Determinants of segregational stability of the linear plasmid-prophage N15 of Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Although SsrA(tmRNA)-mediated trans-translation is thought to maintain the translation capacity of bacterial cells by rescuing ribosomes stalled on messenger RNA lacking an in-frame stop codon, single disruption of ssrA does not crucially hamper growth of Escherichia coli. Here, we identified YhdL (renamed ArfA for al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Ozawa S,Takahashi Y,Takai K,Nanamiya H,Tozawa Y,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:NsrR is a nitric oxide (NO)-sensitive transcription repressor that controls NO metabolism in a wide range of bacteria. In Bacillus subtilis, NsrR represses transcription of the nitrite reductase (nasDEF) genes that are under positive control of the ResD-ResE two-component signal transduction system. Derepression is ac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kommineni S,Yukl E,Hayashi T,Delepine J,Geng H,Moënne-Loccoz P,Nakano MM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces scabies is the best studied of those streptomycetes that cause an economically important disease known as potato scab. The phytotoxin thaxtomin is made exclusively by these pathogens and is required for virulence. Here we describe regulation of thaxtomin biosynthesis by TxtR, a member of the AraC/XylS fam...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Joshi MV,Bignell DR,Johnson EG,Sparks JP,Gibson DM,Loria R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possible role of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase (Pol) I in chromosomal replication fidelity. This was done by substituting the chromosomal polA gene by the polAexo variant containing an inactivated 3'-->5' exonuclease, which serves as a proofreader for this enzyme's misinsertion errors. Using...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Makiela-Dzbenska K,Jaszczur M,Banach-Orlowska M,Jonczyk P,Schaaper RM,Fijalkowska IJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pullulanase is a lipoprotein synthesized as a precursor with a signal peptide, which is processed by lipoprotein signal peptidase. To clarify the role of lipid modification of pullulanase, we purified lipid-modified wild-type and the unmodified (mutant) pullulanases and compared their properties. The Km and...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yamashita M,Nakagawa A,Katsuragi N,Murooka Y

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid sequence analyses have indicated that the amino-terminal part of bacteriophage PRD1 structural protein P7 carries a conserved transglycosylase domain. We analysed wild-type PRD1 and different mutant particles in zymograms and found a glycolytic activity that was associated with protein P7. This is the first...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rydman PS,Bamford DH

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV secretion systems (T4SS) are utilized by a wide range of Gram negative bacteria to deliver protein and DNA substrates to recipient cells. The best characterized T4SS are the type IVA systems, which exhibit extensive similarity to the Agrobacterium VirB T4SS. In contrast, type IVB secretion systems share almost...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vincent CD,Friedman JR,Jeong KC,Buford EC,Miller JL,Vogel JP

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Bacterial biofilms contain subpopulations of cells that are dormant and highly tolerant to antibiotics. While dormant, the bacteria must maintain the integrity of macromolecules required for resuscitation. Previously, we showed that hibernation promoting factor (HPF) is essential for protecting Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Akiyama T,Williamson KS,Franklin MJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was demonstrated recently that the SeqA protein, a main negative regulator of Escherichia coli chromosome replication initiation, is also a specific transcription factor. SeqA specifically activates the bacteriophage lambda pR promoter while revealing no significant effect on the activity of another lambda promoter...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Słomińska M,Konopa G,Ostrowska J,Kedzierska B,Wegrzyn G,Wegrzyn A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma28 controls the expression of flagella-related genes and is the most widely distributed alternative sigma factor, present in motile Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The distinguishing feature of sigma28 promoters is a long -10 region (GCCGATAA). Despite the fact that the upstream GC is highly conserved, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koo BM,Rhodius VA,Campbell EA,Gross CA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, PKA and Sch9 exert similar physiological roles in response to nutrient availability. However, their functional redundancy complicates to distinguish properly the target genes for both kinases. In this article, we analysed different phenotypic read-outs. The data unequivocally sho...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roosen J,Engelen K,Marchal K,Mathys J,Griffioen G,Cameroni E,Thevelein JM,De Virgilio C,De Moor B,Winderickx J

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, glucose activation of cAMP synthesis requires both the presence of the G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) system, Gpr1-Gpa2, and uptake and phosphorylation of the sugar. In a hxt-null strain that lacks all physiologically important glucose carriers, glucose transport as well as glucose-indu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rolland F,De Winde JH,Lemaire K,Boles E,Thevelein JM,Winderickx J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screen for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) mutants sensitive to reactive nitrogen intermediates identified transposon insertions in the presumptive proteasomal ATPase gene mpa (mycobacterium proteasome ATPase; Rv2115c). mpa mutants are attenuated in both wild type and nitric oxide synthase 2 deficient mice. In this...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Darwin KH,Lin G,Chen Z,Li H,Nathan CF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C constitutes a family of serine-threonine kinases found in all eukaryotes and implicated in a wide range of cellular functions, including regulation of cell growth, cellular differentiation and immunity. Here, we present three independent lines of evidence which indicate that protein kinase C is essent...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Penn TJ,Wood ME,Soanes DM,Csukai M,Corran AJ,Talbot NJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa chronically colonizing the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients undergoes fast evolution leading to clonal divergence. More than half of the genotypes of P. aeruginosa clone C isolates exclusively from CF lung infection exhibit large chromosomal inversions (LCIs). To analyse the impact of LCIs...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kresse AU,Dinesh SD,Larbig K,Römling U

