Electromechanical interactions in cell walls of gram-positive cocci.

abstract：:Nitrate has been shown to shunt the electron flow in Clostridium thermoaceticum from CO2 to nitrate, but it did not influence the levels of enzymes involved in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (J. M. Fröstl, C. Seifritz, and H. L. Drake, J. Bacteriol. 178:4597-4603, 1996). Here we show that under some growth conditions, nit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arendsen AF,Soliman MQ,Ragsdale SW

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sigA and sigB genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encode two sigma 70-like sigma factors of RNA polymerase. While transcription of the sigA gene is growth rate independent, sigB transcription is increased during entry into stationary phase. The sigA gene transcription is unresponsive to environmental stress but th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hu Y,Coates AR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a microaerophilic bacterium associated with gastric inflammation and peptic ulcers. Knowledge of how pathogenic organisms produce energy is important from a therapeutic point of view. We found d-amino acid dehydrogenase-mediated electron transport from d-proline or d-alanine to oxygen via the re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tanigawa M,Shinohara T,Nishimura K,Nagata K,Ishizuka M,Nagata Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the isolation and characterization of a unique class of TolC mutants that, under steady-state growth conditions, secreted normal levels of largely inactive alpha-hemolysin. Unlike the reduced activity in the culture supernatants, the cell-associated hemolytic activity in these mutants was identica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vakharia H,German GJ,Misra R

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:The Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi is unique among bacteria in its large number of lipoproteins that are encoded by a small, exceptionally fragmented, and predominantly linear genome. Peripherally anchored in either the inner or outer membrane and facing either the periplasm or the external environment, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dowdell AS,Murphy MD,Azodi C,Swanson SK,Florens L,Chen S,Zückert WR

更新日期：2017-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli nusA gene, nusAEc, encodes an essential protein that influences transcription elongation. Derivatives of E. coli in which the Salmonella typhimurium nusA gene, nusASt, has replaced nusAEc are viable. Thus, NusASt can substitute for NusAEc in supporting essential bacterial activities. However, hybr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Craven MG,Granston AE,Schauer AT,Zheng C,Gray TA,Friedman DI

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The buoyant density in rapidly growing Streptococcus faecium 9790 cells varies over the cell cycle, in contrast to the density in Escherichia coli. Buoyant density in S. faecium was measured by using Percoll (Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, Piscataway, N.J.) density gradients. We found that the mean and coefficient of varia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Glaser D,Higgins M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a new recF mutant of Escherichia coli K-12 by insertion of transposon Tn5 into the recF gene. This recF400::Tn5 allele displayed the same phenotypic characteristics as the classic recF143 mutation. By using Mu d(Ap lac) fusions, the induction of nine SOS genes, including recA, umuC, dinA, dinB, dinD, dinF,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thoms B,Wackernagel W

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma virus L2 is subject to host-specific restriction and modification in Acholeplasma laidlawii strains JA1 and K2. We have examined the DNAs from both host cells and viruses propagated on these strains with respect to susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonucleases and for DNA base modifications. We sh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dybvig K,Swinton D,Maniloff J,Hattman S

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of R-factor-mediated resistance to tetracycline has been compared in Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli. Resistance to a range of concentrations of tetracycline was significantly lower in P. mirabilis than in E. coli in both induced and repressed states. Indirect evidence showed that conditions whic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Franklin TJ,Rownd R

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli gene cluster encoding enzymatic activities responsible for the synthesis and activation of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid in the formation of the catechol siderophore enterobactin was localized to a 4.2-kilobase chromosomal DNA fragment. Analysis of various subclones and transposon insertion mutations ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nahlik MS,Fleming TP,McIntosh MA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sdiA gene codes for a protein that regulates expression of the ftsQAZ cluster of essential cell division genes of Escherichia coli. SdiA up-regulates the ftsQ2p promoter that initiates transcription into the ftsQAZ cluster. In this paper, we report that expression of sdiA is itself regulated by a factor that is re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： García-Lara J,Shang LH,Rothfield LI

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 3.4-kb EcoRI-PstI DNA fragment of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris revealed two open reading frames, which were designated xanA and xanB. The genes xanA and xanB encode proteins of 448 amino acids (molecular weight of 48,919) and 466 amino acids (molecular weight of 50,873), respectiv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Köplin R,Arnold W,Hötte B,Simon R,Wang G,Pühler A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum sensing is involved in the regulation of multicellular behavior through communication via small molecules. Given the high number and diversity of the gastrointestinal microbiota, it is postulated that members of this community communicate to coordinate a variety of adaptive processes. AI-2 is suggested to be a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lebeer S,De Keersmaecker SC,Verhoeven TL,Fadda AA,Marchal K,Vanderleyden J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on lipoteichoic acids obtained from defatted cells of 10 Bacillus strains by phenol-water partition followed by chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel and Octyl-Sepharose columns. A group of the tested bacteria (group A), Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, and Bacillus pumilus, was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwasaki H,Shimada A,Ito E

