Purification and cloning of a thermostable xylose (glucose) isomerase with an acidic pH optimum from Thermoanaerobacterium strain JW/SL-YS 489.

abstract：:We describe the identification and characterization of two genes and their gene products responsible for determining receptor binding and pilus length in type 1-piliated Escherichia coli. One gene, pilE, conferred the ability of piliated cells to agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes. The other gene, pilF, determined pi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurer L,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When soluble extracts of the extreme acidothermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus were incubated with [gamma-(32)P]ATP, several proteins were radiolabeled. One of the more prominent of these, which migrated with a mass of approximately 46 kDa on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Potters MB,Solow BT,Bischoff KM,Graham DE,Lower BH,Helm R,Kennelly PJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Acinetobacter calcoaceticus the seven genes coding for the enzymes responsible for tryptophan synthesis map at three chromosomal locations. Two three-gene clusters, one (trpGDC) specifying the small subunit of anthranilate synthase, phosphoribosyl transferase, and indoleglycerol phosphate synthase and the other (tr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cohn W,Crawford IP

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila expresses two peroxide-scavenging alkyl hydroperoxide reductase systems (AhpC1 and AhpC2D) that are expressed differentially during the bacterial growth cycle. Functional loss of the postexponentially expressed AhpC1 system is compensated for by increased expression of the exponentially expresse...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeBlanc JJ,Brassinga AK,Ewann F,Davidson RJ,Hoffman PS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus involves the aggregation of cells to form mounds and the differentiation of rod-shaped cells into spherical myxospores. The surface of the myxospore is composed of several sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-soluble proteins, the best characterized of which is protein S (Mr, 19,0...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCleary WR,Esmon B,Zusman DR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) are crucial to all living cells, since they provide deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs) for DNA synthesis and repair. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a class Ib RNR comprising nrdE- and nrdF2-encoded subunits is essential for growth in vitro. Interestingly, the genome of this obligate human pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mowa MB,Warner DF,Kaplan G,Kana BD,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium leiognathi ATCC 25521 (the type strain and light-organ symbiont of ponyfish) is one of the few bacteria that produces a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, termed bacteriocuprein. We enzymologically and immunologically characterized the bacteriocuprein superoxide dismutases in sonicates from the type stra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap PV,Steinman HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains mutant in the starvation gene cstC grow normally in a mineral salts medium but are impaired in utilizing amino acids as nitrogen sources. They are also compromised in starvation survival, where amino acid catabolism is important. The cstC gene encodes a 406-amino-acid protein that closely rese...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fraley CD,Kim JH,McCann MP,Matin A

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manganese-containing superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) of Vibrio vulnificus, normally detected after the onset of the stationary phase, is expressed during the lag that immediately follows the transfer of cells grown exponentially to a fresh medium acidified to pH 5.0, whereas Fe-containing SOD is constitutively expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim JS,Sung MH,Kho DH,Lee JK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ermC specifies an rRNA methyltransferase that confers resistance to erythromycin. The expression of this determinant is induced by the addition of erythromycin. The induction mechanism has been shown to operate posttranscriptionally, and its mechanism has been elucidated. We now show that synthesis of the ermC gene pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Denoya CD,Bechhofer DH,Dubnau D

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secondary metabolite hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens from glycine, essentially under microaerophilic conditions. The genetic basis of HCN synthesis in P. fluorescens CHA0 was investigated. The contiguous structural genes hcnABC encoding HCN synthase were expressed from the T7 promoter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Laville J,Blumer C,Von Schroetter C,Gaia V,Défago G,Keel C,Haas D

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pizer, Lewis I. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia). Glycine synthesis and metabolism in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 89:1145-1150. 1965.-A correlation was demonstrated between a nutritional requirement that can only be satisfied by glycine and the absence of the enzymatic capacity to interconvert l-serine a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： PIZER LI

更新日期：1965-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly toxic oxyanion tellurite (TeO3(2-)) is a well known pro-oxidant in mammalian and bacterial cells. This work examines the effects of tellurite on the redox state of the electron transport chain of the facultative phototroph Rhodobacter capsulatus, in relation to the role of the thiol:disulfide oxidoreductase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Borsetti F,Francia F,Turner RJ,Zannoni D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered an unusual and complex regulatory network used by the phytopathogen Pseudomonas solanacearum to control transcription of eps, which encodes for production of its primary virulence factor, the exopolysaccharide EPS I. The major modules of this network were shown to be three separate signal transducti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang J,Carney BF,Denny TP,Weissinger AK,Schell MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis gene ypfP, which is located at 196 degrees on the genetic map, shows similarity to both the monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase gene of Cucumis sativus, which encodes a galactosyltransferase, and the murG genes of B. subtilis, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Synechocystis sp. strain P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price KD,Roels S,Losick R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two key elements that are thought to be required for replication initiation in eubacteria are the DnaA protein, a trans-acting factor, and the replication origin, a cis-acting element. As a first step in studying the replication initiation process in mycobacteria, we have isolated a 4-kb chromosomal DNA fragment from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rajagopalan M,Qin MH,Nash DR,Madiraju MV

