Possible role of calmodulin in the secretion of Entamoeba histolytica electron-dense granules containing collagenase.

abstract：:A number of plasmid-encoded gene systems are thought to stabilize plasmids by killing plasmid-free cells (also termed post-segregational killing or plasmid addiction). Here we analyse the mechanisms of plasmid stabilization by ccd of F, parDE of RP4 and parD of R1, and compare them to hok/sok of R1. To induce synchron...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jensen RB,Grohmann E,Schwab H,Díaz-Orejas R,Gerdes K

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:Fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) are thought to be important for the attachment of Staphylococcus aureus during infection. The regulation of the genes fnbA and fnbB by the global regulatory loci sar and agr was examined using site-specific regulatory mutants of S. aureus strain Newman. The results from binding ass...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wolz C,Pöhlmann-Dietze P,Steinhuber A,Chien YT,Manna A,van Wamel W,Cheung A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosome ends of human malaria parasites harbour many genes encoding proteins that are exported to the surface of infected red cells, often being involved in host-parasite interactions and immune evasion. Unlike other murine malaria parasites Plasmodium chabaudi undergoes antigenic variation during passage in th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fischer K,Chavchich M,Huestis R,Wilson DW,Kemp DJ,Saul A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct merR genes, which regulate expression of the mercuric ion resistance gene (mer), of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans strain E-15 have been cloned, sequenced and termed merR1 and merR2. As a result of gene walking around two merR genes, it was found that these two genes were quite close in distance. The nucleotid...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Inoue C,Sugawara K,Kusano T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) elicit changes in host cell morphology and cause actin rearrangement, a phenotype that has commonly been referred to as attaching/effacing (AE) lesions. The ability of EPEC to induce AE lesions is dependent upon a type III protein secretion/translocation system that is encoded ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Friedberg D,Umanski T,Fang Y,Rosenshine I

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the ferric uptake regulator (fur) appears to be an essential gene in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, resistance to manganese was used as an enrichment to isolate strains carrying point mutations in the fur gene in order to assess its role in the co-ordinate expression of siderophores and exotoxin A (ETA). This report ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barton HA,Johnson Z,Cox CD,Vasil AI,Vasil ML

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan synthesis is an important target for antibiotics and relies on intermediates derived from central metabolism. As a result, alterations of metabolism may affect antibiotic sensitivity. An aspB mutant is auxotrophic for aspartate (Asp) and asparagine (Asn) and lyses when grown in Difco sporulation medium (...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhao H,Roistacher DM,Helmann JD

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) of neutrophils is a lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-binding antibacterial protein with specificity for Gram negative bacteria. BPI binding to the bacterial surface rapidly triggers potentially reversible bacterial growth inhibition and alterations of the outer membrane and, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Prohinar P,Forst SA,Reed D,Mandic-Mulec I,Weiss J

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although diminutive in size, bacteria possess highly diverse and spatially confined cellular structures. Two related alphaproteobacteria, Sinorhizobium meliloti and Caulobacter crescentus, serve as models for investigating the genetic basis of morphological variations. S. meliloti, a symbiont of leguminous plants, syn...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fields AT,Navarrete CS,Zare AZ,Huang Z,Mostafavi M,Lewis JC,Rezaeihaghighi Y,Brezler BJ,Ray S,Rizzacasa AL,Barnett MJ,Long SR,Chen EJ,Chen JC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal gef gene of Escherichia coli is a member of the gef gene family which encodes strongly toxic proteins of about 50 amino acids. We demonstrate here that the Gef protein is detectable by anti-peptide antibodies. Furthermore, we show that Gef is anchored in the cytoplasmic membrane by the N-terminal part ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Poulsen LK,Refn A,Molin S,Andersson P

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferrichrome-iron is actively transported across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli by the TonB-dependent receptor FhuA. To obtain FhuA in a form suitable for secondary-structure analyses, a hexahistidine tag was inserted into a surface-located site and the recombinant protein was purified by metal chelate chromato...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Moeck GS,Tawa P,Xiang H,Ismail AA,Turnbull JL,Coulton JW

