Characterization of the gene encoding the autotrophic ATP sulfurylase from the bacterial endosymbiont of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila.

abstract：:CooA is a heme-containing transcriptional activator that enables Rhodospirillum rubrum to sense and grow on CO as a sole energy source. We have identified a number of CooA homologs through database searches, expressed these heterologously in Escherichia coli, and monitored their ability to respond to CO in vivo. Furth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Youn H,Kerby RL,Conrad M,Roberts GP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellum formation by ubiquinone- and menaquinone-deficient mutant strains of Escherichia coli K-12 was studied under both aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions. Ubiquinone was found to be obligatory for aerobic flagellum formation but could be replaced by menaquinone for anaerobic flagellum formation. A mutant dev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hertz R,Bar-Tana J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sequence of the small cysteine-rich protein (EnvA) of Chlamydia psittaci 6BC has been shown to possess a potential lipid modification/signal peptidase II-processing site, and the mature protein was labeled by a [3H]palmitic acid precursor. We further characterized the mature EnvA, showing that it lacks the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Everett KD,Desiderio DM,Hatch TP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of 19 Micromonospora species were analyzed for their components. All the cell walls had xylose and arabinose, but the presence of glucose, galactose, mannose, or rhamnose depended on the strain. Amino acids present in the walls consisted of glycine, glutamic acid, diaminopimelic acid, and alanine, in a mola...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kawamoto I,Oka T,Nara T

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic transformation of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius by a multiply marked pyrE gene provided a high-resolution assay of homologous recombination in a hyperthermophilic archaeon. Analysis of 100 Pyr(+) transformants revealed that this recombination system could transfer each of 23 nonselected base pair substitutions to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grogan DW,Rockwood J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E is a solvent-resistant strain that is able to grow in the presence of high concentrations of toluene. We have cloned and sequenced the cti gene of this strain, which encodes the cis/trans isomerase, termed Cti, that catalyzes the cis-trans isomerization of esterified fatty acids in phospholi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Junker F,Ramos JL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequencing of the EcoRI-HindIII fragment complementing mutations in the structural genes of the L-rhamnose regulon of Escherichia coli has permitted identification of the open reading frames corresponding to rhaB, rhaA, and rhaD. The deduced amino acid sequences gave a 425-amino-acid polypeptide corresponding to r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moralejo P,Egan SM,Hidalgo E,Aguilar J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Haemophilus influenzae strain Rd competent for genetic transformation irreversibly bound approximately five molecular fragments of H. influenzae deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) per cell; under identical conditions, DNA derived from Escherichia coli B was not taken up (<1 molecule per 50 cells). Similarly, DNA fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scocca JJ,Poland RL,Zoon KC

更新日期：1974-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial denaturation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae chromosomal DNA was found to occur spontaneously during meiosis. Short regions of strand separation (300 base pairs long) were seen in DNA molecules prepared for electron microscopy by the aqueous spreading technique. These regions were clustered along the DNA. The time...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klein HL,Byers B

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence for the existence of two molecular species of exfoliative toxin (ET) synthesized by Staphylococcus hyicus (SHET) under chromosomal and plasmid control is presented. Serological evidence that these molecular species of toxins are distinct from each other is given. The molecular weights of SHET from plasmidless...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sato H,Watanabe T,Higuchi K,Teruya K,Ohtake A,Murata Y,Saito H,Aizawa C,Danbara H,Maehara N

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of part of the gnd (6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase) gene was determined for eight wild strains of Escherichia coli and for Salmonella typhimurium. Since a region of the trp (tryptophan) operon and the phoA (alkaline phosphatase) gene have been sequenced from the same strains, the gene trees for thes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dykhuizen DE,Green L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen which proliferates rapidly in both manure-enriched soil and alveolar macrophages. Although both environments are characterized by extremely low concentrations of free iron, very little is known regarding the strategies employed by R. equi to thrive under these c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miranda-Casoluengo R,Duffy PS,O'Connell EP,Graham BJ,Mangan MW,Prescott JF,Meijer WG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a region involved in the conjugative transfer of the lactococcal conjugative element pRS01 has revealed a bacteria] group II intron. Splicing of this lactococcal intron (designated Ll.ltrB) in vivo resulted in the ligation of two exon messages (ltrBE1 and ltrBE2) which encoded a putative conjugative relaxa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mills DA,McKay LL,Dunny GM

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 400 suppressible mutations have been isolated in the araC gene of Escherichia coli. Based on deletion mapping, growth patterns when suppressed, and intragenic recombination, 37 mutants have been determined to contain unique mutations. Rapid plate assays were developed to test for each of the three AraC prot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schecter JB

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA region encoding early nodulation functions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 3I1b110 (I110) was isolated by its homology to the functionally similar region from Rhizobium meliloti. Isolation of a number of overlapping recombinant clones from this region allowed the construction of a restriction map of the region. Th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Russell P,Schell MG,Nelson KK,Halverson LJ,Sirotkin KM,Stacey G

