A gene and its product required for transposition of resistance transposon Tn2603.

abstract：:Injection of mice with a sublethal dose of endotoxin 2 hr after administration of 0.1 ml of carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) killed 75% of the animals. CCl(4) alone killed no controls. Significant protection against this effect was afforded by 5 mg of cortisone and by 5 mg of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). With...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Synder IS,Agarwal MK,Berry LJ

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbes coexist within biofilms, or multispecies communities of cells encased in an extracellular matrix. However, little is known about the microbe-microbe interactions relevant for creating these structures. In this study, we explored a striking dual-species biofilm between Bacillus subtilis and Pantoea agglom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yannarell SM,Grandchamp GM,Chen SY,Daniels KE,Shank EA

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lundgren, D. G. (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.) and J. J. Cooney. Chemical analyses of asporogenic mutants of Bacillus cereus. J. Bacteriol. 83:1287-1293. 1962.-Bacillus cereus ATCC 4342 and three temperature-sensitive asporogenic mutants were compared regarding some basic cellular components and response to met...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LUNDGREN DG,COONEY JJ

更新日期：1962-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica degrades 1,2-propanediol (1,2-PD) in a coenzyme B12 (adenosylcobalamin, AdoCbl)-dependent fashion. Salmonella obtains AdoCbl by assimilation of complex precursors, such as vitamin B12 and hydroxocobalamin. Assimilation of these compounds requires reduction of their central cobalt atom from Co3+ to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng S,Bobik TA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells colicinogenic for the colicin plasmids E1 or E2 (Col E1 and Col E2, respectively) were selected for a loss of colicin production after infection with bacteriophage Mu. Extrachromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid that was larger than the original colicin plasmids was found in such cells. A small insertion mutant in Co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Inselburg J

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that lethal heat treatment of Bacillus subtilis spores lacking the major DNA-binding proteins SASP-alpha and -beta (alpha-beta- spores) causes significant DNA damage, including many single-strand breaks. In this work we have used a reagent specific for aldehydes present in abasic sites in DNA t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow B,Setlow P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors influencing the digestion of pebble-milled cellulose by enzymes were studied by using several strains of Ruminococcus albus including a mutant characterized by a more eccentric location of its colony in the clearing produced by digestion of the cellulose in the thin layer lining the wall of a culture tube....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith WR,Yu I,Hungate RE

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the Bacillus subtilis nucleoid was dissected with restriction endonucleases, a specific DNA sequence from the purA region was isolated in a particulate form that probably originated from the cell membrane. Precise definition of the binding region within this sequence was achieved by a novel procedure based on a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sargent MG,Bennett MF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic analysis of a 12-kb DNA fragment containing Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes was performed by transposon-mediated insertional mutagenesis. The nucleotide sequence and genetic analysis have shown that a 4.8-kb DNA subfragment carried two cob genes (cobS and cobT). Biochemical data concerning the complement...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cameron B,Guilhot C,Blanche F,Cauchois L,Rouyez MC,Rigault S,Levy-Schil S,Crouzet J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldrich, K. M. (The University of Kansas, Lawrence), and C. P. Sword. Methicillin-induced lysozyme-sensitive forms of staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 87:690-695. 1964.-Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis grown in the presence of sublethal amounts of methicillin were converted to enlarged spheres within 2 to 4 hr, as...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ALDRICH KM,SWORD CP

更新日期：1964-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gellan gum is a widely used commercial material, available in many different forms. Its economic importance has led to studies into the biosynthesis of exopolysaccharide gellan gum, which is industrially prepared in high yields using Sphingomonas elodea ATCC 31461. Glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase mediates the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aragão D,Fialho AM,Marques AR,Mitchell EP,Sá-Correia I,Frazão C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal and mutagenic effects of various mutagens on Neisseria gonorrhoeae were investigated. Lethality studies demonstrated that N. gonorrhoeae was relatively sensitive to ethyl methanesulfonate, UV light, and methyl methanesulfonate. Although N. gonorrhoeae was readily mutated by ethyl methanesulfonate and N-meth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Campbell LA,Yasbin RE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a series of broad-host-range plasmids which use "visual screens" to detect promoter activity. These plasmids contain the pMB1 and pRO1600 origins of replication and are capable of replicating in a wide range of gram-negative bacteria. The genes encoding beta-galactosidase and alkaline phosphatase f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Farinha MA,Kropinski AM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major regulator controlling the physiological switch between aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions in Escherichia coli is the DNA binding protein FNR. To identify genes controlled by FNR, we used Affymetrix Antisense GeneChips to compare global gene expression profiles from isogenic MG1655 wild-type and Deltafnr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kang Y,Weber KD,Qiu Y,Kiley PJ,Blattner FR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants with reduced lysine decarboxylase activity were isolated from an Escherichia coli polyamine auxotroph. These mutants could not produce induced enzyme, showing only a very low level of an apparently constitutive form. Both enzyme forms could be demonstrated in the parental strain. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldemberg SH

