Detection of XerC and XerD recombinases in gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae.

abstract：:Growth of Escherichia coli B in simple media enriched with Mn(II) resulted in the elevation of the manganese-containing superoxide dismutase, whereas growth in such medium enriched with iron caused increased content of the iron-containing superoxide dismutase. Enrichment of the medium with Co(II), Cu(II), Mo(VI), Zn(I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pugh SY,DiGuiseppi JL,Fridovich I

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions, immunofluorescence microscopy, and cryo-electron tomography revealed that the chemoreceptors of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi form long, thin arrays near both cell poles. These arrays are in close proximity to the flagellar motors. This information provides a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xu H,Raddi G,Liu J,Charon NW,Li C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under starvation conditions, a swarm of Myxococcus xanthus cells will undergo development, a multicellular process culminating in the formation of many aggregates called fruiting bodies, each of which contains up to 100,000 spores. The mechanics of symmetry breaking and the self-organization of cells into fruiting bod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Angus S,Tran M,Xie C,Igoshin OA,Welch RD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the identification and characterization of two Listeria monocytogenes (Tn917-LTV3) relA and hpt transposon insertion mutants that were impaired in growth after attachment to a model surface. Both mutants were unable to accumulate (p)ppGpp in response to amino acid starvation, whereas the wild-type str...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor CM,Beresford M,Epton HA,Sigee DC,Shama G,Andrew PW,Roberts IS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SaPIbov2 is a member of the SaPI family of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands and is very closely related to SaPIbov1. Typically, certain temperate phages can induce excision and replication of one or more of these islands and can package them into special small phage-like particles commensurate with their genome si...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maiques E,Ubeda C,Tormo MA,Ferrer MD,Lasa I,Novick RP,Penadés JR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of serine protease EpiP in epidermin biosynthesis was investigated. Epidermin is synthesized as a 52-amino-acid precursor peptide, EpiA, which is posttranslationally modified and processed to the mature 22-amino-acid peptide antibiotic. epiP was expressed in Staphylococcus carnosus with xylose-regulated e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geissler S,Götz F,Kupke T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a significant nosocomial pathogen worldwide. The increasing trend of carbapenem and fluoroquinolone resistance in A. baumannii severely limits the usage of therapeutic antimicrobial agents. Here we report the genome sequence of a multidrug-resistant A. baumannii strain, TCDC-AB07...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen CC,Lin YC,Sheng WH,Chen YC,Chang SC,Hsia KC,Liao MH,Li SY

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymatic properties and the physiological function of the type IV apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP)-endonuclease homolog of Bacillus subtilis, encoded by yqfS, a gene specifically expressed in spores, were studied here. To this end, a recombinant YqfS protein containing an N-terminal His6 tag was synthesized in Escheric...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Salas-Pacheco JM,Urtiz-Estrada N,Martínez-Cadena G,Yasbin RE,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phoB gene of Bacillus subtilis encodes an alkaline phosphatase (PhoB, formerly alkaline phosphatase III) that is expressed from separate promoters during phosphate deprivation in a PhoP-PhoR-dependent manner and at stage two of sporulation under phosphate-sufficient conditions independent of PhoP-PhoR. Isogenic st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abdel-Fattah WR,Chen Y,Eldakak A,Hulett FM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic search for motifs associated with CcrM DNA methylation sites revealed four long (>100-bp) motifs (CIR sequences) present in up to 21 copies in Caulobacter crescentus. The CIR1 and CIR2 motifs exhibit a conserved inverted repeat organization, with a CcrM site in the center of one of the repeats. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen SL,Shapiro L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of shuttle mutagenesis has been extended to Neisseria gonorrhoeae. We have constructed a defective mini-Tn3 derivative that encodes chloramphenicol resistance in both N. gonorrhoeae and Escherichia coli and selected for mutations in the chloramphenicol resistance gene that express higher levels of antibioti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seifert HS,Ajioka RS,Paruchuri D,Heffron F,So M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (bdb) for protein thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase cloned from Bacillus brevis was found to encode a polypeptide consisting of 117 amino acid residues with a signal peptide of 27 residues. Bdb contains a well-conserved motif, Cys-X-X-Cys, which functions as the active center of disulfide oxidoreductases such as...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishihara T,Tomita H,Hasegawa Y,Tsukagoshi N,Yamagata H,Udaka S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gasdorf, Helen J. (Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Ill.), R. G. Benedict, M. C. Cadmus, R. F. Anderson, and R. W. Jackson. Polymer-producing species of Arthrobacter. J. Bacteriol. 90:147-150.1965.-Two slime-producing microorganisms, designated as NRRL B-1973 and NRRL B-1797, were isolated from a Guatema...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gasdorf HJ,Benedict RG,Cadmus MC,Anderson RF,Jackson RW

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli nusA gene, nusAEc, encodes an essential protein that influences transcription elongation. Derivatives of E. coli in which the Salmonella typhimurium nusA gene, nusASt, has replaced nusAEc are viable. Thus, NusASt can substitute for NusAEc in supporting essential bacterial activities. However, hybr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Craven MG,Granston AE,Schauer AT,Zheng C,Gray TA,Friedman DI

