Unusual sulfonolipids are characteristic of the Cytophaga-Flexibacter group.

abstract：:RasP is a predicted intramembrane metalloprotease of Bacillus subtilis that has been proposed to cleave the stress response anti-sigma factors RsiW and RsiV, the cell division protein FtsL, and remnant signal peptides within their transmembrane segments. To provide evidence for direct effects of RasP on putative subst...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parrell D,Zhang Y,Olenic S,Kroos L

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The actinomycin synthetases ACMS I, II, and III catalyze the assembly of the acyl peptide lactone precursor of actinomycin by a nonribosomal mechanism. We have cloned the genes of ACMS I (acmA) and ACMS II (acmB) by hybridization screening of a cosmid library of Streptomyces chrysomallus DNA with synthetic oligonucleo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schauwecker F,Pfennig F,Schröder W,Keller U

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the pur operon, which encodes enzymes of the purine biosynthetic pathway in Bacillus subtilis, is subject to control by the purR gene product (PurR) and phosphoribosylpyrophosphate. This control is also exerted on the purA and purR genes. A consensus sequence for the binding of PurR, named the PurBox...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Saxild HH,Brunstedt K,Nielsen KI,Jarmer H,Nygaard P

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 secretion systems (T1SS) are present in a wide range of Gram-negative bacteria and are involved in the secretion of diverse substrates such as proteases, lipases, and hemophores. T1SS consist of three proteins: an inner membrane ABC (ATP binding cassette) protein, a periplasmic adaptor, and an outer membrane ch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Masi M,Wandersman C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli capable of growing in the presence of 10 microgram of mecillinam per ml were selected after intensive mutagenesis. Of these mutants, 1.4% formed normal, rod-shaped cells at 30 degrees C but grew as spherical cells at 42 degrees C. The phenotype of one of these rod(Ts) mutants was 88% cotran...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwaya M,Goldman R,Tipper DJ,Feingold B,Strominger JL

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic hot springs are colonized by a diversity of hyperthermophilic organisms requiring extremes of temperature and pH for growth. To clarify how carbohydrates are consumed in such locations, the structural gene (malA) encoding the major soluble alpha-glucosidase (maltase) and flanking sequences from Sulfolobus solfa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfsmeier M,Haseltine C,Bini E,Clark A,Blum P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent, and other members of the spirochetal genus Borrelia have double-stranded linear plasmids in addition to supercoiled circular plasmids. The copy number relative to the chromosome was determined for 49- and 16-kb linear plasmids and a 27-kb circular plasmid of the type strai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hinnebusch J,Barbour AG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gram-negative bacteria harbor a copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) in their periplasms. In pathogenic bacteria, one role of this enzyme may be to protect periplasmic biomolecules from superoxide that is released by host phagocytic cells. However, the enzyme is also present in many nonpathogens ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Korshunov S,Imlay JA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the broad-host-range, IncPalpha plasmid RK2 requires two plasmid loci: trfA, the replication initiator gene, and oriV, the origin of replication. While these determinants are sufficient for replication in a wide variety of bacteria, they do not confer the stable maintenance of parental RK2 observed in i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosche TM,Siddique A,Larsen MH,Figurski DH

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive mutant of Escherichia coli with a temperature-dependent change in the control of initiation of DNA replication was isolated. The phenotype of the mutant was dependent on a mutation in the RNA polymerase gene rpoC. In vitro RNA polymerase activity was temperature sensitive. The mutant grew and s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rasmussen KV,Atlung T,Kerszman G,Hansen GE,Hansen FG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The respiratory control of adhE, which encodes ethanol (alcohol) dehydrogenase in Escherichia coli, was examined at the transcriptional level by using various phi (adhE'-lacZ) adhE+ merodiploid strains. Expression of the adhE'-lacZ operon fusion was increased about eightfold by anaerobic growth. Under anaerobic growth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen YM,Lin EC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified three new Haemophilus influenzae mutations causing cells to exhibit extreme hypercompetence at all stages of growth. The mutations are in murE, which encodes the meso-diaminopimelate-adding enzyme of peptidoglycan synthesis. All are point mutations causing nonconservative amino acid substitutions, t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma C,Redfield RJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Deacetylation of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) at position C-3 provides valuable starting material for producing semisynthetic β-lactam antibiotics. However, few enzymes have been characterized in this process before now. Comparative analysis of the genome of the thermophilic bacterium Alicyclobacillus...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ding JM,Yu TT,Han NY,Yu JL,Li JJ,Yang YJ,Tang XH,Xu B,Zhou JP,Tang HZ,Huang ZX

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A pentachlorophenol (PCP) hydroxylase which catalyzed the conversion of PCP to 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorohydroquinone and released iodide from triiodophenol in the presence of NADPH and oxygen was identified. The enzyme was purified by protamine sulfate precipitation, ammonium sulfate precipitation, hydrophobic chromatograph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xun L,Orser CS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abram, Dinah (Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.), A. E. Vatter, and Henry Koffler. Attachment and structural features of flagella of certain bacilli. J. Bacteriol. 91:2045-2068. 1966.-The attachment of flagella to cells of various mesophilic and thermophilic strains of Bacillus was studied electron microscopically. S...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abram D,Vatter AE,Koffler H

