Suppressed nonsense mutations in the araC gene of Escherichia coli provide three novel variant proteins.

abstract：:The cis-acting regulatory regions of the tps and ops genes of Myxococcus xanthus were localized by analyzing the expression of fusions of these genes with the lacZ gene. A 201-base-pair (bp) fragment of tps DNa extending 95 bp upstream (-95) from the transcriptional start was sufficient to direct developmentally regul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Downard JS,Kim SH,Kil KS

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population density-dependent expression of luminescence in Vibrio fischeri is controlled by the autoinducer N-3-oxohexanoyl-L-homoserine lactone (autoinducer 1 [AI-1]), which via LuxR activates transcription of the lux operon (luxICDABEG, encoding the putative autoinducer synthase [LuxI] and the luminescence enzymes)....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuo A,Callahan SM,Dunlap PV

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The master regulator for entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is the response regulator Spo0A, which directly governs the expression of about 121 genes. Using cells in which the synthesis of Spo0A was under the control of an inducible promoter or in which production of the regulatory protein was impaired by a p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujita M,González-Pastor JE,Losick R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonstarter lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus raffinolactis is prevalent in a wide range of environments, such as the dairy environment, but little is known about this species. Here, we present the draft genome of Lactococcus raffinolactis strain 4877, isolated from a natural mesophilic dairy starter culture. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Meslier V,Loux V,Renault P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Salmonella typhimurium prefers neutral-pH environments, it can adapt to survive conditions of severe low-pH stress (pH 3.3). The process, termed the acid tolerance response (ATR), includes two distinct stages. The first stage, called pre-acid shock, is induced at pH 5.8 and involves the production of an induc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foster JW

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several preparations of staphylococcal alpha-toxin and delta-lysin were studied in order to compare hemolytic activity with capacity to lyse bacterial protoplasts. delta-Lysin in relatively low concentration lysed protoplasts of Sarcina lutea, protoplasts of Streptococcus faecalis, and spheroplasts of Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernheimer AW,Avigad LS,Grushoff P

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinic acid (PA) is a natural toxic pyridine derivative. Microorganisms can degrade and utilize PA for growth. However, the full catabolic pathway of PA and its physiological and genetic foundation remain unknown. In this study, we identified a gene cluster, designated picRCEDFB4B3B2B1A1A2A3, responsible for the de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu J,Zhao L,Xu S,Chen Q,Chen L,Liu B,Hong Q,Lu Z,He J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis was exposed to ultraviolet light (UV) or X rays, and gene frequency analysis was used to study the location of initiation sites of postirradiation deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis. It was found that DNA synthesis resumes primarily from the origin after UV exposure. With X irradiation, the origin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billen D,Hellerman G,Carreira L

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the chloroplasts of higher plants and algae, the biosynthesis of the chlorophyll precursor delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) involves at least three enzymes and a tRNA species. Here we demonstrate that in cell extracts of the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 ALA was formed from glutamate i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Neill GP,Peterson DM,Schön A,Chen MW,Söll D

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, pyrimidine-mediated regulation of upp expression occurs by UTP-sensitive selection of alternative transcriptional start sites, which produces transcripts that differ in the ability to be elongated. The upp initially transcribed region contains the sequence GATTTTTTTTG (nontemplate strand). Initiat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng Y,Dylla SM,Turnbough CL Jr

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant, cyaR1, affecting regulation of adenylate cyclase expression or activity is described. It was obtained as a thermoresistant revertant of a strain harboring a thermosensitive transcription termination factor, rho (rho-15). This mutant failed to synthesize adenosine 3',5'-phosphate and exhibited a carbohydrate-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Danchin A,Ullmann A

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation of Escherichia coli for potassium, phosphate, or magnesium ions leads to a reversible increase in the rate of protein degradation and an inhibition of ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis. In cells deprived of potassium, the breakdown of the more stable cell proteins increased two- to threefold, whereas the hyd...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： St John AC,Goldberg AL

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lambda phage (lambdaNK55) carrying the translocatable element Tn10, conferring tetracycline resistance (Tetr), has been utilized to isolate glutamine auxotrophs of Escherichia coli K-12. Such strains lack uridylyltransferase as a result of an insertion of the TN10 element in the glnD gene. The glnD::Tn10 insertion h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bloom FR,Levin MS,Foor F,Tyler B

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the genes in coliphage 186 that are required for lysogeny, we isolated clear-plaque mutants. Complementation studies and DNA sequencing identified two genes, the cI gene for the immunity maintenance repressor and the cII gene, which is required only for the establishment of lysogeny. One mutant carried a c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lamont I,Richardson H,Carter DR,Egan JB