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds are found in many proteins associated with the cell wall of Escherichia coli, and for some of these proteins the disulfide bond is critical to their stability and function. One protein found to contain a disulfide bond is the essential cell division protein FtsN, but the importance of this bond to the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meehan BM,Landeta C,Boyd D,Beckwith J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the cysteine regulon in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli is controlled by the LysR-type transcriptional activator CysB and by the inducer N-acetyl-L-serine. Sulphide and thiosulphate are anti-inducers. Two highly purified constitutive CysB proteins, CysB(T149M) and CysB(T149P), were found to b...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Colyer TE,Kredich NM

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we uncover two genes in Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 367, tstT and tstR, encoding for a rhodanese and a transcriptional regulator involved in cyanide detoxification. TstT (LVIS_0852) belongs to a new class of thiosulphate:cyanide sulphurtransferases. We found that TstR (LVIS_0853) modulates both the express...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pagliai FA,Murdoch CC,Brown SM,Gonzalez CF,Lorca GL

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are persistent and toxic environmental pollutants that accumulate in anoxic habitats. With the exception of naphthalene, nothing is known about the microbial degradation of PAH in these environments. The challenge that must be met in anaerobic PAH degradation is the destabilizat...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sawers RG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Neisseria meningitidis express one of two porin proteins. These porins have been identified as the class 2 and class 3 proteins, and express serotype-specific epitopes. The gene for the class 3 protein was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction from the DNA of a serotype 4 strain as a 1025 bp fragment. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zapata GA,Vann WF,Rubinstein Y,Frasch CE

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two papers in this issue of Molecular Microbiology from Carol Gross and colleagues describe experiments that investigate how two alternative Escherichia coli sigma proteins recognize target promoter -10 regions. A combination of genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics is used to show that determinants in two adjacen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Busby SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeriolysin O (LLO) binds to cholesterol-containing membranes in which it oligomerizes to form pores. Preincubation of the toxin with cholesterol is known to inhibit haemolysis, whereas the oxidized form of cholesterol has no inhibitory effect. Using immunoblot analyses and flow cytometry we demonstrate that preincu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jacobs T,Darji A,Frahm N,Rohde M,Wehland J,Chakraborty T,Weiss S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PrkC was shown to be a eukaryotic-like (Hanks-type) protein kinase from Bacillus subtilis with a structural organization similar to that of the eukaryotic sensor Ser/Thr or Tyr kinases (e.g. the TGF beta or PDGF receptors). The molecule consists of a catalytic domain located in the cytoplasm, joined by a single transm...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Madec E,Laszkiewicz A,Iwanicki A,Obuchowski M,Séror S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells have evolved a complex set of intracellular organelles, each of which possesses a specific complement of enzymes and performs unique metabolic functions. This compartmentalization of cellular functions provides a level of metabolic control not available to prokaryotes. However, it presents the eukaryo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aitchison JD,Nuttley WM,Szilard RK,Brade AM,Glover JR,Rachubinski RA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes grows in the cytosol of mammalian cells and spreads from cell to cell without exiting the intracellular milieu. During cell-cell spread, bacteria become transiently entrapped in double-membrane vacuoles. Escape from these vacuoles is mediated in part by a bacterial phospholipase C (PC-PLC), whos...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marquis H,Hager EJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae is controlled in part by a quorum-sensing system mediated by a peptide pheromone called competence-stimulating peptide (CSP), which acts to coordinate transient activation of genes required for competence. To characterize the transcriptional response and regul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peterson SN,Sung CK,Cline R,Desai BV,Snesrud EC,Luo P,Walling J,Li H,Mintz M,Tsegaye G,Burr PC,Do Y,Ahn S,Gilbert J,Fleischmann RD,Morrison DA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria utilize phosphorelay systems to respond to environmental or intracellular stimuli. Salmonella enterica encodes a four-step phosphorelay system that involves two sensor kinase proteins, RcsC and RcsD, and a response regulator, RcsB. The physiological stimulus for Rcs phosphorelay activation is unknown; however...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Erickson KD,Detweiler CS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes are divided into topologically independent regions, called domains, by the action of uncharacterized barriers. With the goal of identifying domain barrier components, we designed a genetic selection for mutants with reduced negative supercoiling of the Escherichia coli chromosome. We employed a strain that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hardy CD,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00