Abstract:
:Cell walls (LOG walls) were isolated from cultures of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790 in the exponential phase of growth. These walls were either allowed to undergo autolytic dissolution (in the presence or absence of trypsin) or wall autolysis was inactivated with sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS walls). Inactivated walls were treated either with lysozyme or with isolated, partially purified S. faecalis autolysin. During wall lysis, samples were removed, negatively stained with phosphotungstate, and examined in the electron microscope. Both lysozyme and isolated autolysin appeared to act over the entire surface of SDS walls. After partial dissolution, a fibrous network over the surface was revealed. Lysozyme digestion revealed the presence of prominent, highly-contrasted equatorial and subequatorial bands around the walls. After trichloroacetic acid extraction, the bands were seen less frequently and less distinctly in the partially lysozyme digested walls, suggesting that the bands contained nonpeptidoglycan polymers. In the absence of trypsin (which activates a latent form of the autolysin), autolysis of LOG walls appeared to start at the equatorial bands and to proceed back towards the apex of the coccus. Ribbons of wall material coming off the wide edge of the nearly hemispherical wall fragments were observed. Activation of latent autolysis resulted in lytic action over the entire wall surface. The results are consistent with the previously postulated location of active autolysin at the areas of new wall synthesis and the random location of latent autolysin in LOG walls.
journal_name
J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Shockman GD,Martin JTdoi
10.1128/JB.96.5.1803-1810.1968subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1968-11-01 00:00:00pages
1803-10issue
5eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
96pub_type
杂志文章abstract::The Escherichia coli K-12 hisT gene has been cloned, and its organization and expression have been analyzed on multicopy plasmids. The hisT gene, which encodes tRNA pseudouridine synthase I (PSUI), was isolated on a Clarke-Carbon plasmid known to contain the purF gene. The presence of the hisT gene on this plasmid was...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.161.1.60-71.1985
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::MinD binds to phospholipid vesicles in the presence of ATP and is released by MinE, which stimulates the MinD ATPase. Membrane binding requires a short conserved C-terminal region, which has the potential to form an amphipathic helix. This finding has led to a model in which the binding of ATP regulates the formation ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.185.15.4326-4335.2003
更新日期:2003-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Dehalococcoides species are key players in the anaerobic transformation of halogenated solvents at contaminated sites. Here, we analyze isotopologue distributions in amino acid pools from peptides of Dehalococcoides strain CBDB1 after incubation with (13)C-labeled acetate or bicarbonate as a carbon source. The resulti...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.00049-12
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis unable to use the dipeptide carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) as a sole carbon or nitrogen source was isolated. Carnosinase activity and the ability to grow on beta-Ala and/or L-His were similar in the mutant and the wild type. However, the mutant showed significant impairment in ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.180.24.6773-6775.1998
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::S-Adenosyl-L-methionine:precorrin-2 methyltransferase (SP2MT), which catalyzes the C-20 methylation of precorrin-2 to precorrin-3, was purified to homogeneity from extracts of a recombinant strain of Pseudomonas denitrificans derived from a cobalamin-overproducing strain. Ammonium sulfate fractionation followed by chr...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.172.11.6245-6251.1990
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid (PHA) granule-associated M(r)-15,500 protein of Rhodococcus ruber (the GA14 protein) was analyzed. The sequence revealed that the corresponding structural gene is represented by open reading frame 3, encoding a protein with a calculated M(r) of 14,175 ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.176.14.4328-4337.1994
更新日期:1994-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Achromobacter xylosoxidans strain A8 was isolated from soil contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls. It can use 2-chlorobenzoate and 2,5-dichlorobenzoate as sole sources of carbon and energy. This property makes it a good starting microorganism for further development toward a bioremediation tool. The genome of A....
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01299-10
更新日期:2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), encoded by tuf genes, carries aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome during protein synthesis. Duplicated tuf genes (tufA and tufB), which are commonly found in enterobacterial species, usually coevolve via gene conversion and are very similar to one another. However, sequence analysis of tuf gen...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01067-08
更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::SbmA is an inner membrane protein of Gram-negative bacteria that is involved in the internalization of glycopeptides and prokaryotic and eukaryotic antimicrobial peptides, as well as of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers. The SbmA homolog BacA is required for the development of Sinorhizobium meliloti bacteroids with...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.00818-13
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Listeria monocytogenes mutants with deletions in aroA, aroB, or aroE exhibited strong posttranscriptional upregulation of internalin A (InlA) and InlB synthesis, which resulted in a more-than-10-fold increase in InlA-mediated internalization by epithelial Caco-2 cells and a 4-fold increase in InlB-mediated internaliza...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.187.8.2836-2845.2005
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Escherichia coli cells expressing the tpm gene encoding the bacterial thiopurine methyltransferase (bTPMT) are shown to methylate selenite and (methyl)selenocysteine into dimethylselenide (DMSe) and dimethyldiselenide (DMDSe). E. coli cells expressing tpm from a gene library cosmid clone (harboring a Pseudomonas syrin...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.184.11.3146-3149.2002
更新日期:2002-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase, which reductively liberates nitrite from nitrate esters, is related to old yellow enzyme. Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase follows a ping-pong mechanism with competitive substrate inhibition by NADPH, is strongly inhibited by steroids, and is capable of reducing the unsatu...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.178.22.6623-6627.1996
更新日期:1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::We describe the further utilization of a genetic screen that identifies mutations defective in the assembly of proteins into the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. The screen yielded mutations in each of the known genes encoding components of the E. coli signal recognition particle pathway: ffh, ffs, and ftsY, whi...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.184.1.111-118.2002
