Repression of 3-deoxy-D-arabinoheptulosonic acid-7-phosphate synthetase (trp) and enzymes of the tryptophan pathway in Escherichia coli K-12.

abstract：:A homologue of the grmA spore germination gene of Bacillus megaterium and of a NaH-antiporter gene (napA) of Enterococcus hirae has been identified in Bacillus cereus 569 (ATCC 10876). The putative protein product has 58 and 43% amino acid identity with GrmA and NapA, respectively. Insertional inactivation of this B. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thackray PD,Behravan J,Southworth TW,Moir A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many streptococcal pathogens require a polysaccharide capsule for survival in the host during systemic infection. The highly conserved CpsA protein is proposed to be a transcriptional regulator of capsule production in streptococci, although the regulatory mechanism is unknown. Hydropathy plots of CpsA predict an inte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hanson BR,Lowe BA,Neely MN

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It previously has been shown that lkyD mutants of Salmonella typhimurium form large blebs of outer membrane over the septal and polar regions of dividing cells. To determine whether the outer membrane blebs are formed over potential sites of division even in the absence of septal ingrowth, lkyD strains were studied un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fung JC,MacAlister TJ,Weigand RA,Rothfield LI

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined physical and genetic map of the Serpulina hyodysenteriae B78T genome was constructed by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and DNA blot hybridizations. The S. hyodysenteriae genome is a single circular chromosome about 3.2 Mb in size. The physical map of the chromosome was constructed with the restricti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zuerner RL,Stanton TB

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:A new strategy was developed for rapid cloning of genes with a transposon mutation library. We constructed a transposon designated TnV that was derived from Tn5 and consists of the gene coding for neomycin phosphotransferase II as well as the replication origin of an Escherichia coli plasmid, pSC101, flanked by Tn5 in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Furuichi T,Inouye M,Inouye S

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that a Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis dam mutant expressing a truncated Dam protein does not agglutinate in the presence of specific antibodies against O9 polysaccharide. Here we investigate the participation of Dam in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) synthesis in Salmonella. The LPS O-antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sarnacki SH,Marolda CL,Noto Llana M,Giacomodonato MN,Valvano MA,Cerquetti MC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present the genome sequence of Rhizobium grahamii CCGE502. R. grahamii groups with other newly described broad-host-range species, which are not very efficient Phaseolus vulgaris symbionts, with a wide geographic distribution and which constitutes a novel Rhizobium clade. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Althabegoiti MJ,Lozano L,Torres-Tejerizo G,Ormeño-Orrillo E,Rogel MA,González V,Martínez-Romero E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of extracellular alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) of Bacillus subtilis Marburg was increased about fivefold by introducing the amyR marker from B. natto 1212 through transformation. amyR2 of B. natto 1212 has been assumed to determine a high level of alpha-amylase of the organism. The gene acts specifically on alp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamaguchi K,Nagata Y,Maruo B

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of time, temperature, and the presence of sodium chloride, nitrates, and nitrites in the medium on the growth and production of enterotoxin B by Staphylococcus aureus. Assays by the double gel-diffusion method showed that maximal enterotoxin B production occurs at the beginning of the statio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McLean RA,Lilly HD,Alford JA

更新日期：1968-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of homogeneous preparations of carbamoylphosphate synthetase (CPSase) from wild-type Salmonella typhimurium and a cold-sensitive derivative grown at different growth temperatures were examined. For the cold-sensitive mutant, the affinity for glutamine of the form of CPSase synthesized at 20 degrees C wa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Han BD,Nolan WG,Hopkins HP,Jones RT,Ingraham JL,Abdelal AT

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaeal transcriptional machinery is similar to that of eukaryotes. We studied the fates of various components of the Sulfolobus solfataricus transcriptional apparatus under different stresses and found that in cells incubated at 90 degrees C for 1 h, transcription factor E (TFE) is selectively depleted, but its mRNA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iqbal J,Qureshi SA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The papA gene of the uropathogenic strain Escherichia coli J96, coding for the Pap pili subunit, was subjected to DNA sequencing, and found to code for an 185-amino acid-long polypeptide with a 22-amino acid-long signal peptide. Here we present the primary sequence, the hydrophilicity profile, and the predicted polype...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Båga M,Normark S,Hardy J,O'Hanley P,Lark D,Olsson O,Schoolnik G,Falkow S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In gram-negative bacteria, a pathway for aerobic degradation of phenylacetic acid (PAA) that proceeds via phenylacetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and hydrolytic ring fission plays a central role in the degradation of a range of aromatic compounds. In contrast, the PAA pathway and its role are not well characterized in gram-posi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Navarro-Llorens JM,Patrauchan MA,Stewart GR,Davies JE,Eltis LD,Mohn WW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanococcus aeolicus, Methanococcus maripaludis, and Methanococcus voltae contain similar levels of four enzymes of branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis: acetohydroxy acid synthase, acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase, dihydroxy acid dehydratase, and transaminase B. Following growth at low partial pressures of H2-C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xing RY,Whitman WB

