Unique regulation of SclB - a novel collagen-like surface protein of Streptococcus pyogenes.

abstract：:Bacterial cell shapes are manifestations of programs carried out by multi-protein machines that synthesize and remodel the resilient peptidoglycan (PG) mesh and other polymers surrounding cells. GpsB protein is conserved in low-GC Gram-positive bacteria and is not essential in rod-shaped Bacillus subtilis, where it pl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Land AD,Tsui HC,Kocaoglu O,Vella SA,Shaw SL,Keen SK,Sham LT,Carlson EE,Winkler ME

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvoyl-dependent histidine decarboxylases are produced as proenzymes that mature by cleavage followed by formation of the pyruvoyl prosthetic group. The histidine decarboxylation pathway of Streptococcus thermophilus CHCC1524 that consists of the pyruvoyl-dependent histidine decarboxylase HdcA and the histidine/hist...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Trip H,Mulder NL,Rattray FP,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prokaryotes, the principal signal transduction systems operating at the level of protein phosphorylation are the two-component systems. A number of hybrid histidine protein kinases in these systems contain several receiver domains, however, the function of these receiver domains is unknown. The RodK kinase in Myxoc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rasmussen AA,Wegener-Feldbrügge S,Porter SL,Armitage JP,Søgaard-Andersen L

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:To study the role of cell division in the process of nucleoid segregation, we measured the DNA content of individual nucleoids in isogenic Escherichia coli cell division mutants by image cytometry. In pbpB(Ts) and ftsZ strains growing as filaments at 42 degrees C, nucleoids contained, on average, more than two chromos...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Huls PG,Vischer NO,Woldringh CL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stalk is a universal structure of the large ribosomal subunit involved in the function of translation factors. The bacterial stalk is highly stable but its stability is notably reduced in eukaryotes, favouring a translation regulatory activity of this ribosomal domain, which has not been reported in prokaryotes. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Santos C,Ballesta JP

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA damage and stress response pathways interact to regulate cellular responses to genotoxins and environmental stresses. How these pathways interact in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is not well understood. We demonstrate that osmotic stress suppresses the DNA damage sensitivity of checkpoint mutants, and that this oc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alao JP,Huis In 't Veld PJ,Buhse F,Sunnerhagen P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Candida albicans can transition from budding to hyphal growth, which promotes biofilm formation and invasive growth into tissues. Stimulation of adenylyl cyclase to form cAMP induces hyphal morphogenesis. The failure of cells lacking adenylyl cyclase (cyr1Δ) to form hyphae has suggested that cAMP s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Parrino SM,Si H,Naseem S,Groudan K,Gardin J,Konopka JB

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipochitin Nod signals are produced by rhizobia and are required for the establishment of a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with a legume host. The nodulation genes encode products required for the synthesis of this signal and are induced in response to plant-produced flavonoid compounds. The addition of chitin and lipo-chi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Loh JT,Stacey G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells require a sensory system and a motility structure to achieve directed movement. Bacteria and archaea possess rotating filamentous motility structures that work in concert with the sensory chemotaxis system. This allows microorganisms to move along chemical gradients. The central response regulator protein CheY c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li Z,Rodriguez-Franco M,Albers SV,Quax TEF

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a chemotactic-like response of Escherichia coli strains lacking most of the known chemotaxis machinery but containing high levels of the response regulator CheY. The bacteria accumulated in aspartate-containing capillaries, they formed rings on tryptone-containing semisolid agar, and the probability of cou...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barak R,Eisenbach M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of accessory subunits of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (HE) in determining chromosomal replication fidelity, we have investigated the role of the dnaX gene. This gene encodes both the tau and gamma subunits of HE, which play a central role in the organization and funct...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pham PT,Zhao W,Schaaper RM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction and modification (R-M) systems are generally thought to protect bacteria from invasion by foreign DNA. This paper proposes the existence of an alternative role for the phase-variable R-M systems encoded by the hsd loci of Mycoplasma pulmonis. Populations of M. pulmonis cells that arose during growth in dif...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gumulak-Smith J,Teachman A,Tu AH,Simecka JW,Lindsey JR,Dybvig K

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fungi undergo a morphological transition to filamentous growth in response to limiting nutrient conditions. Constitutively elongated Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants (elm) have been isolated; the ELM1 gene encodes a putative serine/threonine protein kinase. A novel allele, elm1-15, has been isolated in an S288C-d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Garrett JM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of protein synthesis cause defects in the assembly of ribosomal subunits. In response to treatment with the antibiotics erythromycin or chloramphenicol, precursors of both large and small ribosomal subunits accumulate. We have used a pulse-labelling approach to demonstrate that the accumulating subribosomal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Siibak T,Peil L,Dönhöfer A,Tats A,Remm M,Wilson DN,Tenson T,Remme J

