A Bacillus subtilis gene encoding a protein similar to nucleotide sugar transferases influences cell shape and viability.

abstract：:Isoaspartyl sites, in which an aspartic acid residue is linked to its C-flanking neighbor via its beta-carboxyl side chain, are generally assumed to be an abnormal modification arising as proteins age. The enzyme protein L-isoaspartate methyltransferase (PIMT), present in many bacteria, plants, and animals, catalyzes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： David CL,Keener J,Aswad DW

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidithiobacillus caldus is an extremely acidophilic, moderately thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic gammaproteobacterium that derives energy from the oxidation of sulfur and reduced inorganic sulfur compounds. Here we present the draft genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 (the type strain of the spe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valdes J,Quatrini R,Hallberg K,Dopson M,Valenzuela PD,Holmes DS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motility of bacteria like Salmonella enterica is a highly regulated process that responds to a variety of internal and external stimuli. A hierarchy of three promoter classes characterizes the Salmonella flagellar system, and the onset of flagellar gene expression depends on the oligomeric regulatory complex and class...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singer HM,Erhardt M,Hughes KT

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some lines of the widely used strain CR34 of Escherichia coli K-12 carry a plasmid. The plasmid has a mass of 12 +/- 2 X 10(6) megadaltons and is maintained at a low copy number per cell (1 to 2), and this number is not amplified by growth of cells in the presence of chloramphenicol. The plasmid is designated as pCU3....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang PY,Relf J,Palchaudhuri S,Iyer VN

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria within the Mycobacterium avium complex are prominent in the environment and are a source of serious disseminated infections in patients with AIDS. Serovars of the M. avium complex are distinguished from all other mycobacteria and from one another by the presence of highly antigenic glycolipids, the glycopepti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belisle JT,Pascopella L,Inamine JM,Brennan PJ,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-stranded DNA bacteriophage PRD1 uses an IncP plasmid-encoded conjugal transfer complex as a receptor. Plasmid functions in the PRD1 life cycle are restricted to phage adsorption and DNA entry. A single phage structural protein, P2, located at the fivefold capsid vertices, is responsible for PRD1 attachment ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grahn AM,Caldentey J,Bamford JK,Bamford DH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemophilus influenzae Rd rec-1+ gene was cloned from a partial chromosomal digest into a plasmid vector as a 20-kilobase-pair (kbp) BstEII fragment and then subcloned. The smallest subclone with rec-1+ activity carried a 3.1-kbp EcoRI fragment. The identity of the rec-I gene in these clones was confirmed by trans...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stuy JH

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid Rms312, specifying resistance to tetracycline (Tc), chloramphenicol (Cm), streptomycin (Sm), sulfonamide (Su), and mercury chloride (Mer), deletes both Tc and Cm Sm Su Mer determinants at a high frequency in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. S. typhimurium mutants that were stable carriers of Rms312 were isolated by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watanabe H,Hashimoto H,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the outer membrane phosphate-selective porin protein P from Pseudomonas aeruginosa was cloned into Escherichia coli. The protein product was expressed and transported to the outer membrane of an E. coli phoE mutant and assembled into functional trimers. Expression of a product of the correct molecula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siehnel RJ,Worobec EA,Hancock RE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome sequence of the enteric bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168 (11168-GS) was published in 2000, providing a valuable resource for the identification of C. jejuni-specific colonization and virulence factors. Surprisingly, the 11168-GS clone was subsequently found to colonize 1-day-old chicks fol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaynor EC,Cawthraw S,Manning G,MacKichan JK,Falkow S,Newell DG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNAs of strains of three cyanobacterial genera (Anabaena, Plectonema, and Synechococcus) were found to be partially or fully resistant to many restriction endonucleases. This could be due to the absence of specific sequences or to modifications, rendering given sequences resistant to cleavage. The latter explanati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Padhy RN,Hottat FG,Coene MM,Hoet PP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectin activity in a host-mycoparasite relationship was demonstrated with Rhizoctonia solani and Trichoderma harzianum. Attachment of O but not A and B erythrocytes to hyphae occurred on R. solani but not on its mycoparasite. This phenomenon, which was Ca2+ and Mn2+ dependent, was prevented by galactose, present in T....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Elad Y,Barak R,Chet I

更新日期：1983-06-01 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：:Gene sequences encoding the enzymes UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (MurA) from many bacterial sources were analyzed. It was shown that whereas gram-negative bacteria have only one murA gene, gram-positive bacteria have two distinct genes encoding these enzymes which have possibly arisen from gene dupl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Du W,Brown JR,Sylvester DR,Huang J,Chalker AF,So CY,Holmes DJ,Payne DJ,Wallis NG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of the presence of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) in dormant spores of Bacillus subtilis has been obtained. The bulk RNA from spores was isolated and labeled in vitro with tritiated dimethyl sulfate. The spore RNA hybridized to 2.4 to 3.2% of the B. subtilis genome. The RNA hybridized to both the complemen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jeng YH,Doi RH

