Constricted flux through the branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic enzyme acetolactate synthase triggers elevated expression of genes regulated by rpoS and internal acidification.

abstract：:Flac mutants have been isolated in Escherichia coli K-12 which carry dominant mutations resulting in insensitivity to transfer inhibition by the Fin(+) I-like plasmid R62. These mutants were still sensitive to transfer inhibition by the fin(+) F-like plasmid R100 and, conversely, FlactraO(-) and traP(-) mutants, which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willetts NS,Paranchych W

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which bacteria uptake solutes across the cell membrane broadly impact their cellular energetics. Here, we use functional genomic, genetic, and biophysical approaches to reveal how Clostridium (Lachnoclostridium) phytofermentans, a model bacterium that ferments lignocellulosic biomass, uptakes plant h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cerisy T,Iglesias A,Rostain W,Boutard M,Pelle C,Perret A,Salanoubat M,Fierobe HP,Tolonen AC

更新日期：2019-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomonas (formerly Pseudomonas) paucimobilis UT26 utilizes gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH), a halogenated organic insecticide, as a sole carbon and energy source. In a previous study, we showed that gamma-HCH is degraded to 2,5-dichlorohydroquinone (2,5-DCHQ) (Y. Nagata, R. Ohtomo, K. Miyauchi, M. Fukuda, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyauchi K,Suh SK,Nagata Y,Takagi M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides ovatus, a human colonic anaerobe, utilizes the galactomannan guar gum as a sole source of carbohydrate. Previously, we found that none of the galactomannan-degrading enzymes were extracellular, and we characterized an outer membrane mannanase which hydrolyzes the backbone of guar gum to produce large fragm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gherardini FC,Salyers AA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the genus Prosthecobacter express homologs of eukaryotic α- and β-tubulin, called BtubA and BtubB (BtubA/B), that have been observed to assemble into filaments in the presence of GTP. BtubA/B polymers are proposed to be composed in vitro by two to six protofilaments in contrast to that in vivo, where they ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Díaz-Celis C,Risca VI,Hurtado F,Polka JK,Hansen SD,Maturana D,Lagos R,Mullins RD,Monasterio O

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer and replacement of hundreds of kilobases of a bacterial chromosome can occur in vitro, but replacements in nature are either an order of magnitude smaller or involve the movement of mobile genetic elements. We discovered that two lineages of Staphylococcus aureus, including a pandemic methicillin-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robinson DA,Enright MC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mycobacterial growth medium 40 to 400 microM citrate was required to solubilize 2 microM 55Fe. This solubilized 55Fe was taken up into both iron-deficient and iron sufficient washed cell suspensions of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG. Although the 55Fe was taken up into the cell, the citrate was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Messenger AJ,Ratledge C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sbarra, Anthony J. (St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, Mass.), William Shirley, and John S. Baumstark. Effect of osmolarity on phagocytosis. J. Bacteriol. 85:306-313. 1963.-The effect of a number of different compounds on phagocytosis was studied. Phagocytosis was monitored by morphological and biochemical means. It was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SBARRA AJ,SHIRLEY W,BAUMSTARK JS

更新日期：1963-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of methyl-beta-D-thiogalactoside-phosphate (TMG-P) expulsion from Streptococcus pyogenes was studied. The expulsion elicited by glucose was not due to exchange vectorial transphosphorylation between the expelled TMG and the incoming glucose since more beta-galactoside was displaced than glucose taken up,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reizer J,Novotny MJ,Panos C,Saier MH Jr

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobactin 1021 is a hydroxymate siderophore produced by the soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti 2011. A regulon comprising rhtA, encoding the outer membrane receptor protein for the ferrisiderophore; the biosynthesis operon rhbABCDEF; and rhrA, the Ara-C-like regulator of the receptor and biosynthesis genes has be...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuív PO,Clarke P,Lynch D,O'Connell M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural analogs of S-adenosylhomocysteine were tested in vitro for inhibition of the yeast S-adenosylmethionine:delta 24-sterol-C-methyltransferase enzyme. A wide inhibitory range by these compounds was observed, suggesting which structural features of the parent compound are important for binding to the enzyme. No...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCammon MT,Parks LW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin pili of the closely related IncI1 plasmids ColIb-P9 and R64 are required only for liquid mating and belong to the type IV family of pili. They were sedimented by ultracentrifugation from culture medium in which Escherichia coli cells harboring ColIb-P9- or R64-derived plasmids had been grown, and then the pili we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshida T,Furuya N,Ishikura M,Isobe T,Haino-Fukushima K,Ogawa T,Komano T