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoribonuclease RNase E appears to control the rate-limiting step that mediates the degradation of many mRNA species in bacteria. In this work, an RNase E-like activity in Archaea is described. An endoribonucleolytic activity from the extreme halophile Haloarcula marismortui showed the same RNA substrate specificity ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Franzetti B,Sohlberg B,Zaccai G,von Gabain A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus, an important opportunistic pathogen which commonly affects neutropenic patients, produces conidia with a bluish-green color. We identified a gene, alb1, which is required for conidial pigmentation. The alb1 gene encodes a putative polyketide synthase, and disruption of alb1 resulted in an albino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsai HF,Chang YC,Washburn RG,Wheeler MH,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira spp. are thin, highly motile, slow-growing spirochetes that can be distinguished from other bacteria on the basis of their unique helical shape. Defining the mechanisms by which these bacteria generate and maintain this atypical morphology should greatly enhance our understanding of the fundamental physiolo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slamti L,de Pedro MA,Guichet E,Picardeau M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proline-requiring mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were isolated. Each mutation is recessive and is inherited as expected for a single nuclear gene. Three complementation groups cold be defined which are believed to correspond to mutations in the three genes (pro1, pro2, and pro3) coding for the three enzymes of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brandriss MC

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli lactose permease mediates the proton-driven translocation of galactosides across the cytoplasmic membrane. To define regions important for membrane insertion as well as for biological function, we constructed plasmids encoding different portions of the lactose carrier. Among several lacY deletions, tw...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wrubel W,Stochaj U,Sonnewald U,Theres C,Ehring R

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopseudomonas capsulata required potassium (or rubidium or cesium as analogs of potassium) for growth. These cations were actively accumulated by the cells by a process following Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics. The monovalent cation transport system had Km's of 0.2 mM K+, 0.5 mM Rb+, and 2.6 mM Cs+. The rates...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jasper P

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reduction of bisulfite by Desulfovibrio vulgaris was investigated. Crude extracts reduced bisulfite to sulfide without the formation (detection) of any intermediates such as trithionate or thiosulfate. When the particulate fractions was removed from crude extracts by high-speed centrifugation, the soluble supernat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Drake HL,Akagi JM

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direction of chromosome replication in a temperature-sensitive initiation mutant of Escherichia coli (CT28) is shown autoradiographically to be bidirectional. This mode of replication persists even when the rate of replication is reduced by slow growth in succinate minimal medium or in the presence of chlorampheni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rodriguez RL,Davern CI

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hall, Herbert E. (Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio), Robert Angelotti, Keith H. Lewis, and Milton J. Foter. Characteristics of Clostridium perfringens strains associated with food and food-borne disease. J. Bacteriol. 85:1094-1103. 1963.-A total of 83 strains of Clostridium perfringens-30 f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HALL HE,ANGELOTTI R,LEWIS KH,FOTER MJ

更新日期：1963-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural properties required for the binding of peptide substrates to the Escherichia coli periplasmic protein involved in oligopeptide transport were surveyed by measuring the ability of different peptides to compete for binding in an equilibrium dialysis assay with the tripeptide Ala-Phe-[3H]Gly. The protein s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guyer CA,Morgan DG,Staros JV

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shafia, Fred (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), and T. L. Thompson. Isolation and preliminary characterization of bacteriophage phimu-4. J. Bacteriol. 87:999-1002. 1964.-Bacteriophage phimu-4 was isolated from lysogenic Bacillus stearothermophilus NU strain 4, and was propagated in strain 10 of the same species. The p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shafia F,Thompson TL

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased intracellular levels of FtsH, a membrane-bound ATPase, led to retardation of growth and protein export, as well as to an abnormal translocation of alkaline phosphatase that had been attached to a cytoplasmic domain of a multispanning membrane protein, SecY. The last phenotype is designated Std (stop transfer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shirai Y,Akiyama Y,Ito K

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During meiosis and sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the recessive genetic marker for cycloheximide resistance, believed to be due to an altered ribosomal protein (C. S. McLaughlin, p. 815-827, in M. Nomura et al., ed., Ribosomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), is expressed as early a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Emanuel JR,Magee PT

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Eikenella corrodens synthesizes type IV pili and exhibits a phase variation involving the irreversible transition from piliated to nonpiliated variants. On solid medium, piliated variants form small (S-phase), corroding colonies whereas nonpiliated variants form large (L-phase), noncorroding colonie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Villar MT,Helber JT,Hood B,Schaefer MR,Hirschberg RL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00