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (pseudocumene), and 3-ethyltoluene via oxidation of a methyl substituent and reactions of the meta-fission pathway. The ability to degrade these substrates b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kunz DA,Chapman PJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for efficient transformation of Streptomyces ambofaciens and Streptomyces fradiae protoplasts with plasmid DNA was developed. Transformation frequencies with S. fradiae protoplasts were strongly influenced by the temperatures for cell growth, protoplast formation, and protoplast regeneration. Transformatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushima P,Baltz RH

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an analysis of the conjugative transfer genes associated with the expression of F pili by plasmid F, we have investigated the physical location of the traC and traW genes. We found that plasmid clones carrying a 2.95-kilobase EcoRI-EcoRV F transfer operon fragment were able to complement transfer of F lac t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maneewannakul S,Kathir P,Moore D,Le LA,Wu JH,Ippen-Ihler K

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the transfer of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnDOT is excision of the integrated element from the chromosome to form a circular transfer intermediate. Excision occurs only after the bacteria are exposed to tetracycline. Previously, four excision genes were identified. One was the integrase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moon K,Shoemaker NB,Gardner JF,Salyers AA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00