Induction of pigmentation in nonproliferating cells of Serratia marcescens by addition of single amino acids.

abstract：:The gene (hmgA) for 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34) from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 was cloned and sequenced. S. solfataricus HMG-CoA reductase exhibited a high degree of sequence identity (47%) to the HMG-CoA reductase of the halophilic archaeon Halofe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bochar DA,Brown JR,Doolittle WF,Klenk HP,Lam W,Schenk ME,Stauffacher CV,Rodwell VW

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fibrils are involved in cell cohesion and cell development in Myxococcus xanthus. One group of social motility mutants, Dsp, is unable to produce extracellular fibrils; these mutants also lose the abilities to cohere and to develop. Extracellular fibrils isolated from vegetative wild-type cells and added...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang BY,Dworkin M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tail structures of bacteriophages infecting gram-positive bacteria are largely unexplored, although the phage tail mediates the initial interaction with the host cell. The temperate Lactococcus lactis phage TP901-1 of the Siphoviridae family has a long noncontractile tail with a distal baseplate. In the present st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vegge CS,Brøndsted L,Neve H,Mc Grath S,van Sinderen D,Vogensen FK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain carbohydrates (rhamnose, 3-O-methyl rhamnose, and galactosamine) have been demonstrated to be present in Bacillus anthracis spores but absent in vegetative cells. Others have demonstrated that these spore-specific sugars are constituents of the glycoprotein BclA. In the current work, spore extracts were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waller LN,Stump MJ,Fox KF,Harley WM,Fox A,Stewart GC,Shahgholi M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory metabolism of Schizosaccharomyces pombe 972h(-), a fission, haplontic, "petite negative" yeast, was studied. Glucose and glycerol are good growth substrates and are oxidized under appropriate conditions. l-Lactate, ethanol, malate, and succinate are oxidized but are poor substrates for growth. d-Lactat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heslot H,Goffeau A,Louis C

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NifA is the general transcriptional activator of nitrogen fixation genes in diazotrophic bacteria. In Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae UPM791, the nifA gene is part of a gene cluster (orf71 orf79 fixW orf5 fixABCX nifAB) separated by 896 bp from an upstream and divergent truncated duplication of nifH (DeltanifH). Sy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Martínez M,Palacios JM,Imperial J,Ruiz-Argüeso T

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of certain nonmetabolizable sugar-phosphates (including α-methyl glucoside-6-phosphate) in Escherichia coli is growth inhibitory and elicits the glucose-phosphate stress response. The transcription factor SgrR activates transcription of the small RNA SgrS under stress conditions. SgrS represses translatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sun Y,Vanderpool CK

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 7 of Escherichia coli is a poorly characterized member of the family of enzymes that synthesize and modify the bacterial cell wall. The approximate chromosomal position of the gene encoding this protein was determined by measuring the expression of PBPs during lytic infection of E. col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Henderson TA,Templin M,Young KD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant strain of Pediococcus cerevisiae (P. cerevisiae/PteGlu) was isolated which grows on low-folate (PteGlu) concentrations (200 pg/ml). The growth response of the parent and mutant strains to folinate (5-CHO-H(4)PteGlu) was the same. The transport of (14)C-PteGlu by P. cerevisiae/PteGlu was temperature-dependent ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mandelbaum-Shavit F,Grossowicz N

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational efficiency of an AUG, CUG, GUG, or UUG initiation codon was measured for the naturally leaderless cI mRNA from bacteriophage lambda. In a cI-lacZ translational fusion, only AUG supported a high level of expression; GUG supported a low level of expression, while UUG and CUG expression was barely above bac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Donnell SM,Janssen GR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus guaymasensis was purified to homogeneity and was found to be a homotetramer with a subunit size of 40 ± 1 kDa. The gene encoding the enzyme was cloned and sequenced; this gene had 1,095 bp, corresponding to 365 amino acids, and showed high seq...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ying X,Ma K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of Bacillus subtilis can be fractionated into at least two components on the basis of their buoyant densities on a Renografin gradient. In competent cultures, most, and perhaps all, of the competent bacteria appear in the lighter fraction which composes 2 to 10% of the bulk population. These "lighter" bac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cahn FH,Fox MS

更新日期：1968-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micromonospora strains have been isolated from diverse niches, including soil, water, and marine sediments and root nodules of diverse symbiotic plants. In this work, we report the genome sequence of Micromonospora lupini Lupac 08 isolated from root nodules of the wild legume Lupinus angustifolious. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alonso-Vega P,Normand P,Bacigalupe R,Pujic P,Lajus A,Vallenet D,Carro L,Coll P,Trujillo ME

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the general stress transcription factor sigmaB in the gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes was isolated with degenerate PCR primers followed by inverse PCR amplification. Evidence for gene identification includes the following: (i) phylogenetic analyses of reported amino acid sequences for ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wiedmann M,Arvik TJ,Hurley RJ,Boor KJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is accumulated in Bacillus subtilis by a highly specific active transport system. This trace element "pump" is insensitive to added magnesium or calcium and preferentially accumulates manganese in the presence of cobalt, iron, and copper. Manganese uptake in B. subtilis is inhibited by cyanide, azide, pentac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eisenstadt E,Fisher S,Der CL,Silver S

