Identification and characterization of the dTDP-rhamnose biosynthesis and transfer genes of the lipopolysaccharide-related rfb locus in Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni.

abstract：:MreC and MreD, along with the actin homologue MreB, are required to maintain the shape of rod-shaped bacteria. The depletion of MreCD in rod-shaped bacteria leads to the formation of spherical cells and the accumulation of suppressor mutations. Ovococcus bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, lack MreB homologues...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Land AD,Winkler ME

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracytoplasmic function σ factors that are stress inducible are often sequestered in an inactive complex with a membrane-associated anti-σ factor. Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane-associated anti-σ factors have a small, stable RNA gene A (ssrA)-like degron for targeted proteolysis. Interaction between the unfolda...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joshi AC,Kaur P,Nair RK,Lele DS,Nandicoori VK,Gopal B

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai EG6346, a novel grain dust isolate, was analyzed by Southern blot hybridization for its insecticidal crystal protein (ICP) gene profile. Strain EG6346 lacks previously characterized cryIA ICP genes yet does possess novel cryI-related gene sequences. A recombinant genomic plasmid l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chambers JA,Jelen A,Gilbert MP,Jany CS,Johnson TB,Gawron-Burke C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli B dependence on CO2 for growth was demonstrated. At suboptimal CO2 concentrations the rate of growth was controlled by CO2 concentration. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Repaske R,Clayton MA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity iron acquisition in Bacillus subtilis is mediated via the bacillibactin catechole siderophore pathway. Three of the four essential pathway steps, bacillibactin synthesis, Fe-bacillibactin uptake, and Fe-bacillibactin hydrolysis have been characterized previously. The functional and regulatory components ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miethke M,Schmidt S,Marahiel MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex is the core machinery for the assembly of β-barrel membrane proteins, and inhibition of BAM complex activity is lethal to bacteria. Discovery of integral membrane proteins that are key to pathogenesis and yet do not require assistance from the BAM complex raises the questi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hay ID,Belousoff MJ,Dunstan RA,Bamert RS,Lithgow T

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Rohlfing, S. R. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio), and I. P. Crawford. Purification and characterization of the beta-galactosidase of Aeromonas formicans. J. Bacteriol. 91:1085-1097. 1966.-The beta-galactosidase of Aeromonas formicans was purified by diethylaminoethyl cellulose chromatography and gel filtr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rohlfing SR,Crawford IP

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus megaterium mutants JV-9 and JV-10 are temperature sensitive for initiation of spore germination. At 46 C, they did not lose heat resistance, dipicolinic acid, or absorbance, indicating that the temperature-sensitive blocks are very early in the sequence of initiation reactions. Strain JV-9 was temperature sen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary JC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the extracellular enzyme, thiaminase I, was determined for logarithmically growing cultures of Bacillus thiaminolyticus. About 60% of the enzyme is associated with the cells throughout the growth cycle. The remainder of the enzyme is in the culture medium. The release of the cell-bound thiaminase I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Agee CC,Wilkins JH,Airth RL

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loci termed rfa, determining biosynthesis of somatic lipopolysaccharide core, have been mapped in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. The smooth-specific phage P22 co-transduced two leaky rfa alleles with cysE and with pyrE; one of the leaky alleles is perhaps rfaG, and the other is an unidentified gene concerned with synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuo TT,Stocker BA

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Shigella flexneri, the polysaccharide copolymerase (PCP) protein Wzz(SF) confers a modal length of 10 to 17 repeat units (RUs) to the O-antigen (Oag) component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). PCPs form oligomeric structures believed to be related to their function. To identify functionally important regions within Wzz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Papadopoulos M,Morona R

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Isolated sheaths of Leptothrix discophora SP-6 (ATCC 51168) were tested for susceptibility to degradation by a variety of chemical denaturants and lytic enzymes and found to be resistant to many reagents and enzyme treatments. However, disulfide bond-reducing agents such as dithiothreitol (DTT), beta-mercaptoethanol, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Emerson D,Ghiorse WC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutator mutation of Salmonella typhimurium, observed in a strain resistant to P22 and rifampin, affects mutation rates of bacterial, R factor, and prophage P22 genes. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guterman SK,Wright A

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a rapid and sensitive fluorimetric method, based on the formation of a fluorescent product from nitrosation of 2,3-diaminonaphthalene, for measuring the ability of bacteria to catalyze nitrosation of amines. We have shown in Escherichia coli that nitrosation can be induced under anaerobic conditions ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ralt D,Wishnok JS,Fitts R,Tannenbaum SR

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and Escherichia coli contain the cspH gene encoding CspH, one of the cold shock proteins (CSPs). In this study, we investigated the expression of cspH in S. enterica serovar Typhimurium and found that it was induced in response to a temperature downshift during exponential ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim BH,Bang IS,Lee SY,Hong SK,Bang SH,Lee IS,Park YK

