Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is independent of membrane fatty acid composition.

abstract：:We have isolated a mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa deficient in fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase activity. This mutant, similar to the mutants deficient in any of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes, does not allow appreciable alginate formation from glucose and gluconate, but allows alginate synthesis from mannit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Banerjee PC,Vanags RI,Chakrabarty AM,Maitra PK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular pigmentation is an important virulence factor of the oral pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis Pigmentation has been associated with many bacterial functions, including but not limited to colonization, maintaining a local anaerobic environment by binding oxygen molecules, and defense against reactive oxygen spec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klein BA,Cornacchione LP,Collins M,Malamy MH,Duncan MJ,Hu LT

更新日期：2017-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity in colony size of the murine pathogen Mycoplasma pulmonis was examined. Subcloning experiments showed that colony size variation resulted from high-frequency genetic changes. About 3% of the colonies from any given subclone were variants, with as much as a fourfold change in colony diameter. When the var...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dybvig K,Simecka JW,Watson HL,Cassell GH

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen often associated with chronic infections in the lungs of individuals with the heritable disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Previous work from our laboratory demonstrated that aromatic amino acids within CF lung secretions (sputum) not only serve as carbon and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer GC,Palmer KL,Jorth PA,Whiteley M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirochetes are an evolutionary and structurally unique group of bacteria. Outermost is a membrane sheath (OS), and within this sheath are the protoplasmic cell cylinder (PC) and periplasmic flagella (PFs). The PFs are attached at each end of the PC and, depending on the species, may or may not overlap in the center o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldstein SF,Buttle KF,Charon NW

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes from Bacillus subtilis predicted to encode a phosphate-specific transport (Pst) system were shown by mutation to affect high-affinity Pi uptake but not arsenate resistance or phosphate (Pho) regulation. The transcription start of the promoter upstream of the pstS gene was defined by primer extension. The promote...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qi Y,Kobayashi Y,Hulett FM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the demonstration that Stigmatella aurantiaca DW4 secretes an endo-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (ENGase), acting on the di-N-acetylchitobiosyl part of N-linked glycans (S. Bourgerie, Y. Karamanos, T. Grard, and R. Julien, J. Bacteriol. 176:6170-6174, 1994), an ENGase activity having the same substrate specifi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barreaud JP,Bourgerie S,Julien R,Guespin-Michel JF,Karamanos Y

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiocyanate hydrolase is a newly found enzyme from Thiobacillus thioparus THI 115 that converts thiocyanate to carbonyl sulfide and ammonia (Y. Katayama, Y. Narahara, Y. Inoue, F. Amano, T. Kanagawa, and H. Kuraishi, J. Biol. Chem. 267:9170-9175, 1992). We have cloned and sequenced the scn genes that encode the three ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katayama Y,Matsushita Y,Kaneko M,Kondo M,Mizuno T,Nyunoya H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sialidase activity varies widely among strains and tends to correlate with strain virulence in the avian pathogen Mycoplasma synoviae. To characterize the forms of selection acting on enzymes required for sialic acid scavenging and catabolism, the ratios of nonsynonymous (K(a)) to synonymous (K(s)) mutation frequency ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： May M,Brown DR

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii causes infections that are extremely difficult to treat. A significant role in these resistance profiles is attributed to multidrug efflux pumps, especially those belonging to the resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND) superfamily of transporters. In this study, we analy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leus IV,Weeks JW,Bonifay V,Smith L,Richardson S,Zgurskaya HI

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxtader, K. G. (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.), and M. Alexander. Role of 3-nitropropanoic acid in nitrate formation by Aspergillus flavus. J. Bacteriol. 91:1186-1191. 1966.-Aspergillus flavus formed nitrate, 3-nitropropanoic acid (3-NPA), kojic acid, and a substance tentatively identified as N-formyl-N-hydroxy-gl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doxtader KG,Alexander M

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence factors of the cariogenic bacterium Streptococcus sobrinus have been difficult to assess because of a lack of tools for the genetic manipulation of this organism. The construction of an Escherichia coli-Streptococcus shuttle vector, pDL289, that can be mobilized into S. sobrinus by the conjugative plasmi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Buckley ND,Lee LN,LeBlanc DJ

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediococcus halophilus X-160 which lacks catabolite control by glucose was isolated from nature (soy moromi mash). Wild-type strains, in xylose-glucose medium, utilized glucose preferentially over xylose and showed diauxic growth. With wild-type strain I-13, xylose isomerase activity was not induced until glucose was ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abe K,Uchida K

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of synthesis of Aerobacter aerogenes nucleic acids were estimated during incubation of the bacteria in a Mg(++)-free medium. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesized during Mg(++) starvation, or in the preceding exponential growth, remained acid-precipitable for 2.5 hr before breaking down to acid-soluble pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kennell D,Kotoulas A

