Two different dihydroorotate dehydrogenases in Lactococcus lactis.

abstract：:The ugp operon of Escherichia coli includes genes involved in the uptake of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate and glycerophosphoryl diesters and belongs to the pho regulon which is induced by phosphate limitation. This operon has two transcriptional initiation sites, as determined by S1 nuclease mapping of the in vivo transcrip...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kasahara M,Makino K,Amemura M,Nakata A,Shinagawa H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first alkaline phosphatase (APase) structural gene mutant of Bacillus subtilis 168 was constructed by using a clone identified by hybridization to a synthetic degenerative oligonucleotide. The design of the probe was based on the first 29 amino acids of the sequenced mature APase III protein, which had been isolat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bookstein C,Edwards CW,Kapp NV,Hulett FM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonswarming Serratia liquefaciens mutant deficient in serrawettin W2 production was constructed by transposon mutagenesis. Sequence homology indicated that insertion had occurred in gene swrA, which encodes a putative peptide synthetase. Expression of swrA is controlled by quorum sensing. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindum PW,Anthoni U,Christophersen C,Eberl L,Molin S,Givskov M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum prepared against protocatechuate 3, 4-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa forms precipitin bands without spurs with isofunctional enzymes from different strains of the fluorescent pseudomonads on immunodiffusion plates. Catalytic activity of the isofunctional enzymes was inhibited by an immunoglobulin fr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hou CT,Lillard MO

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipoteichoic acids were isolated from phenol extracts of four Listeria strains representing serotypes 4a, 4b, 6a, and 6 to compare the differences in structure of amphiphilic polysaccharides from various serotypes of Listeria spp. The lipoteichoic acids from the four strains examined had the same structure in both...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uchikawa K,Sekikawa I,Azuma I

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequences from the prolific Roseobacter clade in the Alphaproteobacteria are beginning to reveal the genetic basis for the diverse lifestyles of these organisms. Here we present the genome sequences of Oceanicola granulosus HTCC2516(T) and Oceanicola batsensis HTCC2597(T), two marine Roseobacter species isolate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thrash JC,Cho JC,Vergin KL,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:The binding of Bacteroides intermedius VPI 8944 to human fibrinogen has been characterized. The binding is time dependent, at least partially reversible, saturable, and specific. On an average, a maximum of 3,500 fibrinogen molecules bind per bacterial cell, with a dissociation constant of 1.7 X 10(-11) M. These bacte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lantz MS,Switalski LM,Kornman KS,Höök M

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermus thermophilus HB8 can grow anaerobically by using a membrane-bound nitrate reductase to catalyze the reduction of nitrate as a final electron acceptor in respiration. In contrast to other denitrifiers, the nitrite produced does not continue the reduction pathway but accumulates in the growth medium after its ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramírez S,Moreno R,Zafra O,Castán P,Vallés C,Berenguer J

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Despite the considerable knowledge of bacterial high-molecular-weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolism, the key enzyme(s) and its pleiotropic and epistatic behavior(s) responsible for low-molecular-weight (LMW) PAHs in HMW PAH-metabolic networks remain poorly understood. In this study, a phenotyp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kweon O,Kim SJ,Kim DW,Kim JM,Kim HL,Ahn Y,Sutherland JB,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Streptococcus mutans, competence for genetic transformation and biofilm formation are dependent on the two-component signal transduction system ComDE together with the inducer peptide pheromone competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) (encoded by comC). Here, it is shown that the same system is also required for expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van der Ploeg JR

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a highly motile bacterium which possesses a single polar flagellum as a locomotion organelle. Motility is thought to be an important factor for the virulence of V. cholerae. The genome sequencing project of this organism is in progress, and the genes that are highly homologous to the essential genes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kojima S,Yamamoto K,Kawagishi I,Homma M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial protein synthesis was studied during release from glucose repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells bearing different mitochondrial genomes. The increase in the rate of the synthesis of mitochondrial translation products was analyzed during respiratory induction. Different kinetic patterns were found ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Falcone C,Agostinelli M,Frontali L

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus mediated by the penicillinase (Pc-ase) plasmid to divalent metal ions of Hg and Cd was found to be controlled by different mechanisms. The Hg resistance of the Pc-ase plasmid-carrying organisms is based upon a process of changing the ion incorporated in the cell into a somewhat inno...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kondo I,Ishikawa T,Nakahara H