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of chlorobenzene-degrading transconjugants of Pseudomonas putida F1 which had acquired the genes for chlorocatechol degradation (clc) from Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 revealed that the clc gene cluster was present on a 105-kb amplifiable genetic element (named the clc element). In one such transconjugant, P. p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ravatn R,Studer S,Springael D,Zehnder AJ,van der Meer JR

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the plasmid-encoded LlaKR2I restriction-modification (R-M) system of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis KR2 was determined. This R-M system comprises divergently transcribed endonuclease (llaKR2IR) and methyltransferase (llaKR2IM) genes; located in the intergenic region is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Twomey DP,McKay LL,O'Sullivan DJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The leucine auxotroph Escherichia coli 2961 exhibited stringent control of net ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis during amino acid starvation. After leucine was exhausted from the medium, the rate of uracil incorporation into RNA rapidly decreased to 2 to 4% of the prestarvation value. Infection of the starved cells wi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharp K,Green MH

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalococcoides species are key players in the anaerobic transformation of halogenated solvents at contaminated sites. Here, we analyze isotopologue distributions in amino acid pools from peptides of Dehalococcoides strain CBDB1 after incubation with (13)C-labeled acetate or bicarbonate as a carbon source. The resulti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marco-Urrea E,Seifert J,von Bergen M,Adrian L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated pili from Escherichia coli SS142. These pili had a diameter of 6 nm and an average length of 400 nm. They were composed of subunits with a molecular weight of 18,000. Their amino acid composition was determined; methionine and proline were not detected. The isolated pili retained mannose-resistant hemagglu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mett H,Kloetzlen L,Vosbeck K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recF gene of Escherichia coli is known to encode an Mr-40,000 protein that is involved in DNA recombinationa nd postreplication DNA repair. To characterize the role of the recF gene product in these processes, the recF gene was cloned downstream of a tac promoter to facilitate overproduction of the recF gene produ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Griffin TJ 4th,Kolodner RD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CTXphi is a filamentous bacteriophage that encodes cholera toxin. CTXphi infection of its host bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, requires the toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and the products of the V. cholerae tolQRA genes. Here, we have explored the role of OrfU, a predicted CTXphi minor coat protein, in CTXphi infection. Pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heilpern AJ,Waldor MK

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant changes in the relative proportions of the individual polar lipids of two strains of Bacillus subtilis were observed when the pH of their chemostat cultures was varied. In phosphate- and magnesium-limited cultures of B. subtilis var. niger NCIB 8058. lysylphosphatidylglycerol was present in higher proporti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minnikin DE,Abdolrahimzadeh H

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the methanogenic fermentation of acetate by Methanosarcina thermophila, the CO dehydrogenase complex cleaves acetyl coenzyme A and oxidizes the carbonyl group (or CO) to CO2, followed by electron transfer to coenzyme M (CoM)-S-S-coenzyme B (CoB) and reduction of this heterodisulfide to HS-CoM and HS-CoB (A. P. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peer CW,Painter MH,Rasche ME,Ferry JG

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linker insertion mutagenesis was used to modify the paracrystalline surface layer (S-layer) protein (RsaA) of the gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. Eleven unique BamHI linker insertions in the cloned rsaA gene were identified; at the protein level, these linker insertions introduced 4 to 6 amino acids at...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bingle WH,Nomellini JF,Smit J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate psychrophilic yeasts Torulopsis psychrophila, T. austromarina, Leucosporidium frigidum, L. gelidum, and L. nivalis were obligate aerobes and were unable to grow anaerobically. In contrast, the obligate thermophilic yeasts T. bovina, T. pintolopesii, Candida slooffii, and Saccharomyces telluris were facult...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watson K,Arthur H,Morton H

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-micrometer deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a circular plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, contains two nontandem repeated sequences which are inverted with respect to one another. These repeated sequences together account for 21% of the molecule length. Restriction endonuclease analysis and electron microscopy demon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Livingston DM,Klein HL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shafia, Fred (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and T. L. Thompson. Isolation and preliminary characterization of bacteriophage phimu-4. J. Bacteriol. 87:999-1002. 1964.-Bacteriophage phimu-4 was isolated from lysogenic Bacillus stearothermophilus NU strain 4, and was propagated in strain 10 of the same species. The p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shafia F,Thompson TL

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus fructivorans is important in the generation of particular flavors and in other ripening processes associated with fermented food. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of the type strain Lactobacillus fructivorans KCTC 3543 (1,373,326 bp, with a G+C content of 38.9%), which consists of 5 scaffolds. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nam SH,Choi SH,Kang A,Lee KS,Kim DW,Kim RN,Kim DS,Park HS

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:The developmentally regulated gene dofA, identified from pulse-labeling experiments by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, and its homologue, dofB, were cloned and characterized in Myxococcus xanthus. Deletion of dofA and dofB did not affect the vegetative growth and development of M. xanthus. dofA was specifically e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Horiuchi T,Akiyama T,Inouye S,Komano T

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00