Expression, purification, and characterization of EpiC, an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of the lantibiotic epidermin, and sequence analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis epiC mutants.

abstract：:Escherichia coli BS-12 uvrA lon is hypersensitive to ultraviolet light. On minimal agar plates at densities in excess of about 10(7) bacteria per plate, as few as one or two photoreversible pyrimidine dimers in the entire genome are sufficient to cause inhibition of cell division. Most of the resulting filaments are u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bridges BA,Mottershead RP,Green MH

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus dsp and dif mutants have similar phenotypes in that they are deficient in social motility and fruiting body development. We compared the two loci by genetic mapping, complementation with a cosmid clone, DNA sequencing, and gene disruption and found that 16 of the 18 dsp alleles map to the dif genes....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lancero H,Brofft JE,Downard J,Birren BW,Nusbaum C,Naylor J,Shi W,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined tryptophan regulation in merodiploid hybrids in which a plasmid carrying the trp operon of Escherichia was introduced into Trp mutants of other enteric genera, or in which a plasmid carrying the trpR+ (repressor) gene of E. coli was transfered into fully constitutive trpR mutants of other genera. In these ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manson MD,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation was demonstrated in Rickettsia prowazekii, an obligate intracytoplasmic bacterium. The level of citrate synthase (gltA) mRNA II, from promoter P2, was greater in the total RNA isolated from heavily infected L929 cells than in moderately infected L929 cells; conversely, the level of ATP/ADP t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cai J,Winkler HH

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pep 5 and nisin are cationic peptide antibiotics which in addition to their membrane-disruptive action induce autolysis in staphylococci. To investigate the mechanism of lysis induction, the influence of the peptides on the activity of the N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase of Staphylococcus simulans 22 was studied. I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bierbaum G,Sahl HG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halocin S8 is a hydrophobic microhalocin of 36 amino acids (3,580 Da) and is the first microhalocin to be described. This peptide antibiotic is unique since it is processed from inside a much larger, 33,962-Da pro-protein. Halocin S8 is quite robust, as it can be desalted, boiled, subjected to organic solvents, and st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price LB,Shand RF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular accumulation of nitrate, indicative of the operation of an active nitrate transport system, has been measured in intact cells of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. The ability of the cells to accumulate nitrate was effectively hindered by either ammonium addition or selective inhibition of CO2 fixati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lara C,Romero JM,Guerrero MG

更新日期：1987-09-01 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：:The regulatory proteins OmpR and EnvZ are both required to activate expression of the genes for the major outer membrane porin proteins, OmpF and OmpC, of Escherichia coli K-12. Here we show that OmpR, under certain conditions, could activate porin expression in the complete absence of EnvZ. In addition, the pleiotrop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slauch JM,Garrett S,Jackson DE,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid composition was studied in two strains each of mid-log phase cells of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. larvae, B. popilliae, B. alvei, and B. lentimorbus. Total lipids varied from 2.5 to 3.5% of the cell dry weight of B. thuringiensis to 4.3 to 5.0% of B. popilliae. Phospholipids in the organisms examined ranged from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bulla LA,Bennett GA,Shotwell OL

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is the etiological agent of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Among the factors that may play a role in infection are S-layer proteins (SLPs). Previous work has shown these to consist mainly of two components, resulting from the cleavage of a precursor encoded by the slpA gene. The high-molecular-w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Calabi E,Fairweather N

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of time, temperature, and the presence of sodium chloride, nitrates, and nitrites in the medium on the growth and production of enterotoxin B by Staphylococcus aureus. Assays by the double gel-diffusion method showed that maximal enterotoxin B production occurs at the beginning of the statio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McLean RA,Lilly HD,Alford JA

更新日期：1968-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bfe locus codes for the cell surface receptor for vitamin B12, the E colicins, and bacteriophage BF23 in the Escherichia coli outer membrane. When the bfe+ allele, which is closely linked to the argH locus, was introduced into an argH bfe recipient by conjugation, arg+ recombinant cells rapidly and simultaneously ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bassford PJ Jr,Kadner RJ,Schnaitman CA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of proteic toxin-antitoxin (TA) cassettes whose representatives are widely distributed among bacterial genomes has been identified. These cassettes occur in chromosomes, plasmids, bacteriophages, and noncomposite transposons, as well as in the SXT conjugative element of Vibrio cholerae. The following four homo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dziewit L,Jazurek M,Drewniak L,Baj J,Bartosik D

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mannans of Saccharomyces chevalieri, S. italicus, S. diastaticus, and S. carlsbergensis, were acetolyzed, and the fragments were separated by gel filtration. All gave similar acetolysis fingerprints, which were distinguished from S. cerevisiae by the presence of a pentasaccharide component in addition to the mono-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ballou CE,Lipke PN,Raschke WC

