abstract：:Germination of Bacillus spores is triggered by the binding of specific nutrients to germinant receptors (GRs) located in the spore's inner membrane. The GRs typically consist of A, B, and C subunits, encoded by tricistronic ger operons. The Bacillus licheniformis genome contains the gerA family operons gerA, ynd, and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aspholm M,Borch-Pedersen K,O'Sullivan K,Fjellheim S,Aardal IB,Granum PE,Lindbäck T

更新日期：2019-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic organisms occupy the most diverse set of environments and conditions on our planet. Their ability to sense and respond to a broad range of external cues remain key research areas in modern microbiology, central to behaviors that underlie beneficial and pathogenic interactions of bacteria with multicellular...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watts KJ,Vaknin A,Fuqua C,Kazmierczak BI

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis expresses multicomponent organelles called type four pili (Tfp), which are key virulence factors required for attachment to human cells during carriage and disease. Pilin (PilE) is the main component of Tfp, and N. meningitidis isolates either have a class I pilE locus and express pilins that un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lobanovska M,Tang CM,Exley RM

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Altering membrane protein and lipid composition is an important strategy for maintaining membrane integrity during environmental stress. Many bacterial small RNAs (sRNAs) control membrane protein production, but sRNA-mediated regulation of membrane fatty acid composition is less well understood. The sRNA RydC was prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bianco CM,Fröhlich KS,Vanderpool CK

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-host interactions are regulated by complex coevolutionary dynamics. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, phase-variable type I restriction-modification (R-M) systems are part of the core genome. We hypothesized that the ability of the R-M systems to switch between six target DNA specificities also has a key role in prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Furi L,Crawford LA,Rangel-Pineros G,Manso AS,De Ste Croix M,Haigh RD,Kwun MJ,Engelsen Fjelland K,Gilfillan GD,Bentley SD,Croucher NJ,Clokie MR,Oggioni MR

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501 is a versatile nitrogen-fixing bacterium capable of living in diverse environments and coping with various oxidative stresses. NfiS, a regulatory noncoding RNA (ncRNA) involved in the control of nitrogen fixation in A1501, was previously shown to be required for optimal resistance to H2O2; h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Zhan Y,Yan Y,Liu Y,Hu G,Wang S,Yang H,Qiu X,Liu Y,Li J,Lu W,Elmerich C,Lin M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbes coexist within biofilms, or multispecies communities of cells encased in an extracellular matrix. However, little is known about the microbe-microbe interactions relevant for creating these structures. In this study, we explored a striking dual-species biofilm between Bacillus subtilis and Pantoea agglom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yannarell SM,Grandchamp GM,Chen SY,Daniels KE,Shank EA

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In aquatic environments, Caulobacter spp. can be found at the boundary between liquid and air known as the neuston. I report an approach to study temporal features of Caulobacter crescentus colonization and pellicle biofilm development at the air-liquid interface and have defined the role of cell surface structures in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fiebig A

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria are monophyletic organisms that perform oxygenic photosynthesis. While they exhibit great diversity, they have a common set of genes. However, the essentiality of them for viability has hampered the elucidation of their functions. One example of these genes is cyabrB1 (also known as calA in Anabaena sp. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higo A,Nishiyama E,Nakamura K,Hihara Y,Ehira S

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella virulence requires the initial invasion of host cells, followed by modulation of the intracellular environment for survival and replication. In an effort to characterize the role of small RNAs in Salmonella pathogenesis, we inadvertently identified a 5-kDa protein named YshB that is involved in the intracel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bomjan R,Zhang M,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinic acid (PA) is a natural toxic pyridine derivative. Microorganisms can degrade and utilize PA for growth. However, the full catabolic pathway of PA and its physiological and genetic foundation remain unknown. In this study, we identified a gene cluster, designated picRCEDFB4B3B2B1A1A2A3, responsible for the de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu J,Zhao L,Xu S,Chen Q,Chen L,Liu B,Hong Q,Lu Z,He J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:PsaA, the subunit of the fimbria originally referred to as the "pH 6 antigen," is required for full virulence of Yersinia pestis during bubonic plague. The expression of psaA is dependent upon specific environmental signals, and while the signals (high temperature and acidic pH) are defined, the mechanisms underlying ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Quinn JD,Weening EH,Miner TA,Miller VL