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human oral bacterium Streptococcus gordonii expresses, on the cell surface, two antigenically related high-molecular-mass polypeptides denoted CshA and CshB, encoded by genes at separate chromosomal loci. The precursor form of CshA is composed of four distinct segments: (i) a 41-amino-acid residue leader peptide, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McNab R,Jenkinson HF,Loach DM,Tannock GW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clostridium difficile toxA and toxB genes, encoding cytotoxic and enterotoxic proteins responsible for antibiotic-associated colitis and pseudomembranous colitis, were shown to be transcribed both from gene-specific promoters and from promoters of upstream genes. However, the gene-specific transcripts represented ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dupuy B,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of DnaA, a key bacterial DNA replication initiation factor, increases during the Caulobacter swarmer-to-stalked transition just before the G1/S transition. We show that DnaA coordinates DNA replication initiation with cell cycle progression by acting as a global transcription factor. Using DnaA depletion and...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hottes AK,Shapiro L,McAdams HH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of cell-density-dependent control of gene expression, called autoinduction, has long been a subject of interest and investigation in bioluminescent marine bacteria. It is now becoming clear that many other bacteria, including animal and plant pathogens, use an autoinduction mechanism to regulate a varie...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sitnikov DM,Schineller JB,Baldwin TO

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we show for the first time the intracellular distribution of a K39 kinesin homologue in Leishmania donovani, a medically important parasite of humans. Further, we demonstrated that this motor protein is expressed in both the insect and mammalian developmental forms (i.e. promastigote and amastigotes) of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gerald NJ,Coppens I,Dwyer DM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic organization of the spoVAF-serA area of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and its putative transcription map have been derived from analysis of the nucleotide sequence. In order to confirm this transcription map as regards size of transcripts and to determine growth conditions for their appearance, we under...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Azevedo V,Sorokin A,Ehrlich SD,Serror P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Aspergillus nidulans, proline can serve both as a carbon and a nitrogen source. The transcription of the prnB gene, encoding the proline transporter, is efficiently repressed only by the simultaneous presence of ammonium and glucose. Thus, repression of this gene demands the activation of the CreA repressor and the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gómez D,García I,Scazzocchio C,Cubero B

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH oxidases (Nox) produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) in multicellular eukaryotic organisms. They trigger defense reactions ('oxidative burst') - in phagocytes and plant cells -, and are involved in a broad range of differentiation processes. Fungal Nox-complexes play a central role in vegetative, sexual and path...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marschall R,Tudzynski P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans switches its morphology from yeast to hyphal forms. The morphological transition may render C. albicans virulent. Several signaling cascades, including those of the cyclic AMP-protein kinase A and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways, are responsible for morphogenesis. I...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kim SW,Joo YJ,Chun YJ,Park YK,Kim J

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engulfment of the forespore by the mother cell is a universal feature of endosporulation. In Bacillus subtilis, the forespore protein SpoIIQ and the mother cell protein SpoIIIAH form a channel, essential for endosporulation, through which the developing spore is nurtured. The two proteins also form a backup system for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Serrano M,Crawshaw AD,Dembek M,Monteiro JM,Pereira FC,Pinho MG,Fairweather NF,Salgado PS,Henriques AO

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When confronted with a stress factor, bacteria react with a specific stress response, a genetically encoded programme resulting in the transiently enhanced expression of a subset of genes. One of these stress factors is a sudden increase in the external pH. As a first step to understand the response of Bacillus subtil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wiegert T,Homuth G,Versteeg S,Schumann W

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine auxotrophs of the dinitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena species strain PCC 7120 were isolated after ultraviolet light mutagenesis and penicillin enrichment. Two of these auxotrophs were complemented by a cosmid gene library of the wild-type strain established in Escherichia coli that was transferred en ma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Floriano B,Herrero A,Flores E

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trypanothione reductase (TR), a flavoprotein oxidoreductase central to the unique thiol-redox system that operates in trypanosomatid protozoa, has been proposed as a potential target for the chemotherapy of trypanosomatid infections. In this study, targeted gene replacement was used to obtain evidence that TR is an es...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tovar J,Wilkinson S,Mottram JC,Fairlamb AH

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, rare-earth elements (REEs) had been thought to be biologically inactive. This view changed with the discovery of the methanol dehydrogenase XoxF that strictly relies on REEs for its activity. Some methylotrophs only contain xoxF, while others, including the model phyllosphere colonizer Methylobacterium...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ochsner AM,Hemmerle L,Vonderach T,Nüssli R,Bortfeld-Miller M,Hattendorf B,Vorholt JA

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual inspection showed clear evidence of a history of intraspecies recombinational exchanges within the neighbouring meningococcal shikimate dehydrogenase (aroE) and glutamine synthetase (glnA) genes, which was supported by the non-congruence of the trees constructed from the sequences of these genes from different ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhou J,Bowler LD,Spratt BG

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00