Use of a phase variation-specific promoter of Myxococcus xanthus in a strategy for isolating a phase-locked mutant.

abstract：:Changes in the patterns produced by annealing restriction endonuclease digests of bacterial genomes with probe deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) containing small portions of a bacterial genome provide sensitive indicator of the degree of nucleotide sequence relatedness that exists in localized regions of the genomes of cl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anilionis A,Riley M

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain LB400 grows on biphenyl as the sole carbon and energy source. This organism also cooxidizes several chlorinated biphenyl congeners. Biphenyl dioxygenase activity in cell extract required addition of NAD(P)H as an electron donor for the conversion of biphenyl to cis-2,3-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydrobiphe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haddock JD,Nadim LM,Gibson DT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From several presumably pure cultures of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, we isolated a pair of stable phenotypes. One was a strict autotroph utilizing sulfur or ferrous iron as the energy source and unable to utilize glucose; the other phenotype was an acidophilic obligate heterotroph capable of utilizing glucose but not s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harrison AP Jr,Jarvis BW,Johnson JL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant strain of Pediococcus cerevisiae (P. cerevisiae/PteGlu) was isolated which grows on low-folate (PteGlu) concentrations (200 pg/ml). The growth response of the parent and mutant strains to folinate (5-CHO-H(4)PteGlu) was the same. The transport of (14)C-PteGlu by P. cerevisiae/PteGlu was temperature-dependent ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mandelbaum-Shavit F,Grossowicz N

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular muramidase-2 of Enterococcus hirae ATCC 9790 was purified to homogeneity by substrate binding, guanidine-HCl extraction, and reversed-phase chromatography. A monoclonal antibody, 2F8, which specifically recognizes muramidase-2, was used to screen a genomic library of E. hirae ATCC 9790 DNA in bacteriopha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chu CP,Kariyama R,Daneo-Moore L,Shockman GD

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicating DNA molecules of the nonconjugative R plasmid RSF1010 (Smr Sur) were cleaved with the EcoRI restriction endonuclease and examined with the electron microscope. Results of this analysis indicated that replication is initiated from an origin located at about 19% of total genome size from one of the EcoRI end...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Graaff J,Crosa JH,Heffron F,Falkow S

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen 43 has been identified as a unique protein complex in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. The complex contains two different polypeptides, alpha (Mr, 60,000) and beta (Mr, 53,000), in equal stoichiometry (P. Owen, P. Caffrey, and L.-G. Josefsson, J. Bacteriol. 169:3770-3777, 1987). The alpha subunit was re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caffrey P,Owen P

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloarchaea in their natural environment are exposed to hypersalinity, intense solar radiation, and desiccation, all of which generate high levels of oxidative stress. Previous work has shown that haloarchaea are an order of magnitude more resistant to oxidative stress than most mesophilic organisms. Despite this resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gelsinger DR,DiRuggiero J

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA polymerase mutant with a single-base-pair change in the rpoC gene affects chromosome initiation control. The mutation, which is recessive, is a G to A transition leading to the substitution of aspartate for glycine at amino acid residue 1033 in the RNA polymerase beta' subunit. The chromosome copy number is inc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Petersen SK,Hansen FG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis culture incubated anaerobically in nitrate-containing medium lost viability during the first 3 days but recovered thereafter. A flavohemoglobin mutant showed very poor survival under these conditions unless the cells were prevented from carrying out nitrate respiration. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakano MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans is a microorganism commonly found in the genitourinary and respiratory tracts of healthy individuals and AIDS patients. The complete genome of the repetitive-sequence-rich M. fermentans strain M64 is reported here. Comparative genomics analysis revealed dramatic differences in genome size between...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shu HW,Liu TT,Chan HI,Liu YM,Wu KM,Shu HY,Tsai SF,Hsiao KJ,Hu WS,Ng WV

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catabolism of nonphenolic arenes is frequently initiated by dioxygenases, yielding single isomer products with two adjacent hydroxylated asymmetric centers. The next enzymic reaction dehydrogenates these cyclic cis-diols, with aromatization yielding catechols for ring cleavage. There are two stereochemical questions t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morawski B,Casy G,Illaszewicz C,Griengl H,Ribbons DW

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding protein WhiA is conserved in Gram-positive bacteria and is present in the genetically simple cell wall-lacking mycoplasmas. The protein shows homology to eukaryotic homing endonucleases but lacks nuclease activity. WhiA was first characterized in streptomycetes, where it regulates the expression of key...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bohorquez LC,Surdova K,Jonker MJ,Hamoen LW

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus is an opportunistic pathogen. It has caused a very large economic loss in the swine industry of China and has become a threat to human health. We announce the complete genome sequence of S. equi subsp. zooepidemicus strain ATCC 35246, which provides opportunities to understand i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma Z,Geng J,Zhang H,Yu H,Yi L,Lei M,Lu CP,Fan HJ,Hu S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate has been shown to shunt the electron flow in Clostridium thermoaceticum from CO2 to nitrate, but it did not influence the levels of enzymes involved in the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway (J. M. Fröstl, C. Seifritz, and H. L. Drake, J. Bacteriol. 178:4597-4603, 1996). Here we show that under some growth conditions, nit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arendsen AF,Soliman MQ,Ragsdale SW

