Molecular characterization of thymidine kinase from Ureaplasma urealyticum: nucleoside analogues as potent inhibitors of mycoplasma growth.

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast that causes life-threatening meningoencephalitis and grows well on mycological media regardless of inoculum size. Interestingly, a deletion of the global repressor TUP1 in C. neoformans uncovered a density-dependent growth phenotype reminiscent of the quorum-sensing phenom...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lee H,Chang YC,Nardone G,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method called Muprinting has been developed that uses PCR to generate a detailed picture of the bacteriophage Mu transposition sites in chosen domains of the bacterial chromosome. Muprinting experiments in Escherichia coli show that the frequency of phage integration changes dramatically near two repressor binding s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang X,Higgins NP

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Differential expression of the genes expressing Pap pili in Escherichia coli was suggested to involve mRNAs with different stabilities. As the result of a post-transcriptional processing event, a papA gene-specific mRNA product (mRNA-A) accumulates in large excess relative to the primary mRNA-BA transcript. Our result...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nilsson P,Uhlin BE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Candida glabrata rapidly autoactivates transcription of the AMT1 gene in response to potentially toxic copper levels through the copper-inducible binding of the Amt1 transcription factor to a metal response element (MRE) within a positioned nucleosome. Our previous studies have characterized the role of a 16...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koch KA,Allard S,Santoro N,Côté J,Thiele DJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search was performed for a periplasmic molecular chaperone which may assist outer membrane proteins of Escherichia coli on their way from the cytoplasmic to the outer membrane. Proteins of the periplasmic space were fractionated on an affinity column with sepharose-bound outer membrane porin OmpF. A 17 kDa polypepti...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen R,Henning U

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of infective endocarditis (IE). Platelet activation promoted by S. aureus resulting in aggregation and thrombus formation is an important step in the pathogenesis of IE. Here, we report that the fibrinogen/fibronectin-binding proteins FnBPA and FnBPB are major platelet-activati...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fitzgerald JR,Loughman A,Keane F,Brennan M,Knobel M,Higgins J,Visai L,Speziale P,Cox D,Foster TJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of surface-attached microorganisms comprising either single or multiple species are commonly referred to as biofilms. Using a simple assay for the initiation of biofilm formation (e.g. attachment to an abiotic surface) by Pseudomonas fluorescens strain WCS365, we have shown that: (i) P. fluorescens can for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Toole GA,Kolter R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable RNA promoters of Escherichia coli are exquisitely sensitive to variations in the superhelical density of DNA. Previously, we have shown that binding of the DNA architectural protein FIS at the upstream activating sequences (UASs) of stable RNA promoters prevents the transcription complexes from inactivation...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rochman M,Blot N,Dyachenko M,Glaser G,Travers A,Muskhelishvili G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry of Listeria monocytogenes into cultured epithelial cells requires production of internalin, a protein with features characteristic of some Gram-positive bacterial surface proteins, in particular an LPXTG motif preceding a hydrophobic sequence and a few basic residues at its C-terminal end. By immunofluorescence ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lebrun M,Mengaud J,Ohayon H,Nato F,Cossart P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ArsAB extrusion pump encoded by the ars operon of Escherichia coli plasmid R773 confers resistance to the toxic trivalent metalloids arsenite [As(III)] and antimonite [Sb(III)]. The ArsA ATPase, the catalytic subunit of the pump, has two homologous halves, A1 and A2. At the interface of these two halves are two nu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ruan X,Bhattacharjee H,Rosen BP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine-threonine kinase TOR, the Target of Rapamycin, is an important regulator of nutrient, energy and stress signaling in eukaryotes. Sch9, a Ser/Thr kinase of AGC family (the cAMP-dependent PKA, cGMP- dependent protein kinase G and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C family), is a substrate of TOR. Here, we...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alves de Castro P,Dos Reis TF,Dolan SK,Oliveira Manfiolli A,Brown NA,Jones GW,Doyle S,Riaño-Pachón DM,Squina FM,Caldana C,Singh A,Del Poeta M,Hagiwara D,Silva-Rocha R,Goldman GH

