Transcriptional analysis of pqqD and study of the regulation of pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1.

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides hemA and hemT genes, encoding 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) synthase isozymes, were determined. ALA synthase catalyzes the condensation of glycine and succinyl coenzyme A, the first and rate-limiting step in tetrapyrrole biosynthesis. The hemA and hemT structural g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Neidle EL,Kaplan S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, nine essential cell division proteins are known to localize to the division septum. FtsL is a 13-kDa bitopic membrane protein with a short cytoplasmic N-terminal domain, a membrane-spanning segment, and a periplasmic domain that has a repeated heptad motif characteristic of leucine zippers. Here, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghigo JM,Beckwith J

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 deficient in galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase is capable of converting significant amounts of d-[1-(14)C]galactose to (14)CO(2), whereas strains deficient in other enzymes of the Leloir pathway cannot do so. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LaPolla RJ,Geier MR,Friedman TB,Merril CR

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus is capable of an unusual form of genetic exchange, mediated by a transducing bacteriophage-like particle called the gene transfer agent (GTA). GTA production by R. capsulatus is controlled at the level of transcription by a cellular two-component signal transduction system that inc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lang AS,Beatty JT

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) inhibitory factor (Cif) is a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that reduces the quantity of CFTR in the apical membrane of human airway epithelial cells. Initial sequence analysis suggested that Cif is an epoxide hydrolase (EH), but its seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bahl CD,Morisseau C,Bomberger JM,Stanton BA,Hammock BD,O'Toole GA,Madden DR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopseudomonas capsulata required potassium (or rubidium or cesium as analogs of potassium) for growth. These cations were actively accumulated by the cells by a process following Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics. The monovalent cation transport system had Km's of 0.2 mM K+, 0.5 mM Rb+, and 2.6 mM Cs+. The rates...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jasper P

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent and nature of DNA polymorphism in the mutS-rpoS region of the Escherichia coli genome were assessed in 21 strains of enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and in 6 strains originally isolated from natural populations. The intervening region between mutS and rpoS was amplified ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herbelin CJ,Chirillo SC,Melnick KA,Whittam TS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program has been designed to study behavior in populations of Spirochaeta aurantia cells, and this program has been used to analyze changes in behavior in response to chemoattractants. Three kinds of behavior were distinguished: smooth swimming, flexing, and reversals in direction of swimming after a short ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fosnaugh K,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rhizobium meliloti, an aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) encoded within a 7.3-kb HindIII fragment was previously shown to be required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and aspartate catabolism (V. K. Rastogi and R.J. Watson, J. Bacteriol. 173:2879-2887, 1991). A gene coding for an aromatic aminotransferase located w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watson RJ,Rastogi VK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular vanadium metabolism was studied in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by isolating and characterizing vanadate [VO4(3-), V(V)]-resistant mutants. Vanadate growth inhibition was reversed by the removal of the vanadate from the medium, and vanadate resistance was found to be a recessive trait. Vanadate-resistant mutants ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willsky GR,Leung JO,Offermann PV Jr,Plotnick EK,Dosch SF

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tandem pair of nearly identical genes from Serpulina hyodysenteriae (B204) were cloned and sequenced. The full open reading frame of one gene and the partial open reading frame of the neighboring gene appear to encode secreted proteins which are homologous to, yet distinct from, the 39-kDa extracytoplasmic protein p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gabe JD,Dragon E,Chang RJ,McCaman MT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol auxotroph FY3 (alpha hem1 erg7 ura) by delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is dependent on the ability of the organism to synthesize heme from ALA. Sterol-depleted cells not exposed to ALA or strain PFY3 cells, with a double heme mutation, exposed to ALA did n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A P22 hybrid phage bearing the bacteriophage T4 lysozyme gene (e), as well as T4 sequences upstream from the lysozyme gene, was constructed. Amber mutations were introduced into gene e in the hybrid phage, and the resulting mutant phages were tested for the ability to form plaques on amber suppressor strains. Revertan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Knight JA,Hardy LW,Rennell D,Herrick D,Poteete AR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many of the gene products that participate in nitrogen metabolism are sensitive to nitrogen catabolite repression (NCR), i.e., their expression is decreased to low levels when readily used nitrogen sources such as asparagine are provided. Previous work has shown this NCR sensitivity requires the cis-acting UASNTR elem...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Coffman JA,el Berry HM,Cooper TG

