Constitutive activation of L-fucose genes by an unlinked mutation in Escherichia coli.

Abstract:

:Wild-type Escherichia coli cannot grow on L-1,2-propanediol; mutants that can do so have increased basal activity of an NAD-linked L-1,2-propanediol oxidoreductase. This enzyme belongs to the L-fucose system and functions normally as L-lactaldehyde reductase during fermentation of the methylpentose. In wild-type cells, the activity of this enzyme is fully induced only anaerobically. Continued aerobic selection for mutants with an improved growth rate on L-1,2-propanediol inevitably leads to full constitutive expression of the oxidoreductase activity. When this occurs, L-fuculose 1-phosphate aldolase concomitantly becomes constitutive, whereas L-fucose permease, L-fucose isomerase, and L-fuculose kinase become noninducible. It is shown in this study that the noninducibility of the three proteins can be changed by two different kinds of suppressor mutations: one mapping external to and the other within the fuc gene cluster. Both mutations result in constitutive synthesis of the permease, the isomerase, and the kinase, without affecting synthesis of the oxidoreductase and the aldolase. Since expression of the fuc structural genes is activated by a protein specified by the regulator gene fucR, and since all the known genes of the fuc system are clustered at minute 60.2 of the chromosome, the external gene in which the suppressor mutation can occur probably has an unrelated function in the wild-type strain. The internal suppressor mutation might be either in fucR or in the promoter region of the genes encoding the permease, the isomerase, and the kinase, if these genes belong to the same operon.

journal_name

J Bacteriol

journal_title

Journal of bacteriology

authors

Chen YM,Chakrabarti T,Lin EC

doi

10.1128/JB.159.2.725-729.1984

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-08-01 00:00:00

pages

725-9

issue

2

eissn

0021-9193

issn

1098-5530

journal_volume

159

pub_type

杂志文章
  • ROLE OF MARINE FUNGI IN THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE OCEANS. IV. GROWTH RESPONSES TO SEAWATER INORGANIC MACROCONSTITUENTS.

    abstract::Sguros, Peter L. (University of Miami, Miami, Fla.), and Jacqueline Simms. Role of marine fungi in the biochemistry of the oceans. IV. Growth responses to seawater inorganic macroconstituents. J. Bacteriol. 88:346-355. 1964.-The filamentous ascomycete Halosphaeria mediosetigera and the deuteromycete Culcitalna achrasp...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.88.2.346-355.1964

    authors: SGUROS PL,SIMMS J

    更新日期:1964-08-01 00:00:00

  • Phase variation of Ag43 is independent of the oxidation state of OxyR.

    abstract::OxyR is a DNA binding protein that differentially regulates a cell's response to hydrogen peroxide-mediated oxidative stress. We previously reported that the reduced form of OxyR is sufficient for repression of transcription of agn43 from unmethylated template DNA, which is essential for deoxyadenosine methylase (Dam)...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.185.7.2203-2209.2003

    authors: Wallecha A,Correnti J,Munster V,van der Woude M

    更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00

  • Molecular and catalytic properties of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from the photosynthetic extreme halophile Ectothiorhodospira halophila.

    abstract::D-Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase has been purified from the photosynthetic extreme halophile Ectothiorhodospira halophila. Despite a growth requirement for almost saturating sodium chloride in the medium, both crude and homogeneous preparations of RuBP carboxylase obtained from this organism were inhibit...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.126.3.1271-1277.1976

    authors: Tabita FR,McFadden BA

    更新日期:1976-06-01 00:00:00

  • The stability region of the large virulence plasmid of Shigella flexneri encodes an efficient postsegregational killing system.

    abstract::The large virulence plasmid pMYSH6000 of Shigella flexneri contains a determinant that is highly effective in stabilizing otherwise unstable plasmids in Escherichia coli. Expression of two small contiguous genes, mvpA and mvpT (formerly termed STBORF1 and STBORF2), was shown to be sufficient for stability. Mutations i...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.182.9.2416-2421.2000

    authors: Sayeed S,Reaves L,Radnedge L,Austin S

    更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00

  • Selection of succinic dehydrogenase mutants of Neurospora crassa.

    abstract::A method is described which permits the selection of mutants of Neurospora crassa that are deficient in succinic dehydrogenase activity. The method relies on the observation that succinic dehydrogenase-deficient strains fail to reduce the dye nitrotetrazolium blue when overlaid with the dye in the presence of succinat...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.137.2.900-904.1979

    authors: Edwards DL,Belsole DM,Guzik HJ,Unger BW

    更新日期:1979-02-01 00:00:00

  • Induction of the autolytic system of Escherichia coli by specific insertion of bacteriophage MS2 lysis protein into the bacterial cell envelope.

