Differential fiu-lacZ fusion regulation linked to Escherichia coli colony development.

abstract：:The F factor traY gene product (TraYp) is a site-specific DNA-binding protein involved in initiation of DNA transfer during bacterial conjugation. The sequence of TraYp exhibits a unique direct-repeat structure predicted to have a ribbon-helix-helix DNA-binding motif in each repeat unit. The stoichiometry of TraYp bin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nelson WC,Matson SW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-essential RGD1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a protein that has been characterized in vitro as a Rho GTPase activating protein (RhoGAP) for the Rho3 and Rho4 proteins. Rgd1p, which displays a conserved FCH-coiled coil-Rho-GAP domain organization, showed a patch-like distribution in the cell, inclu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roumanie O,Peypouquet MF,Bonneu M,Thoraval D,Doignon F,Crouzet M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the published N-terminal amino acid sequence of the soluble lytic transglycosylase 35 (Slt35) of Escherichia coli, an open reading frame (ORF) was cloned from the 60.8 min region of the E. coli chromosome. The nucleotide sequence of the ORF, containing a putative lipoprotein-processing site, was shown ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ehlert K,Höltje JV,Templin MF

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross-talk. After overcoming terminological complications to sort out microbial nifS from sufS genes, we connect a bacterial operon, recently found to be involved in iron me...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ellis KE,Clough B,Saldanha JW,Wilson RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate phage P2 has the capacity to function as a helper for the defective, unrelated, satellite phage P4. In the absence of a helper, P4 can either lysogenize its host or establish itself as a plasmid. For lytic growth, P4 requires the structural genes, packaging and lysis functions of the helper. P4 can get acces...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu T,Renberg SK,Haggård-Ljungquist E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomal rearrangements are common in both clinical isolates and spontaneous mutants of Candida albicans. It appears that many of these rearrangements are caused by translocations around the major sequence repeat (MSR) that is present in all chromosomes except chromosome 3, suggesting that homologous recombination ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ciudad T,Andaluz E,Steinberg-Neifach O,Lue NF,Gow NA,Calderone RA,Larriba G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytochrome c nitrite reductase complex (NrfHA) is the terminal enzyme in the electron transport chain catalysing nitrite respiration of Wolinella succinogenes. The catalytic subunit NrfA is a pentahaem cytochrome c containing an active site haem group which is covalently bound via the cysteine residues of a unique...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pisa R,Stein T,Eichler R,Gross R,Simon J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to cause disease depends upon the co-ordinated expression of many genes located around the Salmonella chromosome. Specific pathogenicity loci, termed Salmonella pathogenicity islands, have been shown to be crucial for the invasion and survival of Salmonella within...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wilson RL,Libby SJ,Freet AM,Boddicker JD,Fahlen TF,Jones BD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The [NiFe]hydrogenase of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus is encoded by the structural hupSLC operon, the expression of which is induced by H2. H2 activation was no longer observable in chromosomal hupR mutants, an indication that HupR is implicated directly in the activation by H2 of hupS gene expr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Toussaint B,de Sury d'Aspremont R,Delic-Attree I,Berchet V,Elsen S,Colbeau A,Dischert W,Lazzaroni Y,Vignais PM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes of nicotine dehydrogenase (NDH) were identified, cloned and sequenced from the catabolic plasmid pAO1 of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans. In immediate proximity to this gene cluster is the beginning of the 6-hydroxy-L-niotine oxidase (6-HLNO) gene. NDH is composed of three subunits (A, B and C) of M(r) 30,011, 1...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grether-Beck S,Igloi GL,Pust S,Schilz E,Decker K,Brandsch R

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atovaquone represents a class of antimicrobial agents with a broad-spectrum activity against various parasitic infections, including malaria, toxoplasmosis and Pneumocystis pneumonia. In malaria parasites, atovaquone inhibits mitochondrial electron transport at the level of the cytochrome bc1 complex and collapses mit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Srivastava IK,Morrisey JM,Darrouzet E,Daldal F,Vaidya AB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histidine kinases (HK) sense and transduce via phosphorylation events many intra- and extracellular signals in bacteria, archaea, slime moulds and plants. HK are also widespread in the fungal kingdom, but their precise roles in the regulation of physiological processes remain largely obscure. Expanding genomic resourc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Defosse TA,Sharma A,Mondal AK,Dugé de Bernonville T,Latgé JP,Calderone R,Giglioli-Guivarc'h N,Courdavault V,Clastre M,Papon N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the ferric uptake regulator (fur) appears to be an essential gene in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, resistance to manganese was used as an enrichment to isolate strains carrying point mutations in the fur gene in order to assess its role in the co-ordinate expression of siderophores and exotoxin A (ETA). This report ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barton HA,Johnson Z,Cox CD,Vasil AI,Vasil ML

