Characterization of two tetracycline resistance determinants in Streptococcus faecalis JH1.

abstract：:The cell walls isolated from axenically grown leprosy-derived corynebacteria were submitted to various chemical and enzymatic degradations. The glycan strands of the wall peptidoglycan are essentially composed of N-acetylglycosaminyl-N-acetylmuramic acid disaccharide units. Small amounts of N-acetylglycosaminyl-N-glyc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Janczura E,Leyh-Bouille M,Cocito C,Ghuysen JM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA fragment from Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris that partially restored the carbohydrate fermentation pattern of a cya crp Escherichia coli strain was cloned and expressed in E. coli. The nucleotide sequence of this fragment revealed the presence of a 700-base-pair open reading frame that coded for a protein...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Crecy-Lagard V,Glaser P,Lejeune P,Sismeiro O,Barber CE,Daniels MJ,Danchin A

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal enzyme of heme biosynthesis, ferrochelatase (EC 4.99.1.1), catalyzes the insertion of ferrous iron into protoporphyrin IX to form protoheme. Prior to the present work, [2Fe-2S] clusters have been identified and characterized in animal ferrochelatases but not in plant or prokaryotic ferrochelatases. Herein...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dailey TA,Dailey HA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae releases peptidoglycan fragments during growth. The majority of the fragments released are peptidoglycan monomers, molecules known to increase pathogenesis through the induction of proinflammatory cytokines and responsible for the killing of ciliated epithelial cells. In other gram-negative bacte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garcia DL,Dillard JP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major acid-soluble spore proteins (ASSPs) of Bacillus subtilis were detected by immunoprecipitation of radioactively labeled in vitro- and in vivo-synthesized proteins. ASSP synthesis in vivo began 2 h after the initiation of sporulation (t2) and reached its maximum rate at t7. This corresponded to the time of syn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leventhal JM,Chambliss GH

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa can express two chemically and immunologically distinct types of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an antigenically conserved form called A band and the serotype-specific form called B band. To study the molecular controls regulating expression of the A-band LPS antigen, we have cloned t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lightfoot J,Lam JS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat shock response of the groESL operon of Agrobacterium tumefaciens was studied at the RNA level. The operon was found to be activated under heat shock conditions and transcribed as a polycistronic mRNA that contains the groES and groEL genes. After activation, the polycistronic mRNA appeared to be cleaved betwe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Segal G,Ron EZ

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame (slr0899) on the genome of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 encodes a polypeptide of 149 amino acid residues, the sequence of which is 40% identical to that of cyanase from Escherichia coli. Introduction into a cyanase-deficient E. coli strain of a plasmid-borne slr0899 resulted in expression of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harano Y,Suzuki I,Maeda S,Kaneko T,Tabata S,Omata T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preincubation of the blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) Nostoc muscorum under an atmosphere of argon plus acetylene in the light led to a greater than fourfold increase of light-induced hydrogen evolution and to a 50% increase of acetylene reduction, as compared to cells that had not been preconditioned. The basic and t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scherer S,Kerfin W,Böger P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained with an improved in vivo assay of fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli supported a revised understanding of the roles of fimB and fimE in the site-specific DNA rearrangement with which they are associated. A previously proposed model argued that fimB and fimE play antagonistic, unidirectional...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McClain MS,Blomfield IC,Eisenstein BI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the turnover of the major phospholipids of Micrococcus cerificans growing or nongrowing cultures. The turnover rates of (14)C-PE and (14)C-PE were 61.5% of the total phospholipid, exhibited no significant rate of turnover in either growing or nongrowing cultures. The turnover rates of PE-(14)C and PE-(3...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Makula RA,Finnerty WR

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of a novel multicistronic operon that encodes phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase in the lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis is reported. The three genes in the operon, designated pfk, pyk, and ldh, contain 340, 502, and 325 codons, respectively. The intergenic distances ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Llanos RM,Harris CJ,Hillier AJ,Davidson BE

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylanase activity of Clostridium cellulovorans, an anaerobic, mesophilic, cellulolytic bacterium, was characterized. Most of the activity was secreted into the growth medium when the bacterium was grown on xylan. Furthermore, when the extracellular material was separated into cellulosomal and noncellulosomal fractions...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kosugi A,Murashima K,Doi RH

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid starvation allows limited synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Bacillus subtilis strain W23. DNA synthesis increased by about 30% after leucine starvation and by about 60% after histidine starvation. Genetic analysis on the DNA synthesized after amino acid starvation showed that all genetic markers e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Copeland JC

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of mutants unable to excrete hemolysin were obtained when E. coli 5K carrying the multicopy hemolytic recombinant plasmid pANN202-312 was mutagenized with Mu d1. One type is altered in the plasmid hly-specific gene, hlyBb, but the other is caused by an insertion of Mu d1 into a chromosomal locus. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Juarez A,Goebel W

