Biosynthesis of riboflavin in Bacillus subtilis: function and genetic control of the riboflavin synthase complex.

abstract：:The UspA1 and UspA2 proteins of Moraxella catarrhalis are structurally related, are exposed on the bacterial cell surface, and migrate as very high-molecular-weight complexes in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Previous analysis of uspA1 and uspA2 mutants of M. catarrhalis strain 035E indicat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lafontaine ER,Cope LD,Aebi C,Latimer JL,McCracken GH Jr,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylglycerol, the most abundant acidic phospholipid in Escherichia coli, is considered to play specific roles in various cellular processes that are essential for cell viability. A null mutation of pgsA, which encodes phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase, does indeed confer lethality. However, pgsA null mutan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suzuki M,Hara H,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CatR, a LysR family protein, positively regulates the Pseudomonas putida catBC operon, which is required for growth on benzoate as a sole carbon source. Transcriptional studies show that the catR and catBC promoters are divergent and overlapping by 2 bp. A beta-galactosidase promoter probe vector was constructed to an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rothmel RK,Shinabarger DL,Parsek MR,Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl carrier protein (ACP coli) was isolated from commercially grown Escherichia coli B and was acetylated by chemical methods. Biological activity of the synthesized acetyl-ACP coli was checked in an in vitro fatty acid-synthesizing system isolated from E. coli B. Since acetyl-ACP is preferred over acetyl-coenzyme A ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marcus SL,Reeves HC,Ajl SJ

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium LT2 excreted under certain conditions an antibiotic substance designated typhimuricin. It is suggested that the LT2 "cryptic" plasmid is involved in its production and in the immunity to it. Preliminary characterization of typhimuricin is presented. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ben-Gurion R,Flashner Y

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in osmolarity are one of the most prevalent stresses to which bacteria must adapt, both hypo- and hyperosmotic conditions. Most bacteria cope with high osmolarity by accumulating compatible solutes (osmolytes) in the cytoplasm to maintain the turgor pressure of the cell. Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a halophi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory GJ,Dutta A,Parashar V,Boyd EF

更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugation system of the IncP alpha plasmid RK2/RP4 is encoded by transfer regions designated Tra1, Tra2, and Tra3. The Tra1 core region, cloned on plasmid pDG4 delta 22, consists of the origin of transfer (oriT) and 2.6 kilobases of flanking DNA providing IncP alpha plasmid-specific functions that allow pDG4 del...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guiney DG,Deiss C,Simnad V,Yee L,Pansegrau W,Lanka E

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component system SaeRS of Staphylococcus aureus is closely involved in the regulation of major virulence factors. However, little is known about the signals leading to saeRS activation. A total of four overlapping transcripts (T1 to T4) from three different transcription starting points are expressed in the sa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geiger T,Goerke C,Mainiero M,Kraus D,Wolz C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus undergoes an asymmetric cell division resulting in the formation of two different daughter cells, a motile swarmer cell and a nonmotile stalked cell. These two cell types differ in their program of gene expression, their ability to replicate DNA, and the physical properties of thei...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rizzo MF,Shapiro L,Gober J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens strain KU-7 is a prototype microorganism that metabolizes 2-nitrobenzoate (2-NBA) via the formation of 3-hydroxyanthranilate (3-HAA), a known antioxidant and reductant. The initial two steps leading to the sequential formation of 2-hydroxy/aminobenzoate and 3-HAA are catalyzed by a NADPH-depend...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwaki H,Muraki T,Ishihara S,Hasegawa Y,Rankin KN,Sulea T,Boyd J,Lau PC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of Spirillum volutans is caused by the rotation of each polar flagellar fascicle in a direction opposite to that of the more slowly rotating cell. Both flagella form cones of revolution oriented in the same direction. When the cell reverses its motion, both fascicles simultaneously reverse their rotation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krieg NR,Tomelty JP,Wells JS Jr

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collins ML,Niederman RA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme phosphatidylglycerolphosphate synthase (PGPS; CDP-diacylglycerol glycerol 3-phosphate 3-phosphatidyltransferase; EC 2.7.8.5) catalyzes the committed step in the cardiolipin biosynthetic pathway. To study the regulation of PGPS in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, we characterized the enzyme biochemically. Maximum ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Karkhoff-Schweizer RR,Kelly BL,Greenberg ML

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed study of the cultural characteristics and cellular fatty acid composition of 27 isolates of Corynebacterium acnes was performed to establish the properties by which this organism may be identified and characterized. The fatty acids were extracted directly from whole cells and examined as methyl esters by ga...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moss CW,Dowell VR Jr,Lewis VJ,Schekter MA