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in finding small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria has significantly increased in recent years due to their regulatory functions. Development of high-throughput methods and more sophisticated computational algorithms has allowed rapid identification of sRNA candidates in different species. However, given their various...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsai CH,Liao R,Chou B,Palumbo M,Contreras LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 master regulator for entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is the response regulator Spo0A, which directly governs the expression of about 121 genes. Using cells in which the synthesis of Spo0A was under the control of an inducible promoter or in which production of the regulatory protein was impaired by a p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujita M,González-Pastor JE,Losick R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the 4-amino-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) moiety of thiamine is synthesized from 5-aminoimidazole ribotide (AIR), a branch point metabolite of purine and thiamine biosynthesis. ThiC is a member of the radical S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) superfamily and catalyzes the complex chemical rearrangeme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer LD,Dougherty MJ,Downs DM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four mutants were isolated from the LT-2 wild-type strain of Salmonella typhimurium by selecting for chromate resistance. The majority of lesions were shown to lie in the cysA gene. (i) The mutants cannot take up sulfate, a finding which verifies the role of cysA in sulfate transport. In addition, 52 sulfate-tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ota N,Galsworthy PR,Pardee AB

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain 536 carries at least five genetic elements on its chromosome that meet all criteria characteristic of pathogenicity islands (PAIs). One main feature of these distinct DNA regions is their instability. We applied the so-called island-probing approach and individually labeled al...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Middendorf B,Hochhut B,Leipold K,Dobrindt U,Blum-Oehler G,Hacker J

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OxyR is a DNA binding protein that differentially regulates a cell's response to hydrogen peroxide-mediated oxidative stress. We previously reported that the reduced form of OxyR is sufficient for repression of transcription of agn43 from unmethylated template DNA, which is essential for deoxyadenosine methylase (Dam)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wallecha A,Correnti J,Munster V,van der Woude M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 produces two [NiFe] hydrogenases which catalyze the oxidation of hydrogen and enable the organism to utilize H2 as the sole energy source. The genes (hoxK and hoxG) for the heterodimeric, membrane-bound hydrogenase (MBH) are located adjacent to a series of eight accessory genes (hoxZ, hoxM, h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernhard M,Schwartz E,Rietdorf J,Friedrich B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gartner, T. K. (University of California, Santa Barbara), and E. Orias. Effects of mutations to streptomycin resistance on the rate of translation of mutant genetic information. J. Bacteriol. 91:1021-1028. 1966.-The effects of mutations to streptomycin resistance of independent origin upon the translation of suppressi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gartner TK,Orias E

更新日期：1966-03-01 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：:The pbpB gene product penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) of Escherichia coli is one of the major targets of beta-lactam antibiotics. At the permissive temperature, the temperature-sensitive pbpBr1 mutant, which was obtained after selection for increased resistance to cephalexin, shows a dramatic change in shape which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taschner PE,Ypenburg N,Spratt BG,Woldringh CL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray-based analysis of the transcriptional profiles of the genetically distinct Staphylococcus aureus strains COL, GP268, and Newman indicate that a total of 251 open reading frames (ORFs) are influenced by sigmaB activity. While sigmaB was found to positively control 198 genes by a factor of > or =2 in at least...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bischoff M,Dunman P,Kormanec J,Macapagal D,Murphy E,Mounts W,Berger-Bächi B,Projan S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the enzymatic reactions catalyzing the degradation of substituted phenols, a major group of environmental pollutants, is required for the development of biological methods for the decontamination of halophenol-polluted sites. We found that a flavomonooxygenase, pentachlorophenol hydroxylase, isolat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xun L,Topp E,Orser CS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocin 41 (Bac41) is produced from clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and consists of two extracellular proteins, BacL1 and BacA. We previously reported that BacL1 protein (595 amino acids, 64.5 kDa) is a bacteriolytic peptidoglycan D-isoglutamyl-L-lysine endopeptidase that induces cell lysis of E. faecal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kurushima J,Nakane D,Nishizaka T,Tomita H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma penetrans is a newly identified species of the genus MYCOPLASMA: It was first isolated from a urine sample from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patient. M. penetrans changes its surface antigen profile with high frequency. The changes originate from ON<==>OFF phase variations of the P35 family...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Horino A,Sasaki Y,Sasaki T,Kenri T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00