    abstract::Bacterial lysis induced by the expression of the cloned lysis gene of the RNA bacteriophage MS2 in Escherichia coli was shown to be under the same regulatory control mechanisms as penicillin-induced lysis. It was controlled by the stringent response and showed the phenomenon of tolerance when E. coli was grown at pH 5...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.170.11.5027-5033.1988

    authors: Walderich B,Ursinus-Wössner A,van Duin J,Höltje JV

    更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00

  • Comparative structural and molecular characterization of ribitol-5-phosphate-containing Streptococcus oralis coaggregation receptor polysaccharides.

    abstract::The antigenically related coaggregation receptor polysaccharides (RPS) of Streptococcus oralis strains C104 and SK144 mediate recognition of these bacteria by other members of the dental plaque biofilm community. In the present study, the structure of strain SK144 RPS was established by high resolution NMR spectroscop...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.01532-08

    authors: Yang J,Ritchey M,Yoshida Y,Bush CA,Cisar JO

    更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00

  • Galactose repression of beta-galactosidase induction in Escherichia coli.

    abstract::Beggs, William H. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Palmer Rogers. Galactose repression of beta-galactosidase induction in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 91:1869-1874. 1966.-Galactose repression of beta-galactosidase induction in Escherichia coli was investigated to determine whether the galactose molecule ...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.91.5.1869-1874.1966

    authors: Beggs WH,Rogers P

    更新日期:1966-05-01 00:00:00

  • Cloning and genetic characterization of Helicobacter pylori catalase and construction of a catalase-deficient mutant strain.

    abstract::The N-terminal sequence of a protein, originally described as an adhesin of Helicobacter pylori, was used in an oligonucleotide-based screening procedure of an H. pylori plasmid library in Escherichia coli. Five independent plasmid clones were isolated, all mapping to the same chromosomal region and encoding the H. py...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.178.23.6960-6967.1996

    authors: Odenbreit S,Wieland B,Haas R

    更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00

  • Negative regulation of expression of the nitrate assimilation nirA operon in the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.

    abstract::In the filamentous, heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120, expression of the nitrate assimilation nirA operon takes place in the absence of ammonium and the presence of nitrate or nitrite. Several positive-action proteins that are required for expression of the nirA operon have been identified...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.01668-09

    authors: Frías JE,Flores E

    更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00

  • Characterization of genes for synthesis and catabolism of a new rhizopine induced in nodules by Rhizobium meliloti Rm220-3: extension of the rhizopine concept.

    abstract::Rhizopines are selective growth substrates synthesized in nodules only by strains of rhizobia capable of their catabolism. We report the isolation and study of genes for the synthesis and catabolism of a new rhizopine, scyllo-inosamine (sIa), from alfalfa nodules induced by Rhizobium meliloti Rm220-3. This compound is...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.175.16.5205-5215.1993

    authors: Saint CP,Wexler M,Murphy PJ,Tempé J,Tate ME,Murphy PJ

    更新日期:1993-08-01 00:00:00

  • Membranes of Rhodospirillum rubrum: physicochemical properties of chromatophore fractions isolated from osmotically and mechanically disrupted cells.

    abstract::Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by no...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.126.3.1326-1338.1976

    authors: Collins ML,Niederman RA

    更新日期:1976-06-01 00:00:00

  • Regulation of cytotoxicity by quorum-sensing signaling in Vibrio vulnificus is mediated by SmcR, a repressor of hlyU.

    abstract::Cytotoxicity is an important virulence determinant in the pathogenesis of Vibrio vulnificus, and two cytotoxins, RTX (encoded by rtxA1) and cytolysin/hemolysin (encoded by vvhA), have been identified in this organism. We showed that the quorum-sensing regulator LuxO controlled the cytotoxicity of this organism: a Δlux...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.01259-10

    authors: Shao CP,Lo HR,Lin JH,Hor LI

    更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00

  • Identification, cloning, and characterization of the Ima operon, whose gene products are unique to Listeria monocytogenes.

