Mechanism of action of nalidixic acid on Escherichia coli. IV. Effects on the stability of cellular constituents.

abstract：:Synthesis of formate dehydrogenase coupled to formate hydrogenlyase activity in Escherichia coli was found to require the product of the fhlA gene. Transcription of fdhF, the gene coding for the 80-kilodalton (kDa) selenopeptide of formate dehydrogenase, was not detected in an fhlA genetic background. Mutations in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sankar P,Lee JH,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain Y-7c-s grows at its maximum rate at a high pH (pH 8 and above) the does not show sustained growth below pH 6.5. However, rapidly growing, exponential-phase cells from high-pH cultures continued to grow rapidly for several hours after transfer to pH 6.0 or 5.0. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kallas T,Castenholz RW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Shigella flexneri, the polysaccharide copolymerase (PCP) protein Wzz(SF) confers a modal length of 10 to 17 repeat units (RUs) to the O-antigen (Oag) component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). PCPs form oligomeric structures believed to be related to their function. To identify functionally important regions within Wzz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Papadopoulos M,Morona R

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen species of enterobacteria have been screened for mutagenic DNA repair activity. In Escherichia coli, mutagenic DNA repair is encoded by the umuDC operon. Synthesis of UmuD and UmuC proteins is induced as part of the SOS response to DNA damage, and after induction, the UmuD protein undergoes an autocatalytic cl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sedgwick SG,Ho C,Woodgate R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of casein hydrolysate to suspensions of washed, nonpigmented, nonproliferating Serratia marcescens incubating at 27 C induced biosynthesis of prodigiosin. Four amino acids of casein hydrolysate, dl-aspartic acid, l-glutamic acid, l-proline, and l-alanine caused formation of pigment when added individually. dl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Williams RP,Gott CL,Qadri SM

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three species of Desulfovibrio were found to have a high degree of ribosomal ribonucleic acid homology with Desulfovibrio vulgaris. Desulfotomaculum nigrificans, which is also a sulfate-reducing anaerobe, had only 38% ribosomal ribonucleic acid homology with D. vulgaris. The homologies of six other unrelated genera we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pace B,Campbell LL

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae permeabilized by treatment with ether take up and incorporate exogenous deoxynucleoside triphosphate into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). With rho(+) strains, more than 95% of the product was mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This report characterizes ether-permeabilized yeast cells and describ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oertel W,Goulian M

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight metH mutants in Salmonella typhimurium with closely linked sites of mutation which could grow only on methionine were isolated from a metE mutant deficient in N(5)-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate-homocysteine transmethylase; their deficiency in cobalamin-dependent N(5)-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Childs JD,Smith DA

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lasA gene (whose product is involved in the production of extracellular elastolytic activity) was isolated from a genomic bank containing DNA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa FRD1. Recombinant plasmid pELA1, containing the lasA gene, complemented the temperature-sensitive elastase mutation (lasA1) in P. aeruginosa PAO-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldberg JB,Ohman DE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jones, Lois M. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), C. R. McDuff, and J. B. Wilson. Phenotypic alterations in the colonial morphology of Brucella abortus due to a bacteriophage carrier state. J. Bacteriol. 83:860-866. 1962.-In the course of examining a number of Brucella cultures with a brucellaphage, it was observed t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： JONES LM,McDUFF CR,WILSON JB

更新日期：1962-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enrichment for nonhydrophobic mutants of Serratia marcescens yielded two types: (i) a nonpigmented mutant which exhibited partial hydrophobic characteristics compared with the wild type, as determined by adherence to hexadecane and polystyrene; and (ii) a pigmented, nonhydrophobic mutant whose colonies were translucen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenberg M

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exponentially growing cells of the gram-negative bacterium Chromobacterium violaceum demonstrate invaginations of the cytoplasmic membrane with a high frequency. These invaginations conform to the ultrastructural appearance of mesosomes of gram-positive bacteria. As many as four mesosomes are observed per cell, each o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rucinsky TE,Cota-Robles EH

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic phosphate was found to decrease the caseinolytic and ethyl-esterase activities of the Microsporum gypseum germination protease. The germination protease possessed exokeratinase (beta-keratinase) activity immediately after release from the fungal spore. After phosphate treatment of the enzyme, the germination...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Page WJ,Stock JJ

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol auxotroph FY3 (alpha hem1 erg7 ura) by delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is dependent on the ability of the organism to synthesize heme from ALA. Sterol-depleted cells not exposed to ALA or strain PFY3 cells, with a double heme mutation, exposed to ALA did n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PB15 is an Hfr strain of Escherichia coli K-12. It arose from an F' strain carrying a temperature-sensitive F-gal by an event which blocked the detachment of F-gal in the normally reversible integration process. In PB15, the detachment of F-gal by a second mechanism can now be detected: this mechanism results in the e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bergquist PL,Adelberg EA

