A gene encoding a putative membrane protein homologous to the major facilitator superfamily of transporters maps upstream of the beta-glycosidase gene in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus.

abstract：:The Brevibacterium acetylicum gsk gene, which encodes guanosine kinase (ATP:guanosine 5'-phosphotransferase), a kinase that is involved in guanosine salvage pathways, has been cloned by using the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified protein. The cloned chromosomal fragment containing the gsk gene was sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Usuda Y,Kawasaki H,Shimaoka M,Utagawa T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial genomes are endowed with many eukaryote-like nucleotide cyclase genes encoding proteins that can synthesize 3',5'-cyclic AMP (cAMP). However, the roles of cAMP and the need for such redundancy in terms of adenylyl cyclase genes remain unknown. We measured cAMP levels in Mycobacterium smegmatis during gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dass BK,Sharma R,Shenoy AR,Mattoo R,Visweswariah SS

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allantoate uptake appears to be mediated by an energy-dependent active transport system with an apparent Michaelis constant of about 50 microM. Cells were able to accumulate allantoate to greater than 3,000 times the extracellular concentration. The rate of accumulation was maximum at pH 5.7 to 5.8. The energy source ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Turoscy V,Cooper TG

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and sporulation of a Bacillus subtilis mutant deficient in branched fatty acid synthesis (gene symbol bfmB) were examined. The mutant, which produces an acyl-coenzyme A:acyl carrier protein transacylase with reduced affinity for branched fatty acid primers, could grow in media containing any one of a wide range...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boudreaux DP,Freese E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of iron into Pseudomonas aeruginosa is mediated by two major siderophores produced by the bacterium, pyoverdine and pyochelin. The bacterium is also able of utilize several heterologous siderophores of bacterial or fungal origin. In this work, we have investigated the iron uptake in P. aeruginosa PAO1 by th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hannauer M,Barda Y,Mislin GL,Shanzer A,Schalk IJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon monoxide (CO) dehydrogenase activity band from Clostridium pasteurianum was shown to contain nickel by in situ activity staining of polyacrylamide gels. However, the majority of the nickel in cell extracts was found to electrophorese independently of CO dehydrogenase. Comparative analysis with Clostridium t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Drake HL

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium leiognathi ATCC 25521 (the type strain and light-organ symbiont of ponyfish) is one of the few bacteria that produces a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, termed bacteriocuprein. We enzymologically and immunologically characterized the bacteriocuprein superoxide dismutases in sonicates from the type stra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap PV,Steinman HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsukada, Yoji (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan), Tsunetake Sugimori, Kazutami Imai, and Hideo Katagiri. Action of cycloheximide on Zygosaccharomyces soja. J. Bacteriol. 83:70-75. 1962.-Cycloheximide is known to inhibit the growth of some species of Saccharomyces and other fungi. A new type of action of this antibiotic,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： TSUKADA Y,SUGIMORI T,IMAI K,KATAGIRI H

更新日期：1962-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a derivative of Escherichia coli K-10 was strongly inhibited by 2 times 10(-4) M L-5(1-amino-2-methylbutyl)-tetrazole (isoleucine tetrazole). Growth inhibition was reversed by isoleucine, threonine, glycyl-L-isoleucine, or glycyl-L-threonine, and, in a valine-resistant mutant, by L-valine. Partial reversal o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willshaw GA,Tristram H

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells of Lactobacillus acidophilus are capable of degrading thymidine to thymine, suggesting the presence of thymidine phosphorylase (or thymidine hydrolase). This activity was also demonstrated in cell-free extracts. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sawula RV,Zamenhof S,Zamenhof PJ

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpsD gene, encoding ribosomal protein S4, was isolated from Bacillus subtilis by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes derived from the S4 amino-terminal protein sequence. Sequence analysis of the cloned DNA indicated that rpsD is likely to be monocistronic, in contrast to Escherichia coli rpsD, which is locat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive similarities between the genomes of the Streptomyces temperate phages phiC31 and phiBT1, the attP-int loci are poorly conserved. Here we demonstrate that phiBT1 integrates into a different attachment site than phiC31. phiBT1 attB lies within SCO4848 encoding a 79-amino-acid putative integral membrane...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory MA,Till R,Smith MC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper (Cu) is a required micronutrient, but it is highly toxic at high concentrations. Therefore, the levels of Cu must be tightly regulated in all living cells. The phagosome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been shown to have variable levels of Cu. Previously, we showed that M. tuberculosis contains a copper-sensi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ward SK,Hoye EA,Talaat AM

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial response to stress is controlled by two proteins, RelA and SpoT. RelA generates the alarmone (p)ppGpp under amino acid starvation, whereas SpoT is responsible for (p)ppGpp hydrolysis and for synthesis of (p)ppGpp under a variety of cellular stress conditions. It is widely accepted that RelA is associated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jiang M,Sullivan SM,Wout PK,Maddock JR