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have evolved numerous means of survival in adverse environments with dormancy, as represented by "persistence" and the "viable but nonculturable" (VBNC) state, now recognized to be common modes for such survival. VBNC cells have been defined as cells which, induced by some stress, become nonculturable on medi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ayrapetyan M,Williams T,Oliver JD

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli is described which is defective in the conversion of arginine to putrescine. The activity of the enzyme agmatine ureohydrolase is greatly reduced, whereas the activity of the other two enzymes of the pathway, the constitutive arginine decarboxylase and the inducible arginine decarboxylase,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Rosenfeld HJ,Leifer Z,Maas WK

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two mutations concerned with mannan biosynthesis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been mapping. The mnn2 mutation, which affects the addition to the polysaccharide backbone of the first side-chain D-mannose unit in alpha1-leads to2 linkage, was located on chromosome II linked to the centromere and the gall l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ballou DL

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolution by natural selection occurs in cultures of Escherichia coli maintained under carbon starvation stress. Mutants of increased fitness express a growth advantage in stationary phase (GASP) phenotype, enabling them to grow and displace the parent as the majority population. The first GASP mutation was identified...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zinser ER,Kolter R

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated membrane vesicles from the obligately acidophilic bacterium Bacillus acidocaldarius generated an electrochemical gradient of protons (delta mu- H+) upon energization with ascorbate-phenazine methosulfate at pH 6.0 or 3.0. At pH 6.0, there was little or no transmembrane pH gradient (delta pH), but a transmembr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guffanti AA,Mann M,Sherman TL,Krulwich TA

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase of Escherichia coli has an alpha 2 beta 2 subunit structure. By measuring reconstituted enzyme activity present after addition of purified alpha or beta subunits to cell extracts followed by refolding, we have shown that extracts contain no significant excess of either subunit species. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolodko WT,Brownie ER,Bridger WA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a thick and highly hydrophobic cell wall principally composed of a mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex, which is critical for survival and virulence. DprE1 is a well-characterized component of decaprenyl-phospho-ribose epimerase, which produces decaprenyl-phosph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kolly GS,Mukherjee R,Kilacsková E,Abriata LA,Raccaud M,Blaško J,Sala C,Dal Peraro M,Mikušová K,Cole ST

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the lower catabolic pathway of the TOL plasmid pWWO requires an aromatic acid inducer and the product of the xylS regulatory gene. Pseudomonas putida cells transformed with a plasmid containing the operator-promoter region of the lower pathway (OP2 [or Pm]), upstream from the catechol 2,3-dioxygenase str...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuskey SM,Sprenkle AB

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from a psychrotrophic bacterium, Pseudomonas syringae, from Antarctica was studied by using sucrose gradient-separated membrane fractions. The bacterium was found to possess an LPS kinase which could phosphorylate more LPS postsynthetically at higher temperatures. The phosph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray MK,Kumar GS,Shivaji S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exo-beta-1,4-glucanase (Exo A) from Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1 was purified to homogeneity and characterized. Enzyme activity was monitored during purification by using the substrate p-nitrophenyl-beta-D-cellobioside (NPC). Over 85% of the NPC activity was found to be extracellular once the filter paper was deg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gardner RM,Doerner KC,White BA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primer extension analysis of transcripts of the Bacillus subtilis autolysin (cwlB) operon indicated that SigD-dependent transcripts from the Pd promoter are missing in the degU32(Hy) and degS200 (Hy) mutants. The degU32(Hy) mutation caused a 99% reduction in the expression of a sigD-lacZ translational fusion gene cons...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tokunaga T,Rashid MH,Kuroda A,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gordon, M. A. (New York State Department of Health, Albany). The genus Dermatophilus. J. Bacteriol. 88:509-522. 1964.-Seventeen strains of Dermatophilus originating in skin lesions of cattle, sheep, horses, deer, and man were compared as to conditions for growth, colonial characteristics under varying conditions, micr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： GORDON MA

更新日期：1964-08-01 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：:An assay was developed to determine the amount of cyanophycin granules in blue-green algae. The amount of this polypeptide in cells of Anabaena cylindrica was measured as a function of culture age and was compared with changes in other proteinaceous cellular components. The data presented support the notion that the c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simon RD

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b and two spontaneous mutants (classes I and II variants) were characterized by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. When cells were treated with type b-specific antiserum prior to manipulations for electron microscopy, sectioned capsulated cells had electron-dense, fib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doern GV,Buckmire FL

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of the anthranilate synthetase complex and its separated subunits were compared in catalyzing the anthranilate synthetase reaction, chorismate + l-glutamine or NH(4) (+) --> anthranilate, and the transferase reaction, anthranilate + 5'-phosphorylribosyl-1-pyrophosphate --> phosphoribosyl anthranilate. I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ito J,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00