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different electron carriers of the non-desulfoviridin-containing, sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfovibrio desulfuricans (Norway strain) have been studied. Two nonheme iron proteins, ferredoxin and rubredoxin, have been purified. This ferredoxin contains four atoms of non-heme iron and acid-labile sulfur and six resid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bruschi M,Hatchikian CE,Golovleva LA,Gall JL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Firmicutes Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens and Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes convert thiosulfate, forming sulfur globules inside and outside cells. X-ray absorption near-edge structure analysis revealed that the sulfur consisted mainly of sulfur chains with organic end groups similar to sulfur formed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee YJ,Prange A,Lichtenberg H,Rohde M,Dashti M,Wiegel J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wild strain of Serratia marcescens rapidly degraded threonine and formed aminoacetone in a medium containing glucose and urea. Extracts of this strain showed high threonine dehydrogenase and "biosynthetic" threonine deaminase activities, but no threonine aldolase activity. Threonine dehydrogenase-deficient strain ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Komatsubara S,Murata K,Kisumi M,Chibata I

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:TcpP and ToxR coordinately regulate transcription of toxT, the master regulator of numerous virulence factors in Vibrio cholerae. TcpP and ToxR are membrane-localized transcription factors, each with a periplasmic domain containing two cysteines. In ToxR, these cysteines form an intramolecular disulfide bond...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morgan SJ,French EL,Thomson JJ,Seaborn CP,Shively CA,Krukonis ES

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Periplasmic nitrate reductase (NapABC enzyme) has been characterized from a variety of proteobacteria, especially Paracoccus pantotrophus. Whole-genome sequencing of Escherichia coli revealed the structural genes napFDAGHBC, which encode NapABC enzyme and associated electron transfer components. E. coli also expresses...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart V,Lu Y,Darwin AJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal and mutagenic effects of various mutagens on Neisseria gonorrhoeae were investigated. Lethality studies demonstrated that N. gonorrhoeae was relatively sensitive to ethyl methanesulfonate, UV light, and methyl methanesulfonate. Although N. gonorrhoeae was readily mutated by ethyl methanesulfonate and N-meth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Campbell LA,Yasbin RE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of a stable L-phase variant of Streptococcus faecium F24 produced and retained peptidoglycan precursors intracellularly over the entire growth cycle in a chemically defined medium. The identity of the most abundant precursor, UDP N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl-L-lysyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine (UDP-MurNAc-penta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory WW,Gooder H

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus multicellular fruiting body development is initiated by nutrient limitation at high cell density. Five clustered point mutations (sasB5, -14, -15, -16, and -17) can bypass the starvation and high-cell-density requirements for expression of the 4521 developmental reporter gene. These mutants express ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xu D,Yang C,Kaplan HB

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein mediates the iron-dependent repression of at least 20 operons encoding approximately 40 genes. We investigated the physiological roles of Fur-regulated genes by the construction of null mutations in 14 transcription units known or predicted to function in sid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ollinger J,Song KB,Antelmann H,Hecker M,Helmann JD

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods were devised to purify the cell-associated, iron-binding compounds known as mycobactins from the closely related species Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium intracellulare, and Mycobacterium scrofulaceum (i.e., the MAIS complex of organisms). The mycobactins from these three species showed a structure that is c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barclay R,Ewing DF,Ratledge C

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain oral treponemes express a highly proteolytic phenotype and have been associated with periodontal diseases. The periodontal pathogen Treponema denticola produces dentilisin, a serine protease of the subtilisin family. The two-gene operon prcA-prtP is required for expression of active dentilisin (PrtP), a putati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Correia FF,Plummer AR,Ellen RP,Wyss C,Boches SK,Galvin JL,Paster BJ,Dewhirst FE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum was made against a single 30S protein, 30S-7. The amount of complement fixed by total 30S protein in the presence of this antiserum indicated that protein 30S-7 was the major antigen in the mixture of proteins. Each of the 30S ribosomal proteins was tested for cross-reactivity with anti-30S-7. This was done ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strnad BC,Sypherd PS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is presented for the rapid screening of bacterial colonies to detect mutants unable to produce 14CO2 from a labeled precursor. The method is especially useful for mass screening for mutants that cannot be easily detected by their phenotypic characteristics. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tabor H,Tabor CW,Hafner EW

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One step in de novo pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate biosynthesis was predicted to be an oxidation catalyzed by an unidentified D-erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase (E4PDH). To help identify this E4PDH, we purified the Escherichia coli K-12 gapA- and gapB-encoded dehydrogenases to homogeneity and te...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao G,Pease AJ,Bharani N,Winkler ME

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli ssrA encodes a small stable RNA molecule, tmRNA, that has many diverse functions, including tagging abnormal proteins for degradation, supporting phage growth, and modulating the activity of DNA binding proteins. Here we show that ssrA plays a role in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pathogenes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Julio SM,Heithoff DM,Mahan MJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli gene coding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) has been cloned and sequenced. The protein has 282 amino acids and a compositional molecular mass of 30,314 daltons. Increased expression of the enzyme was realized by using a T7 expression system. The enzyme was purified and crystallized. A temperat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dallas WS,Gowen JE,Ray PH,Cox MJ,Dev IK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00