The final step of peptidoglycan subunit assembly in Escherichia coli occurs in the cytoplasm.

abstract：:DifA is a methyl-accepting chemotaxis protein (MCP)-like sensory transducer that regulates exopolysaccharide (EPS) production in Myxococcus xanthus. Here mutational analysis and molecular biology were used to probe the signaling mechanisms of DifA in EPS regulation. We first identified the start codon of DifA experime...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xu Q,Black WP,Nascimi HM,Yang Z

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thiol-containing tripeptide glutathione is an important cellular constituent of many eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. In addition to its disulfide reductase activity, glutathione is known to protect cells from many forms of physiological stress. This report represents the first investigation into the role of glut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Potter AJ,Trappetti C,Paton JC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rhizobium meliloti bacA gene encodes a function that is essential for bacterial differentiation into bacteroids within plant cells in the symbiosis between R. meliloti and alfalfa. An Escherichia coli homolog of BacA, SbmA, is implicated in the uptake of microcin B17, microcin J25 (formerly microcin 25), and bleom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ichige A,Walker GC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cell shape has been suggested to play an important role in the regulation of bacterial attachment to surfaces and the formation of communities associated with surfaces. We found that a cardiolipin synthase (Δcls) mutant of the rod-shaped bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides--in which synthesis of the anionic, h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lin TY,Santos TM,Kontur WS,Donohue TJ,Weibel DB

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of plasmid gene cadB did not affect Cd2+ accumulation, whereas plasmid gene cadA reduced Cd2+ accumulation by whole cells but not by membrane vesicles. Membrane vesicle studies indicated that Cd2+ uptake occurred via the Mn2+ transport system which was energized by the membrane electrical potential. Mn2+ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perry RD,Silver S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 possesses homologs of known genes of the non-mevalonate 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2-phosphate (MEP) pathway for synthesis of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Isoprenoid biosynthesis in extracts of this cyanobacterium, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ershov YV,Gantt RR,Cunningham FX Jr,Gantt E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD- and glutathione-dependent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (GD-FALDH) of Paracoccus denitrificans has been purified as a tetramer with a relative molecular mass of 150 kDa. The gene encoding GD-FALDH (flhA) has been isolated, sequenced, and mutated by insertion of a kanamycin resistance gene. The mutant strain is not a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ras J,Van Ophem PW,Reijnders WN,Van Spanning RJ,Duine JA,Stouthamer AH,Harms N

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human dental biofilm communities comprise several species, which can interact cooperatively or competitively. Bacterial interactions influence biofilm formation, metabolic changes, and physiological function of the community. Lactic acid, a common metabolite of oral bacteria, was measured in the flow cell effluent of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Periasamy S,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the further utilization of a genetic screen that identifies mutations defective in the assembly of proteins into the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. The screen yielded mutations in each of the known genes encoding components of the E. coli signal recognition particle pathway: ffh, ffs, and ftsY, whi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tian H,Beckwith J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the large virulence plasmid pLVPK in Klebsiella pneumoniae CG43 revealed the presence of another mucoid factor encoding gene rmpA besides rmpA2. Promoter activity measurement indicated that the deletion of rmpA reduced K2 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) biosynthesis, resulting in decreased colony mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng HY,Chen YS,Wu CY,Chang HY,Lai YC,Peng HL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain TP985, which has an insertional mutation in the gene for the periplasmic murein tripeptide binding protein MppA, was previously reported to overproduce MarA and exhibit a multiple-antibiotic resistance (Mar) phenotype (H. Li and J. T. Park, J. Bacteriol. 181:4842-4847, 1999). We found that TP98...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bina X,Perreten V,Levy SB

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria acquire ferric siderophores through TonB-dependent outer membrane transporters (TBDT). By fluorescence spectroscopic hgh-throughput screening (FLHTS), we identified inhibitors of TonB-dependent ferric enterobactin (FeEnt) uptake through Escherichia coli FepA (EcoFepA). Among 165 inhibitors found...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nairn BL,Eliasson OS,Hyder DR,Long NJ,Majumdar A,Chakravorty S,McDonald P,Roy A,Newton SM,Klebba PE

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Caulobacter crescentus trp mutants were identified from a collection of auxotrophs. Precursor feeding experiments, accumulation studies, and complementation experiments resulted in the identification of six genes corresponding to trpA, trpB, trpC, trpD, trpE, and trpF. Genetic mapping experiments demonstrated that the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winkler ME,Schoenlein PV,Ross CM,Barrett JT,Ely B

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus SarA global regulator controls the expression of numerous virulence genes, often in conjunction with the agr quorum-sensing system and its effector RNA, RNAIII. In the present study, we have examined the role of both SarA and RNAIII on the regulation of the promoter of tst, encoding staphyloc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Andrey DO,Renzoni A,Monod A,Lew DP,Cheung AL,Kelley WL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the Bacillus subtilis nucleoid was dissected with restriction endonucleases, a specific DNA sequence from the purA region was isolated in a particulate form that probably originated from the cell membrane. Precise definition of the binding region within this sequence was achieved by a novel procedure based on a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sargent MG,Bennett MF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned fragments of DNA (up to 13 kb), from Pseudomonas putida AJ1, that code for two stereospecific haloalkanoate dehalogenases. These enzymes are highly specific for D and L substrates. The two genes, designated hadD and hadL, have been isolated and independently expressed in Escherichia coli and P. putida h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barth PT,Bolton L,Thomson JC