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of Streptococcus faecalis (ATTC 8043) to S. zymogenes X-14 bacteriocin depends greatly on its physiological age. Sensitivity decreases from the mid-log phase on and is completely lost in the stationary phase. The sensitivity of erythrocytes to the hemolytic capacity of the bacteriocin showed considerab...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basinger SF,Jackson RW

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrating conjugative elements (ICEs) of the SXT/R391 family are major contributors to the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. These elements also catalyze their own diversity by promoting inter-ICE recombination through the action of the RecA-independent homologous recombination system that they encode. Here, we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garriss G,Poulin-Laprade D,Burrus V

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new class II (Tn3-like) transposable element, designated Tn5401, was recovered from a sporulation-deficient variant of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. morrisoni EG2158 following its insertion into a recombinant plasmid. Sequence analysis of the insert revealed a 4,837-bp transposon with two large open reading frames, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baum JA

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Day, L. E. (Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Groton, Conn.). Tetracycline inhibition of cell-free protein synthesis. II. Effect of the binding of tetracycline to the components of the system. J. Bacteriol. 92:197-203. 1966.-When tetracycline, an inhibitor of cell-free protein synthesis, was preincubated with each component o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Day LE

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we identified a bacterial factor (BimA) required for actin-based motility of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Here we report that Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia thailandensis are capable of actin-based motility in J774.2 cells and that BimA homologs of these bacteria can restore the actin-based motility defec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stevens JM,Ulrich RL,Taylor LA,Wood MW,Deshazer D,Stevens MP,Galyov EE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous determination of the nucleotide sequence of the iol region of the Bacillus subtilis genome allowed us to predict the structure of the iol operon for myo-inositol catabolism, consisting of 10 iol genes (iolA to iouJ); iolG corresponds to idh, encoding myo-inositol 2-dehydrogenase (Idh). Primer extension analys...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshida KI,Aoyama D,Ishio I,Shibayama T,Fujita Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene suppressing the defects of Escherichia coli rdgB (recA-dependent growth) and recA(Ts) rdgB mutants was cloned. The cloned gene suppresses the hyper-Rec phenotype and the enhanced level of SOS functions in rdgB mutants at the nonpermissive temperature. We identified the cloned gene as purA. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clyman J,Cunningham RP

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five lacY mutants with amber stop codons at known positions were each placed into 12 different suppressor strains. The 60 amino acid substitutions obtained in this manner were tested for growth on lactose-minimal medium plates and for transport of lactose, melibiose, and thiomethylgalactoside. Most of the amino acid s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang AM,Lee JI,King SC,Wilson TH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:It is well established that the RpoN-RpoS sigma factor (σ(54)-σ(S)) cascade plays an essential role in differential gene expression during the enzootic cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. The RpoN-RpoS pathway is activated by the response regulator/σ(54)-dependent activator (a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yin Y,Yang Y,Xiang X,Wang Q,Yang ZN,Blevins J,Lou Y,Yang XF

更新日期：2016-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation in a new gene, molR, prevented the synthesis in Escherichia coli of molybdoenzymes, including the two formate dehydrogenase isoenzymes, nitrate reductase and trimethylamine-N-oxide reductase. This phenotype was suppressed by supplementing the media with molybdate. Thus, the molR mutant was phenotypically si...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee JH,Wendt JC,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis gene ypfP, which is located at 196 degrees on the genetic map, shows similarity to both the monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase gene of Cucumis sativus, which encodes a galactosyltransferase, and the murG genes of B. subtilis, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Synechocystis sp. strain P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price KD,Roels S,Losick R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nishida, Shoki (Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan), and Gizo Nakagawara. Relationship between toxigenicity and sporulating potency of Clostridium novyi. J. Bacteriol. 89:993-995. 1965.-The less toxigenic the strains, the stronger was the sporulating potency of Clostridium novyi strains isolated. This was confirmed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： NISHIDA S,NAKAGAWARA G

更新日期：1965-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formate dehydrogenase has traditionally been assumed to play an essential role in energy generation during growth on C(1) compounds. However, this assumption has not yet been experimentally tested in methylotrophic bacteria. In this study, a whole-genome analysis approach was used to identify three different formate d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chistoserdova L,Laukel M,Portais JC,Vorholt JA,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae genome contains several genes predicted to determine surface polysaccharides. Mutants predicted to affect the initial steps of polysaccharide synthesis were identified and characterized. In addition to the known cellulose (cel) and acidic exopolysaccharide (EPS) (pss) genes, w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Williams A,Wilkinson A,Krehenbrink M,Russo DM,Zorreguieta A,Downie JA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00