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosyltransferase (GT) module of class A penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) and monofunctional GTs (MGTs) belong to the GT51 family in the sequence-based classification of GTs. They both possess five conserved motifs and use lipid II precursor (undecaprenyl-pyrophosphate-N-acetylglucosaminyl-N-acetylmuramoyl- pe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Terrak M,Nguyen-Distèche M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used cells carrying plasmids causing the overproduction of Gln3p, Ure2p, or both of these proteins to elucidate the ability of Ure2p to prevent the activation of gene expression by Gln3p in cells growing in a glutamine-containing medium. Our results indicate that Ure2p probably does not interfere with the binding o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blinder D,Coschigano PW,Magasanik B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five Spirochaeta aurantia chemotaxis mutants were isolated. One mutant (the che-101 mutant) never reversed, one (the che-200 mutant) flexed predominantly, two (the che-300 and che-400-1 mutants) exhibited elevated reversal frequencies, and one (the che-400 mutant) exhibited chemotactically unstimulated behavior simila...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fosnaugh K,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs), also called conjugative transposons, are genomic islands that excise, self-transfer by conjugation, and integrate in the genome of the recipient bacterium. The current investigation shows the intraspecies conjugative transfer of the first described ICEs in Streptococcus the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bellanger X,Roberts AP,Morel C,Choulet F,Pavlovic G,Mullany P,Decaris B,Guédon G

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement over an agar surface via swarming motility is subject to formidable challenges not encountered during swimming. Bacteria display a great deal of flexibility in coping with these challenges, which include attracting water to the surface, overcoming frictional forces, and reducing surface tension. Bacteria that...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Partridge JD,Harshey RM

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion mutants of plasmid ColE1 that involve the replication origin and adjacent regions of the plasmid have been studied to determine the mechanism by which those mutations affect the expression of plasmid incompatibility. It was observed that (i) a region of ColE1 that is involved in the expression of plasmid inco...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hashimoto-Gotoh T,Inselburg J

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major outer membrane lipoprotein (Lpp) of Escherichia coli possesses serine at position 2, which is thought to function as the outer membrane sorting signal, and lysine at the C terminus, through which Lpp covalently associates with peptidoglycan. Arginine (R) is present before the C-terminal lysine in the wild-ty...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yakushi T,Tajima T,Matsuyama S,Tokuda H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spx gene encodes an RNA polymerase-binding protein that exerts negative and positive transcriptional control in response to oxidative stress in Bacillus subtilis. It resides in the yjbC-spx operon and is transcribed from at least five promoters located in the yjbC regulatory region or in the yjbC-spx intergenic re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leelakriangsak M,Kobayashi K,Zuber P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-one methionineless and cysteineless auxotrophs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were placed into nine groups on the basis of their growth on methionine precursors and the cross-feeding response. Transduction experiments with bacteriophage F116 indicated the presence of four linkage groups among the methionineless mut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Calhoun DH,Feary TW

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligoribonuclease, an exoribonuclease specific for small oligoribonucleotides, was initially characterized 20 years ago (S. K. Niyogi and A. K. Datta, J. Biol. Chem. 250:7307-7312, 1975) and shown to be different from RNase II and polynucleotide phosphorylase. Here we demonstrate, using mutant strains and purified enz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yu D,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature and attractants on chemotaxis in psychrotrophic Pseudomonas fluorescens were examined using the Adler capillary assay technique. Several organic acids, amino acids, and uronic acids were shown to be attractants, whereas glucose and its oxidation products, gluconate and 2-ketogluconate, elici...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lynch WH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme A, as a prosthetic group, is found exclusively in respiratory oxidases of mitochondria and aerobic bacteria. Bacillus subtilis CtaA and other heme A synthases catalyze the conversion of a methyl side group on heme O into a formyl group. The catalytic mechanism of heme A synthase is not understood, and little is k...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hederstedt L,Lewin A,Throne-Holst M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutation in Escherichia coli leads to the loss of ribosomal protein L24, severely impaired growth, and a temperature-sensitive phenotype. The mutation was shown to be in rplX, the gene for protein L24, and was due to the alteration of an AAA codon to a TAA stop codon at position 61 in rplX that resulted in a 20-amin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nishi K,Dabbs ER,Schnier J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase is an enzyme which converts mevalonate diphosphate to isopentenyl diphosphate, the building block of isoprenoids. We used the Saccharomyces cerevisiae temperature-sensitive mutant defective for mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase previously described (C. Chambon, V. Ladeveve, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bergès T,Guyonnet D,Karst F

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vitamin requirements of the group Q streptococci (Streptococcus avium) and the established enterococcal species (S. faecalis and S. faecium) paralleled one another, although S. avium did not characteristically require riboflavine or pyridoxal. S. avium was further differentiated in that it required thymine for gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nowlan SS,Deibel RH

更新日期：1967-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catabolic mannopine (MOP) cyclase encoded by certain Agrobacterium Ti and Ri plasmids lactonizes MOP to agropine (AGR). The enzyme, purified to homogeneity from a recombinant clone, has a molecular mass of 45 kDa as measured by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and size exclusion chromatography...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hong SB,Farrand SK

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall constituents of Leuconostoc citrovorum 8082, L. mesenteroides 10830a, and L. mesenteroides 11449 have been ascertained. All three strains contained glycerol. Glucose and rhamnose were the major reducing sugar constituents. Alanine, glutamic acid, lysine, glucosamine, and muramic acid were the principal a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harney SJ,Simopoulos ND,Ikawa M

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new alginate regulatory gene, algQ, was identified in a chromosomal region which, when tandemly amplified, induces mucoidy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The algQ gene was found closely linked to the previously identified algR gene. Both algQ and algR were required for transcription of the key alginate biosynthetic gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Deretic V,Konyecsni WM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00