    abstract::The lmaA gene of Listeria monocytogenes encodes a protein capable of inducing delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions in L. monocytogenes-immune mice (S. Göhmann, M. Leimeister-Wachter, E. Schiltz, W. Goebel, and T. Chakraborty, M. Microbiol. 4:1091-1099, 1990). Here we show that it is the last gene of the lma operon,...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.179.8.2707-2716.1997

    authors: Schäferkordt S,Chakraborty T

    更新日期:1997-04-01 00:00:00

  • Role of deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase III in the repair of single-strand breaks produced in Escherichia coli deoxyribonucleic acid by gamma radiation.

    abstract::Cell survival, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) degradation, and the repair of DNA single-strand breaks were measured for Escherichia coli K-12 pol+, polA1, polC1026(ts), and polA1 polC1026(ts) cells after 137Cs gamma irradiation. The results indicate that DNA polymerase III is required for growth medium-dependent (type II...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.127.3.1307-1314.1976

    authors: Hamelin C,Youngs DA,Smith KC

    更新日期:1976-09-01 00:00:00

  • Genome sequence of the naturally plasmid-free Lactobacillus plantarum strain NC8 (CCUG 61730).

    abstract::Lactobacillus plantarum is a highly versatile lactic acid bacterium found in various ecological niches, such as fermented vegetable, meat, and dairy products and the gastrointestinal tract. We sequenced the genome of L. plantarum NC8, a naturally plasmid-free strain, which has been used as a model strain in many labor...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.00141-12

    authors: Axelsson L,Rud I,Naterstad K,Blom H,Renckens B,Boekhorst J,Kleerebezem M,van Hijum S,Siezen RJ

    更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00

  • Lignin peroxidase gene family of Phanerochaete chrysosporium: complex regulation by carbon and nitrogen limitation and identification of a second dimorphic chromosome.

    abstract::Lignin peroxidases (LiP) of Phanerochaete chrysosporium are encoded by a family of six closely related genes. Five LiP genes have been localized to the same dimorphic chromosome. In this investigation, relative transcript levels of the LiP genes were determined. Transcripts of the LiPA, LiPB, and O282 genes were at si...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.174.15.5036-5042.1992

    authors: Stewart P,Kersten P,Vanden Wymelenberg A,Gaskell J,Cullen D

    更新日期:1992-08-01 00:00:00

  • Regulation at the phosphoenolpyruvate branchpoint in Azotobacter vinelandii: phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase.

    abstract::Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) from Azotobacter vinelandii, like the corresponding enzyme from other organisms, is activated by acetyl coenzyme A and inhibited by l-aspartate. Both modifiers affect primarily the affinity of the enzyme for phosphoenolpyruvate. This is the first enzyme with a strictly ana...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.106.1.31-36.1971

    authors: Liao CL,Atkinson DE

    更新日期:1971-04-01 00:00:00

  • Antibacterial nitroacridine, Nitroakridin 3582: binding to nucleic acids in vitro and effects on selected cell-free model systems of macromolecular biosynthesis.

    abstract::Nitroakridin 3582 (NA) formed complexes with native deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and with transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) species from Escherichia coli. Spectrophotometric titrations of NA with these nucleic acids produced numerical results from which nonlinear adsorption isotherms were derived. These curves indicated...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.108.3.1026-1033.1971

    authors: Wolfe AD,Cook TM,Hahn FE

    更新日期:1971-12-01 00:00:00

  • High-molecular-weight complexes of RsbR and paralogues in the environmental signaling pathway of Bacillus subtilis.

    abstract::Bacillus subtilis has developed an intricate signal transduction cascade to respond to the imposition of a variety of stresses on the cell. Reversible protein phosphorylation and the formation of alternative protein-protein complexes modulate the activity of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsibl...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.00892-06

    authors: Delumeau O,Chen CC,Murray JW,Yudkin MD,Lewis RJ

    更新日期:2006-11-01 00:00:00

  • Highly conjugative pMG1-like plasmids carrying Tn1546-like transposons that encode vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium.

    abstract::A total of 12 VanA-type vancomycin-resistant enterococci, consisting of 10 Enterococcus faecium isolates and two Enterococcus avium isolates, were examined in detail. The vancomycin resistance conjugative plasmids pHTalpha (65.9 kbp), pHTbeta (63.7 kbp), and pHTgamma (66.5 kbp) were isolated from each of three differe...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.185.23.7024-7028.2003

    authors: Tomita H,Tanimoto K,Hayakawa S,Morinaga K,Ezaki K,Oshima H,Ike Y

    更新日期:2003-12-01 00:00:00

  • Temperature Control of psaA Expression by PsaE and PsaF in Yersinia pestis.

