Horizontal transference of S-layer genes within Thermus thermophilus.

abstract：:A second cluster of genes encoding the E1 alpha, E1 beta, and E2 subunits of branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase (BCDH), bkdFGH, has been cloned and characterized from Streptomyces avermitilis, the soil microorganism which produces anthelmintic avermectins. Open reading frame 1 (ORF1) (bkdF, encoding E1 alpha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Denoya CD,Fedechko RW,Hafner EW,McArthur HA,Morgenstern MR,Skinner DD,Stutzman-Engwall K,Wax RG,Wernau WC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of Lactococcus lactis in milk depends on the utilization of extracellular peptides. Up to now, oligopeptide uptake was thought to be due only to the ABC transporter Opp. Nevertheless, analysis of several Opp-deficient L. lactis strains revealed the implication of a second oligopeptide ABC transporter, the so-ca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lamarque M,Charbonnel P,Aubel D,Piard JC,Atlan D,Juillard V

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described a cell surface anionic polysaccharide (APS) in Porphyromonas gingivalis that is required for cell integrity and serum resistance. APS is a phosphorylated branched mannan that shares a common epitope with posttranslational additions to some of the Arg-gingipains. This study aimed to determine th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rangarajan M,Aduse-Opoku J,Paramonov N,Hashim A,Bostanci N,Fraser OP,Tarelli E,Curtis MA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate is an essential nutrient that Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens must acquire from the host during infection. While inorganic monophosphate (Pi) is the preferred source of this nutrient, bacteria can also obtain it from phosphate-containing organic molecules. The Pi-responsive regulator PhoPR is neces...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelliher JL,Leder Macek AJ,Grudzinski KM,Radin JN,Kehl-Fie TE

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermosensitive episome bearing the transposon Tn10, F(Ts)::Tn10 Lac+, has been successfully transferred from Escherichia coli to several wild strains of the enterobacteria Erwinia carotovora subsp. chrysanthemi, which are pathogenic on Saintpaulia ionantha. In one of these strains, all of the characters controlled ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kotoujansky A,Lemattre M,Boistard P

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus [GAS]) with its human host requires several surface proteins. In this study, we isolated mutations in a gene required for the surface localization of protein F by transposon mutagenesis of the M6 strain JRS4. This gene (srtA) encodes a protein homologous...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barnett TC,Scott JR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described in which the tensile strength, the initial (Youngs') modulus, and other mechanical properties of the bacterial cell wall were obtained as functions of relative humidity (RH) in the range of 20 to 95%. These properties were deduced from tensile tests on bacterial thread, a fiber consisting of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thwaites JJ,Surana UC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium japonicum UT26 utilizes gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH) as its sole source of carbon and energy. In our previous studies, we cloned and characterized genes encoding enzymes for the conversion of gamma-HCH to beta-ketoadipate in UT26. In this study, we analyzed a mutant obtained by transposon mutage...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Endo R,Ohtsubo Y,Tsuda M,Nagata Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium chrysogenum is an important producer of penicillin antibiotics. A key step in their biosynthesis is the oxidative cyclization of delta-(L-alpha-aminoadipyl)-L-cysteinyl-D-valine (ACV) to isopenicillin N by the enzyme isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS). bis-ACV, the oxidized disulfide form of ACV is, however, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cohen G,Argaman A,Schreiber R,Mislovati M,Aharonowitz Y

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain TP985, which has an insertional mutation in the gene for the periplasmic murein tripeptide binding protein MppA, was previously reported to overproduce MarA and exhibit a multiple-antibiotic resistance (Mar) phenotype (H. Li and J. T. Park, J. Bacteriol. 181:4842-4847, 1999). We found that TP98...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bina X,Perreten V,Levy SB

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cryptic promoter, designated P alpha, initiates transcription within the O(R) region of bacteriophage lambda. Transcription from P alpha proceeds in the direction of the cI repressor gene from sites 46 and 48 bp preceding the PRM transcription start site. P alpha is likely to compete with both PR and PRM for formati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Woody ST,Fong RS,Gussin GN

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lazaroff, Norman (British Columbia Research Council, Vancouver, B.C., Canada). Sulfate requirement for iron oxidation by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. J. Bacteriol. 85:78-83. 1963.-The growth of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is initially inhibited in media containing ferrous chloride in place of ferrous sulfate. This inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lazaroff N

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of iron-loaded human transferrin at the surface of Neisseria meningitidis is mediated by two polypeptides, Tbp1 and Tbp2. Predicted Tbp amino acid sequences from N. meningitidis strains are highly divergent. This variability is particularly pronounced throughout the Tbp2 polypeptide. In this study, a highl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vonder Haar RA,Legrain M,Kolbe HV,Jacobs E

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes involved in allose utilization of Escherichia coli K-12 are organized in at least two operons, alsRBACE and alsI, located next to each other on the chromosome but divergently transcribed. Mutants defective in alsI (allose 6-phosphate isomerase gene) and alsE (allulose 6-phosphate epimerase gene) were Als(-). Tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poulsen TS,Chang YY,Hove-Jensen B

