Pathways for the utilization of N-acetyl-galactosamine and galactosamine in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Virulence factors secreted by Listeria monocytogenes are known to interfere with host cellular signalling pathways. We investigated whether L. monocytogenes modulates T-cell receptor signalling by examining surface expression of proteins known to be upregulated on activated T cells. In vitro culture of murine splenocy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zenewicz LA,Skinner JA,Goldfine H,Shen H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanobacteria respond to changes in light or nutrient availability by modifications in their photosynthetic light harvesting antenna. In unicellular cyanobacteria a small polypeptide (NblA) is required for phycobilisome degradation following environmental stresses. In the filamentous strain Tolypothrix sp. PCC 7601 th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Luque I,Ochoa De Alda JA,Richaud C,Zabulon G,Thomas JC,Houmard J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Caulobacter crescentus the partitioning proteins ParA and ParB operate a molecular switch that couples chromosome partitioning to cytokinesis. Homologues of these proteins have been shown to be important for the stable inheritance of F-plasmids and the prophage form of bacteriophage P1. In C. crescentus, ParB binds...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Figge RM,Easter J,Gober JW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of stalled ribosomes at the 3' end of mRNA without a stop codon (non-stop mRNA) is supposed to be toxic to bacterial cells. Escherichia coli has at least two distinct systems to rescue such stalled ribosomes: SsrA-dependent trans-translation and ArfA-dependent ribosome rescue. Combination of the ssrA and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, the sigma(s) subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP), RpoS, recognizes nearly identical -35 and -10 promoter consensus sequences as the vegetative sigma70. In vivo, promoter selectivity of RNAP holoenzyme containing either sigma(s) (Esigma(s)) or sigma70 (Esigma70) seems to be achieved by the differential ability o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Typas A,Hengge R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex is essential in mycobacterial species, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is the target of several antitubercular drugs. For instance, ethambutol targets arabinogalactan biosynthesis through inhibition of the arabinofuranosyltransferases Mt-EmbA and Mt-Em...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Birch HL,Alderwick LJ,Bhatt A,Rittmann D,Krumbach K,Singh A,Bai Y,Lowary TL,Eggeling L,Besra GS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HypB protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a metal-binding GTPase required for hydrogenase expression. In-frame mutagenesis of hypB resulted in strains that were partially or completely deficient in hydrogenase expression, depending on the degree of disruption of the gene. Complete deletion of the gene yielded ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Olson JW,Fu C,Maier RJ

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing class of proteins regulates transcription through interaction with DNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Here we report that a recently identified, highly conserved sporulation gene ylyA encodes a novel RNA polymerase-binding protein that influences the expression of genes under the control of the late-acting, sporu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Traag BA,Ramirez-Peralta A,Wang Erickson AF,Setlow P,Losick R

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein is known to act as a Fe2+-dependent transcriptional repressor of bacterial promoters. Here, we show that, in Helicobacter pylori, Fur can mediate the regulation of iron-activated genes in contrast to classical Fur regulation, in which iron acts as a co-repressor. Inactivation ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Delany I,Spohn G,Rappuoli R,Scarlato V

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SsrA is a tmRNA involved in tagging polypeptides on stalled ribosomes. The resulting fusion proteins are then degraded. We purified endogenous SsrA-tagged proteins by means of a genetically engineered SsrA and identified some of them. Analysis of the proteins suggested that they are tagged at their C-terminal extremit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Collier J,Binet E,Bouloc P

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaperone/usher (CU) pathway is a conserved bacterial secretion system that assembles adhesive fibres termed pili or fimbriae. Pilus biogenesis by the CU pathway requires a periplasmic chaperone and an outer membrane (OM) assembly platform termed the usher. The usher catalyses formation of subunit-subunit interact...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Henderson NS,Ng TW,Talukder I,Thanassi DG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoreceptors play a central role in chemotaxis, allowing bacteria to detect chemical gradients and bias their swimming behavior in order to navigate toward favorable environments. The genome of the kiwifruit pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) strain NZ-V13 encodes 43 predicted chemoreceptors, none o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McKellar JL,Minnell JJ,Gerth ML

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72 is covered by a regular surface layer (S-layer) composed of single species of protein, SbsA, with a molecular weight of 130,000. Recently, the sequence of the corresponding gene (sbsA) has been determined. The SbsA coding region including the signal sequence was clo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kuen B,Sára M,Lubitz W

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen. In immunocompromised individuals, it can cause bloodstream infections with high mortality rates. The ability to switch between yeast and hyphal morphologies is a critical virulence factor of C. albicans. In response to diverse environmental cues, several signaling ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen C,Zeng G,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloned Citrobacter freundii ampC beta-lactamase is inducible in the presence of its regulatory gene ampR in Escherichia coli (Lindberg et al., 1985). The basal level of expression and inducibility are affected by two E. coli proteins encoded by the closely linked ampD and ampE genes. Deletion of both genes led to ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lindquist S,Galleni M,Lindberg F,Normark S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized three genes, SUT1, SUT2 and SUT3, that encode glucose transporters of the yeast Pichia stipitis. When expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae hxt null mutant strain that is unable to take up monosaccharides, all three proteins restored growth on glucose. Sequencing of the genes rev...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Weierstall T,Hollenberg CP,Boles E