更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The nucleotide sequence of tnaB of the tryptophanase operon of Escherichia coli is presented. TnaB is a tryptophan-specific permease that is homologous to Mtr, a second tryptophan-specific permease, and to TyrP, a tyrosine-specific permease. Each member of this family appears to contain 11 membrane-spanning domains. ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.173.10.3231-3234.1991
更新日期:1991-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::omega 4403 is the site of a Tn5 lac insertion in the Myxococcus xanthus genome that fuses lacZ expression to a developmentally regulated promoter. Cell-cell interactions that occur during development, including C-signaling, are required for expression of Tn5 lac omega 4403. We have cloned DNA upstream of the omega 440...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.178.9.2539-2550.1996
更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Total DNA of various Rhizobium galegae strains representing different geographical origins, and taxonomic divergence was digested with three restriction enzymes separately, Southern blotted, and hybridized with six heterologous probes. The sequence divergences for different pairwise comparisons were calculated from pr...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.171.10.5561-5566.1989
更新日期:1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from chronic lung infections often overproduce alginate, giving rise to the mucoid phenotype. Isolation of mucoid strains from chronic lung infections correlates with a poor patient outcome. The most common mutation that causes the mucoid phenotype is called mucA22 and results in a trun...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.00445-20
更新日期:2020-09-23 00:00:00
abstract::The broad-host-range IncP plasmids RP4, R68.45, RP1::Tn501, and pUB307 were transferred to acidophilic, obligately chemolithotrophic Thiobacillus ferrooxidans from Escherichia coli by conjugation. A genetic marker of kanamycin resistance was expressed in T. ferrooxidans. Plasmid RP4 was transferred back to E. coli fro...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.176.10.2892-2897.1994
更新日期:1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The production and regeneration of bacterial protoplasts promoted the loss of three different plasmid-specified traits in Streptococcus lactis subsp. diacetylactis strains. The loss of five different plasmids, including small multicopy molecules, was readily detected in Streptococcus lactis 712 by screening lysates of...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.154.1.1-9.1983
更新日期:1983-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The marine bacterium and human pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus rapidly colonizes surfaces by using swarming motility and forming robust biofilms. Entering one of the two colonization programs, swarming motility or sessility, involves differential regulation of many genes, resulting in a dramatic shift in physiology a...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.00723-19
更新日期:2020-02-25 00:00:00
abstract::The Bacillus subtilis skin element confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite. The ars operon in the skin element contains four genes in the order arsR, ORF2, arsB, and arsC. Three of these genes are homologous to the arsR, arsB, and arsC genes from the staphylococcal plasmid pI258, while no homologs of ORF2 have bee...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.180.7.1655-1661.1998
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Under anaerobic conditions, Klebsiella pneumoniae reduced nitrite (NO2-), yielding nitrous oxide (N2O) and ammonium ions (NH4+) as products. Nitrous oxide formation accounted for about 5% of the total NO2- reduced, and NH4+ production accounted for the remainder. Glucose and pyruvate were the electron donors for NO2- ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.155.2.454-458.1983
更新日期:1983-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A variant of the diaminopimelate (DAP)-lysine biosynthesis pathway uses an LL-DAP aminotransferase (DapL, EC 2.6.1.83) to catalyze the direct conversion of L-2,3,4,5-tetrahydrodipicolinate to LL-DAP. Comparative genomic analysis and experimental verification of DapL candidates revealed the existence of two diverged fo...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01381-07
更新日期:2008-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Five transposon Tn5 mutants of the procaryote Myxococcus xanthus had been shown previously to be defective in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis (J. M. Fink,-M. Kalos, and J. F. Zissler, J. Bacteriol. 171:2033-2041, 1989). These mutants were studied for possible defects in gliding motility and multicellular development. ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.171.4.2042-2048.1989
更新日期:1989-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cell-free extract (crude extract) of Agrobacterium tumefaciens grown on d-glucuronate or d-glucarate converts d-glucarate and galactarate to a mixture of 2-keto-3-deoxy- and 4-deoxy-5-keto-d-glucarate. These compounds are then converted by partially purified crude extract to an intermediate tentatively identified as 2...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.102.1.85-96.1970
更新日期:1970-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A DNA sequence (brpA) which regulates the expression of the genes of the bialaphos biosynthesis pathway (bap) in Streptomyces hygroscopicus was identified and characterized. A newly isolated nonproducing mutant (NP57) had a pleiotropic defect involving at least 6 of the 13 known bap genes; only the step 6 conversion c...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.169.8.3482-3488.1987
更新日期:1987-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A strain of Veillonella parvula M4, which grows readily in lactate broth without a requirement for carbon dioxide, has been isolated from the oral cavity. Anaerobic, washed cells of this organism fermented sodium lactate to the following products (moles/100 moles of lactate): propionate, 66; acetate, 40; carbon dioxid...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.105.3.999-1005.1971
更新日期:1971-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Microtubular and lamellate membrane structures were observed at the log phase of growth in the stable L-forms of Escherichia coli cultured in the absence of penicillin. ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.127.3.1564-1567.1976
更新日期:1976-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Evidence obtained with an improved in vivo assay of fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli supported a revised understanding of the roles of fimB and fimE in the site-specific DNA rearrangement with which they are associated. A previously proposed model argued that fimB and fimE play antagonistic, unidirectional...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.173.17.5308-5314.1991
更新日期:1991-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::We isolated several new mutator mutations of the Escherichia coli replicative polymerase dnaE subunit alpha and used them and a previously reported dnaE mutation to study spontaneous frameshift and base substitution mutations. Two of these dnaE strains produce many more mutants when grown on rich (Luria-Bertani) than ...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.182.23.6742-6750.2000
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00