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six mycoplasma strains, isolated under anaerobic conditions from the human oropharynx, were studied by biologic and serologic means. The strains produced nippled colonies with weak hemolytic activity for guinea pig erythrocytes on agar medium. In addition, the strains metabolized arginine with a concomitant alkaline s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fox H,Purcell RH,Chanock RM

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase (PPAT) from Escherichia coli is an essential hexameric enzyme that catalyzes the penultimate step in coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthesis and is a target for antibacterial drug discovery. The enzyme utilizes Mg-ATP and phosphopantetheine (PhP) to generate dephospho-CoA (dPCoA) and pyrop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller JR,Ohren J,Sarver RW,Mueller WT,de Dreu P,Case H,Thanabal V

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pUB110 was previously used as a vector to clone fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid that complement the trpC2 mutation in Bacillus subtilis from endonuclease EcoRI digested B. licheniformis, B. pumilus, and B. subtilis cellular deoxyribonucleic acid. Each of several such trp plasmids was subsequently shown to c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Keggins KM,Lovett PS,Marrero R,Hoch SO

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:lisRK encodes a two-component regulatory system in the food pathogen Listeria monocytogenes LO28. Following identification of the operon in an acid-tolerant Tn917 mutant, a deletion in the histidine kinase component was shown to result in a growth phase variation in acid tolerance, an ability to grow in high ethanol c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cotter PD,Emerson N,Gahan CG,Hill C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon prolonged exposure to cholate and other toxic compounds, Lactococcus lactis develops a multidrug resistance phenotype that has been attributed to an elevated expression of the heterodimeric ABC-type multidrug transporter LmrCD. To investigate the molecular basis of bile acid resistance in L. lactis and to evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zaidi AH,Bakkes PJ,Lubelski J,Agustiandari H,Kuipers OP,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reversal in the relative amounts of the two major species of tyrosine transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNATyr) (I and II) has been previously observed by others during the development of Bacillus subtilis. These species have been purified by benzoylated diethylaminoethyl-cellulose chromatography and were shown to differ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Menichi B,Heyman T

更新日期：1976-07-01 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：:An assay modeled on a known polymorphism in the PE_PGRS9 gene of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was designed to assess the mutability of a sequence containing interspersed PGRS repeats. Application of the assay in Mycobacterium smegmatis revealed sequence plasticity: in addition to recapitulating the mutation on which it ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Machowski EE,Barichievy S,Springer B,Durbach SI,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes governing three of the enzymes of the isoleucine-valine biosynthetic pathway form the operon: operator-ilvA-ilvD-ilvE. The enzymes are: ilvA, l-threonine deaminase; ilvD, dihydroxy acid dehydrase; and ilvE, transaminase B. A nonsense mutation in the ilvD gene (D-ochre) and a nonsense mutation in the ilvE gen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wechsler JA,Adelberg EA

更新日期：1969-06-01 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：:The imp genes, responsible for the UV protection and mutation effects of the I incompatibility group plasmid TP110, have been cloned into vector plasmids, and their products have been analyzed. The genetic information required for expression of these properties was carried in a continuous DNA sequence of approximately...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Glazebrook JA,Grewal KK,Strike P

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycolic acids are a key component of the mycobacterial cell wall, providing structure and forming a major permeability barrier. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acids are synthesized by type I and type II fatty acid synthases. One of the enzymes of the type II system is encoded by fabG1. We demonstrate here that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parish T,Roberts G,Laval F,Schaeffer M,Daffé M,Duncan K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early stages of nodulation involve the exchange of signals between the bacterium and the host plant. Bacterial nodulation (nod) genes are required for Rhizobium spp. to synthesize lipooligosaccharide morphogens, termed Nod factors. The common nod genes encode enzymes that synthesize the factor core structure, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ehrhardt DW,Atkinson EM,Faull KF,Freedberg DI,Sutherlin DP,Armstrong R,Long SR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using mixed-species cultures, we have undertaken a study of interactions between two common spore-forming soil bacteria, Bacillus subtilis and Streptomyces coelicolor. Our experiments demonstrate that the development of aerial hyphae and spores by S. coelicolor is inhibited by surfactin, a lipopeptide surfactant produ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Straight PD,Willey JM,Kolter R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial flagellar filaments grow at their distal ends, from flagellin that travels through a central channel ∼2 nm in diameter. The flagellin is extruded from the cytoplasm by a pump powered by a proton motive force (PMF). We measured filament growth in cells near the mid-exponential-phase with flagellin bearing a s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Turner L,Stern AS,Berg HC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011 is a commercially available probiotic that is widely used in human dietary supplements and pharmaceutical products. We prepared a draft genome sequence consisting of 10 contigs totaling 2,900,620 bases and a G+C content of 46.7% for this strain. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tompkins TA,Barreau G,de Carvalho VG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00