Role of the sfiA-dependent cell division regulation system in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Growth and sporulation of a Bacillus subtilis mutant deficient in branched fatty acid synthesis (gene symbol bfmB) were examined. The mutant, which produces an acyl-coenzyme A:acyl carrier protein transacylase with reduced affinity for branched fatty acid primers, could grow in media containing any one of a wide range...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boudreaux DP,Freese E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of heat shock on Myxococcus xanthus was investigated during both glycerol- and starvation-induced development. Cells heat shocked at 40 degrees C for 1 h prior to a development-inducing signal displayed an accelerated rate of myxospore formation at 30 degrees C. Additionally, M. xanthus cells heat shocked p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Killeen KP,Nelson DR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rubrerythrin was purified by multistep chromatography under anaerobic, reducing conditions from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus. It is a homodimer with a molecular mass of 39.2 kDa and contains 2.9 +/- 0.2 iron atoms per subunit. The purified protein had peroxidase activity at 85 degrees C using hyd...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weinberg MV,Jenney FE Jr,Cui X,Adams MW

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembedding staining of intracellular carbohydrates on thin sections of Staphylococcus aureus was studied by the silver methenamine and the wheat germ agglutinin-gold techniques. Staining of silver grains was observed on both the cell wall and the cross wall. The staining was interpreted to be due to teichoic acid. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morioka H,Tachibana M,Suganuma A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is usually resistant to a wide variety of antibacterial agents, and it has been inferred, on the basis of indirect evidence, that this was due to the low permeability of its outer membrane. We determined the permeability of P. aeruginosa outer membrane directly, by measuring the rates of hydroly...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshimura F,Nikaido H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bakers' yeast cells, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, if grown aerobically on ethanol or if grown aerobically on glucose and allowed to pass into stationary phase, with utilization of accumulated ethanol, maintain a normal value (0.8 to 0.9) of the adenylate energy charge during prolonged starvation. In contrast, cells grown...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ball WJ Jr,Atkinson DE

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain carbohydrates (rhamnose, 3-O-methyl rhamnose, and galactosamine) have been demonstrated to be present in Bacillus anthracis spores but absent in vegetative cells. Others have demonstrated that these spore-specific sugars are constituents of the glycoprotein BclA. In the current work, spore extracts were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waller LN,Stump MJ,Fox KF,Harley WM,Fox A,Stewart GC,Shahgholi M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ruvC mutants of Escherichia coli appear to lack an activity that resolves Holliday intermediates into recombinant products. Yet, these strains produce close to normal numbers of recombinants in genetic crosses. This recombination proficiency was found to be a function of recG. A "mini-kan" insertion in recG was introd...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lloyd RG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the pPT23A plasmid family of Pseudomonas syringae play an important role in the interaction of this bacterial pathogen with host plants. Complete sequence analysis of several pPT23A family plasmids (PFPs) has provided a glimpse of the gene content and virulence function of these plasmids. We constructed a m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao Y,Ma Z,Sundin GW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli carrying the gene lon typically produced excess capsular polysaccharide, and were sensitive to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation, thymine starvation, and nalidixic acid, forming long filaments after these treatments. Sensitivity was reduced by a number of posttreatments. In the presence of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donch J,Green MH,Greenberg J

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shewanella oneidensis is a metal reducer that uses the cyclic AMP receptor protein, CRP, to regulate anaerobic respiration. In addition, ArcA(So) is required for anaerobic growth with dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and plays a role in aerobic respiration. The sensor kinase that activates ArcA(So) in S. oneidensis is not kn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shroff NP,Charania MA,Saffarini DA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal enzyme of heme biosynthesis, ferrochelatase (EC 4.99.1.1), catalyzes the insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX to form protoheme. Prior to the present work, [2Fe-2S] clusters have been identified and characterized in animal ferrochelatases but not in plant or prokaryotic ferrochelatases. Herein...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dailey TA,Dailey HA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic diversity and relationships in 74 Helicobacter pylori isolates recovered from patients assigned to distinct clinical categories were estimated by examination of allelic variation in six genes encoding metabolic housekeeping enzymes by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. Seventy-three distinct allele profiles, r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Go MF,Kapur V,Graham DY,Musser JM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ccd mechanism specified by the ccdA and ccdB genes of the mini-F plasmid determines fate of plasmid-free segregants in Escherichia coli (Jaffé et al., J. Bacteriol. 163:841-849, 1985). The killing function in plasmid-free segregants by the ccd mechanism did not affect cell growth of coexisting cells in the same cu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hiraga S,Jaffé A,Ogura T,Mori H,Takahashi H

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deletion of a gene coding for a histidine kinase (sll0750, Hik8) in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 resulted in a conditional lethal phenotype with a pleiotropic effect on the expression of genes involved in glucose metabolism. This mutant had comparable doubling times to wild type...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh AK,Sherman LA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonies of S. mutans OMZ61, Streptococcus sp. D182, Staphylococcus aureus Oxford NCTC 6571, and Candida albicans type A, MRL 3153 were grown on various media. Cubes of agar bearing two to three colonies were excised and processed for scanning electron microscopy. The characteristic shape of the colonies was seen when...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Whittaker DK,Drucker DB