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The 2-thiouridine (s(2)U) modification of the wobble position in glutamate, glutamine, and lysine tRNA molecules serves to stabilize the anticodon structure, improving ribosomal binding and overall efficiency of the translational process. Biosynthesis of s(2)U in Escherichia coli requires a cysteine desulfur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Black KA,Dos Santos PC

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen which proliferates rapidly in both manure-enriched soil and alveolar macrophages. Although both environments are characterized by extremely low concentrations of free iron, very little is known regarding the strategies employed by R. equi to thrive under these c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miranda-Casoluengo R,Duffy PS,O'Connell EP,Graham BJ,Mangan MW,Prescott JF,Meijer WG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nth and nei genes of Escherichia coli affect the production of endonuclease III and endonuclease VIII, respectively, glycosylases/apurinic lyases that attack DNA damaged by oxidizing agents. Here, we provide evidence that oxidative lethal lesions are repaired by both endonuclease III and endonuclease VIII and that...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Saito Y,Uraki F,Nakajima S,Asaeda A,Ono K,Kubo K,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa severely deficient in outer membrane protein F levels was isolated by screening heavily mutagenized strains for membrane protein alterations on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. To provide a basis for phenotypic comparison, three independent spontaneous reve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nicas TI,Hancock RE

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a proteolytic Gram-positive anaerobe, has emerged as a significant nosocomial pathogen. Stickland fermentation reactions are thought to be important for growth of C. difficile and appear to influence toxin production. In Stickland reactions, pairs of amino acids donate and accept electrons, gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bouillaut L,Self WT,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-positive Corynebacterium glutamicum efficiently metabolizes maltose by a pathway involving maltodextrin and glucose formation by 4-α-glucanotransferase, glucose phosphorylation by glucose kinases, and maltodextrin degradation via maltodextrin phosphorylase and α-phosphoglucomutase. However, maltose uptake in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Henrich A,Kuhlmann N,Eck AW,Krämer R,Seibold GM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altering membrane protein and lipid composition is an important strategy for maintaining membrane integrity during environmental stress. Many bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) control membrane protein production, but sRNA-mediated regulation of membrane fatty acid composition is less well understood. The sRNA RydC was prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bianco CM,Fröhlich KS,Vanderpool CK

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The TspO outer membrane protein of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been shown to be involved in controlling the transcription of a number of genes which encode enzymes involved in photopigment biosynthesis and the puc operon. The display of regulated genes appears identical to those genes encompassing the PpsR/AppA repres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zeng X,Kaplan S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Johnson, Russell C. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and Palmer Rogers. Differentiation of pathogenic and saprophytic leptospires with 8-azaguanine. J. Bacteriol. 88:1618-1623. 1964.-The use of the purine analogue, 8-azaguanine, as a differential agent for the separation of pathogenic and saprophytic leptospire...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： JOHNSON RC,ROGERS P

更新日期：1964-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented experimental evidence to support the model that gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus is driven by surface tension. (i) Motility is inhibited by the addition of sufficient exogenous, nontoxic surfactants to swamp out the cells' own surfactant gradient. (ii) M. xanthus does not move polystyrene latex...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dworkin M,Keller KH,Weisberg D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trichloroethylene (TCE) is the most frequently detected groundwater contaminant, and 1-naphthol is an important chemical manufacturing intermediate. Directed evolution was used to increase the activity of toluene ortho-monooxygenase (TOM) of Burkholderia cepacia G4 for both chlorinated ethenes and naphthalene oxidatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Canada KA,Iwashita S,Shim H,Wood TK

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities in the termite hindgut are essential for degrading plant material. We present the high-quality draft genome sequence of the Opitutaceae bacterium strain TAV1, the first member of the phylum Verrucomicrobia to be isolated from wood-feeding termites. The genomic analysis reveals genes coding for li...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Isanapong J,Goodwin L,Bruce D,Chen A,Detter C,Han J,Han CS,Held B,Huntemann M,Ivanova N,Land ML,Mavromatis K,Nolan M,Pati A,Pennacchio L,Pitluck S,Szeto E,Tapia R,Woyke T,Rodrigues JL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation (phosphorylation) of the transcription factor encoded by spo0A is essential for the initiation of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. At least three histidine protein kinases are involved in the phosphorylation of Spo0A. Under some growth conditions, KinA was the primary kinase, but under other conditions, Ki...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeDeaux JR,Yu N,Grossman AD

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure liquid chromatography of a muramidase digest of murein sacculi from Caulobacter crescentus showed that the absence of D-alanine carboxypeptidase activity in the cells was reflected by a very high content of pentapeptide in the murein. Approximately half of the pentapeptide side chains were shown to conta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markiewicz Z,Glauner B,Schwarz U

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray-based comparisons of three Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis isolates, including one sheep strain and two cattle strains, identified three large genomic deletions in the sheep strain, totaling 29,208 bp and involving 24 open reading frames. These deletions may help explain some of the differences ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marsh IB,Bannantine JP,Paustian ML,Tizard ML,Kapur V,Whittington RJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00