The bgl1 gene encoding extracellular beta-glucosidase from Trichoderma reesei is required for rapid induction of the cellulase complex.

abstract：:The sex pheromone cAM373 of Enterococcus faecalis and the related staph-cAM373 of Staphylococcus aureus were found to correspond to heptapeptides located within the C-termini of the signal sequences of putative prelipoproteins. The deduced mature forms of the lipoproteins share no detectable homology and presumably se...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Flannagan SE,Clewell DB

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translational roles of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, the initiation codon, the space between them, and the second codon have been studied. The Shine-Dalgarno sequence UAAGGAGG initiated translation roughly four times more efficiently than did the shorter AAGGA sequence. Each Shine-Dalgarno sequence required a minim...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ringquist S,Shinedling S,Barrick D,Green L,Binkley J,Stormo GD,Gold L

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translating ribosomes require elongation factor P (EF-P) to incorporate consecutive prolines (XPPX) into nascent peptide chains. The proteome of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 contains a total of 1,468 XPPX motifs, many of which are found in proteins involved in primary and secondary metabolism. We show here th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pinheiro B,Petrov DP,Guo L,Martins GB,Bramkamp M,Jung K

更新日期：2020-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The wrinkly spreader (WS) genotype of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 colonizes the air-liquid interface of spatially structured microcosms resulting in formation of a thick biofilm. Its ability to colonize this niche is largely due to overproduction of a cellulosic polymer, the product of the wss operon. Chemical analy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Spiers AJ,Bohannon J,Gehrig SM,Rainey PB

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the codY gene is required for nutritional repression of the Bacillus subtillis dipeptide permease operon (dpp), an operon expressed at early stationary phase in nutrient-rich medium. Though unrelated to any known DNA-binding protein, CodY was shown to bind specifically to the dpp promoter region. DNase ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Serror P,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The td group I intron interrupting the thymidylate synthase (TS) gene of phage T4 is a mobile intron that encodes the homing endonuclease I-TevI. Efficient RNA splicing of the intron is required to restore function of the TS gene, while expression of I-TevI from within the intron is required to initiate intron mobilit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gibb EA,Edgell DR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of eukaryotic proteins are already known to orchestrate key steps of mRNA metabolism and translation via interactions with the 5' m7GpppN cap. We have characterized a new type of histidine triad (HIT) motif protein (Nhm1) that co-purifies with the cap-binding complex eIF4F of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nhm1 i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Salehi Z,Geffers L,Vilela C,Birkenhäger R,Ptushkina M,Berthelot K,Ferro M,Gaskell S,Hagan I,Stapley B,McCarthy JE

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restart of arrested replication forks is an important process and PriA, the main Escherichia coli replication restart protein, is essential for viability under any condition that increases the frequency of fork arrest. In priA mutant, replication forks are arrested by spontaneously occurring roadblocks and blocked rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grompone G,Sanchez N,Dusko Ehrlich S,Michel B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTP-binding proteins of the highly conserved Rho family act as molecular switches regulating cell signalling, cytoskeletal organization and vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells. Here we show that in the dimorphic plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis deletion of either cdc42 or rac1 results in loss of virul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mahlert M,Leveleki L,Hlubek A,Sandrock B,Bölker M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of wild-type Streptomyces lividans 66 is degraded during electrophoresis in buffers containing traces of ferrous iron. S. lividans ZX1, a mutant selected for resistance to DNA degradation, simultaneously became sensitive to phi HAU3, a wide-host-range temperate bacteriophage. A DNA fragment conferring phi HAU3...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhou X,Deng Z,Hopwood DA,Kieser T

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:Three distinct types of terminal oxidases participate in the aerobic respiratory pathways of Paracoccus denitrificans. Two alternative genes encoding subunit I of the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase have been isolated before, namely ctaDI and ctaDII. Each of these genes can be expressed separately to complement a double...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： de Gier JW,Lübben M,Reijnders WN,Tipker CA,Slotboom DJ,van Spanning RJ,Stouthamer AH,van der Oost J

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virstatin is a previously described small molecule inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae virulence. We have demonstrated that the molecule inhibits the activity of the transcriptional activator ToxT, thereby preventing elaboration of the toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin in vitro and in vivo in O1 strains of V. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Sturtevant D,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crown gall tumorigenesis by Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires the co-ordinate transcriptional induction of a set of pathogenesis genes. At least three classes of environmental stimuli act synergistically to induce these genes: (i) monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as acetosyringone, coniferyl alcohol, and vanilli...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Winans SC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In '5'-translational blockage', significantly reduced yields of proteins are synthesized in Escherichia coli when consecutive low-usage codons are inserted near translation starts of messages (with reduced or no effect when these same codons are inserted downstream). We tested the hypothesis that ribosomes encounterin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gao W,Tyagi S,Kramer FR,Goldman E