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid composition was studied in two strains each of mid-log phase cells of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. larvae, B. popilliae, B. alvei, and B. lentimorbus. Total lipids varied from 2.5 to 3.5% of the cell dry weight of B. thuringiensis to 4.3 to 5.0% of B. popilliae. Phospholipids in the organisms examined ranged from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bulla LA,Bennett GA,Shotwell OL

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces sp. strain HK803 produces six analogues of phoslactomycin (Plm A through Plm F). With the exception of Plm B, these analogues contain a C-18 hydroxyl substituent esterified with a range of short-alkyl-chain carboxylic acids. Deletion of the plmS(2) open reading frame (ORF), showing high sequence similarit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghatge MS,Reynolds KA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct binding of Streptococcus mitis to human platelets is mediated in part by two proteins (PblA and PblB) encoded by a lysogenic bacteriophage (SM1). Since SM1 is the first prophage of S. mitis that has been identified and because of the possible role of these phage-encoded proteins in virulence, we sought to c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siboo IR,Bensing BA,Sullam PM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic organization of the polypeptides required for the biosynthesis of the F41 adhesin of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains was investigated. Maxicell analysis demonstrated that a recombinant plasmid which mediated mannose-resistant hemagglutination and F41 antigen production encoded four polypeptides of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anderson DG,Moseley SL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding OprF, a major outer membrane protein in Pseudomonas species (formerly known as type 1 pseudomonads), was thought to be constitutively transcribed from a single sigma 70 promoter immediately upstream of the gene. We now report the identification of a novel putative ECF (extracytoplasmic function) sigm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brinkman FS,Schoofs G,Hancock RE,De Mot R

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burchard, Robert P. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Martin Dworkin. Light-induced lysis and carotenogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 91:535-545. 1966.-Myxococcus xanthus, grown vegetatively in the light, developed an orange carotenoid after the cells entered stationary phase of growth; pigment ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burchard RP,Dworkin M

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Youmans, Anne S. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.) and Guy P. Youmans. Effect of mycosuppressin on the respiration and growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J. Bacteriol. 84:708-715. 1962.-A substance, called mycosuppressin, was found in the lungs of guinea pigs and rabbits vaccinated with BCG or...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： YOUMANS AS,YOUMANS GP

更新日期：1962-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial metabolite 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG) contributes to the capacity of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CHA0 to control plant diseases caused by soilborne pathogens. A 2, 4-DAPG-negative Tn5 insertion mutant of strain CHA0 was isolated, and the nucleotide sequence of the 4-kb genomic DNA regio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnider-Keel U,Seematter A,Maurhofer M,Blumer C,Duffy B,Gigot-Bonnefoy C,Reimmann C,Notz R,Défago G,Haas D,Keel C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides ruminicola B(1)4, a noncellulolytic rumen bacterium, produces an endoglucanase (carboxymethylcellulase [CMCase]) that is excreted into the culture supernatant. Cultures grown on glucose, fructose, maltose, mannose, and cellobiose had high specific activities of CMCase (greater than 3 mmol of reducing sugar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushita O,Russell JB,Wilson DB

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was devised to efficiently select isolates of Staphylococcus aureus 8325 in which Tn551, a transposon originating on the pI258 plasmid responsible for erythromycin resistance (Emr), had translocated to the host chromosome. This method consisted of selecting for Emr at 43 degrees C with a strain in which the p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pattee PA

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectinomycin-resistant (Spcr) mutants of Escherichia coli were isolated from nutrient agar plates containing 20% sucrose and 100 mug of spectinomycin per ml. About one-third of the Spcr mutants thus obtained were sucrose dependent (Sucd) and were classified into two types: I, those unable to grow on sucrose-free medi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyoshi Y,Yamagata H

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reported here that alkalinization of Clostridium acetobutylicum cytoplasm involves hydrogenase activity. A decrease of in vivo hydrogenase activity is accompanied by intracellular accumulation of protons leading to a negative (interior acidic) pH gradient. However, the organism is able to maintain a consta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Girbal L,Vasconcelos I,Soucaille P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fec region of the Escherichia coli chromosome determines a citrate-dependent iron(III) transport system. The nucleotide sequence of fec revealed five genes, fecABCDE, which are transcribed from fecA to fecE. The fecA gene encodes a previously described outer membrane receptor protein. The fecB gene product is form...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Staudenmaier H,Van Hove B,Yaraghi Z,Braun V

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Methanosarcina barkeri serC gene, encoding phosphoserine aminotransferase, was cloned by complementation of an Escherichia coli serC mutant, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The M. barkeri SerC protein shares significant homology with other known SerC proteins. E. coli serC hosts carrying the cloned gen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Metcalf WW,Zhang JK,Shi X,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00