Substratum-induced morphological changes in a marine bacterium and their relevance to biofilm structure.

abstract：:HetR plays a key role in regulation of heterocyst differentiation and patterning in Anabaena It directly regulates genes involved in heterocyst differentiation (such as hetP and hetZ), genes involved in pattern formation (patA), and many others. In this study, we investigated the functional relationship of hetP and he...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Wang S,Wang Y,Xu X

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679 is widely used as a nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum in the derivation and validation of thermal processes in food. Here we report the draft assembly and annotation of the C. sporogenes PA 3679 genome. Preliminary analysis demonstrates a high degree...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bradbury M,Greenfield P,Midgley D,Li D,Tran-Dinh N,Vriesekoop F,Brown JL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant, cyaR1, affecting regulation of adenylate cyclase expression or activity is described. It was obtained as a thermoresistant revertant of a strain harboring a thermosensitive transcription termination factor, rho (rho-15). This mutant failed to synthesize adenosine 3',5'-phosphate and exhibited a carbohydrate-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guidi-Rontani C,Danchin A,Ullmann A

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activities of Bacillus subtilis ribosomes pretreated with 0.5, 1, or 2 mmp-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) were examined. The ribosomes treated with 1 or 2 mm PCMB lost their capacity to synthesize polyphenylalanine as well as the capacity to bind phenylalanyl-transfer ribonucleic acid. On the other hand, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranu RS,Kaji A

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key reaction in the biosynthesis of menaquinone involves the conversion of the soluble bicyclic naphthalenoid compound 1, 4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid (DHNA) to the membrane-bound demethylmenaquinone. The enzyme catalyzing this reaction, DHNA-octaprenyltransferase, attaches a 40-carbon side chain to DHNA. The menA g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suvarna K,Stevenson D,Meganathan R,Hudspeth ME

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel regulatory gene, trh, which is involved in hrp gene expression, is identified in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. In the trh mutant, expression of HrpG, which is a key regulator for hrp gene expression, is reduced both under the in vitro hrp-inducing condition and in planta. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuge S,Nakayama T,Terashima S,Ochiai H,Furutani A,Oku T,Tsuno K,Kubo Y,Kaku H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens H17c glgB gene, was isolated by direct selection for colonies that produced clearing on starch azure plates. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli from its own promoter. The glgB gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1,920 bp encoding a protein of 639 amino acids (calculated Mr, 7...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rumbak E,Rawlings DE,Lindsey GG,Woods DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasmic accumulation of exogenous betaine stimulates the growth of Lactococcus lactis cultivated under hyperosmotic conditions. We report that L. lactis possesses a single betaine transport system that belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of transporters. Through transposon mutagenesis, a muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Obis D,Guillot A,Gripon JC,Renault P,Bolotin A,Mistou MY

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of isoleucine, valine, and leucine biosynthesis and isoleucyl-, valyl-, and leucyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase formation was examined in two mutant strains of Escherichia coli. One mutant was selected for growth resistance to the isoleucine analogue, ketomycin, and the other was selected for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson J,Williams LS,Umbarger HE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyglutamate is found in various bacteria, but displays different functions depending on the species and their environment. Here, we describe a minimal polyglutamate synthesis system in Bacillus anthracis. In addition to the three genes previously described as sufficient for polyglutamate synthesis, this system inclu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Candela T,Mock M,Fouet A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important disease of poultry caused by certain Clostridium perfringens type A strains. NE pathogenesis involves the NetB toxin, which is encoded on a large conjugative plasmid within a 42-kb pathogenicity locus. Recent multilocus sequence type (MLST) studies have identified t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lepp D,Gong J,Songer JG,Boerlin P,Parreira VR,Prescott JF

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Yersinia species employ a type III secretion system (TTSS) to target antihost factors, Yop proteins, into eukaryotic cells. The secretion machinery is constituted of ca. 20 Ysc proteins, nine of which show significant homology to components of the flagellar TTSS. A key event in flagellar assembly is the swi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lavander M,Sundberg L,Edqvist PJ,Lloyd SA,Wolf-Watz H,Forsberg A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella virulence requires the initial invasion of host cells, followed by modulation of the intracellular environment for survival and replication. In an effort to characterize the role of small RNAs in Salmonella pathogenesis, we inadvertently identified a 5-kDa protein named YshB that is involved in the intracel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bomjan R,Zhang M,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The well-known large catabolic potential of rhodococci is greatly facilitated by an impressive gene multiplicity. This study reports on the multiplicity of kshA, encoding the oxygenase component of 3-ketosteroid 9α-hydroxylase, a key enzyme in steroid catabolism. Five kshA homologues (kshA1 to kshA5) were previously i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Petrusma M,Hessels G,Dijkhuizen L,van der Geize R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At various stages during spore formation sporangia were shocked by cold treatment or with toluene, and the germination requirements of the prespores were examined. Up to 5 h after induction of sporulation (t5) germination was spontaneous; i.e., it occurred without any added germinants. After t5, during stages V and VI...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dion P,Mandelstam J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ESX-1 (ESAT-6 system 1) secretion system plays a conserved role in the virulence of diverse mycobacterial pathogens, including the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. marinum, an environmental mycobacterial species. The ESX-1 system promotes the secretion of protein virulence factors to the extracytop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bosserman RE,Nicholson KR,Champion MM,Champion PA