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disaccharide trehalose is accumulated as a storage product by spores of Streptomyces griseus. Nongerminating spores used their trehalose reserves slowly when incubated in buffer for several months. In contrast, spores rapidly depleted their trehalose pools during the first hours of germination. Extracts of dormant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Ensign JC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides ruminicola B(1)4, a noncellulolytic rumen bacterium, produces an endoglucanase (carboxymethylcellulase [CMCase]) that is excreted into the culture supernatant. Cultures grown on glucose, fructose, maltose, mannose, and cellobiose had high specific activities of CMCase (greater than 3 mmol of reducing sugar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushita O,Russell JB,Wilson DB

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeletal proteins HMW1 and HMW2 are components of the terminal organelle of the cell wall-less bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. HMW1 is required for a tapered, filamentous morphology but exhibits accelerated turnover in the absence of HMW2. Here, we report that a reciprocal dependency exists between HMW1 and H...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willby MJ,Balish MF,Ross SM,Lee KK,Jordan JL,Krause DC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the agp gene, which encodes a periplasmic glucose-1-phosphatase, was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence corresponds to a 413-amino-acid-residue polypeptide with a typical hydrophobic signal sequence of 22 amino acids. The mature protein lacks the N-terminal signal peptide and has a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pradel E,Marck C,Boquet PL

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously in our laboratory, a PCR-based strategy was used to isolate potential sensor gene fragments from the Staphyloccus aureus genome. One DNA fragment was isolated that shared strong sequence similarity to genes encoding bacterial sensor proteins, indicating that it originated from within a potential staphylococ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brunskill EW,Bayles KW

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farrar, W. Edmund, Jr. (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), Thomas H. Kent, and Van B. Elliott. Lethal gram-negative bacterial superinfection in guinea pigs given bacitracin. J. Bacteriol. 92:496-501. 1966.-Oral administration of a single dose of bacitracin (either 2,000 or 10,000 units) was let...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Farrar WE,Kent TH,Elliott VB

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fragment of the Lactococcus lactis chromosome containing an open reading frame of 265 codons, denoted bglR, has been characterized. The polypeptide encoded by bglR shares 36 to 30% sequence identity with a family of regulatory proteins including ArbG from Erwinia chrysanthemi, BglG from Escherichia coli, and SacT an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bardowski J,Ehrlich SD,Chopin A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentative hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus contains an NADPH-utilizing, heterotetrameric (alphabetagammadelta), cytoplasmic hydrogenase (hydrogenase I) that catalyzes both H(2) production and the reduction of elemental sulfur to H(2)S. Herein is described the purification of a second enzyme of this type, hy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma K,Weiss R,Adams MW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent, and other members of the spirochetal genus Borrelia have double-stranded linear plasmids in addition to supercoiled circular plasmids. The copy number relative to the chromosome was determined for 49- and 16-kb linear plasmids and a 27-kb circular plasmid of the type strai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hinnebusch J,Barbour AG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The addition of 1 mM orthophenanthroline (OP) into a mating mixture drastically reduced the production of recombinants. Examination of the effect of OP on each step of conjugation showed that the effect on the following steps could not account for the up to 500-fold reduction of recombinant formation: (i) preliminary ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ou JT,Reim R

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of formate dehydrogenase coupled to formate hydrogenlyase activity in Escherichia coli was found to require the product of the fhlA gene. Transcription of fdhF, the gene coding for the 80-kilodalton (kDa) selenopeptide of formate dehydrogenase, was not detected in an fhlA genetic background. Mutations in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sankar P,Lee JH,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surfaces of several Lactobacillus species are covered by a regular layer composed of a single species of protein, the S-protein. The 43-kDa S-protein of the neotype strain Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356, which originated from the pharynx of a human, was purified. Antibodies generated against purified S-p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boot HJ,Kolen CP,van Noort JM,Pouwels PH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission electron microscopy was used to examine active ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) genes in two strains of Escherichia coli: N2077, deficient in the enzyme responsible for proper cleavage of the 16S sequence from the elongating nascent rRNA transcript; and N2076, functional in ribonuclease (RNase) III activ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hofmann S,Miller OL Jr

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Antarctic sea ice bacterium Glaciecola punicea ACAM 611(T), the type species of the genus Glaciecola. A blue-light-absorbing proteorhodopsin gene is present in the 3.08-Mb genome. This genome sequence can facilitate the study of the physiological metabolisms and ecological ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qin QL,Xie BB,Shu YL,Rong JC,Zhao DL,Zhang XY,Chen XL,Zhou BC,Zhang YZ

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterium causing nosocomial infections worldwide. To gain quick insight into the molecular basis of biofilm formation in A. baumannii, we determined the complete genome sequence of A. baumannii strain 1656-2, which forms sturdy biofilm and is resistant to multiple drugs. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Park JY,Kim S,Kim SM,Cha SH,Lim SK,Kim J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00