Channels in microbes: so many holes to fill.

abstract：:Cholesterol catabolism is widespread in actinobacteria and is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) virulence. Catabolism of steroid nucleus rings C and D is poorly understood: it is initiated by the CoA thioesterification of 3aα-H-4α(3'-propanoate)-7aβ-methylhexahydro-1,5-indanedione (HIP) by FadD3, whose gen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Casabon I,Zhu SH,Otani H,Liu J,Mohn WW,Eltis LD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the capacity of the 11 phase-variable, opacity-associated (Opa) proteins encoded by Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 to mediate traversal across polarized monolayers of the human colonic carcinoma T84 cell line. Gonococci expressing either the heparan sulphate proteoglycan (HSPG) binding Opa protein (Opa50)...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang J,Gray-Owen SD,Knorre A,Meyer TF,Dehio C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional ribosomal RNAs are generated from longer precursor species in every organism known. Maturation of the 5' side of 16S rRNA in Escherichia coli is catalysed in a two-step process by the cooperative action of RNase E and RNase G. However, many bacteria lack RNase E and RNase G orthologues, raising the question...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Britton RA,Wen T,Schaefer L,Pellegrini O,Uicker WC,Mathy N,Tobin C,Daou R,Szyk J,Condon C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energy requirement for the second step in pullulanase secretion by the general secretory pathway was studied in Escherichia coli. In order to uncouple the two steps in the secretion pathway (across the cytoplasmic and outer membranes, respectively) and to facilitate kinetic analysis of secretion, a variant form of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Possot OM,Letellier L,Pugsley AP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized a number of mutations in fnr that interfere with FNR-dependent transcription activation at two promoters where the FNR-binding site is centred around 41 1/2 bp upstream from the transcription start site. The substituted residues in all but one of these FNR mutants are clustered around a presumed ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bell A,Busby S

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Factors that enhance the transmission of pathogens are poorly understood. We show that Vibrio cholerae shed in human 'rice-water' stools have a 10-fold lower oral infectious dose in an animal model than in vitro grown V. cholerae, which may aid in transmission during outbreaks. Furthermore, we identify a bacterial fac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Butler SM,Nelson EJ,Chowdhury N,Faruque SM,Calderwood SB,Camilli A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis on smooth polymer surfaces has been shown to be mediated by the ica operon. Upon activation of this operon, a polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA) is synthesized that supports bacterial cell-to-cell contacts and triggers the production of thick, multilayered biofil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ziebuhr W,Krimmer V,Rachid S,Lössner I,Götz F,Hacker J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viable mutations affecting the 5'-phosphate sensor of RNase E, including R169Q or T170A, become lethal when combined with deletions removing part of the non-catalytic C-terminal domain of RNase E. The phosphate sensor is required for efficient autoregulation of RNase E synthesis as RNase E R169Q is strongly overexpres...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Garrey SM,Mackie GA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In trying to identify genetic loci involved in the regulation of cap5 genes in Staphylococcus aureus, we isolated a transposon mutant that exhibited a growth defect, enhanced autolysis and increased sensitivity to Triton X-100 and penicillin, attributable in part to increased murein hydrolase activity. Analysis of the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ingavale SS,Van Wamel W,Cheung AL

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid homeostasis of the bacterial membrane is maintained by biochemical regulation of the synthesis enzymes depending on the environment. However, genes encoding phospholipid synthesis enzymes might also be regulated during stress responses, in order for the bacteria to adapt their growth to changing environme...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wahl A,My L,Dumoulin R,Sturgis JN,Bouveret E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae is due to successive mutations in penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) which reduce their affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics. PBP2x is one of the high-Mr PBPs which appears to be altered both in resistant clinical isolates, and in cefotaxime-resistant la...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Laible G,Hakenbeck R,Sicard MA,Joris B,Ghuysen JM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the genes required for the conjugative transfer of DNA are encoded by the 33 kb transfer (tra) operon of F-like conjugative plasmids. Transcription of the tra operon is positively regulated by the TraJ transcriptional activator which, in turn, is negatively regulated by the FinOP fertility inhibition system. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van Biesen T,Frost LS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vegetative replication and partitioning of many plasmids and some chromosomes of alphaproteobacteria are directed by their repABC operons. RepA and RepB proteins direct the partitioning of replicons to daughter cells, while RepC proteins are replication initiators, although they do not resemble any characterized repli...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pinto UM,Flores-Mireles AL,Costa ED,Winans SC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ZmpC zinc metalloproteinase of Streptococcus pneumoniae, annotated in the type 4 genome as SP0071, was found to cleave human matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9). The previously described IgA protease activity was confirmed to be specifically linked to the IgA1-protease/SP1154 zinc metalloproteinase. MMP-9 is a prot...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Oggioni MR,Memmi G,Maggi T,Chiavolini D,Iannelli F,Pozzi G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of the antibiotic resistance plasmid R100 that encodes the plasmid-specific transfer gene traM has two tandemly aligned promoters separated by 145 nucleotides. The principal transcripts are 705 and 562 nucleotides long. Minor transcripts are 1550 and 1700 nucleotides long. The 705-base transcript appears to...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey WB

