Molecular cloning of structural and immunity genes for megacins A-216 and A-19213 in Bacillus megaterium.

abstract：:Genome sizes of six different Wolbachia strains from insect and nematode hosts have been determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of purified DNA both before and after digestion with rare-cutting restriction endonucleases. Enzymes SmaI, ApaI, AscI, and FseI cleaved the studied Wolbachia strains at a small number...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sun LV,Foster JM,Tzertzinis G,Ono M,Bandi C,Slatko BE,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One step in de novo pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate biosynthesis was predicted to be an oxidation catalyzed by an unidentified D-erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase (E4PDH). To help identify this E4PDH, we purified the Escherichia coli K-12 gapA- and gapB-encoded dehydrogenases to homogeneity and te...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao G,Pease AJ,Bharani N,Winkler ME

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sbarra, Anthony J. (St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, Mass.), William Shirley, and John S. Baumstark. Effect of osmolarity on phagocytosis. J. Bacteriol. 85:306-313. 1963.-The effect of a number of different compounds on phagocytosis was studied. Phagocytosis was monitored by morphological and biochemical means. It was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SBARRA AJ,SHIRLEY W,BAUMSTARK JS

更新日期：1963-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular protease of Pseudomonas maltophilia was partially purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and chromatography on Sephadex G-75 and Bio-rex 70. Gel electrophoresis revealed minor impurities. The enzyme exhibited the following properties: (i) molecular weight, 35,000; (ii) A see article; 10.8; (iii) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boethling RS

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast which frequently develops resistance to the antifungal agent fluconazole (FCZ) in patients undergoing long-term therapy. FCZ-resistant strains often display a reduced intracellular FCZ accumulation which correlates with the overexpression of the ATP-binding cassett...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alarco AM,Raymond M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNAs of strains of three cyanobacterial genera (Anabaena, Plectonema, and Synechococcus) were found to be partially or fully resistant to many restriction endonucleases. This could be due to the absence of specific sequences or to modifications, rendering given sequences resistant to cleavage. The latter explanati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Padhy RN,Hottat FG,Coene MM,Hoet PP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lockart, Royce Z., Jr. (The University of Texas, Austin). Variations in the abilities of several lines of L cells to produce and to be affected by interferon. J. Bacteriol. 89:117-122. 1965.-The amounts of interferon produced by three different lines of L cells and mouse embryonic cells when inoculated with two strain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LOCKART RZ Jr

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main chain of teichoic acids can be assembled in cell-free membrane preparations by the transfer of residues from the appropriate nucleotide precursors to an incompletely characterized amphiphilic molecule, lipoteichoic acid carrier (LTC). However, in the cell wall, the main chain is attached to peptidoglycan thro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McArthur HA,Hancock IC,Baddiley J

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of antibiotic resistance in mutant strains of Streptococcus pyrogenes was studied. Utilizing a type 6 strain (9440) primarily resistant to strepttomycin (Strr), classes of mutant strains were isolated that were resistant to one of the following antibiotics: rifampin (Rifr), erythromycin (Eryr), thiostrept...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stuart JG,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of 35-S during anaerobic metabolism of [35-S]sulfate, [35-S]thiosulfate, and [35-S]sulfate plus unlabeled thiosulfate by washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio spp, and of [35-S]thiosulfate by growing D. desulfuricans was examined. The results appear to be inconsistent with the hypothesis that thiosulfate i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chambers LA,Trudinger PA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaines, Sidney (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), Julius A. Currie, and Joseph G. Tully. Detection and persistence of Vi antigen in tissues of actively immunized mice. J. Bacteriol. 89:776-781. 1965.-The presence, distribution, and persistence of Vi antigen in mouse tissue was determined by me...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： GAINES S,CURRIE JA,TULLY JG

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Gram-negative bacterial cells, as well as the mitochondrion and chloroplast organelles, possess unique and highly stable β-barrel structures. Biogenesis of OMPs in Escherichia coli involves such periplasmic chaperones as SurA and Skp. In this study, we found that the ΔsurA Δskp do...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ge X,Lyu ZX,Liu Y,Wang R,Zhao XS,Fu X,Chang Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD- and glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (GD-FALDH) of Paracoccus denitrificans has been purified as a tetramer with a relative molecular mass of 150 kDa. The gene encoding GD-FALDH (flhA) has been isolated, sequenced, and mutated by insertion of a kanamycin resistance gene. The mutant strain is not a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ras J,Van Ophem PW,Reijnders WN,Van Spanning RJ,Duine JA,Stouthamer AH,Harms N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions in the rpoBC region have been transferred to phage lambda and characterized in detail by genetic, structural, and functional tests. We thus extend and confirm knowledge of the organization of this part of the chromosome. The new phages are useful tools for studying the genes for the bacterial transcription a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Linn T,Goman M,Scaife J

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important virulence factor. The T3SS of P. aeruginosa can be induced by a low calcium signal or upon direct contact with the host cells. The exact pathway of signal sensing and T3SS activation is not clear. By screening a transposon insertion mutant ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu W,Badrane H,Arora S,Baker HV,Jin S

