Division of temperature-sensitive Streptococcus faecium mutants after return to the permissive temperature.

abstract：:We have evaluated the use of [1,2-13C2]propionate for the analysis of propionic acid metabolism, based on the ability to distinguish between the methylcitrate and methylmalonate pathways. Studies using propionate-adapted Escherichia coli MG1655 cells were performed. Preservation of the 13C-13C-12C carbon skeleton in l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： London RE,Allen DL,Gabel SA,DeRose EF

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：UNLABELLED:The gene encoding a nonoxidative decarboxylase capable of catalyzing the transformation of 2-hydroxy-1-naphthoic acid (2H1NA) to 2-naphthol was identified, recombinantly expressed, and purified to homogeneity. The putative gene sequence of the decarboxylase (hndA) encodes a 316-amino-acid protein (HndA) with...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pal Chowdhury P,Basu S,Dutta A,Dutta TK

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The first generalized transducing bacteriophage reported for Bacillus megaterium has been characterized. Optimum conditions for lysate production and transduction procedures were established so that transducing frequencies of 8 x 10(-6) and higher are now possible. The phage, MP13, has a head diameter of 97 nm and a c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary PS,Garbe JC,Franzen M,Frampton EW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of acute and chronic Q fever in humans, is a naturally intracellular pathogen that directs the formation of an acidic Coxiella-containing vacuole (CCV) derived from the host lysosomal network. Central to its pathogenesis is a specialized type IVB secretion system (T4SS) that de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weber MM,Chen C,Rowin K,Mertens K,Galvan G,Zhi H,Dealing CM,Roman VA,Banga S,Tan Y,Luo ZQ,Samuel JE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gifsy-1 phage integrates site specifically into the Salmonella chromosome via an integrase-mediated site-specific recombination mechanism. Initial genetic analysis suggests that Gifsy-1 integrase-mediated excision of the Gifsy-1 phage is influenced by proteins encoded by both the Gifsy-1 and the Gifsy-2 phages. Ou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Flanigan A,Gardner JF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subgenomic DNA microarrays were employed to evaluate the expression of the accessory gene regulator (agr locus) as well as multiple virulence-associated genes in Staphylococcus aureus. Gene expression was examined during growth of S. aureus in vitro in standard laboratory medium and rabbit serum and in vivo in subcuta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yarwood JM,McCormick JK,Paustian ML,Kapur V,Schlievert PM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified in Listeria monocytogenes a gene encoding a protein homologous to MecA, a regulatory protein acting with ClpC and ComK in the competence pathway of Bacillus subtilis. In L. monocytogenes, MecA is involved, along with ClpC and ClpP, in the downregulation of a 64-kDa secreted protein. In B. subtilis, the M...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Borezee E,Msadek T,Durant L,Berche P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vibrio fischeri luminescence (lux) genes are regulated by the 250-amino-acid-residue LuxR protein and a V. fischeri metabolite termed autoinducer. The V. fischeri lux regulon consists of two divergently transcribed units. Autoinducer and LuxR activate transcription of the luxICDABE operon and autoregulate the luxR...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Choi SH,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts with high nitrogenase activity were prepared by sonic oscillation and French press treatment from the blue-gree alga Anabaena cylindrica. Extracts were prepared from cells grown on a 95% N(2)-5% CO(2) gas mixture followed by a period of nitrogen starvation under an atmosphere of 95% argon-5% CO(2). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith RV,Evans MC

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E2 (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase) and E3 (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase) of the Clostridium magnum acetoin dehydrogenase enzyme system were copurified in a three-step procedure from acetoin-grown cells. The denatured E2-E3 preparation comprised two polypeptides with M(r)s of 49,000 and 67,000, respectively. Mic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krüger N,Oppermann FB,Lorenzl H,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rickettsia prowazekii sigma factor was overexpressed, purified, and used to reconstitute RNA polymerase holoenzyme species. R. prowazekii RNA polymerase-promoter complexes were unstable and remained dissociable and heparin sensitive under conditions in which the corresponding Escherichia coli complexes were not. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aniskovitch LP,Winkler HH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium has been shown to be present as a labile cofactor in a small class of molybdenum hydroxylase enzymes in several species of clostridia that specialize in the fermentation of purines and pyrimidines. This labile cofactor is poorly understood, yet recent bioinformatic studies have suggested that Enterococcus fae...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Srivastava M,Mallard C,Barke T,Hancock LE,Self WT

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Level of competence reached by Bacillus subtilis 168 lysogenic for temperate phage phi 105 was reduced compared to that reached by nonlysogenic cells. This effect was probably related to an alteration of the bacterial surface. Deoxyribonucleic acid extracted from phi 105 lysogenic bacteria was used to transform other ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peterson AM,Rutberg L

