Increase in transduction efficiency of Tn551 mediated by the methicillin resistance marker.

abstract：:Entry into the host bacterial cell is one of the least understood steps in the life cycle of bacteriophages. The different envelopes of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, with a fluid outer membrane and exposing a thick peptidoglycan wall to the environment respectively, impose distinct challenges for bacteriop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jakutytė L,Baptista C,São-José C,Daugelavičius R,Carballido-López R,Tavares P

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis skin element confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite. The ars operon in the skin element contains four genes in the order arsR, ORF2, arsB, and arsC. Three of these genes are homologous to the arsR, arsB, and arsC genes from the staphylococcal plasmid pI258, while no homologs of ORF2 have bee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sato T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern blot analysis indicated that the gene encoding the constitutive, NADP-linked bile acid 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 was located on a 6.5-kb EcoRI fragment of the chromosomal DNA. This fragment was cloned into bacteriophage lambda gt11, and a 2.9-kb piece of this ins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baron SF,Franklund CV,Hylemon PB

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompB operon encodes OmpR and EnvZ, two proteins that are necessary for the expression and osmoregulation of the OmpF and OmpC porins in Escherichia coli. We have used in vitro and in vivo experiments to show that cyclic AMP and the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) directly regulate ompB. ompB expression in an omp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang L,Tsui P,Freundlich M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cnm is a surface-associated protein present in a subset of Streptococcus mutans strains that mediates binding to extracellular matrices, intracellular invasion, and virulence. Here, we showed that cnm transcription is controlled by the global regulators CovR and VicRKX. In silico analysis identified multiple putative ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Araújo Alves L,Ganguly T,Mattos-Graner RO,Kajfasz J,Harth-Chu EN,Lemos JA,Abranches J

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chemotactic transducers for inorganic phosphate (P(i)), designated CtpH and CtpL, have been identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The corresponding genes (ctpH and ctpL) were inactivated by inserting kanamycin and tetracycline resistance gene cassettes into the wild-type genes in the P. aeruginosa PAO1 genome. Com...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu H,Kato J,Kuroda A,Ikeda T,Takiguchi N,Ohtake H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ubiquinone-deficient mutant, carrying mutations in two genes affecting ubiquinone biosynthesis, has been used, in comparison with a normal strain, to determine the sequence of some of the components of the electron transport chain of Escherichia coli. The amounts of cytochromes reduced during aerobic steady-state co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Downie JA,Cox GB

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early stages of nodulation involve the exchange of signals between the bacterium and the host plant. Bacterial nodulation (nod) genes are required for Rhizobium spp. to synthesize lipooligosaccharide morphogens, termed Nod factors. The common nod genes encode enzymes that synthesize the factor core structure, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ehrhardt DW,Atkinson EM,Faull KF,Freedberg DI,Sutherlin DP,Armstrong R,Long SR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the positively charged human protein secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI) in Escherichia coli causes severe cellular toxicity. After induction of SLPI synthesis in a high-level-expression strain, SGE61, the growth of the strain is arrested and total protein and RNA synthesis rates decline by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller KW,Evans RJ,Eisenberg SP,Thompson RC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of wild-type Neurospora crassa assimilatory nitrate reductase is induced in the presence of nitrate ions and repressed in the presence of ammonium ions. Effects of several Neurospora mutations on the regulation of this enzyme are shown: (i) the mutants, nit-1 and nit-3, involving separate lesions, lack reduc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dantzig AH,Zurowski WK,Ball TM,Nason A

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon prolonged exposure to cholate and other toxic compounds, Lactococcus lactis develops a multidrug resistance phenotype that has been attributed to an elevated expression of the heterodimeric ABC-type multidrug transporter LmrCD. To investigate the molecular basis of bile acid resistance in L. lactis and to evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zaidi AH,Bakkes PJ,Lubelski J,Agustiandari H,Kuipers OP,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is an emerging tick-transmitted human pathogen causing far-Eastern spotted fever. Here we report the complete sequence and the main features of the genome of R. heilongjiangensis (strain 054). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duan C,Tong Y,Huang Y,Wang X,Xiong X,Wen B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus attaches to solid surfaces through an adhesive holdfast located at the tip of its polar stalk, a thin cylindrical extension of the cell membrane. In this paper, the elastic properties of the C. crescentus stalk and holdfast assembly were studied by using video light microsc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li G,Smith CS,Brun YV,Tang JX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two strains of Staphylococcus aureus (PC1 and 196E), when grown in medium containing 0.002% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), showed from 96.1 to 100% loss of the ability to produce penicillinase. Resistance to cadmium and zinc was lost concomitantly with the ability to produce penicillinase. A comparison of the rate of c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sonstein SA,Baldwin JN

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP134 plasmid pJP4 contains genes necessary for the complete degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 3-chlorobenzoic acid. tfdA encodes 2,4-D monooxygenase, the initial enzyme in the 2,4-D catabolic pathway. The tfdA locus has recently been localized to a region on pJP4 13 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perkins EJ,Lurquin PF