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonswarming Serratia liquefaciens mutant deficient in serrawettin W2 production was constructed by transposon mutagenesis. Sequence homology indicated that insertion had occurred in gene swrA, which encodes a putative peptide synthetase. Expression of swrA is controlled by quorum sensing. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindum PW,Anthoni U,Christophersen C,Eberl L,Molin S,Givskov M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of oxygen in the transcriptional regulation of the PN promoter that controls the bzd operon involved in the anaerobic catabolism of benzoate in the denitrifying Azoarcus sp. strain CIB has been investigated. In vivo experiments using PN::lacZ translational fusions, in both Azoarcus sp. strain CIB and Escheric...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Durante-Rodríguez G,Zamarro MT,García JL,Díaz E,Carmona M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci consist of two genes in an operon, encoding a stable toxin and an unstable antitoxin. The expression of toxin leads to cell growth arrest and sometimes bacterial death, while the antitoxin prevents the cytotoxic activity of the toxin. In this study, we show that the chromosome of Yersinia pes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goulard C,Langrand S,Carniel E,Chauvaux S

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli anaerobic growth lowers the basal or induced levels of numerous enzymes associated with aerobic metabolism. Mutations in arcA (dye) at min 0 relieve this pleiotropic anaerobic repression and render the cell sensitive to the redox dye toluidine blue. In this study we identified a second pleiotropic ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iuchi S,Cameron DC,Lin EC

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geobacter sulfurreducens RpoS sigma factor was shown to contribute to survival in stationary phase and upon oxygen exposure. Furthermore, a mutation in rpoS decreased the rate of reduction of insoluble Fe(III) but not of soluble forms of iron. This study suggests that RpoS plays a role in regulating metabolism of Geob...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Núñez C,Adams L,Childers S,Lovley DR

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stator proteins PomA and PomB form a complex that couples Na(+) influx to torque generation in the polar flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus. This stator complex is anchored to an appropriate place around the rotor through a putative peptidoglycan-binding (PGB) domain in the periplasmic region of PomB (PomB(C)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li N,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CluA is a cell surface-presented protein that causes cell aggregation and is essential for a high-efficiency conjugation process in Lactococcus lactis. We know from previous work that in addition to promoting cell-to-cell contact, CluA is involved in sex factor DNA transfer. To define the CluA domains involved in aggr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stentz R,Gasson M,Shearman C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein synthesis in Allomyces marcogynus mitospores began at the time of encystment and was required for further germination. The rate of protein synthesis in germinating spores decreased in the absence of ribonucleic acid synthesis relative to the uninhibited control. There was a concomitant decrease in polysome con...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith BA,Burke DD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron transport system of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was partially characterized by using spectrophotometric, spectroscopic, and oxygen consumption measurements. The effects of selected electron transport inhibitors (amytal, rotenone, 2-heptyl-4-hydroxyquinoline, antimycin A1, and potassium cyanide [KCN]) on electro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kenimer EA,Lapp DF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psbAII gene of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 is a member of a three-gene family that encodes the D1 protein of the photosystem II reaction center. Transcription of psbAII is rapidly induced when the light intensity reaching the culture increases from 125 microE.m-2.s-1 (low light) to 750 mic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li R,Dickerson NS,Mueller UW,Golden SS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 11700 is able to use arginine and the diamine agmatine as a sole energy source. Via the highly homologous deiminase pathways, arginine and agmatine are converted into CO2, NH3, and the end products ornithine and putrescine, respectively. In the arginine deiminase pathway, uptake of arginine ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Driessen AJ,Smid EJ,Konings WN

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are currently investigating the role of ToxR-mediated gene regulation in Photobacterium profundum strain SS9. SS9 is a moderately piezophilic ("pressure loving") psychrotolerant marine bacterium belonging to the family Vibrionaceae. In Vibrio cholerae, ToxR is a transmembrane DNA binding protein involved in mediati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bidle KA,Bartlett DH

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose uptake by Bacteroides succinogenes S85 was measured under conditions that maintained anaerobiosis and osmotic stability. Uptake was inhibited by compounds which interfere with electron transport systems, maintenance of proton or metal ion gradients, or ATP synthesis. The most potent inhibitors were proton and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Franklund CV,Glass TL

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Boivin preparation of Brucella abortus, unlike common enterobacterial endotoxins, failed to depress water intake or increase numbers of hemolysin-producing spleen cells in mice, or to cause delayed inflammatory reactions in rabbit skin. Reactivity to the B. abortus endotoxin was found only in animals which were prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Freedman HH,Fox AE,Willis RS,Schwartz BS

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene coding for alveolysin, the thiol-activated toxin produced by Bacillus alvei, has been cloned by means of an oligonucleotide based on the known N-terminal sequence of the secreted protein. The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene has been determined. The deduced amino acid sequence of alveolysin shows that...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geoffroy C,Mengaud J,Alouf JE,Cossart P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00