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely studied Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains ATCC 14028s and SL1344 harbor a cryptic ST64B prophage unable to produce infectious virions. We found that coculturing either strain with an isogenic sibling lacking the prophage leads to the appearance of active forms of the virus. Active phage originates...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Figueroa-Bossi N,Bossi L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic Gram-positive pathogen that causes many human and animal diseases, including food poisoning and gas gangrene. C. perfringens lacks flagella but possesses type IV pili (TFP). We have previously shown that C. perfringens can glide across an agar surface in long filaments composed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu H,Bouillaut L,Sonenshein AL,Melville SB

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pBL2 was identified genetically but not physically in Streptomyces lividans after its mating with S. bambergiensis. During conjugation, pBL2 was transferred at high frequency to S. lividans and S. coelicolor. pBL2.1 DNA isolated from S. coelicolor exconjugants as a circular plasmid was shown to derive from the genome ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zotchev SB,Schrempf H,Hutchinson CR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscopy was used to examine active ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) genes in two strains of Escherichia coli: N2077, deficient in the enzyme responsible for proper cleavage of the 16S sequence from the elongating nascent rRNA transcript; and N2076, functional in ribonuclease (RNase) III activ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hofmann S,Miller OL Jr

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that the accumulation of K+ by Streptococcus faecalis is mediated by a transport system which required both ATP and the proton motive force (Bakker and Harold, J. Biol. Chem. 255:433-440, 1980). My results indicate that S. faecalis has a second transport system for K+. The features of this system ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kobayashi H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the Micromonospora viridifaciens neuraminidase (EC 3.2.1.18) gene (nedA) in Streptomyces lividans. This was accomplished by using the vector pIJ702 and BglII-BclI libraries of M. viridifaciens chromosomal inserts created in S. lividans. The libraries were screened for the expression of neuraminidase by ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sakurada K,Ohta T,Hasegawa M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total DNA of various Rhizobium galegae strains representing different geographical origins, and taxonomic divergence was digested with three restriction enzymes separately, Southern blotted, and hybridized with six heterologous probes. The sequence divergences for different pairwise comparisons were calculated from pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaijalainen S,Lindström K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacteriophytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs) and their cognate response regulators make up two-component signal transduction systems which direct bacteria to mount phenotypic responses to changes in environmental light quality. Most of these systems utilize single-domain response regulators to transduce signal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baker AW,Satyshur KA,Moreno Morales N,Forest KT

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence in Shigella spp., as well as in strains of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli, is regulated by growth temperature. Previously, virR had been identified as the gene controlling the temperature-regulated expression of Shigella virulence. Since Shigella spp. and E. coli are also known to share greater than 90% DNA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hromockyj AE,Maurelli AT

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The umuDC gene products, whose expression is induced by DNA-damaging treatments, have been extensively characterized for their role in SOS mutagenesis. We have recently presented evidence that supports a role for the umuDC gene products in the regulation of growth after DNA damage in exponentially growing cells, analo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Murli S,Opperman T,Smith BT,Walker GC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis, a gram-positive organism widely used in the food industry, is a potential candidate for the secretion of biologically useful proteins. We examined the secretion efficiency and capacity of L. lactis by using the Staphylococcus aureus nuclease (Nuc) as a heterologous model protein. When expressed in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Le Loir Y,Gruss A,Ehrlich SD,Langella P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxolinic acid reduced RNA synthesis rates whether chromosome supercoiling decreased, increased, or remained unchanged. Thus, inhibition of RNA synthesis by oxolinic acid appears to involve factors other than average DNA supercoiling level. Coumermycin A1 caused RNA synthesis rates to increase or decrease roughly in pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manes SH,Pruss GJ,Drlica K

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) levels were determined for several aerobically grown halophilic vibrios and compared with those found in aerobically grown Escherichia coli K-12. The SOD levels ranged from 25 to 103.6 U/mg of protein for the vibrios compared with 44.6 U/mg of protein for E. coli. The CAT ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daily OP,Debell RM,Joseph SW

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis has been used to generate 38 alanine-substitution mutations in the C-terminal 41 amino acid residues of LuxR. This region plays a critical role in the mechanism of LuxR-dependent transcriptional activation of the Vibrio fischeri lux operon during quorum sensing. The ability of the v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Trott AE,Stevens AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsH gene encodes an ATP- and Zn(2+)-dependent metalloprotease which is anchored to the cytoplasmic membrane via two transmembrane segments in such a way that the very short amino- and the long carboxy termini are exposed to the cytoplasm. Deletion of the ftsH gene in Bacillus subtilis results in a pleiotropic phe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wehrl W,Niederweis M,Schumann W

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Neisseria gonorrhoeae periplasmic binding protein FbpA contains two regions whose sequences exhibit homology with the Escherichia coli ferric uptake regulator protein (Fur) consensus binding sequence. In this study, DNase I footprinting experiments were employed to characterize the operator sequences...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Desai PJ,Angerer A,Genco CA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00