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding Shiga toxin (stx), the major virulence factor of Shiga toxin-encoding Escherichia coli (STEC) strains, are carried on lambdoid prophages resident in all known STEC strains. The stx genes are expressed only during lytic growth of these temperate bacteriophages. We cloned the gene encoding the repress...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koudelka AP,Hufnagel LA,Koudelka GB

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all organisms, chromosome replication is regulated mainly at the initiation step. Most of the knowledge about the mechanisms that regulate replication initiation in bacteria has come from studies on rod-shaped bacteria, such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilisStreptomyces is a bacterial genus that is characte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Łebkowski T,Wolański M,Ołdziej S,Flärdh K,Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional regulatory protein Rgg coordinates amino acid catabolism and virulence factor expression in Streptococcus pyogenes. We used a proteomic approach to compare cytoplasmic proteins isolated from S. pyogenes wild-type strain NZ131 (serotype M49) to proteins isolated from an rgg mutant strain during the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chaussee MA,Callegari EA,Chaussee MS

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:CatR, a LysR family protein, positively regulates the Pseudomonas putida catBC operon, which is required for growth on benzoate as a sole carbon source. Transcriptional studies show that the catR and catBC promoters are divergent and overlapping by 2 bp. A beta-galactosidase promoter probe vector was constructed to an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rothmel RK,Shinabarger DL,Parsek MR,Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus thuringiensis, a novel N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase gene (named cwlB) was detected, and the CwlB protein was purified and characterized. Reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) results indicated that cwlB and an upstream gene (named cwlA) formed one transcriptional unit. 5' rapid amplification of cDNA end...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang J,Peng Q,Chen Z,Deng C,Shu C,Zhang J,Huang D,Song F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable inheritance of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is due at least in part to functions within a region located at coordinates 32.8 to 35.9 kb, termed the RK2 par locus. This locus encodes four previously identified genes in two operons (parCBA and parD; M. Gerlitz, O. Hrabak, and H. Schwab, J. Bacteriol. 172:...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts RC,Helinski DR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The multifunctional 6-methylsalicylic acid synthase gene from Penicillium patulum was engineered for regulated expression in Streptomyces coelicolor. Production of significant amounts of 6-methylsalicylic acid by the recombinant strain was proven by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. These results suggest that i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bedford DJ,Schweizer E,Hopwood DA,Khosla C

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described which permits the selection of mutants of Neurospora crassa that are deficient in succinic dehydrogenase activity. The method relies on the observation that succinic dehydrogenase-deficient strains fail to reduce the dye nitrotetrazolium blue when overlaid with the dye in the presence of succinat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards DL,Belsole DM,Guzik HJ,Unger BW

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rpsD gene, encoding ribosomal protein S4, was isolated from Bacillus subtilis by hybridization with oligonucleotide probes derived from the S4 amino-terminal protein sequence. Sequence analysis of the cloned DNA indicated that rpsD is likely to be monocistronic, in contrast to Escherichia coli rpsD, which is locat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of carbon source utilization pathways are repressed in Bacillus subtilis by the global regulator CcpA, which also acts as an activator of carbon excretion pathways during growth in media containing glucose. In this study, CcpA mutants defective in transcriptional activation of the alsSD operon, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Turinsky AJ,Moir-Blais TR,Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penultimate step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin (vitamin B2) involves the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate with 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is catalyzed by 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase (lumazine synthase). Pathogenic Brucella species adapted to an intr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zylberman V,Klinke S,Haase I,Bacher A,Fischer M,Goldbaum FA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, normal mutation frequencies are mostly around 10(-10) per base pair. However, there exists natural isolates, called "mutators," that exhibit permanent mutation occurrences up to 1,000-fold greater than usual. As mutations play essential roles, particularly in the evolution of antibiotic resistance, bacter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Le Bars H,Bousarghin L,Bonnaure-Mallet M,Jolivet-Gougeon A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the Na(+)-coupled melibiose permease of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (MelBSt) demonstrates that MelB is a member of the major facilitator superfamily of transporters. Arg residues at positions 295, 141, and 363 are involved in interdomain interactions at the cytoplasmic side by gove...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Amin A,Ethayathulla AS,Guan L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have overexpressed and purified the Helicobacter pylori Fur protein and analyzed its interaction with the intergenic regions of divergent genes involved in iron uptake (frpB and ceuE) and oxygen radical detoxification (katA and tsaA). DNase I footprint analysis showed that Fur binds specifically to a high-affinity ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Delany I,Pacheco AB,Spohn G,Rappuoli R,Scarlato V

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00