更新日期：2019-07-24 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：:The ESX-1 (ESAT-6 system 1) secretion system plays a conserved role in the virulence of diverse mycobacterial pathogens, including the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. marinum, an environmental mycobacterial species. The ESX-1 system promotes the secretion of protein virulence factors to the extracytop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bosserman RE,Nicholson KR,Champion MM,Champion PA

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Evident in its name, the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori has a helical cell morphology which facilitates efficient colonization of the human stomach. An improved light-focusing strategy allowed us to robustly distinguish even subtle perturbations of H. pylori cell morphology by deviations in light-scattering prop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang DC,Blair KM,Taylor JA,Petersen TW,Sessler T,Tull CM,Leverich CK,Collar AL,Wyckoff TJ,Biboy J,Vollmer W,Salama NR

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA uptake by natural competence is a central process underlying the genetic plasticity, biology, and virulence of the human respiratory opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae A study reported in this issue (J. Slager, R. Aprianto, and J.-W. Veening, J. Bacteriol. 201:e00780-18, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.007...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winkler ME,Morrison DA

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia species, including opportunistic pathogens in the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc), have genes to produce contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) system proteins. CDI is a phenomenon in which Gram-negative bacteria use the toxic C terminus of a polymorphic surface-exposed exoprotein, BcpA, to inhibit ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Myers-Morales T,Oates AE,Byrd MS,Garcia EC

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been clear for over sixty years that the principal method whereby cells replicate and segregate their DNA is semiconservative. It is much less clear why it should be like this rather than, say, conservative. Recently, evidence has accumulated that supports the hypothesis that one of the functions of the cell cy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norris V

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Korormicin is an antibiotic produced by some pseudoalteromonads which selectively kills Gram-negative bacteria that express the Na+-pumping NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (Na+-NQR.) We show that although korormicin is an inhibitor of Na+-NQR, the antibiotic action is not a direct result of inhibiting enzyme activity. Ins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maynard A,Butler NL,Ito T,da Silva AJ,Murai M,Chen T,Koffas MAG,Miyoshi H,Barquera B

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The current work by Jain et al. (S. Jain, A. M. Chang, M. Singh, J. S. McLean, et al., J Bacteriol 201:e00683-18, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00683-18) reports the cloning of the lipid A deacylase gene of Porphyromonas gingivalis and the phenotypic characterization of the enzyme. Attempts to clone the gene and th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Progulske-Fox A

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor P (EF-P) facilitates the translation of certain peptide motifs, including those with multiple proline residues. EF-P must be posttranslationally modified for full functionality; in enterobacteria, this is accomplished by two enzymes, namely, EpmA and EpmB, which catalyze the β-lysylation of EF-P at a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klee SM,Sinn JP,Holmes AC,Lehman BL,Krawczyk T,Peter KA,McNellis TW

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:tRNAs play a critical role in mRNA decoding, and posttranscriptional modifications within tRNAs drive decoding efficiency and accuracy. The types and positions of tRNA modifications in model bacteria have been extensively studied, and tRNA modifications in a few eukaryotic organisms have also been characterized and lo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yu N,Jora M,Solivio B,Thakur P,Acevedo-Rocha CG,Randau L,de Crécy-Lagard V,Addepalli B,Limbach PA

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mutualistic symbiont Vibrio fischeri builds a symbiotic biofilm during colonization of squid hosts. Regulation of the exopolysaccharide component, termed Syp, has been examined in strain ES114, where production is controlled by a phosphorelay that includes the inner membrane hybrid histidine kinase RscS. Most stra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rotman ER,Bultman KM,Brooks JF 2nd,Gyllborg MC,Burgos HL,Wollenberg MS,Mandel MJ

更新日期：2019-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:While the protein complex responsible for controlling the direction (clockwise [CW] or counterclockwise [CCW]) of flagellar rotation has been fairly well studied in Escherichia coli and Salmonella, less is known about the switch complex in Bacillus subtilis or other Gram-positive species. Two component proteins (FliG ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ward E,Kim EA,Panushka J,Botelho T,Meyer T,Kearns DB,Ordal G,Blair DF

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lag is a temporary period of nonreplication seen in bacteria that are introduced to new media. Despite latency being described by Müller in 1895, only recently have we gained insights into the cellular processes characterizing lag phase. This review covers literature to date on the transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bertrand RL