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After heating at 65 C, ribosomes isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus were strikingly more heat-stable than comparable preparations from Escherichia coli when tested for ability to support polyuridylic acid-directed phenylalanine incorporation at 37 C. The stability of ribosomes was also determined by measurement...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Friedman SM,Axel R,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haight, Rodger D. (Oregon State University, Corvallis), and Richard Y. Morita. Thermally induced leakage from Vibrio marinus, an obligately psychrophilic bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 92:1388-1393. 1966.-Leakage of various cellular components into the surrounding menstruum occurred when Vibrio marinus was subjected to temp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haight RD,Morita RY

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the role of bacteriochlorophyll synthesis on the regulation of carotenoid synthesis in Rhodopseudomonas capsulata. Strains capable of making bacteriochlorophyll accumulated greater amounts of carotenoids under low oxygen than they did under high oxygen. However, strains unable to produce bacteriochlorophyl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Biel AJ,Marrs BL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of colicin la at a high temperature (42 C) was demonstrated in a wild strain of Shigella sonnei. After transfer of the Col factor, a similar effect was observed in those recipient cells acquiring colicinogeny. The induction is suggested to be due to the presence of a thermosensitive colicin repressor. The wi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gromkova RH

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shafia, Fred (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and T. L. Thompson. Isolation and preliminary characterization of bacteriophage phimu-4. J. Bacteriol. 87:999-1002. 1964.-Bacteriophage phimu-4 was isolated from lysogenic Bacillus stearothermophilus NU strain 4, and was propagated in strain 10 of the same species. The p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shafia F,Thompson TL

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes a type III secretion system (T3SS) to evade phagocytosis and damage eukaryotic cells. Transcription of the T3SS regulon is controlled by ExsA, a member of the AraC/XylS family of transcriptional regulators. These family members generally consist of an approxim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brutinel ED,Vakulskas CA,Yahr TL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, which we have named mitilysin, in a small number of Streptococcus mitis isolates. We have sequenced the mitilysin gene from seven isolates of S. mitis. Comparisons with the pneumococcal pneumolysin gene show 15 amino acid substitutions. S. mitis appear to release mit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jefferies J,Nieminen L,Kirkham LA,Johnston C,Smith A,Mitchell TJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding ammonia monooxygenase (amoCAB), hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (hao), and the c-type cytochrome c-554 (hcy) are present in multiple copies in the genome of Nitrosomonas europaea. The upstream regions of the two copies of amoC, the three copies of hao, and one copy of hcy were cloned and sequenced. Pri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hommes NG,Sayavedra-Soto LA,Arp DJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lysosomal glycosidase activities were examined in vitro during heat-induced germination of Dictyostelium discoideum spores and were found not to be coordinately controlled. The level of beta-glucosidase activity increased significantly during the emergence stage of germination. Both alpha-glucosidase and N-ace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tisa LS,Cotter DA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermococcus sp. strain CL1 is a hyperthermophilic, anaerobic, and heterotrophic archaeon isolated from a Paralvinella sp. polychaete worm living on an active deep-sea hydrothermal sulfide chimney on the Cleft Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. To further understand the distinct characteristics of this archaeon at the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jung JH,Holden JF,Seo DH,Park KH,Shin H,Ryu S,Lee JH,Park CS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual xylose isomerase produced by Thermoanaerobacterium strain JW/SL-YS 489 was purified 28-fold to gel electrophoretic homogeneity, and the biochemical properties were determined. Its pH optimum distinguishes this enzyme from all other previously described xylose isomerases. The purified enzyme had maximal acti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu SY,Wiegel J,Gherardini FC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified L-asparaginase from Serratia marcescens had an apparent-weight average molecular weight of 171,000 to 180,000 as determined by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels and by sedimentation equilibrium at low speed in an analytical ultracentrifuge. A subunit molecular weight of 31,500 +/- 1,500 was estimated for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stern ML,Phillips AW,Gottlieb AJ

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine nucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase activity (GPND) is described for the first time in cell-free extracts of certain blue-green algae. When glucose is added to these crude cell extracts, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate is reduced at twice the rate as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; but e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pulich WM,Van Baalen C

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maintenance energy coefficient of Desulfovibrio vulgaris was studied by using a chemostat, with Methanosarcina barkeri or sulfate as the electron acceptor; lithium lactate or sodium pyruvate served as the electron donor. The experiments showed that the growth energetics of D. vulgaris or M. barkeri were greatly af...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Traore AS,Gaudin C,Hatchikian CE,Le Gall J,Belaich JP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsB gene of Escherichia coli is believed to be involved in cell division. In this report, we show that plasmids containing the nrdB gene could complement the ftsB mutation, suggesting that ftsB is an allele of nrdB. We compared changes in the cell shape of isogenic nrdA, nrdB, ftsB, and pbpB strains at permissive...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taschner PE,Verest JG,Woldringh CL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy have been used to visualize the morphology and ultrastructure of two types of microorganisms in the hindgut of the cockroach Blaberus posticus. Both organisms, designated as either short or long rods, are attached to chitinous projections from the gut w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foglesong MA,Walker DH Jr,Puffer JS,Markovetz AJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00