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Competent cell-deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) interactions were examined using tritium-labeled homologous or heterologous native or denatured DNAs and competent Streptococcus sanguis Wicky cells (strain WE4). The DNAs used were extracted from WE4 cells, Escherichia coli B cells, and E. coli bacteriophages T2, T4, T6, and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranhand JM

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobia form a symbiotic relationship with plants of the legume family to produce nitrogen-fixing root nodules under nitrogen-limiting conditions. We have examined the importance of glutathione (GSH) during free-living growth and symbiosis of Sinorhizobium meliloti. An S. meliloti mutant strain (SmgshA) which is unab...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harrison J,Jamet A,Muglia CI,Van de Sype G,Aguilar OM,Puppo A,Frendo P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of SufI, a well-studied substrate of the TatABC translocase in Escherichia coli, is not known. It was earlier implicated in cell division, based on the finding that multiple copies of sufI suppressed the phenotypes of cells with mutations in ftsI (ftsI23), which encodes a divisomal transpeptidase. Recentl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Samaluru H,SaiSree L,Reddy M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a causative agent of serious food-borne diseases in humans related to the consumption of raw seafood. It secretes a metalloprotease that is associated with skin lesions and serious hemorrhagic complications. In this study, we purified and characterized an extracellular metalloprotease (designated ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang AK,Kim HY,Park JE,Acharya P,Park IS,Yoon SM,You HJ,Hahm KS,Park JK,Lee JS

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of starving Escherichia coli for glucose and required amino acids were determined. The disappearance of the majority of the ribosomal population, particularly of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) moiety, was noted. The events during recovery are detailed, with emphasis placed on the timing, requirements, and cont...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacobson A,Gillespie D

更新日期：1968-03-01 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：:In contrast to Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus subtilis could convert ethionine to S-adenosylethionine (SAE), as can Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This conversion was essential for growth inhibition by ethionine because metE mutants which were deficient in S-adenosylmethionine synthetase activity, we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allen ER,Orrego C,Wabiko H,Freese E

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A globomycin-resistant mutant of Escherichia coli was found to produce a precursor of the major outer membrane lipoprotein (prolipoprotein), in which the glycine residue at position 14 within the signal peptide was replaced by an aspartic acid residue. The same mutation has been reported by Lin et al. (Proc. Natl. Aca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee N,Yamagata H,Inouye M

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus brevis 47 contains two cell wall proteins termed the outer wall protein (OWP) and middle wall protein (MWP), each of which forms hexagonal arrays in the cell wall. A 6-kilobase BglII-BclI fragment of B. brevis 47 DNA cloned into Bacillus subtilis with a derivative of pHW1 as a vector directed the synthesis of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuboi A,Uchihi R,Tabata R,Takahashi Y,Hashiba H,Sasaki T,Yamagata H,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Odenbreit S,Wieland B,Haas R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four genes, dra, tpp, drm, and pup, that specify enzymes involved in the catabolism of nucleosides and deoxynucleosides in Escherichia coli are known to be very closely linked in the order dra-tpp-drm-pup. By infecting cells with the phage Mu-1 and isolating low-thymine-requiring derivatives of a strain lacking thymid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Buxton RS

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli BS-12 uvrA lon is hypersensitive to ultraviolet light. On minimal agar plates at densities in excess of about 10(7) bacteria per plate, as few as one or two photoreversible pyrimidine dimers in the entire genome are sufficient to cause inhibition of cell division. Most of the resulting filaments are u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bridges BA,Mottershead RP,Green MH

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin (STX), a bacterial toxin produced by Shigella dysenteriae type 1, is a hexamer composed of five receptor-binding B subunits which encircle an alpha-helix at the carboxyl terminus of the enzymatic A polypeptide. Hybrid toxins constructed by fusing the A polypeptide sequences of STX and Shiga-like toxin type...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jemal C,Haddad JE,Begum D,Jackson MP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narkates, Annie J. (Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Ala.), and Robert F. Pittillo. Influence of inoculum media on sensitivity of Escherichia coli to azaserine. J. Bacteriol. 90:710-714. 1965.-Escherichia coli grown in a simple synthetic medium is more than 100-fold more sensitive to inhibition by azaserine th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Narkates AJ,Pittillo RF

更新日期：1965-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cook, Thomas M. (Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, N.Y.), William H. Deitz, and William A. Goss. Mechanism of action of nalidixic acid on Escherichia coli. IV. Effects on the stability of cellular constituents. J. Bacteriol. 91:774-779. 1996.-Treatment of Escherichia coli 15TAU with nalidixic acid resu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cook TM,Deitz WH,Goss WA

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia sp. strain GG4, isolated from the ginger rhizosphere, possesses a unique N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-modifying activity that reduces 3-oxo-AHLs to 3-hydroxy-AHLs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first sequenced genome from a bacterium of the genus Burkholderia that shows both quorum-sensing a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hong KW,Koh CL,Sam CK,Yin WF,Chan KG

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00