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinic acid (PA), a typical C-2-carboxylated pyridine derivative, is a metabolite of l-tryptophan and many other aromatic compounds in mammalian and microbial cells. Microorganisms can degrade and utilize PA for growth. However, the precise mechanism of PA metabolism remains unknown. Alcaligenes faecalis strain JQ1...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu J,Zhang Y,Yao S,Ren H,Qian M,Hong Q,Lu Z,He J

更新日期：2019-03-13 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：:Strains of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC), the common pathogen of avian colibacillosis, encounter reactive oxygen species (ROS) during the infection process. Superoxide dismutases (SODs), acting as antioxidant factors, can protect against ROS-mediated host defenses. Our previous reports showed that the sodA ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gao Q,Xia L,Wang X,Ye Z,Liu J,Gao S

更新日期：2019-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The histidine ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is among the best-studied type I ABC import systems. The transporter consists of two transmembrane subunits, HisQ and HisM, and a homodimer of the nucleotide-binding subunit, HisP. Substrates are delivered by two periplasmi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heuveling J,Landmesser H,Schneider E

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are important in natural settings, biotechnology, and medicine. However, regulation of biofilm development and its persistence in different niches is complex and only partially understood. One key step during the biofilm life cycle is dispersal, when motile cells abandon the mature biofilm to spread...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bartolini M,Cogliati S,Vileta D,Bauman C,Rateni L,Leñini C,Argañaraz F,Francisco M,Villalba JM,Steil L,Völker U,Grau R

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of DNA at the C-5 position of cytosine occurs in diverse organisms. This modification can increase the rate of C→T transitions at the methylated position. In Escherichia coli and related enteric bacteria, the inner C residues of the sequence CCWGG (W is A or T) are methylated by the Dcm enzyme. These sites...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cherry JL

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lung infections in cystic fibrosis (CF) could be treated more effectively if the effects of antimicrobials on pathogens in situ were known. Here, we compared changes in the microbial community composition and pathogen growth rates in longitudinal studies of seven pediatric CF patients undergoing intravenous an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Neubauer C,Kasi AS,Grahl N,Sessions AL,Kopf SH,Kato R,Hogan DA,Newman DK

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cnm is a surface-associated protein present in a subset of Streptococcus mutans strains that mediates binding to extracellular matrices, intracellular invasion, and virulence. Here, we showed that cnm transcription is controlled by the global regulators CovR and VicRKX. In silico analysis identified multiple putative ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Araújo Alves L,Ganguly T,Mattos-Graner RO,Kajfasz J,Harth-Chu EN,Lemos JA,Abranches J

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper is both a required micronutrient and a source of toxicity in most organisms, including Campylobacter jejuni Two proteins expressed in C. jejuni (termed CopA and CueO) have been shown to be a copper transporter and multicopper oxidase, respectively. We have isolated strains with mutations in these genes, and her...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gardner SP,Olson JW

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rnf complex is a respiratory enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of reduced ferredoxin to the reduction of NAD+, and the negative free energy change of this reaction is used to generate a transmembrane ion gradient. In one class of anaerobic acetogenic bacteria, the Rnf complex is believed to be essential for ener...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Westphal L,Wiechmann A,Baker J,Minton NP,Müller V

更新日期：2018-10-10 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：:Bacteriophage 7-7-1, a member of the family Myoviridae, infects the soil bacterium Agrobacterium sp. strain H13-3. Infection requires attachment to actively rotating bacterial flagellar filaments, with flagellar number, length, and rotation speed being important determinants for infection efficiency. To identify the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gonzalez F,Helm RF,Broadway KM,Scharf BE

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Individually, the ribosomal proteins L1, L23, L36, and S6 are not essential for cell proliferation of Bacillus subtilis, but the absence of any one of these ribosomal proteins causes a defect in the formation of the 70S ribosomes and a reduced growth rate. In mutant strains individually lacking these ribosomal protein...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Akanuma G,Yamazaki K,Yagishi Y,Iizuka Y,Ishizuka M,Kawamura F,Kato-Yamada Y

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that the disruption of the ahrC gene encoding a predicted ArgR family transcription factor results in a severe defect in biofilm formation in vitro, as well as a significant attenuation of virulence of Enterococcus faecalis strain OG1RF in multiple experimental infection models. Using transcrip...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manias DA,Dunny GM

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of oxidants and reductants must be balanced for an organism to thrive. Bacteria have evolved methods to prevent redox imbalances and to mitigate their deleterious consequences through the expression of detoxification enzymes, antioxidants, and systems to repair or degrade damaged proteins and DNA. Regula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reniere ML

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00