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus possesses dual flagellar systems adapted for movement under different circumstances. A single polar flagellum propels the bacterium in liquid (i.e., swimming) with a motor that is powered by the sodium motive force. Multiple proton-driven lateral flagella enable translocation over surfaces (i.e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart BJ,McCarter LL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloromuconate cycloisomerases of bacteria utilizing chloroaromatic compounds are known to convert 3-chloro-cis,cis-muconate to cis-dienelactone (cis-4-carboxymethylenebut-2-en-4-olide), while usual muconate cycloisomerases transform the same substrate to the bacteriotoxic protoanemonin. Formation of protoanemonin req...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaulmann U,Kaschabek SR,Schlömann M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asg mutants of Myxococcus xanthus are defective in production of extracellular A-signal, which serves as a cell density signal for fruiting-body development. The DNA sequence of asgB, one of the three asg genes, was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence of AsgB contains a DNA-binding helix-turn-helix motif n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plamann L,Davis JM,Cantwell B,Mayor J

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to DNA damage or the inhibition of normal DNA replication in Escherichia coli, a set of some 20 unlinked operons is induced through the RecA-mediated cleavage of the LexA repressor. We examined the effect of this SOS response on the transposition of Tn5 and determined that the frequency of transposition is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weinreich MD,Makris JC,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct targeting of membrane proteins is essential for membrane integrity, cell physiology, and viability. Cotranslational targeting depends on the universally conserved signal recognition particle (SRP), which is a ribonucleoprotein complex comprised of the protein component Ffh and the 4.5S RNA in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sauerbrei B,Arends J,Schünemann D,Narberhaus F

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Three independently isolated metK mutants have been shown to have leisions lying between speB and glc near 57 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Two deletions result in a lack of the metC gene product but neither extends into the metK glc region. The three metK mutations are recessive to the wild-type allele carr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hunter JS,Greene RC,Su CH

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An expressed sequence tag homologous to cheA was previously isolated by random sequencing of Thermotoga maritima cDNA clones (C. W. Kim, P. Markiewicz, J. J. Lee, C. F. Schierle, and J. H. Miller, J. Mol. Biol. 231: 960-981, 1993). Oligonucleotides complementary to this sequence tag were synthesized and used to identi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Swanson RV,Sanna MG,Simon MI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified bulk tRNA from Methanococcus vanielii (carbon source, formate) showed variation in the modified nucleoside pattern reported for Escherichia coli as analyzed by both ion-exchange and thin-layer chromatography. Ribothymidine and 7-methylguanosine were absent; 1-methyladenosine, 1-methylguanosine, N2-methylguano...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Best AN

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine kinase (HK) component of many two-component regulatory systems exhibits regulated ability to phosphorylate itself and to participate in transfer of phosphate to and from its cognate response regulator. The signaling system that controls expression of the UhpT sugar phosphate transporter in Escherichia co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wright JS,Olekhnovich IN,Touchie G,Kadner RJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, an obligate anaerobe, exhibits a relatively high degree of aerotolerance and possesses superoxide dismutase (SOD) which is induced by exposure to air. To clarify roles for SOD in this organism, the gene encoding SOD (sod) on the P. gingivalis chromosome was disrupted in a gene-directed way by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakayama K

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli W3110 contains four types of IS1 elements in the chromosome. Using an insertion element entrapping system, we collected 116 IS1 plasmid insertion mutants, which resulted from a minimum of 26 independent IS1 insertion events. All of them had insertions of IS1 of the IS1A (IS1E and IS1G) type. Inspectio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen JH,Hsu WB,Hwang JL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The single polar flagellum of Pseudomonas aeruginosa plays an important role in the pathogenesis of infection by this organism. However, regulation of the assembly of this organelle has not been delineated. In analyzing the sequence available at the Pseudomonas genome database, an open reading frame (ORF), flanked by ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dasgupta N,Arora SK,Ramphal R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pasteurella multocida is the causative agent of a range of diseases with economic importance in production animals. Many systems have been employed to identify virulence factors of P. multocida, including in vivo expression technology (IVET), signature-tagged mutagenesis, and whole-genome expression profiling. In a pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boucher DJ,Adler B,Boyce JD

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleiotropic effects of two ribosomal mutations for cycloheximide resistance were studied in a double-resistant homocaryon. The results obtained indicated that the combination of the two ribosomal mutations results in: (i) morphological abnormalities which suggest a severe distortion in the extension of cell walls and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vomvoyanni VE,Argyrakis MP

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutant, cdc16-116, has been isolated which undergoes uncontrolled septation during its cell division cycle. The mutant accumulates two types of cells after 3 h of growth at the restrictive temperature: (i) type I cells (85% of the population), which complete nuclear di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minet M,Nurse P,Thuriaux P,Mitchison JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00