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacterial cell division is an essential and highly coordinated process. It requires the polymerization of the tubulin homologue FtsZ to form a dynamic ring (Z-ring) at midcell. Z-ring formation relies on a group of FtsZ-associated proteins (Zap) for stability throughout the process of division. In Escherichi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roach EJ,Wroblewski C,Seidel L,Berezuk AM,Brewer D,Kimber MS,Khursigara CM

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Perry, Jerome J. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh), and James B. Evans. Oxidation and assimilation of carbohydrates by Micrococcus sodonensis. J. Bacteriol. 91:33-38. 1966.-Micrococcus sodonensis is a biotin-requiring strict aerobe that cannot utilize carbohydrates as sole sources of carbon and energy. Howeve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perry JJ,Evans JB

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bile acids are surface-active steroid compounds with toxic effects for bacteria. Recently, the isolation and characterization of a bacterium, Pseudomonas sp. strain Chol1, growing with bile acids as the carbon and energy source was reported. In this study, initial reactions of the aerobic degradation pathway for the b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Birkenmaier A,Holert J,Erdbrink H,Moeller HM,Friemel A,Schoenenberger R,Suter MJ,Klebensberger J,Philipp B

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn4551, a clindamycin resistance (Ccr) transposon from the R plasmid pBI136, was cloned onto an Escherichia coli-Bacteroides shuttle vector which could replicate normally in E. coli but was maintained unstably in Bacteroides fragilis. To aid in cloning and to ensure maintenance of Tn4551 in E. coli, a kanamycin resist...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith CJ,Spiegel H

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli from anaerobic cultures displayed tactic responses to gradients of nitrate, fumarate, and oxygen when the appropriate electron transport pathway was present. Such responses were named "electron acceptor taxis" because they are elicited by terminal electron acceptors. Mutant ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor BL,Miller JB,Warrick HM,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles were characterized for their ability to specifically bind [14C]glucose 6-phosphate. Membranes prepared from a strain carrying a ColE1 uhp hybrid plasmid showed significantly enhanced glucose 6-phosphate binding. It is hypothesized that glucose 6-phosphate binding to these membranes is due to a uhpR-d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldenbaum PE,Farmer KS

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 2220-base-pair fragment containing the btuB gene of Escherichia coli was determined. There was a single open reading frame which was translated into a 614-amino-acid polypeptide, the first 20 amino acids of which comprised a typical leader sequence. The putative mature or processed form ha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heller K,Kadner RJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of auxotrophic mutants of Bacillus licheniformis, a microbe containing constitutive beta-lactamase activity, was found to be facilitated by the addition of clavulanic acid and cefotaxime during enrichment. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fields PI,Schreier HJ,Saha AL,Bernlohr RW

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentative hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus contains an NADPH-utilizing, heterotetrameric (alphabetagammadelta), cytoplasmic hydrogenase (hydrogenase I) that catalyzes both H(2) production and the reduction of elemental sulfur to H(2)S. Herein is described the purification of a second enzyme of this type, hy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma K,Weiss R,Adams MW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The papA gene of the uropathogenic strain Escherichia coli J96, coding for the Pap pili subunit, was subjected to DNA sequencing, and found to code for an 185-amino acid-long polypeptide with a 22-amino acid-long signal peptide. Here we present the primary sequence, the hydrophilicity profile, and the predicted polype...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Båga M,Normark S,Hardy J,O'Hanley P,Lark D,Olsson O,Schoolnik G,Falkow S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overlapping fdhA and fdhB genes of Methanobacterium formicicum, which encode the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of formate dehydrogenase, were cotranscribed as part of an approximately 4.5-kb transcript. An additional gene (fdhC) upstream of fdhA was cotranscribed with fdhA and fdhB. The deduced amino acid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： White WB,Ferry JG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-partitioning studies of the euryhaline bacterium Halomonas elongata demonstrated that the hydrophobic-hydrophilic nature of the cell surface changed as the bacterium grew in different NaCl concentrations. Mid-log-phase cells grown in a high (3.4 M) NaCl concentration were more hydrophilic than were cells grown i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hart DJ,Vreeland RH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new insertion sequence (IS element), IS1411, was identified downstream of the phenol degradation genes pheBA that originated from plasmid DNA of Pseudomonas sp. strain EST1001. According to sequence analysis, IS1411 belongs to a new family of IS elements that has recently been named the ISL3 family (J. Mahillon and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kallastu A,Hõrak R,Kivisaar M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the carboxy terminus of the Escherichia coli cell division protein FtsA in bacterial division has been studied by making a series of short sequential deletions spanning from residue 394 to 420. Deletions as short as 5 residues destroy the biological function of the protein. Residue W415 is essential for th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yim L,Vandenbussche G,Mingorance J,Rueda S,Casanova M,Ruysschaert JM,Vicente M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00