The lantibiotic nisin induces transmembrane movement of a fluorescent phospholipid.

abstract：:The sog gene of the IncI alpha group plasmid ColIb is known to encode a DNA primase that can substitute for defective host primase in dnaG mutants of Escherichia coli during discontinuous DNA replication. The biological significance of this enzyme was investigated by using sog mutants, constructed from a derivative of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chatfield LK,Orr E,Boulnois GJ,Wilkins BM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus guaymasensis was purified to homogeneity and was found to be a homotetramer with a subunit size of 40 ± 1 kDa. The gene encoding the enzyme was cloned and sequenced; this gene had 1,095 bp, corresponding to 365 amino acids, and showed high seq...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ying X,Ma K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation (phosphorylation) of the transcription factor encoded by spo0A is essential for the initiation of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. At least three histidine protein kinases are involved in the phosphorylation of Spo0A. Under some growth conditions, KinA was the primary kinase, but under other conditions, Ki...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeDeaux JR,Yu N,Grossman AD

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species of marine bacteria belonging to the genus Beneckea and strains of Photobacterium fischeri were negatively stained and examined by means of the electron microscope to determine the structure and arrangement of their flagella. All of the species of the genus Beneckea had single, polar, sheathed flagella when gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allen RD,Baumann P

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized three distinct families of repeated sequences in the genome of the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. These repeated sequences were present at a level of about 100 copies per Calothrix genome and consisted of tandemly amplified heptanucleotides. These elements were named short tandemly repe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazel D,Houmard J,Castets AM,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the thaxtomin cyclic dipeptide phytotoxins proceeds nonribosomally via the thiotemplate mechanism. Acyladenylation, thioesterification, N-methylation, and cyclization of two amino acid substrates are catalyzed by the txtAB-encoded thaxtomin synthetase. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the region 3' ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Healy FG,Krasnoff SB,Wach M,Gibson DM,Loria R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome comparisons have demonstrated that dramatic genetic change often underlies the emergence of new bacterial pathogens. Evolutionary analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7, a pathogen that has emerged as a worldwide public health threat in the past two decades, has posited that this toxin-producing pathogen evolved ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wick LM,Qi W,Lacher DW,Whittam TS

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have utilized transposon mutagenesis to obtain insertional mutations in Providencia stuartii that activate the chromosomal aac(2')-la gene. Two closely linked mini-Tn5Cm insertions were obtained in a locus designated aarA, and a single insertion was obtained in a separate locus, aarC. Nucleotide sequence analysis, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rather PN,Orosz E

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of proton movements was assessed in the moderate halophile Vibrio costicola. When anaerobic cells in acidic buffer (pH 6.5) were given an O2 pulse, protons were extruded regardless of the presence of Na+. At pH 8.5, however, V. costicola produced an acidic response to an O2 pulse in the absence of Na+ a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hamaide F,Kushner DJ,Sprott GD

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Welker, N. E. (University of Illinois, Urbana), and L. Leon Campbell. Biochemical changes in lysogenic Bacillus stearothermophilus after bacteriophage induction. J. Bacteriol. 90:1129-1137. 1965.-Cultures of Bacillus stearothermophilus 1503-4R (TP-1) continued to grow at an unaltered rate after induction with mitomyci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Welker NE,Campbell LL

更新日期：1965-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection for chlorate resistance yields mol (formerly chl) mutants with defects in molybdenum cofactor synthesis. Complementation and genetic mapping analyses indicated that the Klebsiella pneumoniae mol genes are functionally homologous to those of Escherichia coli and occupy analogous genetic map positions. Hypoxan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garzón A,Li J,Flores A,Casadesus J,Stewart V

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two 23S rRNA-5S rRNA-tRNAGly operons from the extreme thermophilic eubacterium Thermus thermophilus HB8 were used to characterized the in vivo processing and termination of 23S rRNA-5S rRNA-tRNAGly primary transcripts in this organism by nuclease S1 mapping. A processing site in the pre-23S rRNA 3'-flanking region...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hartmann RK,Toschka HY,Erdmann VA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nifA-like genes, designated anfA and vnfA, have been identified in Azotobacter vinelandii. The anfA gene is located upstream from the nitrogenase-3 structural gene cluster (anfHDGK) and is preceded by a sequence that is potentially part of a ntrA-dependent promoter. The product of anfA appears to be required for e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joerger RD,Jacobson MR,Bishop PE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 169 strains, including 91 obtained from cases of gastroenteritis and 41 from localized tissue infections and infections of the eye and ear, was submitted to an extensive nutritional, physiological, and morphological characterization. The nutritional and physiological data obtained from these strains, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baumann P,Baumann L,Reichelt JL