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal secondary metabolites are important bioactive compounds but the conditions leading to expression of most of the putative secondary metabolism (SM) genes predicted by fungal genomics are unknown. Here we describe a novel mechanism involved in SM-gene regulation based on the finding that, in Aspergillus nidulans,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Reyes-Dominguez Y,Bok JW,Berger H,Shwab EK,Basheer A,Gallmetzer A,Scazzocchio C,Keller N,Strauss J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H-NS protein of enteric bacteria is one of the major proteins of the bacterial nucleoid and seems to play an important role in nucleoid structure. Transcription of the hns gene encoding the H-NS protein appears to be negatively regulated by H-NS itself both in vitro and in vivo. We have examined the role of this m...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Free A,Dorman CJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli has two heat shock regulons under the transcriptional control of Esigma32 and EsigmaE RNA polymerases. These polymerases control the expression of genes, the products of which are needed for correct folding of proteins in the cytoplasm and the extracytoplasm respectively. In this study, we report that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klein G,Dartigalongue C,Raina S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression is a key strategy adopted by the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi, for adaptation and survival in the mammalian host and the tick vector. Many B. burgdorferi surface lipoproteins fall into two distinct groups according to their expression patterns: one group primarily express...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang P,Dadhwal P,Cheng Z,Zianni MR,Rikihisa Y,Liang FT,Li X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence-inherent targeting information directs polypeptides synthesized in the cytosol to their respective cellular compartment. Some proteins use ambiguous sorting signals or specific folding properties to be dually distributed between the cytosol and mitochondria. A study published in this issue of Molecular Microb...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Herrmann JM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylation is a universal post-transcriptional modification involved in degradation and quality control of bacterial RNAs. In Escherichia coli, it is admitted that any accessible RNA 3' end can be tagged by a poly(A) tail for decay. However, we do not have yet an overall view of the population of polyadenylated m...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Maes A,Gracia C,Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exosporium is the outermost layer of the Bacillus anthracis spore. The predominant protein on the exosporium surface is BclA, a collagen-like glycoprotein. BclA is incorporated on the spore surface late in the B. anthracis sporulation pathway. A second collagen-like protein, BclB, has been shown to be surface-expo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thompson BM,Stewart GC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FNR protein in Escherichia coli is an O(2) sensor that modifies global gene expression to adapt the cell to anaerobic growth. Regulation of FNR involves continuous cycling of the protein between its active and inactive states under aerobic conditions without apparent function. This raises the question of what bene...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tolla DA,Savageau MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic is the most ubiquitous environmental toxin. Here, we demonstrate that bacteria have evolved the ability to use arsenic to gain a competitive advantage over other bacteria at least twice. Microbes generate toxic methylarsenite (MAs(III)) by methylation of arsenite (As(III)) or reduction of methylarsenate (MAs(V...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen J,Yoshinaga M,Rosen BP

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Legionella pneumophila can replicate inside amoebae and also alveolar macrophages to cause Legionnaires' Disease in susceptible hosts. When nutrients become limiting, a stringent-like response coordinates the differentiation of L. pneumophila to a transmissive form, a process mediated by the two-component system LetA/...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Molofsky AB,Swanson MS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of Escherichia coli hupA and hupB, the structural genes encoding the most abundant nucleoid-associated proteins HUalpha and HUbeta has been studied during cold shock. This article demonstrates that: (i) transcriptional expression of hupA is blocked following a sudden temperature downshift (from 37 degrees C...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Giangrossi M,Giuliodori AM,Gualerzi CO,Pon CL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions or substitutions of amino acids at the carboxyl-terminus of the heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) affect its assembly into pentamers in a temperature-dependent manner. At 42 degrees C, the mutations prevent the B subunits from achieving their final pentameric structure resulting in membrane associatio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sandkvist M,Bagdasarian M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-like protein FtsA is present in many eubacteria, and genetic experiments have shown that it plays an important, sometimes essential, role in cell division. Here, we show that Bacillus subtilis FtsA is targeted to division sites in both vegetative and sporulating cells. As in other organisms FtsA is probably ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feucht A,Lucet I,Yudkin MD,Errington J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well established that the sigma S subunit of RNA polymerase is a master regulator in a complex regulatory network that governs the expression of many stationary-phase-inducible genes in Escherichia coli. In this review, more recent findings will be summarized that demonstrate that sigma S also acts as a glob...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hengge-Aronis R

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:Soupene et al. [J. Bacteriol. (2003) 185 5611-5626] made the unexpected observation that the presence of a mutation, in the gene for the N-acetylglucosamine repressor, nagC, increased the growth rate of Escherichia coli MG1655 on galactose, an unrelated sugar. We have found that NagC, binds to a single, high-affinity ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： El Qaidi S,Allemand F,Oberto J,Plumbridge J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, DNA supercoil movement is restricted to subchromosomal regions or 'domains.' To elucidate the nature of domain boundaries, we analysed reaction kinetics for gammadelta site-specific resolution in six chromosomal intervals ranging in size from 14 to 90 kb. In stationary cultures of Salmonella typhimurium, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Staczek P,Higgins NP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00