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel regulatory gene, trh, which is involved in hrp gene expression, is identified in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. In the trh mutant, expression of HrpG, which is a key regulator for hrp gene expression, is reduced both under the in vitro hrp-inducing condition and in planta. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuge S,Nakayama T,Terashima S,Ochiai H,Furutani A,Oku T,Tsuno K,Kubo Y,Kaku H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rhodobacter sphaeroides, MreB, MreC, MreD, PBP2, and RodA are encoded at the same locus. The localizations of PBP2, MreB, and MreC, which have all been implicated in the synthesis of the peptidoglycan layer, were investigated under different growth conditions to gain insight into the relationships between these pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slovak PM,Porter SL,Armitage JP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the TolA protein is required for the correct surface expression of the Escherichia coli O7 antigen lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In this work, delta tolA and delta pal mutants of E. coli K-12 W3110 were transformed with pMF19 (encoding a rhamnosyltransferase that reconstitutes the expression ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vinés ED,Marolda CL,Balachandran A,Valvano MA

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new pathway for aerobic benzoate oxidation has been postulated for Azoarcus evansii and for a Bacillus stearothermophilus-like strain. Benzoate is first transformed into benzoyl coenzyme A (benzoyl-CoA), which subsequently is oxidized to 3-hydroxyadipyl-CoA and then to 3-ketoadipyl-CoA; all intermediates are CoA thi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gescher J,Zaar A,Mohamed M,Schägger H,Fuchs G

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The σE envelope stress response is an essential signal transduction pathway which detects and removes mistargeted outer membrane (OM) β-barrel proteins (OMPs) in the periplasm of Escherichia coli It relies on σE, an alternative sigma factor encoded by the rpoE gene. Here we report a novel mutation, a nucleot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Konovalova A,Schwalm JA,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis has previously been used to construct Escherichia coli dnaK mutants encoding proteins that are altered at the site of in vitro phosphorylation (J. S. McCarty and G. C. Walker, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:9513-9517, 1991). These mutants are unable to autophosphorylate and are severely defect...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCarty JS,Walker GC

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens wild-type strains have a unique quorum-sensing (QS)-dependent Ti plasmid conjugative transfer phenotype in which QS signaling is activated by corresponding conjugative opine inducers. Strain K588, with a nopaline-type chromosomal background harboring an octopine-type Ti plasmid, however, is a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang C,Zhang HB,Chen G,Chen L,Zhang LH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germination of dormant Bacillus subtilis spores with specific nutrient germinants is dependent on a number of inner membrane (IM) proteins, including (i) the GerA, GerB, and GerK germinant receptors (GRs) that respond to nutrient germinants; (ii) the GerD protein, essential for optimal GR function; and (iii) SpoVA pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart KA,Setlow P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) was produced in guinea pigs sensitized with guinea pig Coxiella burneti phase I-II antiserum and challenged with dimethylsulfoxide- or trichloroacetic acid-soluble extracts from phase I cells. The PCA reaction could not be induced by whole or mechanically disrupted phase I or phase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peacock M,Munoz J,Tallent GL,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1968-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compound, isolated from the culture fluid of a nadC auxotroph of Escherichia coli grown in a minimal medium, supports the growth of both a nadA and a nadB mutant. This metabolite exhibits an ultraviolet light absorption spectrum and a mass spectrum, different from quinolinic acid. This compound may be the precursor ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen JL,Tritz GJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THREE PREVIOUSLY STUDIED R FACTORS WERE USED: 222/R4, controlling transmissible resistance to sulfonamide, streptomycin, chloromycetin, and tetracycline (SU(r) SM(r) CM(r) TC(r)); 222/R3, a derivative of 222/R4 (now termed 222/R3W) having lost TC(r); and R15, controlling infectious resistance to SU and SM only. Two ty...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nisioka T,Mitani M,Clowes RC

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight species representative of the serological diversity of the Mycoplasmatales were tested for their ability to incorporate radiolabeled nucleic acid precursors into acid-insoluble material. Cultures in complex growth medium were centrifuged and resuspended in minimal essential medium (Eagle). For Acholeplasma laidl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McIvor RS,Kenny GE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emulsan, the polyanionic emulsifying agent synthesized by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1, was depolymerized by an enzyme obtained from a soil bacterium YUV-1. The extracellular emulsan depolymerase was produced when strains RAG-1 and YUV-1 were grown together on agar medium. The enzyme was extracted from the agar a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shoham Y,Rosenberg E

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions of the uvrB gene were not obtained in polA1 strains of Escherichia coli either by selecting for spontaneous deletions or by transduction from strains carrying such deletions. A strain forming a temperature-sensitive deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase I and carrying a deletion of the uvrB gene is inviable at th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shizuya H,Dykhuizen D

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random transposon Tn5 mutagenesis of Bradyrhizobium sp. (Arachis) strain NC92, a member of the cowpea cross-inoculation group, was carried out, and kanamycin-resistant transconjugants were tested for their symbiotic phenotype on three host plants: groundnut, siratro, and pigeonpea. Two nodulation (Nod- phenotype) muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilson KJ,Anjaiah V,Nambiar PT,Ausubel FM

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00