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pakula, Roman (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Factors regulating competence in transformation of streptococci. J. Bacteriol. 90:1320-1324. 1965.-The highly transformable group H Streptococcus strain Challis produced an exocellular competence-provoking enzyme capable of converting to the state of com...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pakula R

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermococcus sp. strain 4557 is a hyperthermophilic anaerobic archaeon isolated from the deep-sea hydrothermal vent Guaymas Basin site in the Gulf of California at a depth of 2,000 m. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of Thermococcus sp. 4557, which consists of a single circular chromosome of 2,011,320 bp ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang X,Gao Z,Xu X,Ruan L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemotaxis signal transduction pathway (hereafter called Che1) has been previously identified in the alphaproteobacterium Azospirillum brasilense. Previous experiments have demonstrated that although mutants lacking CheB and/or CheR homologs from this pathway are defective in chemotaxis, a mutant in which the entire...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bible AN,Stephens BB,Ortega DR,Xie Z,Alexandre G

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Escherichia coli cells expressing the tpm gene encoding the bacterial thiopurine methyltransferase (bTPMT) are shown to methylate selenite and (methyl)selenocysteine into dimethylselenide (DMSe) and dimethyldiselenide (DMDSe). E. coli cells expressing tpm from a gene library cosmid clone (harboring a Pseudomonas syrin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranjard L,Prigent-Combaret C,Nazaret S,Cournoyer B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Those genes in Escherichia coli defined by mutations which result in an inability to grow at high temperatures are designated htr, indicating a high temperature requirement. A new htr mutant of E. coli was isolated and characterized and is designated htrD. The htrD gene has been mapped to 19.3 min on the E. coli chrom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Delaney JM,Ang D,Georgopoulos C

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis strains isolated from dairy products are auxotrophs for branched-chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, and valine), while most strains isolated from nondairy media are prototrophs. We have cloned and sequenced the leu genes from one auxotroph, IL1403. The sequence is 99% homologo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Godon JJ,Delorme C,Bardowski J,Chopin MC,Ehrlich SD,Renault P

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From citrate-utilizing (Cit+) Escherichia coli strain C53 of bovine origin, strains C53A and C53B were obtained. Upon mating with recA+ but not with recA mutant recipients of K-12, C53A produced chromosomal recombinants at quite high frequencies, leading to the following conclusions: (i) C53A is an Hfr strain; (ii) th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishiguro N,Oka C,Asagi M,Sato G,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus faecalis obtains metabolic energy chiefly from the conversion of glucose to lactic acid; the present experiments deal with the mechanism of lactic acid translocation across the cytoplasmic membrane. Efflux of [(14)C]lactate from preloaded cells was accelerated by raising the external pH, and also by the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harold FM,Levin E

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

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：:In the nitrogenase system of Klebsiella pneumoniae, nifT is located between nifDK, the structural genes for dinitrogenase, and nifY, whose product is involved in nitrogenase maturation. It is, therefore, a reasonable hypothesis that the NifT protein might also have a role in the maturation of nitrogenase. However, the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simon HM,Homer MJ,Roberts GP

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that the accumulation of K+ by Streptococcus faecalis is mediated by a transport system which required both ATP and the proton motive force (Bakker and Harold, J. Biol. Chem. 255:433-440, 1980). My results indicate that S. faecalis has a second transport system for K+. The features of this system ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kobayashi H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli promoter p(BAD), under the control of the AraC protein, drives the expression of mRNA encoding the AraB, AraA, and AraD gene products of the arabinose operon. The binding site of AraC at p(BAD) overlaps the RNA polymerase -35 recognition region by 4 bases, leaving 2 bases of the region not contact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dhiman A,Schleif R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis. Mutants defective in chemotaxis were selected, and the mutation was characterized by DNA sequencing. Two classes of mutations were found: nonsense and missense. The nonsense mutations were distr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mutoh N,Oosawa K,Simon MI

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whiteley, H. R. (University of Washington, Seattle) and N. G. McCormick. Degradation of pyruvate by Micrococcus lactilyticus. III. Properties and cofactor requirements of the carbon dioxide-exchange reaction. J. Bacteriol. 85:382-393. 1963.-At an acid pH, extracts of Micrococcus lactilyticus (Veillonella alcalescens) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： WHITELEY HR,McCORMICK NG

更新日期：1963-02-01 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