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:polY, a transcriptional regulatory gene in the polyoxin biosynthetic cluster of Streptomyces cacaoi, was analysed, and its deduced product (PolY) showed amino acid sequence homology to AfsR from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). PolY contains an OmpR-like DNA binding domain at its N-terminal and an ATPase domain in the m...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li R,Liu G,Xie Z,He X,Chen W,Deng Z,Tan H

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Mismatch repair (MMR) corrects DNA polymerase errors occurring during genome replication. MMR is critical for genome maintenance, and its loss increases mutation rates several hundred fold. Recent work has shown that the interaction between the mismatch recognition protein MutS and the replication processivity clamp i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klocko AD,Schroeder JW,Walsh BW,Lenhart JS,Evans ML,Simmons LA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus strain M produces large amounts of capsular polysaccharide. It produces a non-encapsulated variant at a frequency of 0.01% at 37 degrees C. At high temperature (43 degrees C), the frequency of capsule loss was shown to be 1-38%. A 19 kb plasmid and a prophage were found to be carried by the M str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lee CY

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fundamental cellular processes depend on enzymes that utilize chemical energy to catalyse unfavourable reactions. Certain classes of ATPases provide a particularly vivid example of the process of energy conversion, employing cycles of nucleotide turnover to move and/or rearrange biological polymers such as protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thomsen ND,Berger JM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elaboration of a capsule composed of one of a range of acidic polysaccharides is a common feature of many bacteria, particularly those capable of causing serious infections in humans. Biochemical and genetical analyses of capsule biogenesis in Escherichia coli are beginning to reveal new aspects of polysaccharide bios...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Boulnois GJ,Jann K

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of initiation of chromosome replication after induction of DnaA protein synthesis was studied in a dnaA(nuII) rnh mutant of Escherichia coli. DnaA protein synthesis was induced to different extents using the wild-type dnaA gene controlled by a lac promoter. Initiation of chromosome replication from oriC, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hansen FG,Atlung T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomyelin is the main sphingolipid in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness. In vitro and in vivo characterization of the T. brucei neutral sphingomyelinase demonstrates that it is directly involved in sphingomyelin catabolism. Gene knockout studies in the bloodstream form of the par...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Young SA,Smith TK

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cheA gene encodes two overlapping polypeptides with a common carboxyl terminus: CheAL and CheAS. CheAL plays a central role in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signalling pathway by autophosphorylation and transferring the phosphate to both CheY and CheB. On the other hand, the physiological functions of CheAS rema...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang H,Matsumura P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.7 kb fragment of Helicobacter pylori UA802 chromosomal DNA was cloned and sequenced. Three open reading frames (designated ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3, respectively) were predicted from the DNA sequence, of which ORF1 and ORF2 appeared to be located within the same operon. The deduced 611-amino-acid sequence of ORF1, a P-...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ge Z,Hiratsuka K,Taylor DE

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:MexAB-OprM is a multidrug efflux system that contributes to intrinsic and acquired multidrug resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the latter as a result of mutational hyperexpression of the mexAB-oprM operon. While efflux gene hyperexpression typically results from mutations in the linked mexR repressor gene, it also...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cao L,Srikumar R,Poole K

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaA protein of Escherichia coli is a multi-functional protein which, In addition to promoting initiation of replication, can regulate the initiation or termination of transcription of a variety of genes. It acts by binding to DNA at a defined sequence, termed a DnaA-box. Three candidate DnaA-boxes which occur wit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Smith RW,McAteer S,Masters M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent polyclonal antibodies specific for MukB have been used to study its localization in Escherichia coli. In wild-type cells, the MukB protein appeared as a limited number of oblong shapes embracing the nucleoid. MukB remained associated with the nucleoid in the absence of DNA replication. The centre of gravit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： den Blaauwen T,Lindqvist A,Löwe J,Nanninga N

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of cAMP signalling during germination of asexual spores (conidia) of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans was investigated. A. nidulans strains defective for adenylate cyclase (CyaA) or for the functionally overlapping cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PkaA) and newly characterized SchA protein kinase, ho...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fillinger S,Chaveroche MK,Shimizu K,Keller N,d'Enfert C

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00