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenicity of Plasmodium falciparum is partly due to parasite-induced host cell modifications. These modifications are facilitated by exported P. falciparum proteins, collectively referred to as the exportome. Export of several hundred proteins is mediated by the PEXEL/HT, a protease cleavage site. The PEXEL/HT...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schulze J,Kwiatkowski M,Borner J,Schlüter H,Bruchhaus I,Burmester T,Spielmann T,Pick C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are key players in the biology of Trypanosomatid parasites, not only as classical components of the mitotic spindle, microtubule-organizing centres and flagellum but also as the essential constituent of the cytoskeleton. Their length dynamics are regulated by, among others, microtubule-severing proteins. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Casanova M,Crobu L,Blaineau C,Bourgeois N,Bastien P,Pagès M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle transitions are often triggered by the proteolysis of key regulatory proteins. In Caulobacter crescentus, the G1-S transition involves the degradation of an essential DNA-binding response regulator, CtrA, by the ClpXP protease. Here, we show that another critical cell cycle regulator, SciP, is also degraded...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gora KG,Cantin A,Wohlever M,Joshi KK,Perchuk BS,Chien P,Laub MT

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated expression of the plasma membrane drug efflux pump proteins Cdr1p and Cdr2p was shown to accompany decreased azole susceptibility in Candida albicans clinical isolates. DNA sequence analysis revealed extensive allelic heterozygosity, particularly of CDR2. Cdr2p alleles showed different abilities to transport ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Holmes AR,Tsao S,Ong SW,Lamping E,Niimi K,Monk BC,Niimi M,Kaneko A,Holland BR,Schmid J,Cannon RD

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligomerization of the initiator protein, DnaA, on the origin of replication (oriC) is crucial for initiation of DNA replication. Studies in Escherichia coli (Gram-negative) have revealed that binding of DnaA to ATP, but not hydrolysis of ATP, is sufficient to promote DnaA binding, oligomerization and DNA strand separ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Madiraju MV,Moomey M,Neuenschwander PF,Muniruzzaman S,Yamamoto K,Grimwade JE,Rajagopalan M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, an opportunistic human pathogen, deploys several strategies to resist antibiotics. It uses multidrug efflux pumps, including the MexAB-OprM pump, for antibiotic resistance, and it also produces hydrogen sulfide (H2 S) that provides some defense against antibiotics. MexR functions as a tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Xuan G,Lü C,Xu H,Chen Z,Li K,Liu H,Liu H,Xia Y,Xun L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Neisseria meningitidis with the meninges that surround and protect the brain is a pivotal event in the progression of bacterial meningitis. Two models of the human meninges were established in vitro, using (i) sections of fresh human brain and (ii) cultures of viable cells grown from human meningiom...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hardy SJ,Christodoulides M,Weller RO,Heckels JE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadhesion of infected red blood cells (iRBC) is mediated through parasite-encoded, clonally variant surface antigens (VSA) and is a central process in the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) has been linked to VSA-mediated adhesion of iRBC to the glycosaminoglycan chond...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Salanti A,Staalsoe T,Lavstsen T,Jensen AT,Sowa MP,Arnot DE,Hviid L,Theander TG

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes FrvA (Lmo0641) is critical for virulence in the mouse model and is an ortholog of the Bacillus subtilis Fur- and PerR-regulated Fe(II) efflux P1B4 -type ATPase PfeT. Previously, FrvA was suggested to protect against heme toxicity. Here, we demonstrate that an frvA mutant is sensitive to iron int...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pi H,Patel SJ,Argüello JM,Helmann JD

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative sigma (σ) factors govern expression of bacterial genes in response to diverse environmental signals. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa σPvdS directs expression of genes for production of a siderophore, pyoverdine, as well as a toxin and a protease. σFpvI directs expression of a receptor for ferripyoverdine import....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Edgar RJ,Hampton GE,Garcia GPC,Maher MJ,Perugini MA,Ackerley DF,Lamont IL

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component regulatory system PhoPQ has been shown to regulate the expression of virulence factors in a number of bacterial species. For one such virulence factor, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), the PhoPQ system has been shown to regulate structural modifications in Salmonella enterica var Typhimurium. In Yersinia pe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hitchen PG,Prior JL,Oyston PC,Panico M,Wren BW,Titball RW,Morris HR,Dell A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cytoplasmic bridges between adjacent cells in the filaments of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria have been known for decades, the existence also of a continuous periplasm along the filaments raised the possibility that alternative modes of communication between cells could be utilized. The latter hypothesis was i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Haselkorn R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative enterobacterium that has historically been, and currently remains, a significant cause of human disease. It is a frequent cause of urinary tract infections and pneumonia, and subsequent systemic infections can have mortality rates as high as 60%. Despite its clinical significan...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lawlor MS,Hsu J,Rick PD,Miller VL

更新日期：2005-11-01 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