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal bacterial meningitis continues to be an important cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Escherichia coli possessing the K1 capsular polysaccharide is the most common Gram-negative pathogen causing neonatal meningitis. Here we present the complete genome sequence of neonatal meningitis-associated E. coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lu S,Zhang X,Zhu Y,Kim KS,Yang J,Jin Q

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of oxidants and reductants must be balanced for an organism to thrive. Bacteria have evolved methods to prevent redox imbalances and to mitigate their deleterious consequences through the expression of detoxification enzymes, antioxidants, and systems to repair or degrade damaged proteins and DNA. Regula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reniere ML

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas vesicles, isolated from lysed Halobacterium halobium cells, gave an amino acid analysis which accounted for 78% of the weight, and the balance was mainly salt and water. One percent of tightly bound d-galactose was found, as well as 2% of phosphate that was not released by treatment which promotes beta-elimination...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krantz MJ,Ballou CE

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomonas wittichii RW1 degrades chlorinated dibenzofurans and dibenzo-p-dioxins via meta cleavage. We used inverse PCR to amplify dxnB2, a gene encoding one of three meta-cleavage product (MCP) hydrolases identified in the organism that are homologues of BphD involved in biphenyl catabolism. Purified DxnB2 catalyz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seah SY,Ke J,Denis G,Horsman GP,Fortin PD,Whiting CJ,Eltis LD

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biberstein, Ernst L. (University of California, Davis) and Patricia D. Spencer. Oxidative metabolism of Haemophilus species grown at different levels of hemin supplementation. J. Bacteriol. 84:916-920. 1962.-Haemophilus strains were propagated on hemin-deficient and hemin-supplemented media and tested on various subst...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： BIBERSTEIN EL,SPENCER PD

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for efficient transformation of Streptomyces ambofaciens and Streptomyces fradiae protoplasts with plasmid DNA was developed. Transformation frequencies with S. fradiae protoplasts were strongly influenced by the temperatures for cell growth, protoplast formation, and protoplast regeneration. Transformatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushima P,Baltz RH

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhodobacter capsulatus hemC mutant has been isolated and used to show that oxygen regulates the intracellular levels of porphobilinogen. Experiments using a hemB-cat gene fusion demonstrated that oxygen does not transcriptionally regulate hemB transcription. Porphobilinogen synthase activity is not regulated by oxyg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Biel AJ,Canada K,Huang D,Indest K,Sullivan K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moorella thermoacetica can grow with H₂ and CO₂, forming acetic acid from 2 CO₂ via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. All enzymes involved in this pathway have been characterized to date, except for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MetF). We report here that the M. thermoacetica gene that putatively encodes this enzyme,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mock J,Wang S,Huang H,Kahnt J,Thauer RK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus faecalis obtains metabolic energy chiefly from the conversion of glucose to lactic acid; the present experiments deal with the mechanism of lactic acid translocation across the cytoplasmic membrane. Efflux of [(14)C]lactate from preloaded cells was accelerated by raising the external pH, and also by the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harold FM,Levin E

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a region located downstream of the nifB gene, both in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 and in Rhizobium meliloti, has been determined. This region contains a gene (fdxN) whose predicted polypeptide product strongly resembles typical bacterial ferredoxins. Cyanobacteria have no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mulligan ME,Buikema WJ,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inner or cytoplasmic membrane fraction of the cell envelope of Escherichia coli was isolated by isopycnic centrifugation on sucrose gradients. The membrane proteins were analyzed by electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels (8.5%), and up to 56 bands were resolved. Different preparations gave v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Spencer ME,Guest JR

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polar pili of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are composed of subunits encoded by the pilA gene. Expression of pilA requires the alternative sigma factor RpoN and a pair of regulatory elements, PilS and PilR. These two proteins are members of the two-component regulatory family, in which PilS is the sensory component and P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boyd JM,Lory S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli were isolated by their resistance to the bacteriocidal effects of the membrane-active drugs polymyxin B, levallorphan, and tetracaine. The mutants were examined for additional changes in cellular physiology evoked by the lesions; many polymyxin-resistant strains had a concomitant increased ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dame JB,Shapiro BM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 3 fimbriae are adhesive organelles found in enterobacterial pathogens. The fimbriae promote biofilm formation on biotic and abiotic surfaces; however, the exact identity of the receptor for the type 3 fimbriae adhesin, MrkD, remains elusive. We analyzed naturally occurring structural and functional variabilities ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stahlhut SG,Chattopadhyay S,Kisiela DI,Hvidtfeldt K,Clegg S,Struve C,Sokurenko EV,Krogfelt KA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacteriophage P22-based challenge-phage system was used to study the binding of Xis and FIS to their sites in attP of bacteriophage lambda. Challenge phages were constructed that contained the X1, X2, and F sites within the P22 Pant promoter, which is required for expression of antirepressor. If Xis and FIS bind t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Numrych TE,Gumport RI,Gardner JF

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00