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radB101 and recN262 mutations showed essentially identical phenotypes when compared in isogenic Escherichia coli strains for their effects on gamma and UV radiation survival and on conjugal recombination in a uvrA recB recC sbcB sbcC strain. Complementation tests involving attempts to reconstitute a radB+ recN+ st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sargentini NJ,Smith KC

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fruK gene encoding fructose-1-phosphate kinase (FruK), located within the fructose (fru)-catabolic operon of Rhodobacter capsulatus, was sequenced. FruK of R. capsulatus (316 amino acids; molecular weight = 31,232) is the same size as and is homologous to FruK of Escherichia coli, phosphofructokinase B (PfkB) of E...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu LF,Reizer A,Reizer J,Cai B,Tomich JM,Saier MH Jr

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral hyphae were separated from the remaining thallus of Rhizoctonia solani in exponential and stationary phases of growth. The QO(2) in whole cells of peripheral hyphae from young fungal colonies was on the average 2.6 times and the protein content 1.6 times greater than in peripheral hyphae from old fungal col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Skowronski BS,Gottlieb D

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Lysine caused repression of diaminopimelate decarboxylase synthesis in Bacillus cereus when grown in either a minimal defined medium (CDGS medium) or a complex defined medium (a modified lysine assay medium). When cells were grown in either of the two media, variations in the specific activity of the enzyme as a fun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grandgenett DP,Stahly DP

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing the insertion sites of 8,865 Tn917 insertions in Enterococcus faecalis strain OG1RF identified a hot spot in the replication terminus region corresponding to 6% of the genome where 65% of the transposons had inserted. In E. faecalis, Tn917 preferentially inserted at a 29-bp consensus sequence centered on TA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garsin DA,Urbach J,Huguet-Tapia JC,Peters JE,Ausubel FM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine-mediated repression of aroF and tyrP was studied by inserting DNA sequences between the two adjacent TYR R boxes which, in each case, overlap the respective RNA polymerase binding sites of these genes. In both cases, repression was greatest when homologous regions of these two TYR R boxes were on the same fac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Andrews AE,Dickson B,Lawley B,Cobbett C,Pittard AJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kimler, Alexander (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.). Fluorescein amine media for rapid differentiation of staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 82:106-109. 1961.-By modifying conventional media to include blood, mannitol, and fluorescein amine, staphylococci may be isolated and identified directly. Staphylococcus ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KIMLER A

更新日期：1961-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria form communities, termed biofilms, in which cells adhere to each other within a matrix, typically comprised of polysaccharides, proteins, and extracellular DNA. Biofilm formation by the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri requires the Syp polysaccharide, but the involvement of matrix proteins is as yet unknown. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray VA,Driks A,Visick KL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mutants of Haemophilus influenzae were isolated by the criterion of sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) inactivation of colony formation. These mutants and the wild type were characterized with regard to X-ray inactivation of colony formation, UV induction of division inhibition, the ability of the eight strains to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow JK,Brown DC,Boling ME,Mattingly A,Gordon MP

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neisseria meningitidis, an exclusively human pathogen and the leading cause of bacterial meningitis, must adapt to different host niches during human infection. N. meningitidis can utilize a restricted range of carbon sources, including lactate, glucose, and pyruvate, whose concentrations vary in host niches...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Antunes A,Golfieri G,Ferlicca F,Giuliani MM,Scarlato V,Delany I

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:CRM 228 (T. Uchida, A. M. Pappenheimer, and R. Greany, J. Biol. Chem. 248:3838-3844, 1973), a mutant form of diphtheria toxin which completely lacks ADP-ribosyltransferase activity, contains five amino acid substitutions. The two amino acid changes that fall within the A chain of the toxin (G79D and E162K) were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson VG,Nicholls PJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminus region of the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome and the dif chromosome dimer resolution site were characterized. The Caulobacter genome contains skewed sequences that abruptly switch strands at dif and may have roles in chromosome maintenance and segregation. Absence of dif or the XerCD recombinase result...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jensen RB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus megaterium mutants JV-9 and JV-10 are temperature sensitive for initiation of spore germination. At 46 C, they did not lose heat resistance, dipicolinic acid, or absorbance, indicating that the temperature-sensitive blocks are very early in the sequence of initiation reactions. Strain JV-9 was temperature sen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary JC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membranes of Escherichia coli K-12 cells carrying a derepressed F-like R factor contain about 7 times 10-4 molecules per cell of a protein similar to the subunit of the sex pili specified by the R factor. This protein pool is absent in cells carrying the repressed variant of the R factor. The size of the poo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beard JP,Connolly JC

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancer-binding protein NIFA is required for transcriptional activation of nif promoters by the alternative holoenzyme form of RNA polymerase, which contains the sigma factor sigma 54 (sigma N). NIFA hydrolyzes nucleoside triphosphates to catalyze the isomerization of closed promoter complexes to transcriptionall...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eydmann T,Söderbäck E,Jones T,Hill S,Austin S,Dixon R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00