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four motor proteins PomA, PomB, MotX and MotY, which are believed to be stator proteins, are essential for motility by the Na(+)-driven flagella of Vibrio alginolyticus. When we purified the flagellar basal bodies, MotX and MotY were detected in the basal body, which is the supramolecular complex comprised of the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Terashima H,Fukuoka H,Yakushi T,Kojima S,Homma M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified a gene (FTN_0818) required for Francisella virulence that seemed likely involved in biotin metabolism. However, the molecular function of this virulence determinant was unclear. Here we show that this protein named BioJ is the enzyme of the biotin biosynthesis pathway that determines the chain l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feng Y,Napier BA,Manandhar M,Henke SK,Weiss DS,Cronan JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative replication and partitioning of many plasmids and some chromosomes of alphaproteobacteria are directed by their repABC operons. RepA and RepB proteins direct the partitioning of replicons to daughter cells, while RepC proteins are replication initiators, although they do not resemble any characterized repli...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pinto UM,Flores-Mireles AL,Costa ED,Winans SC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The csiD-ygaF-gabDTP region in the Escherichia coli genome represents a cluster of sigma S-controlled genes. Here, we investigated promoter structures, sigma factor dependencies, potential co-regulation and environmental regulatory patterns for all of these genes. We find that this region constitutes a complex operon ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Metzner M,Germer J,Hengge R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analyses were applied to the genes encoding variants of the serosubtyping antigen, the class 1 outer membrane protein (PorA), from 55 serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis strains. These genes were evolutionarily stable and exhibited a limited range of genetic variation, primarily generated by recombination. Tr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Suker J,Feavers IM,Achtman M,Morelli G,Wang JF,Maiden MC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a human gastric pathogen associated with gastric and duodenal ulcers as well as gastric cancer. Mounting evidence suggests this pathogen's motility is prerequisite for successful colonization of human gastric tissues. Here, we isolated an H. pylori G27 HP0518 mutant exhibiting altered motility i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Asakura H,Churin Y,Bauer B,Boettcher JP,Bartfeld S,Hashii N,Kawasaki N,Mollenkopf HJ,Jungblut PR,Brinkmann V,Meyer TF

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) strain DC3000 infects the model plants Arabidopsis thaliana and tomato, causing disease symptoms characterized by necrotic lesions surrounded by chlorosis. One mechanism used by Pst DC3000 to infect host plants is the type III protein secretion system, which is thought to deliver ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zwiesler-Vollick J,Plovanich-Jones AE,Nomura K,Bandyopadhyay S,Joardar V,Kunkel BN,He SY

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the bacterial genus Brucella are facultative intracellular pathogens that reside predominantly within membrane-bound compartments within two host cell types, macrophages and placental trophoblasts. Within macrophages, the brucellae route themselves to an intracellular compartment that is favourable for surv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roop RM 2nd,Bellaire BH,Valderas MW,Cardelli JA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual segments of the polycistronic puf mRNA of Rhodobacter capsulatus exhibit extremely different half-lives contributing to the stoichiometry of light-harvesting and reaction centre complexes of this facultative phototrophic bacterium. While earlier investigations shed light on the processes leading to the degr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Heck C,Balzer A,Fuhrmann O,Klug G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the IS3 family of insertion sequences are found in a wide range of bacteria. At least 10 members of this family carry two major open reading frames: a small upstream frame (0 phase), and a longer downstream frame in the -1 phase. The downstream frame shows significant similarity at the amino acid level. A h...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fayet O,Ramond P,Polard P,Prère MF,Chandler M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ler, encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, induces the expression of LEE genes by counteracting the silencing exerted by H-NS. Ler expression is modulated by several global regulators, and is activated by GrlA, which is also LEE-encoded. Typical enteropathogenic...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bustamante VH,Villalba MI,García-Angulo VA,Vázquez A,Martínez LC,Jiménez R,Puente JL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have followed the time-dependent transfection of Paramecium cells with a vector containing the gene of green fluorescent protein (GFP) attached to the C-terminus of the PtSERCA1 gene. The outlines of alveolar sacs (ASs) are labelled, as is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) throughout the cell. When GFP fluorescence is...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hauser K,Pavlovic N,Klauke N,Geissinger D,Plattner H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycopeptide antibiotic-producing bacterium, Streptomyces toyocaensis NRRL 15009, has proteins phosphorylated on Ser, Thr, Tyr and His, implying the presence of a battery of associated kinases. We have identified the Ser/Thr protein kinase gene fragments stoPK-1, stoPK-2, stoPK-3 and stoPK-4 from S. toyocaensis NR...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Neu JM,MacMillan SV,Nodwell JR,Wright GD

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the genes required for the conjugative transfer of DNA are encoded by the 33 kb transfer (tra) operon of F-like conjugative plasmids. Transcription of the tra operon is positively regulated by the TraJ transcriptional activator which, in turn, is negatively regulated by the FinOP fertility inhibition system. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van Biesen T,Frost LS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell-surface protein antigen (PAc) of Streptococcus mutans MT8148 (serotype c) was determined. The pac gene consisted of 4695 bp and coded for a 170773D protein. The pac gene product contained a putative 38 amino acid signal peptide, resulting in a 166817D mature prot...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Okahashi N,Sasakawa C,Yoshikawa M,Hamada S,Koga T

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.3 kb cDNA (cDNA52) was derived from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote mRNA. Using single stranded probes in Northern blots, we identified the putative coding strand of cDNA52. In addition, a minor band was detected in RNA from epimastigotes that was absent in RNA from trypomastigotes. Nucleotide sequence analysis r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thertulien R,Harth G,Haidaris CG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In F. graminearum, the transcription factor TRI6 positively regulates the trichothecene biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) leading to the production of the secondary metabolite 15-acetyl deoxynivalenol. Secondary metabolites are not essential for survival, instead, they enable the pathogen to successfully infect its host...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shostak K,Bonner C,Sproule A,Thapa I,Shields SWJ,Blackwell B,Vierula J,Overy D,Subramaniam R

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00