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated and characterized three spontaneous mutations leading to trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)-independent expression of the tor operon encoding the TMAO-reductase anaerobic respiratory system in Escherichia coli. The mutations lie in a new for regulatory gene, the torS gene, which probably encodes a sensor protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jourlin C,Bengrine A,Chippaux M,Méjean V

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Engulfment of the forespore by the mother cell is a universal feature of endosporulation. In Bacillus subtilis, the forespore protein SpoIIQ and the mother cell protein SpoIIIAH form a channel, essential for endosporulation, through which the developing spore is nurtured. The two proteins also form a backup system for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Serrano M,Crawshaw AD,Dembek M,Monteiro JM,Pereira FC,Pinho MG,Fairweather NF,Salgado PS,Henriques AO

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:RNase protection experiments show that the sizes of the two R100 finP molecules are 74 and 135 nucleotides. In an RNase III mutant, finP transcripts form stable double-stranded hybrids of 108 bp and 68 bp with traJ transcripts. RNase protection experiments also show that most R100-1 transcripts originating in traM cro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey WB

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyruvoyl-dependent histidine decarboxylases are produced as proenzymes that mature by cleavage followed by formation of the pyruvoyl prosthetic group. The histidine decarboxylation pathway of Streptococcus thermophilus CHCC1524 that consists of the pyruvoyl-dependent histidine decarboxylase HdcA and the histidine/hist...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Trip H,Mulder NL,Rattray FP,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type II restriction enzymes are paired with modification enzymes that protect type II restriction sites from cleavage by methylating them. A plasmid carrying a type II restriction-modification gene complex is not easily replaced by an incompatible plasmid because loss of the former leads to cell death through chromoso...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Handa N,Nakayama Y,Sadykov M,Kobayashi I

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal pathogens have evolved sophisticated machinery to precisely balance the fine line between acquiring essential metals and defending against metal toxicity. Iron and copper are essential metals for many processes in both fungal pathogens and their mammalian hosts, but reduce viability when present in excess. Howe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ding C,Festa RA,Sun TS,Wang ZY

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Colletotrichum lagenarium and Magnaporthe grisea are plant pathogenic fungi that produce melanin during the appressorial differentiation stage of conidial germination and during the late stationary phase of mycelial growth. Here, we report the identification of genes for two unique transcription factors, CMR1 (Colleto...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tsuji G,Kenmochi Y,Takano Y,Sweigard J,Farrall L,Furusawa I,Horino O,Kubo Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multimer formation reduces plasmid copy number and is an established cause of segregational instability. Nevertheless, it is difficult to rationalize observations that low levels of dimers can cause severe instability, if we assume they are distributed evenly in cell populations. We report here that dimer distribution...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Summers DK,Beton CW,Withers HL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously observed that hypoxia is an important component of host microenvironments during pulmonary fungal infections. However, mechanisms of fungal growth in these in vivo hypoxic conditions are poorly understood. Here, we report that mitochondrial respiration is active in hypoxia (1% oxygen) and critical for fu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grahl N,Dinamarco TM,Willger SD,Goldman GH,Cramer RA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellar genes of Caulobacter crescentus are expressed under cell-cycle control. Expression is regulated by both flagellar assembly cues and cell-cycle events. In this paper we define the sequences required for the expression of the flgF operon, a new class of sigma 54 flagellar promoter. This promoter type is ex...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marques MV,Gober JW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti DctB is a typical transmembrane sensory histidine kinase, which senses C(4)-dicarboxylic acids (DCA) and regulates the expression of DctA, the DCA transporter. We previously reported the crystal structures of its periplasmic sensory domain (DctBp) in apo and succinate-bound states, and these str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nan B,Liu X,Zhou Y,Liu J,Zhang L,Wen J,Zhang X,Su XD,Wang YP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effector translocation is central to the virulence of many bacterial pathogens, including Streptococcus pyogenes, which utilizes the cholesterol-dependent cytolysin Streptolysin O (SLO) to translocate the NAD(+) glycohydrolase SPN into host cells during infection. SLO's translocation activity does not require host cel...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mozola CC,Caparon MG

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of septation requires precise temporal and spatial organization of penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) and associated proteins for the deposition of new cell wall material. In most bacteria, the filamentous protein FtsZ organises PBPs into assemblies at the midcell which then constrict inwards as peptidogly...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cadby IT,Lovering AL

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00