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The staphylococcal virulon is activated by the density-sensing agr system, which is autoinduced by a short peptide (autoinducing peptide [AIP]) processed from a propeptide encoded by agrD. A central segment of the agr locus, consisting of the C-terminal two-thirds of AgrB (the putative processing enzyme), AgrD, and th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jarraud S,Lyon GJ,Figueiredo AM,Lina G,Vandenesch F,Etienne J,Muir TW,Novick RP

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, T:G mismatches in specific contexts are corrected by a very short patch (VSP) repair system. Previous studies have shown that the product of gene vsr mediates correction of T:G to C:G in the 5'CTAGG/3'GGTCC context and in some related contexts. Amber mutations that arose in CAG sequences in gene c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lieb M,Rehmat S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen strains of mycoplasmata representing 11 named species were compared serologically by three parameters: growth inhibition on agar, double immunodiffusion, and complement fixation. In growth-inhibition studies, a strain labeled Mycoplasma histotropicum was found related to and perhaps best classified as M. pul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kenny GE

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important antituberculosis drug. Unlike most antibacterial agents, PZA, despite its remarkable in vivo activity, has no activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro except at an acidic pH. M. tuberculosis is uniquely susceptible to PZA, but other mycobacteria as well as nonmycobacteria...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang Y,Scorpio A,Nikaido H,Sun Z

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological methods were used to examine the flagellin production of Salmonella typhimurium strains that carried a mutation in one of the two possible genes for flagellin (H1 or H2) and also were incapable of expressing the other gene. Some mutants produced flagellin that was excreted into the culture medium; others...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Homma M,Fujita H,Yamaguchi S,Iino T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli BS-12 uvrA lon is hypersensitive to ultraviolet light. On minimal agar plates at densities in excess of about 10(7) bacteria per plate, as few as one or two photoreversible pyrimidine dimers in the entire genome are sufficient to cause inhibition of cell division. Most of the resulting filaments are u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bridges BA,Mottershead RP,Green MH

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in any one of three genes, kdpA, -B, or -C, in Escherichia coli abolish the activity of Kdp, a multisubunit K+-ATPase that belongs to the P-type ATPase family of cation transporters. We found in this study that expression in vivo of a 135-amino-acid-long N-terminal fragment (KdpA'), less than one-quarter the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sardesai AA,Gowrishankar J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Division site placement in Escherichia coli involves interactions of the MinD protein with MinC and MinE and with other MinD molecules to form membrane-associated polymeric structures. In this work, as part of a study of these interactions, we established that heterologous membrane-associated proteins such as MinD can...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taghbalout A,Ma L,Rothfield L

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division is mediated by a set of proteins that assemble to form a large multiprotein complex called the divisome. Recent studies in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli indicate that cell division proteins are involved in multiple cooperative binding interactions, thus presenting a technical challenge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robichon C,King GF,Goehring NW,Beckwith J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In streptomycete anthracycline biosynthetic gene clusters, small open reading frames are located just upstream of minimal polyketide synthase genes. aknX is such a gene found in the aklavinone-aclacinomycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces galilaeus. In order to identify its function, the aknX gene was expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chung JY,Fujii I,Harada S,Sankawa U,Ebizuka Y

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 95% of the enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococcus aureus appears during the latter part of the exponential phase of growth, growth per se is not necessary for toxin synthesis. A procedure is described whereby a concentrated suspension (at least 6 x 10(10) cells per ml) of a 16-hr culture of S. aureus was fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markus Z,Silverman GJ

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global regulator CsrA (carbon storage regulator) is an RNA binding protein that coordinates central carbon metabolism, activates flagellum biosynthesis and motility, and represses biofilm formation in Escherichia coli. CsrA activity is antagonized by the untranslated RNA CsrB, to which it binds and forms a globula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suzuki K,Wang X,Weilbacher T,Pernestig AK,Melefors O,Georgellis D,Babitzke P,Romeo T

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacterial type IV coupling proteins (T4CPs) bind and mediate the delivery of DNA substrates through associated type IV secretion systems (T4SSs). T4CPs consist of a transmembrane domain, a conserved nucleotide-binding domain (NBD), and a sequence-variable helical bundle called the all-alpha domain (AAD). In ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Whitaker N,Chen Y,Jakubowski SJ,Sarkar MK,Li F,Christie PJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis enzymes ExoA and Nfo (originally termed YqfS) are endonucleases that can repair apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites and strand breaks in DNA. We have analyzed how the lack of ExoA and Nfo affects the resistance of growing cells and dormant spores of B. subtilis to a variety of treatments, some of wh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Salas-Pacheco JM,Setlow B,Setlow P,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new insertion element, IS1549, was identified serendipitously from Mycobacterium smegmatis LR222 during experiments using a vector designed to detect the excision of IS6110 from between the promoter region and open reading frame (ORF) of an aminoglycoside phosphotransferase gene. Six of the kanamycin-resistant isola...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plikaytis BB,Crawford JT,Shinnick TM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00