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a gram-negative bacterium and a common commensal organism of the upper respiratory tract in humans. NTHi causes a number of diseases, including otitis media, sinusitis, conjunctivitis, exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and bronchitis. During the course...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harrison A,Ray WC,Baker BD,Armbruster DW,Bakaletz LO,Munson RS Jr

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of mice with a sublethal dose of endotoxin 2 hr after administration of 0.1 ml of carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)) killed 75% of the animals. CCl(4) alone killed no controls. Significant protection against this effect was afforded by 5 mg of cortisone and by 5 mg of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). With...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Synder IS,Agarwal MK,Berry LJ

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl carrier protein (ACP coli) was isolated from commercially grown Escherichia coli B and was acetylated by chemical methods. Biological activity of the synthesized acetyl-ACP coli was checked in an in vitro fatty acid-synthesizing system isolated from E. coli B. Since acetyl-ACP is preferred over acetyl-coenzyme A ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marcus SL,Reeves HC,Ajl SJ

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (hmgA) for 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34) from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 was cloned and sequenced. S. solfataricus HMG-CoA reductase exhibited a high degree of sequence identity (47%) to the HMG-CoA reductase of the halophilic archaeon Halofe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bochar DA,Brown JR,Doolittle WF,Klenk HP,Lam W,Schenk ME,Stauffacher CV,Rodwell VW

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for polyethylene glycol-induced protoplast transformation of glutamate-producing bacteria with plasmid DNA was established. Protoplasts were prepared from cells grown in the presence of penicillin by treatment with lysozyme in a hypertonic medium. The concentration of penicillin during growth affected the eff...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katsumata R,Ozaki A,Oka T,Furuya A

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A handful of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) regulate the vast majority of genes in a bacterial cell. H-NS, the histone-like nucleoid-structuring protein, is one of these NAPs and protects Escherichia coli from foreign gene expression. Though lacking any sequence similarity with E. coli H-NS, Rv3852 was annotated ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Odermatt NT,Sala C,Benjak A,Kolly GS,Vocat A,Lupien A,Cole ST

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory element NosR was identified within the nos region of the denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri ZoBell (ATCC 14405) and characterized. It is essential for expression of the N2O reductase encoded by nosZ immediately downstream of nosR. The nosR region was initially identified by Tn5 mutagen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuypers H,Viebrock-Sambale A,Zumft WG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 strains contain a cytoplasmic activity, peptidase N, capable of hydrolyzing alanine-p-nitroanilide. Mutations in the structural gene for the enzyme, pepN, were mapped, and the properties of mutant strains were examined. The pepN locus lay between ompF and asnS at approximately 20.8 min on the E. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCaman MT,McPartland A,Villarejo MR

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational analysis of the carboxy-terminal region of Escherichia coli HlyC was performed by site-directed mutagenesis. Replacement of residue Val-127 or Lys-129 reduced the activity of HlyC to about 30 or 60%, respectively, of that of the wild type, while replacement of Gly-128 reduced the activity to less than 1% of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guzmán-Verri C,García F,Arvidson S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified suspensions of Chlamydia psittaci were prepared from L cells. Thin sections of intact elementary bodies and intact developmental reticulate bodies and of their purified envelopes were observed by electron microscopy. In both intact organisms and partially purified envelopes, two membranous structures, each ap...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tamura A,Matsumoto A,Manire GP,Higashi N

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified membrane-bound cytochrome c-550 [cytochrome c-550(m)] to an electrophoretically homogeneous state from Nitrobacter winogradskyi. The cytochrome showed peaks at 409 and 525 nm in the oxidized form and peaks at 416, 521, and 550 nm in the reduced form. The molecular weight of the cytochrome was estimated to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nomoto T,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two primary alcohols (1-butanol and ethanol) are major fermentation products of several clostridial species. In addition to these two alcohols, the secondary alcohol 2-propanol is produced to a concentration of about 100 mM by some strains of Clostridium beijerinckii. An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) has been purified t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ismaiel AA,Zhu CX,Colby GD,Chen JS

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siderophore-mediated iron transport in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is dependent upon the cytoplasmic membrane-associated TonB1 energy coupling protein for activity. To assess the functional significance of the various regions of this molecule and to identify functionally important residues, the tonB1 gene was subjected to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao Q,Poole K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinant of resistance to fosfomycin of the Serratia marcescens plasmid pOU900 was transposed into the plasmid ColE1 and into the plasmid RP4 in the absence of the RecA function of the host. In each case, the acquisition of fosfomycin resistance was correlated with the presence of a discrete piece of DNA, unifo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： García-Lobo JM,Ortiz JM

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00