Properties of pili from Escherichia coli SS142 that mediate mannose-resistant adhesion to mammalian cells.

abstract：:X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and electron microscopy of unstained specimens have been used to study the binding of chloropentaammineosmium(III) chloride to isolated walls of Bacillus subtilis. Native walls bound 0.220 mumol of the osmium probe per mg (dry weight) of walls, whereas walls which were chemically treate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beveridge TJ,Jack T

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pBL2 was identified genetically but not physically in Streptomyces lividans after its mating with S. bambergiensis. During conjugation, pBL2 was transferred at high frequency to S. lividans and S. coelicolor. pBL2.1 DNA isolated from S. coelicolor exconjugants as a circular plasmid was shown to derive from the genome ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zotchev SB,Schrempf H,Hutchinson CR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of the Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae Sym plasmid pRL1JI, responsible for the production and secretion of a previously described 50-kilodalton protein (R. A. de Maagd, C. A. Wijffelman, E. Pees, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol. 170:4424-4427, 1988), was cloned and its nucleotide sequence was de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Maagd RA,Wijfjes AH,Spaink HP,Ruiz-Sainz JE,Wijffelman CA,Okker RJ,Lugtenberg BJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GcvA protein is a LysR family regulatory protein necessary for both activation and repression of the Escherichia coli glycine cleavage enzyme operon (gcv) and negative regulation of gcvA. Gel shift assays indicated that overexpressed GcvA in crude extracts is capable of binding specifically to DNA containing the g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilson RL,Urbanowski ML,Stauffer GV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pep 5 and nisin are cationic peptide antibiotics which in addition to their membrane-disruptive action induce autolysis in staphylococci. To investigate the mechanism of lysis induction, the influence of the peptides on the activity of the N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase of Staphylococcus simulans 22 was studied. I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bierbaum G,Sahl HG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli from anaerobic cultures displayed tactic responses to gradients of nitrate, fumarate, and oxygen when the appropriate electron transport pathway was present. Such responses were named "electron acceptor taxis" because they are elicited by terminal electron acceptors. Mutant ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor BL,Miller JB,Warrick HM,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the cytoplasmic membrane and cell wall of two strains of Escherichia coli, Proteus morganii, P. vulgaris, Acinetobacter anitratum, Moraxella lacunata, Erwinia amylovora, Acinetobacter sp., and of a plant pathogen, unclassified gram-negative, fixed by the Ryter-Kellenberger procedure, was found to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silva MT,Sousa JC

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA probe from an internal fragment of the exotoxin A structural gene was used to study the effects of selected culture conditions on steady-state levels of exotoxin-specific mRNA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cells grown under conditions of iron deprivation began to synthesize and excrete the exotoxin A polypeptide du...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lory S

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray studies of the Escherichia coli response to nitric oxide and nitrosative stress have suggested that additional transcriptional regulators of this response remain to be characterized. We identify here the product of the yjeB gene as a negative regulator of the transcription of the ytfE, hmpA and ygbA genes, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bodenmiller DM,Spiro S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Davis, Nour A. (University of Lagos Medical School, Lagos, Nigeria), and G. H. G. Davis. Ecology of nasal staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 89:1163-1168. 1965.-The rate of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigerian adults (46%) approximates that found in other countries. The rate in infants under 12 months was ca....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DAVIS NA,DAVIS GH

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregative amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum, D. mucoroides, D. purpureum, and D. rosarium react chemotactically to cyclic AMP (cAMP). We measured the chemotactic activity of 14 cAMP analogs and found that these four species have a similar sensitivity to chemical modifications of cAMP; this suggests that the cAMP r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Haastert PJ,Jastorff B,Pinas JE,Konijn TM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmotic stress was found to induce biofilm formation in a Staphylococcus aureus mucosal isolate. Inactivation of a global regulator of the bacterial stress response, the alternative transcription factor sigma(B), resulted in a biofilm-negative phenotype and loss of salt-induced biofilm production. Complementation of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rachid S,Ohlsen K,Wallner U,Hacker J,Hecker M,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of extracellular enzymes such as pectate lyase (Pel), polygalacturonase (Peh), cellulase (Cel), and protease (Prt) is activated by the cell density (quorum)-sensing signal, N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (HSL); plant signals; and aep genes during postexponential growth of Erwinia carotovora subs...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cui Y,Chatterjee A,Liu Y,Dumenyo CK,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) are crucial to all living cells, since they provide deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs) for DNA synthesis and repair. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a class Ib RNR comprising nrdE- and nrdF2-encoded subunits is essential for growth in vitro. Interestingly, the genome of this obligate human pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mowa MB,Warner DF,Kaplan G,Kana BD,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons facilitate the evolution of complex phenotypes by physical and transcriptional linkage of genes. They can be categorized as chromosomal integrons (CIs) or mobile resistance integrons (MRIs). The significance of MRIs for the problem of multiple antibiotic resistance is well established. CIs are more widesprea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tetu SG,Holmes AJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium japonicum, capable of binding high-molecular-weight donor (32)P-labeled deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) during late log phase in a competence medium, was transformed for streptomycin resistance with a frequency of transformation ranging between 0.02 and 0.08%. Eight to 10% of the homologous native (32)P-labeled ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Raina JL,Modi VV