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae belongs to Mycoplasma, a genus containing the smallest self-replicating microorganisms, and causes infectious pleuropneumonia in goats and sheep. Nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-containing protein (NOD2), an intracellular pattern recognition receptor, interacts with muramyl dipeptide...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Luo H,Wu X,Xu Z,Hao X,Wang Y,Li M

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type cells of Aspergillus nidulans synthesize a transport system which appears to be specific for l-glutamate and l-aspartate. The system is energy dependent and concentrates l-glutamate at least 60-fold. In cells grown in the presence of 1% sucrose, l-glutamate uptake activity is regulated by ammonium control, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pateman JA,Kinghorn JR,Dunn E

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GcvA protein is a LysR family regulatory protein necessary for both activation and repression of the Escherichia coli glycine cleavage enzyme operon (gcv) and negative regulation of gcvA. Gel shift assays indicated that overexpressed GcvA in crude extracts is capable of binding specifically to DNA containing the g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilson RL,Urbanowski ML,Stauffer GV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii presents a differentiation process leading to the formation of desiccation-resistant cysts. Alginate, the exopolysaccharide produced by this bacterium, has been postulated to have a role in cyst formation. Here, we report the cloning and characterization of the A. vinelandii gene coding for the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Campos M,Martínez-Salazar JM,Lloret L,Moreno S,Núñez C,Espín G,Soberón-Chávez G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a free-living, photoheterotrophic bacterium known for its genomic and metabolic complexity. We have discovered that this purple photosynthetic organism possesses a quorum-sensing system. Quorum sensing occurs in a number of eukaryotic host-associated gram-negative bacteria. In these bacteria...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Puskas A,Greenberg EP,Kaplan S,Schaefer AL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified gel electrophoresis technique provided a reproducible way of detecting and isolating plasmids with molecular weights ranging from 12 X 10(6) to 370 X 10(6) for Azospirillum species. Analysis with the nifHD region of Rhizobium trifolii showed that the Azospirillum nif genes were chromosomally located in all ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plazinski J,Dart PJ,Rolfe BG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence analysis of a region of the Streptomyces sp. strain C5 daunomycin biosynthesis gene cluster, located between the daunomycin polyketide biosynthesis gene cluster and a dnrI (transcriptional activator) homolog, revealed the presence of a gene encoding a P-450-like enzyme with a deduced Mr of 46,096. Express...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dickens ML,Strohl WR

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balish, Edward (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.), and George Svihla. Ultraviolet microscopy of Candida albicans. J. Bacteriol. 92:1812-1820. 1966.-Yeast and mycelial strains of Candida albicans were grown in medium supplemented with sulfur amino acids in an effort to determine factors that control the morph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Balish E,Svihla G

更新日期：1966-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protease-activated antimicrobial peptide (PAMP) and its inactive precursor were purified from the culture supernatant of Propionibacterium jensenii LMG 3032 and characterized at the molecular level. PAMP is a 64-amino-acid cationic peptide of 6,383 Da with physicochemical features similar to those of bacteriocins fr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Faye T,Brede DA,Langsrud T,Nes IF,Holo H

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal insertion of transposon Tn917 partially restores the expression of protease and alpha-toxin activities to PM466, a genetically defined agr-null derivative of the wild-type Staphylococcus aureus strain RN6390. In co-transduction experiments, transposon-encoded erythromycin resistance and a protease- and a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McNamara PJ,Milligan-Monroe KC,Khalili S,Proctor RA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temperate phage TPW22, induced from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris W22, and the evolutionarily interesting integrase of this phage were characterized. Phage TPW22 was propagated lytically on L. lactis subsp. cremoris 3107, which could also be lysogenized by site-specific integration. The attachment site (attP)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Petersen A,Josephsen J,Johnsen MG

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the palA gene of Aspergillus nidulans, one of six genes participating in ambient pH signal transduction in a regulatory circuit mediating pH regulation of gene expression. The derived 798-residue PalA protein is 29.4% identical over its entire length to a hypothetical protein from the nematode Caenorhab...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Negrete-Urtasun S,Denison SH,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two 23S rRNA-5S rRNA-tRNAGly operons from the extreme thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus HB8 were used to characterized the in vivo processing and termination of 23S rRNA-5S rRNA-tRNAGly primary transcripts in this organism by nuclease S1 mapping. A processing site in the pre-23S rRNA 3'-flanking region...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hartmann RK,Toschka HY,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysyl-transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase (EC 6.1.1.6) was identified as four polypeptide spots after two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell lysates of Escherichia coli. Identification was made by migration with partially purified enzyme preparations, by peptide map patterns, by mutant analy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Bloch PL,Van Bogelen RA,Neidhardt FC

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00