Multiple drug resistance genes in malaria -- from epistasis to epidemiology.

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：: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：:The pulmonary pathogen Legionella pneumophila uses the Dot/Icm type IV secretion system (T4SS) to replicate inside host cells. This apparatus translocates proteins into macrophages to alter their endocytic pathway and enable bacterial growth. Although the secretion ATPase DotB is critical for T4SS function, its specif...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sexton JA,Yeo HJ,Vogel JP

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During Bacillus subtilis endospore formation, a complex protein coat is assembled around the maturing spore. The coat is made up of more than two dozen proteins that form an outer layer, which provides chemical resistance, and an inner layer, which may play a role in the activation of germination. A third, amorphous l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Seyler RW Jr,Henriques AO,Ozin AJ,Moran CP Jr

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kilB locus (which is unclonable in the absence of korB) of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 (60 kb) lies between the trfA operon (co-ordinates 16.4 to 18.2 kb), which encodes a protein essential for vegetative replication, and the Tra2 block of conjugative transfer genes (co-ordinates 20.0 to 27.0 kb). Promoter probe ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Motallebi-Veshareh M,Balzer D,Lanka E,Jagura-Burdzy G,Thomas CM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter (PfHT) has previously been shown to be a facilitative glucose and fructose transporter. Its expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes and the use of a glucose analogue inhibitor permitted chemical validation of PfHT as a novel drug target. Following recent re-annotations of the P....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Slavic K,Straschil U,Reininger L,Doerig C,Morin C,Tewari R,Krishna S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cytokinesis is orchestrated by an assembly of essential cell division proteins that form a supramolecular structure known as the divisome. DivIB and its orthologue FtsQ are essential members of the divisome in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria respectively. DivIB is a bitopic membrane protein composed...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wadsworth KD,Rowland SL,Harry EJ,King GF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanistic details of the pathogenesis of Chlamydia, an obligate intracellular pathogen of global importance, have eluded scientists due to the scarcity of traditional molecular genetic tools to investigate this organism. Here we report a chemical biology strategy that has uncovered the first essential protease f...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gloeckl S,Ong VA,Patel P,Tyndall JD,Timms P,Beagley KW,Allan JA,Armitage CW,Turnbull L,Whitchurch CB,Merdanovic M,Ehrmann M,Powers JC,Oleksyszyn J,Verdoes M,Bogyo M,Huston WM

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:A series of internal deletions in the lktA gene of Pasteurella haemolytica has been constructed. All of the deletions eliminated the lytic activity of the leukotoxin towards the bovine lymphoma cell line, BL-3. Deletions removing segments of the amino-proximal hydrophobic region, which is thought to constitute an esse...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cruz WT,Young R,Chang YF,Struck DK

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication of the bacterial chromosome is initiated by the binding of the DnaA protein to a unique DNA region, called oriC. Many regulatory factors in numerous species act by controlling the ability of DnaA to bind and unwind DNA, but the Helicobacter pylori genome does not contain homologues to any of these factors....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zawilak-Pawlik A,Kois A,Stingl K,Boneca IG,Skrobuk P,Piotr J,Lurz R,Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J,Labigne A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed frameshifting in the RF2 gene (prfB) involves an intragenic Shine-Dalgarno (SD) sequence. To investigate the role of SD-ASD pairing in the mechanism of frameshifting, we have analysed the effect of spacing between the SD sequence and P codon on P-site tRNA binding and RF2-dependent termination. When the spa...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Devaraj A,Fredrick K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus lactis NCDO763 harbours a plasmid designated pLP763. The cells harbouring pLP763 are able to grow to a higher density in milk because of their proteinase-positive phenotype (Prt+). The 6.2 kb HindIII-PstI fragment from pLP763 was found to be responsible for the Prt+ phenotype. The DNA fragment contains a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kiwaki M,Ikemura H,Shimizu-Kadota M,Hirashima A