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six mutants, allelic to ade3, were isolated after mutagenic treatment of a prototrophic strain of yeast. All six grow on medium supplemented with adenine alone and four respond to histidine. Supplementation with adenine plus histidine or methionine inhibits growth, but a mixture of these three is stimulatory. Heteroal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lomax CA,Gross TS,Woods RA

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding Shiga toxin (stx), the major virulence factor of Shiga toxin-encoding Escherichia coli (STEC) strains, are carried on lambdoid prophages resident in all known STEC strains. The stx genes are expressed only during lytic growth of these temperate bacteriophages. We cloned the gene encoding the repress...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koudelka AP,Hufnagel LA,Koudelka GB

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of nod genes in Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium species is dependent on the presence of plant-produced flavonoids, the NodD protein, and the cis-acting nod box promoter sequence. Although the nodD (nodD1) gene in Rhizobium species is constitutively expressed, nodD1 expression in Bradyrhizobium japonicum is indu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang SP,Stacey G

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid A components of substrate cell origin incorporated by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus during intraperiplasmic growth (D. R. Nelson and S. C. Rittenberg, J. Bacteriol. 147:860-868, 1981) were shown to be integrated into its lipopolysaccharide structure. Lipid A isolated from bdellovibrios grown on Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nelson DR,Rittenberg SC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reinvestigated the genetic organization and the transcription regulation of the dsd operon of Escherichia coli. By combining genetic and biochemical studies, it is demonstrated that the regulatory region of the operon and the gene encoding the specific regulator of D-serine tolerance (dsdC) had been misplaced ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nørregaard-Madsen M,McFall E,Valentin-Hansen P

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarmer cell differentiation is a complex process involving the activity of many gene products. In this report, we characterized the genetic locus of Tn5 insertion in each of 12 mutants defective in swarmer cell elongation. The mutations fell into four categories affecting either flagellar biosynthesis or energetics, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belas R,Goldman M,Ashliman K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four chloramphenicol resistance (Cm) and four tetracycline resistance (Tc) plasmids from Staphylococcus aureus were characterized by restriction endonuclease mapping. All four Tc plasmids had molecular masses of 2.9 megadaltons (Mdaltons) and indistinguishable responses to seven different restriction endonucleases. Th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilson CR,Baldwin NJ

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of the replication pattern of a number of B. subtilis 168 strains under controlled physiological conditions revealed great interstrain variation in control of replication. Replication patterns were calculated from ratios of purA16/leu-8 and purA16/metB5 transformation frequency. The thymine-independent strains a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gillin FD,Ganesan AT

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The weak organic acid sorbic acid is a commonly used food preservative, as it inhibits the growth of bacteria, yeasts, and molds. We have used genome-wide transcriptional profiling of Bacillus subtilis cells during mild sorbic acid stress to reveal the growth-inhibitory activity of this preservative and to identify po...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ter Beek A,Keijser BJ,Boorsma A,Zakrzewska A,Orij R,Smits GJ,Brul S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyatt, Mildred T. (Pioneering Research Division. U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Mass.), and Hillel S. Levinson. Effect of sugars and other carbon compounds on germination and postgerminative development of Bacillus megaterium spores. J. Bacteriol. 88:1403-1415. 1964.-A total of 77 carbon-containing compounds w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HYATT MT,LEVINSON HS

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified three transposable gene-activating elements from Pseudomonas cepacia on the basis of their abilities to increase expression of the lac genes of the broad-host-range plasmid pGC91.14 (pRP1::Tn951). When introduced into auxotrophic derivatives of P. cepacia 249 (ATCC 17616), this plasmid failed to con...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wood MS,Lory C,Lessie TG

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact yeast cells treated with alkali cations took up plasmid DNA. Li+, Cs+, Rb+, K+, and Na+ were effective in inducing competence. Conditions for the transformation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae D13-1A with plasmid YRp7 were studied in detail with CsCl. The optimum incubation time was 1 h, and the optimum cell concen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ito H,Fukuda Y,Murata K,Kimura A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene has been cloned into a chimeric yeast plasmid cloning vehicle and transformed into appropriate yeast strains. Plasmids carrying the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene can be propagated as autonomously replicating plasmids, but no RNA specific to the thymidine kina...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kiss GB,Pearlman RE,Cornish KV,Friesen JD,Chan VL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory element NosR was identified within the nos region of the denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri ZoBell (ATCC 14405) and characterized. It is essential for expression of the N2O reductase encoded by nosZ immediately downstream of nosR. The nosR region was initially identified by Tn5 mutagen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuypers H,Viebrock-Sambale A,Zumft WG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids pRAS3.1 and pRAS3.2 are natural variants of the IncQ-2 plasmid family, that except for two differences, have identical plasmid backbones. Plasmid pRAS3.1 has four 22-bp iterons in its oriV region, while pRAS3.2 has only three 6-bp repeats and pRAS3.1 has five 6-bp repeats in the promoter region of the mobB-mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loftie-Eaton W,Rawlings DE

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00