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key component to the success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a pathogen is the ability to sense and adapt metabolically to the diverse range of conditions encountered in vivo, such as oxygen tension, environmental pH and nutrient availability. Although nitrogen is an essential nutrient for every organism, little is...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Williams KJ,Jenkins VA,Barton GR,Bryant WA,Krishnan N,Robertson BD

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inv locus of Yersinia enterocolitica is sufficient to convert a non-invasive Escherichia coli K12 strain into a microorganism that is able to penetrate cultured mammalian cells. The nucleotide sequence of inv reveals an open reading frame corresponding to an 835-amino-acid protein that is homologous to the invasin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Young VB,Miller VL,Falkow S,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotes protect their genomes from foreign DNA with a diversity of defence mechanisms, including a widespread restriction-modification (R-M) system involving phosphorothioate (PT) modification of the DNA backbone. Unlike classical R-M systems, highly partial PT modification of consensus motifs in bacterial genomes...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cao B,Cheng Q,Gu C,Yao F,DeMott MS,Zheng X,Deng Z,Dedon PC,You D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The newly sequenced genome of Streptomyces coelicolor is estimated to encode 7825 theoretical proteins. We have mapped approximately 10% of the theoretical proteome experimentally using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. Pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hesketh AR,Chandra G,Shaw AD,Rowland JJ,Kell DB,Bibb MJ,Chater KF

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of septation requires precise temporal and spatial organization of penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and associated proteins for the deposition of new cell wall material. In most bacteria, the filamentous protein FtsZ organises PBPs into assemblies at the midcell which then constrict inwards as peptidogly...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cadby IT,Lovering AL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes controlling chemotaxis towards L-amino acids and D-mannitol in Rhizobium meliloti have been identified by Tn5 insertions that lead to chemotaxis-deficient mutants. The tagged genes span an 8.7 kbp region that has been sequenced. These genes are part of a large operon containing three novel open reading frames, o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Greck M,Platzer J,Sourjik V,Schmitt R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tprK gene sequence of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum (T. pallidum) is heterogeneous within and among isolates. Heterogeneity in the tprK open reading frame is localized in seven discrete variable (V) regions, and variability results from apparent base changes, insertions or deletions. The TprK V regions ar...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Centurion-Lara A,LaFond RE,Hevner K,Godornes C,Molini BJ,Van Voorhis WC,Lukehart SA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified several linked genes of a lactose regulon in Rhizobium meliloti. These were lacZ, the structural gene for beta-galactosidase; lacR, the lactose repressor gene; and two genes encoding proteins of unknown function, lacW and lacX. Insertion mutants in lacW and lacZ belonged to a single genetic complementati...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jelesko JG,Leigh JA

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stringent response is important for bacterial survival under stressful conditions, such as amino acid starvation, and is characterized by the accumulation of ppGpp and pppGpp. ObgE (CgtA, YhbZ) is an essential conserved GTPase in Escherichia coli and several observations have implicated the protein in the control ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Persky NS,Ferullo DJ,Cooper DL,Moore HR,Lovett ST

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) family of antigenically diverse proteins is expressed on the surface of human erythrocytes infected with the malaria parasite P. falciparum, and mediates cytoadherence to the host vascular endothelium. In this report, we show that export of PfEMP1 is sl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kriek N,Tilley L,Horrocks P,Pinches R,Elford BC,Ferguson DJ,Lingelbach K,Newbold CI

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct merR genes, which regulate expression of the mercuric ion resistance gene (mer), of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans strain E-15 have been cloned, sequenced and termed merR1 and merR2. As a result of gene walking around two merR genes, it was found that these two genes were quite close in distance. The nucleotid...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Inoue C,Sugawara K,Kusano T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutation of staphylococcal accessory regulator (sarA) results in increased production of extracellular proteases in Staphylococcus aureus, which has been correlated with decreased biofilm formation and decreased accumulation of extracellular toxins. We used murine models of implant-associated biofilm infection and S. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zielinska AK,Beenken KE,Mrak LN,Spencer HJ,Post GR,Skinner RA,Tackett AJ,Horswill AR,Smeltzer MS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that in the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis group B (MenB) more than 200 genes are regulated in response to growth with iron. Among the Fur-dependent, upregulated genes identified by microarray analysis was a putative operon constituted by three genes, annotated as NMB1436, NMB1437 and N...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grifantini R,Frigimelica E,Delany I,Bartolini E,Giovinazzi S,Balloni S,Agarwal S,Galli G,Genco C,Grandi G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Random gene tagging was used to obtain new mutants of the marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. PCC7002, with defects in the CO2-concentrating mechanism (CCM). Two of these mutants, K22 and A41, showed poor growth at limiting CO2. Isolation and sequencing of a 6. 6 kb genomic region revealed the existence of five p...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klughammer B,Sültemeyer D,Badger MR,Price GD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00