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：SUMMARY:The conserved bacterial protein RloC, a distant homologue of the tRNA(Lys) anticodon nuclease (ACNase) PrrC, is shown here to act as a wobble nucleotide-excising and Zn(++)-responsive tRNase. The more familiar PrrC is silenced by a genetically linked type I DNA restriction-modification (R-M) enzyme, activated b...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Davidov E,Kaufmann G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MsDef1 and MtDef4 from Medicago spp. are small cysteine-rich defensins with potent antifungal activity against a broad range of filamentous fungi. Each defensin has a hallmark γ-core motif (GXCX(3-9) C), which contains major determinants of its antifungal activity. In this study, the antifungal activities of MsDef1, M...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Muñoz A,Chu M,Marris PI,Sagaram US,Kaur J,Shah DM,Read ND

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria differ from eukaryotes by having the enzyme DNA gyrase, which catalyses the ATP-dependent negative supercoiling of DNA. Negative supercoils are essential for condensing chromosomes into an interwound (plectonemic) and branched structure known as the nucleoid. Topo-1 removes excess supercoiling in an ATP-indep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Booker BM,Deng S,Higgins NP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CoiA is a transient protein expressed specifically during competence and required for genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, but not for DNA uptake. It is widely conserved among Gram-positive bacteria but its function is unknown. Here we report that although the rate of DNA uptake was not affected in a co...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Desai BV,Morrison DA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we show that the Escherichia coli protein Fis has a regulatory function in Mu transposition in the presence of Mu repressor. Fis can lower the transposition frequency of a mini-Mu 3-80-fold, but only if the Mu repressor is expressed simultaneously. In this novel type of regulation of transposition by the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van Drunen CM,van Zuylen C,Mientjes EJ,Goosen N,van de Putte P

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：: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 invasive phenotype of Shigella flexneri is conferred by a 220 kb virulence plasmid, pWR100, that encodes both the lpa proteins, which are involved in the entry process, and factors which are required for the export and correct localization of the lpa proteins. We have characterized the mxiD gene, whose expression,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Allaoui A,Sansonetti PJ,Parsot C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By genetic analysis of a thermosensitive autolytic mutant whose phenotype was complemented by osmotic stabilization with sorbitol, we identified gene LYT2 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is probably involved in cell wall formation. A yeast gene complementing lyt2 strains was cloned and shown to carry an open readin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Torres L,Martín H,García-Saez MI,Arroyo J,Molina M,Sánchez M,Nombela C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Definitive identification of Treponema pallidum rare outer membrane proteins (OMPs) has long eluded researchers. TP0326, the sole protein in T. pallidum with sequence homology to a Gram-negative OMP, belongs to the BamA family of proteins essential for OM biogenesis. Structural modelling predicted that five polypeptid...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Desrosiers DC,Anand A,Luthra A,Dunham-Ems SM,LeDoyt M,Cummings MA,Eshghi A,Cameron CE,Cruz AR,Salazar JC,Caimano MJ,Radolf JD

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) is caused by Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes (IEs) that bind to chondroitin sulphate A (CSA) in the placenta by PAM-associated clonally variant surface antigens (VSA). Pregnancy-specific VSA (VSA(PAM)), which include the PfEMP1 variant VAR2CSA, are targets of IgG-mediated...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barfod L,Bernasconi NL,Dahlbäck M,Jarrossay D,Andersen PH,Salanti A,Ofori MF,Turner L,Resende M,Nielsen MA,Theander TG,Sallusto F,Lanzavecchia A,Hviid L

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume of electron flow through the cbb3 branch of the electron transport chain and the redox state of the quinone pool generate signals that regulate photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. An inhibitory signal is generated at the level of the catalytic subunit of the cbb3 cytochrome c oxidase ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Oh JI,Kaplan S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of methylthioadenosine/S-adenosylhomocysteine (MTA/SAH) nucleosidase in bacteria has started to be appreciated only in the past decade. A comprehensive analysis of its various roles here demonstrates that it is an integral component of the activated methyl cycle, which recycles adenine and methionine th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Parveen N,Cornell KA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of the Leishmania infantum genome with Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania major genomes has identified 25 L. infantum species-specific genes that are absent or pseudogenes in L. major and L. braziliensis. To determine whether these L. infantum species-specific genes are involved in visceral Leishmania i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhang WW,Matlashewski G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the 987P gene cluster is activated by the adjacent IS1 element of an STpa transposon. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the 987P-DNA region contiguous with this IS1 element revealed the presence of an open reading frame designated fapR, encoding a basic protein of 260 amino acid residues with a molecular m...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klaasen P,de Graaf FK

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00