    abstract::PsaA, the subunit of the fimbria originally referred to as the "pH 6 antigen," is required for full virulence of Yersinia pestis during bubonic plague. The expression of psaA is dependent upon specific environmental signals, and while the signals (high temperature and acidic pH) are defined, the mechanisms underlying ...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.00217-19

    authors: Quinn JD,Weening EH,Miner TA,Miller VL

    更新日期:2019-07-24 00:00:00

  • Expression of glycosidase activities during germination of Dictyostelium discoideum spores.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.141.2.436-442.1980

    authors: Tisa LS,Cotter DA

    更新日期:1980-02-01 00:00:00

  • Correlation between infectivity and physical virus particles in human cytomegalovirus.

    abstract::Benyesh-Melnick, Matilda (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), Fern Probstmeyer, Robert McCombs, Jean P. Brunschwig, and Vladimir Vonka. Correlation between infectivity and physical virus particles in human cyto-megalovirus. J. Bacteriol. 92:1555-1561. 1966.-Infectivity titers [measured as plaque-for...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.92.5.1555-1561.1966

    authors: Benyesh-Melnick M,Probstmeyer F,McCombs R,Brunschwig JP,Vonka V

    更新日期:1966-11-01 00:00:00

  • Isolation and expansion of the catabolic potential of a Pseudomonas putida strain able to grow in the presence of high concentrations of aromatic hydrocarbons.

    abstract::Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1 was isolated after enrichment on minimal medium with 1% (vol/vol) toluene as the sole C source. The strain was able to grow in the presence of 90% (vol/vol) toluene and was tolerant to organic solvents whose log P(ow) (octanol/water partition coefficient) was higher than 2.3. Solvent toleranc...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.177.14.3911-3916.1995

    authors: Ramos JL,Duque E,Huertas MJ,Haïdour A

    更新日期:1995-07-01 00:00:00

  • Mutagenic DNA repair in enterobacteria.

    abstract::Sixteen species of enterobacteria have been screened for mutagenic DNA repair activity. In Escherichia coli, mutagenic DNA repair is encoded by the umuDC operon. Synthesis of UmuD and UmuC proteins is induced as part of the SOS response to DNA damage, and after induction, the UmuD protein undergoes an autocatalytic cl...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.173.18.5604-5611.1991

    authors: Sedgwick SG,Ho C,Woodgate R

    更新日期:1991-09-01 00:00:00

  • Quantification of group A colicin import sites.

    abstract::Pore-forming colicins are soluble bacteriocins which form voltage-gated ion channels in the inner membrane of Escherichia coli. To reach their target, these colicins first bind to a receptor located on the outer membrane and then are translocated through the envelope. Colicins are subdivided into two groups according ...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.177.17.4935-4939.1995

    authors: Duché D,Letellier L,Géli V,Bénédetti H,Baty D

    更新日期:1995-09-01 00:00:00

  • Draft genome sequence of Oceaniovalibus guishaninsula JLT2003T.

    abstract::Oceaniovalibus guishaninsula, as a representative of a new genus within the family Rhodobacteraceae, was isolated from surface seawater that was sulfidic. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of the type strain, JLT2003(T). ...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.01874-12

    authors: Tang K,Liu K,Jiao N

    更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00

  • The Escherichia coli mraY gene encoding UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide: undecaprenyl-phosphate phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide transferase.

    abstract::Amplification of the mraY gene, previously called open reading frame Y (ORF-Y, 1,080 bp), at 2 min in the chromosome map of Escherichia coli enhanced the activity of UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide: undecaprenyl-phosphate phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide transferase (EC 2.7.8.13). This enzyme catalyzes the form...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/jb.173.3.1021-1026.1991

    authors: Ikeda M,Wachi M,Jung HK,Ishino F,Matsuhashi M

    更新日期:1991-02-01 00:00:00

  • General stress transcription factor sigmaB and its role in acid tolerance and virulence of Listeria monocytogenes.

    abstract::The gene encoding the general stress transcription factor sigmaB in the gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes was isolated with degenerate PCR primers followed by inverse PCR amplification. Evidence for gene identification includes the following: (i) phylogenetic analyses of reported amino acid sequences for ...

    journal_title:Journal of bacteriology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1128/JB.180.14.3650-3656.1998

    authors: Wiedmann M,Arvik TJ,Hurley RJ,Boor KJ

    更新日期:1998-07-01 00:00:00