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli K-12 mutants which had a new nalidixic acid resistance mutation at about 82 min on the chromosome map, cell growth was resistant to or hypersusceptible to nalidixic acid, oxolinic acid, piromidic acid, pipemidic acid, and novobiocin. Deoxyribonucleic acid gyrase activity as tested by supercoiling o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamagishi J,Furutani Y,Inoue S,Ohue T,Nakamura S,Shimizu M

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a thick and highly hydrophobic cell wall principally composed of a mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex, which is critical for survival and virulence. DprE1 is a well-characterized component of decaprenyl-phospho-ribose epimerase, which produces decaprenyl-phosph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kolly GS,Mukherjee R,Kilacsková E,Abriata LA,Raccaud M,Blaško J,Sala C,Dal Peraro M,Mikušová K,Cole ST

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ruvC mutants of Escherichia coli appear to lack an activity that resolves Holliday intermediates into recombinant products. Yet, these strains produce close to normal numbers of recombinants in genetic crosses. This recombination proficiency was found to be a function of recG. A "mini-kan" insertion in recG was introd...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lloyd RG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharopolyspora spinosa is a Gram-positive bacterium that produces spinosad, a well-known biodegradable insecticide that is used for agricultural pest control and has an excellent environmental and mammalian toxicological profile. Here, we present the first draft genome sequence of the type strain Saccharopolyspora ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pan Y,Yang X,Li J,Zhang R,Hu Y,Zhou Y,Wang J,Zhu B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanine plus cytosine (GC) content of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of 11 isolates of host-dependent (H-D) bdellovibrios and 18 host-independent (H-I) derivatives was determined from thermal denaturation curves and buoyant densities in CsCl. The H-D and respective H-I cultures have GC contents which are identica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seidler RJ,Starr MP,Mandel M

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate kinase catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of acetate (CH3COO- + ATP<-->CH3CO2PO3(2-) + ADP). A mechanism which involves a covalent phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate has been proposed, and chemical modification studies of the enzyme from Escherichia coli indicate an unspecified glutamate residue is phosphory...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh-Wissmann K,Ingram-Smith C,Miles RD,Ferry JG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three additional ATPase genes, clustered in the order ahaH, ahaI, and ahaK, were found upstream of the previously characterized genes ahaECFABDG coding for the archaeal A1A0 ATPase from Methanosarcina mazei. ahaH, the first gene in the cluster, is preceded by a conserved promoter sequence. Northern blot analysis revea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ruppert C,Wimmers S,Lemker T,Müller V

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of AI-2 in many bacteria and the physiological role of LuxS, the enzyme responsible for its production, remain matters of debate. Here, we show that in Staphylococcus aureus the luxS gene forms a monocistronic transcriptional unit under the control of a sigma(70)-dependent promoter. The gene was transcrib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doherty N,Holden MT,Qazi SN,Williams P,Winzer K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of purines to the growth medium of Escherichia coli represses synthesis of cytosine deaminase (codA) and enzymes of purine de novo synthesis. After Tn10 mutagenesis, mutants displaying derepressed levels of cytosine deaminase in the presence of hypoxanthine were isolated. One of these had simultaneously acqui...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kilstrup M,Meng LM,Neuhard J,Nygaard P

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormant spores of Bacillus subtilis exhibit two prominent X-ray scattering peaks. These peaks persisted in spores lacking most alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble protein or the CotE protein responsible for assembly of much spore coat protein, but they were absent from spores of strains lacking the late sporulation-sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu X,Setlow P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni produces both lipooligosaccharide (LOS) and a higher-molecular-weight polysaccharide that is believed to form a capsule. The role of these surface polysaccharides in C. jejuni-mediated enteric disease is unclear; however, epitopes associated with the LOS are linked to the development of neurologic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oldfield NJ,Moran AP,Millar LA,Prendergast MM,Ketley JM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli K-12 hisT gene has been cloned, and its organization and expression have been analyzed on multicopy plasmids. The hisT gene, which encodes tRNA pseudouridine synthase I (PSUI), was isolated on a Clarke-Carbon plasmid known to contain the purF gene. The presence of the hisT gene on this plasmid was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marvel CC,Arps PJ,Rubin BC,Kammen HO,Penhoet EE,Winkler ME

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase extracted from the membrane of Escherichia coli by alkaline heat treatment was purified to homogeneity and used to prepare specific antibody. Nitrate reductase, precipitated by this antibody from Triton extracts of the membrane, contained a third subunit not present in the purified enzyme used to pre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacGregor CH

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to the antifolates methasquin and amethopterin has been studied in new strains of Streptococcus faecium var. durans. Two methasquin-resistant strains (SF/MQ, SF/MQ(T)) and an amethopterin-resistant strain (SF/AM) were selected independently from the wild-type S. faecium var. durans (SF/O). SF/MQ(T) is a thy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rader JI,Hutchison DJ

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, a sulfate-reducing bacterium classified as an obligate anaerobe, swam to a preferred oxygen concentration of 0.02 to 0.04% (0.24 to 0.48 microM), a level which also supported growth. Oxygen concentrations of 0.08% and higher arrested growth. We propose that in zones of transition ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson MS,Zhulin IB,Gapuzan ME,Taylor BL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00