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of (35)S-hydroxyethylthiazole (4-methyl-5-hydroxyethylthiazole) by Escherichia coli intact cells was studied. Hydroxyethylthiazole was taken up in the presence and absence of glucose at the same rate. The uptake was almost proportional to a hydroxyethylthiazole concentration gradient up to 0.1 mM with no tenden...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamasaki H,Sanemori H,Yamada K,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinsky, Stephen C. (Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.). Induction and repression of nitrate reductase in Neurospora crassa. J. Bacteriol. 82:898-904. 1961.-Techniques are described for studying induced enzyme formation in Neurospora crassa. The effects of various parameters (time, pH, nitrate concentration, etc.) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KINSKY SC

更新日期：1961-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kps locus for polysialic acid capsule expression in Escherichia coli K1 is composed of a central group of biosynthetic neu genes, designated region 2, flanked on either side by region 1 or region 3 kps genes with poorly defined functions. Chromosomal mutagenesis with MudJ and subsequent complementation analysis, m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cieslewicz MJ,Steenbergen SM,Vimr ER

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:The Tat system, found in the cytoplasmic membrane of many bacteria, is a general export pathway for folded proteins. Here we describe the development of a method, based on the transport of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase, that allows positive selection of mutants defective in Tat function. We have demonstrated the u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hicks MG,Lee PA,Georgiou G,Berks BC,Palmer T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureolytic clinical isolates of Providencia stuartii, Salmonella spp., and some Escherichia coli strains contain large urease-encoding plasmids. Expression of urease activity from these isolates is induced at least 20-fold by urea. In order to facilitate studies on the regulatory mechanism controlling this urea-inducib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： D'Orazio SE,Collins CM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae porin genes were analyzed to detect mutations accounting for the porin deficiency observed in many beta-lactam-resistant strains. PCR and Southern blot analysis revealed the existence of a third porin gene in addition to the OmpK36 and OmpK35 porin genes previously described. This new porin gene ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doménech-Sánchez A,Hernández-Allés S,Martínez-Martínez L,Benedí VJ,Albertí S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a new recF mutant of Escherichia coli K-12 by insertion of transposon Tn5 into the recF gene. This recF400::Tn5 allele displayed the same phenotypic characteristics as the classic recF143 mutation. By using Mu d(Ap lac) fusions, the induction of nine SOS genes, including recA, umuC, dinA, dinB, dinD, dinF,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thoms B,Wackernagel W

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isoleucine analogues and two leucine analogues were examined for their ability to replace the natural amino acid preventing the accumulation of threonine deaminase-forming potential. The procedure used to study repression by the analogues distinguishes between true repression and the formation of inactive enzyme b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wasmuth JJ,Umbarger HE

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an auxotrophic strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we examined the kinetics of ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis following inhibition of protein synthesis caused by amino acid starvation or cycloheximide. Removal of a required amino acid immediately stopped net protein synthesis. After a brief lag, RNA synthesis ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roth RM,Dampier C

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RepA replication protein of plasmid pSC101 binds as a monomer to three repeated sequences (RS1, RS2, and RS3) in the replication origin of the plasmid to initiate duplication and binds as a dimer to two inversely repeated sequences (IR1 and IR2) in its promoter region (D. Manen, L. C. Upegui-Gonzalez, and L. Caro,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xia G,Manen D,Yu Y,Caro L

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SOS response to DNA damage in bacteria is a well-known component of the complex transcriptional responses to genotoxic environmental stresses such as exposure to reactive oxygen species, alkylating agents, and many of the antibiotics targeting DNA replication. However, bacteria such as Bacillus subtilis also respo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hoover SE,Xu W,Xiao W,Burkholder WF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the Escherichia coli dnaE(Ts) dnaE74 and dnaE486 mutants die after 4 h of incubation at 40 degrees C in Luria-Bertani medium. Cell death is preceded by elongation, is inhibited by chloramphenicol, tetracycline, or rifampin, and is dependent on cell density. Cells survive at 40 degrees C when they are incubate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strauss B,Kelly K,Dincman T,Ekiert D,Biesieda T,Song R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The azlB locus of Bacillus subtilis was defined previously by a mutation conferring resistance to a leucine analog, 4-azaleucine (J. B. Ward, Jr., and S. A. Zahler, J. Bacteriol. 116:727-735, 1973). In this report, azlB is shown to be the first gene of an operon apparently involved in branched-chain amino acid transpo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belitsky BR,Gustafsson MC,Sonenshein AL,Von Wachenfeldt C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glyoxal is toxic and mutagenic α-oxoaldehyde generated in vivo as an oxidation by-product of sugar metabolism. We selected glyoxal-resistant mutants from an Escherichia coli strain lacking major glyoxal-detoxifying genes, gloA and yqhD, by growing cells in medium containing a lethal concentration of glyoxal. The mutan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kwon M,Lee J,Lee C,Park C

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00