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purine regulon repressor, PurR, was identified as a component of the Escherichia coli regulatory system for pyrC, the gene that encodes dihydroorotase, an enzyme in de novo pyrimidine nucleotide synthesis. PurR binds to a pyrC control site that resembles a pur regulon operator and represses expression by twofold. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Choi KY,Zalkin H

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imp genes, responsible for the UV protection and mutation effects of the I incompatibility group plasmid TP110, have been cloned into vector plasmids, and their products have been analyzed. The genetic information required for expression of these properties was carried in a continuous DNA sequence of approximately...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Glazebrook JA,Grewal KK,Strike P

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpsD gene, encoding ribosomal protein S4, was isolated from Bacillus subtilis by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes derived from the S4 amino-terminal protein sequence. Sequence analysis of the cloned DNA indicated that rpsD is likely to be monocistronic, in contrast to Escherichia coli rpsD, which is locat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general aromatic amino acid permease, AroP, of Escherichia coli is responsible for the active transport of phenylalanine, tyrosine, and tryptophan. A proposed topological model for the AroP permease, consisting of 12 hydrophobic transmembrane spans connected by hydrophilic loops, is very similar to that of the clo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cosgriff AJ,Pittard AJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of one- and two-carbon compounds by the methylotrophic bacterium Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 involves high carbon flux through the ethylmalonyl coenzyme A (ethylmalonyl-CoA) pathway (EMC pathway). During growth on ethylamine, the EMC pathway operates as a linear pathway carrying the full assimilator...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Good NM,Martinez-Gomez NC,Beck DA,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：2015-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic growth of Klebsiella aerogenes NCDO 711 (NCTC 418) on citrate was dependent on the presence of Na+ in the medium, and fermentation of citrate was mediated via the fermentation pathway enzymes, citrate lyase and a Na+-dependent oxalacetate decarboxylase. This confirms the previous findings on strain NCTC 418....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Brien RW

更新日期：1975-05-01 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：:During colonization of the alfalfa rhizosphere, Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 undergoes phenotypic variation, resulting in the appearance of colonies with different morphology. Among phenotypic variants, three isolates, C, F, and S were selected, with the C variant showing colony morphology identical to that of the ino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sánchez-Contreras M,Martín M,Villacieros M,O'Gara F,Bonilla I,Rivilla R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AraC protein, a transcriptional regulator of the L-arabinose operon in Escherichia coli, is dimeric. Each monomer consists of a domain for DNA binding plus transcription activation and a domain for dimerization plus arabinose binding. These are connected to one another by a linker region of at least 5 amino acids. Her...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eustance RJ,Schleif RF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is a symbiont of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. The nematode requires the bacterium for infection of insect larvae and as a substrate for growth and reproduction. The nematodes do not grow and reproduce in insect hosts or on artificial media in the a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ciche TA,Bintrim SB,Horswill AR,Ensign JC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures were developed to facilitate the identification of genes that belong to a given regulon and characterization of their responses to the regulator. The regulon controlled by the Escherichia coli leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) was studied by isolating random transcriptional fusions to lacZ, using ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bhagwat SP,Rice MR,Matthews RG,Blumenthal RM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical analysis of branched pathway regulation has led to the prediction of a novel homoserine control in Escherichia coli B. Experimental support for such control is presented in this paper. Homoserine, the precursor of both threonine and methionine, inhibits nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP(...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kotre AM,Sullivan SJ,Savageau MA

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ESX-1 (ESAT-6 system 1) secretion system plays a conserved role in the virulence of diverse mycobacterial pathogens, including the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. marinum, an environmental mycobacterial species. The ESX-1 system promotes the secretion of protein virulence factors to the extracytop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bosserman RE,Nicholson KR,Champion MM,Champion PA

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus swarming is the rapid cyclical population migration across surfaces by elongated cells that hyperexpress flagellar and virulence genes. The mini-Tn5 transposon mutant mns2 was isolated as a tight nonswarming mutant that did not elongate or upregulate flagellar and hemolysin genes. Individual cell motility was ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hay NA,Tipper DJ,Gygi D,Hughes C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00