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age-dependent lectin-binding ability of Rhizobium trifolii 0403 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) was examined by following the development of the capsule and its ability to interact with the white clover lectin trifoliin A. Bacteria grown on agar plates for 3, 5, 7, 14, and 21 days were examined by electron microscop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sherwood JE,Vasse JM,Dazzo FB,Truchet GL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus was shown to transport iron complexed to a variety of hydroxamate type siderophores, including ferrichrome, aerobactin, and desferrioxamine. An S. aureus mutant defective in the ability to transport ferric hydroxamate complexes was isolated from a Tn917-LTV1 transposon insertion library after sel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sebulsky MT,Hohnstein D,Hunter MD,Heinrichs DE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Lactobacillus casei subsp. rhamnosus possessing two cell wall polysaccharides, a hexosamine-containing H-polysaccharide and a rhamnose-containing R-polysaccharide, were examined for the effect of growth conditions on the production of these two components. In strain NCTC 6375, R- and H-polysaccharides accou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wicken AJ,Ayres A,Campbell LK,Knox KW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy source shift-down described in the preceding paper (Molin et al., J. Bacteriol. 131: 7-17, 1977) was used to study the effects of shift-down on protein synthesis. The overall rate of protein synthesis was reduced immediately, and to the same extent, in stringent and relaxed strains. The primary effect of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnsen K,Molin S,Karlström O,Maaloe O

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis has been used to generate 38 alanine-substitution mutations in the C-terminal 41 amino acid residues of LuxR. This region plays a critical role in the mechanism of LuxR-dependent transcriptional activation of the Vibrio fischeri lux operon during quorum sensing. The ability of the v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Trott AE,Stevens AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catB and catC genes encode cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme I (EC 5.5.1.1) and muconolactone isomerase (EC 5.3.3.4), respectively. These enzymes are required for the dissimilation of benzoate to beta-ketoadipate by Pseudomonas putida and are under coordinate transcriptional regulation. By deletion analysis and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that is deficient in pyruvate kinase activity has been isolated. The mutant strain is capable of growth when supplied with lactate as the carbon source but not capable of growth when supplied with dextrose or other fermentable sugars or glycerol as the carbon source. Gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sprague GF Jr

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An NADPH-specific disulfide reductase that is active with bis-gamma-glutamylcystine has been purified 1,900-fold from Halobacterium halobium to yield a homogeneous preparation of the enzyme. Purification of this novel reductase, designated bis-gamma-glutamylcystine reductase (GCR), and purification of halobacterial di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sundquist AR,Fahey RC

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have evolved numerous means of survival in adverse environments with dormancy, as represented by "persistence" and the "viable but nonculturable" (VBNC) state, now recognized to be common modes for such survival. VBNC cells have been defined as cells which, induced by some stress, become nonculturable on medi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ayrapetyan M,Williams T,Oliver JD

更新日期：2018-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase (EC 2.7.1.37) activity was found in the nuclear cap organelle, within which ribosomes of zoospores of Blastocladiella emersonii are sequestered. Two protein kinase activities were resolved from the high-salt wash fraction of zoospore ribosomes by selective adsorption to DEA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bonato MC,da Costa Maia JC,Juliani MH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cook, Thomas M. (Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, N.Y.), William H. Deitz, and William A. Goss. Mechanism of action of nalidixic acid on Escherichia coli. IV. Effects on the stability of cellular constituents. J. Bacteriol. 91:774-779. 1996.-Treatment of Escherichia coli 15TAU with nalidixic acid resu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cook TM,Deitz WH,Goss WA

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol auxotroph FY3 (alpha hem1 erg7 ura) by delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is dependent on the ability of the organism to synthesize heme from ALA. Sterol-depleted cells not exposed to ALA or strain PFY3 cells, with a double heme mutation, exposed to ALA did n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of information available in the literature, gluconate dissimilation in Escherichia coli is thought to occur via the hexose monophosphate pathway. Evidence is presented in this study that gluconate is catabolized in this organism via an inducible Entner-Doudoroff pathway. This evidence is based on chromato...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eisenberg RC,Dobrogosz WJ

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a new type of K+ transporter, Ktr, has been identified in the bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus (T. Nakamura, R. Yuda, T. Unemoto, and E. P. Bakker, J. Bacteriol. 180:3491-3494, 1998). The Ktr transport system consists of KtrB, an integral membrane subunit, and KtrA, a subunit peripherally bound to the cytoplas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holtmann G,Bakker EP,Uozumi N,Bremer E

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bap (biofilm-associated protein) is a 254-kDa staphylococcal surface protein implicated in formation of biofilms by staphylococci isolated from chronic mastitis infections. The presence of potential EF-hand motifs in the amino acid sequence of Bap prompted us to investigate the effect of calcium on the multicellular b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arrizubieta MJ,Toledo-Arana A,Amorena B,Penadés JR,Lasa I

更新日期：2004-11-01 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