Malaria transmission-blocking antigen, Pfs230, mediates human red blood cell binding to exflagellating male parasites and oocyst production.

abstract：:Bacteria in terrestrial habitats frequently reside as biofilm communities on surfaces that are unsaturated, i.e. biofilms are covered in water films varying in thickness depending on the environmental conditions. Water availability in these habitats is influenced by the osmolarity of the water (solute stress) and by c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van de Mortel M,Halverson LJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When confronted with a stress factor, bacteria react with a specific stress response, a genetically encoded programme resulting in the transiently enhanced expression of a subset of genes. One of these stress factors is a sudden increase in the external pH. As a first step to understand the response of Bacillus subtil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wiegert T,Homuth G,Versteeg S,Schumann W

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gyrase-mediated hypernegative supercoiling is one manifestation of R-loop formation, a phenomenon that is normally suppressed by topoisomerase I (topA) in Escherichia coli. Overproduction of RNase HI (rnhA), an enzyme that removes the RNA moiety of R-loops, prevents hypernegative supercoiling and allows growth of topA...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Usongo V,Nolent F,Sanscartier P,Tanguay C,Broccoli S,Baaklini I,Drlica K,Drolet M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the basis of bacterial persistence in latent infections is critical for eradication of tuberculosis. Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mRNA expression in an in vitro model of non-replicating persistence indicated that the bacilli require electron transport chain components and ATP synthesis for surv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dhiman RK,Mahapatra S,Slayden RA,Boyne ME,Lenaerts A,Hinshaw JC,Angala SK,Chatterjee D,Biswas K,Narayanasamy P,Kurosu M,Crick DC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, Rugarabamu and colleagues investigate the role of rhomboid proteases responsible for adhesin shedding during invasion of the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This study, together with several other recent publications, raises new questions about the function of these rh...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stewart RJ,Tonkin CJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial spores are surrounded by a multilayered proteinaceous shell called the coat. In Bacillus subtilis, a coat protein called CotE guides the assembly of a major subset of coat proteins. To understand how CotE carries out its role in coat morphogenesis, we subjected its gene to mutagenesis and studied the effects...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Little S,Driks A

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heteroduplexes between the DNA molecules of 12 lambdoid phages were analysed by electron microscopy. The positions of the regions of base sequence homology between the DNA molecules divide them into 35 segments, most of which have a number of alternative forms (alleles), which in general must be functionally homologou...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Highton PJ,Chang Y,Myers RJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fructose repressor, FruR, is known to regulate expression of several genes concerned with carbon utilization. Using a previously derived consensus sequence for FruR binding, additional potential operators were identified and tested for FruR binding in DNA band migration retardation assays. Operato...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ramseier TM,Bledig S,Michotey V,Feghali R,Saier MH Jr

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration host factor (IHF) binds to two sites near the origin of transfer of the conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmid, R100. DNase I footprinting shows that one site is immediately adjacent to oriT and the gene X promoter, and another is adjacent to the traM promoter. A third site, known only from retardation ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey WB,Fee BE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only few small, regulatory RNAs encoded opposite another gene have been identified in bacteria. Here, we report the characterization of a locus where a small RNA (SymR) is encoded in cis to an SOS-induced gene whose product shows homology to the antitoxin MazE (SymE). Synthesis of the SymE protein is tightly repressed...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kawano M,Aravind L,Storz G

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:The Yersinia Ysc apparatus is made of more than 20 proteins, 11 of which have homologues in many type III systems. Here, we characterize YscP from Yersinia enterocolitica. This 515-residue protein has a high proline content, a large tandem repetition and a slow migration in SDS-PAGE. Unlike the products of neighbourin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stainier I,Bleves S,Josenhans C,Karmani L,Kerbourch C,Lambermont I,Tötemeyer S,Boyd A,Cornelis GR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcal LukF and Hlg2 are water-soluble monomers of gamma-haemolysin that assemble into oligomeric pores on the erythrocyte membranes. Here, we have created double-cysteine LukF mutants, in which single disulphide bonds connect either the prestem domain and the cap domain (V12C-T136C, Cap-Stem), or two beta-str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nguyen VT,Higuchi H,Kamio Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The best studied role of ubiquitination is to mark proteins for destruction by the proteasome but, in addition, it has recently been shown to promote macromolecular assembly and function, and alter protein function, thus playing a regulatory role distinct from protein degradation. Deubiquinating enzymes, the ubiquitin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lockington RA,Kelly JM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eeyarestatin 1 (ES1) is an inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) associated protein degradation, Sec61-dependent Ca2+ homeostasis and protein translocation into the ER. Recently, evidence was presented showing that a smaller analog of ES1, ES24, targets the Sec61-translocon, and captures it in an open conformation t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Steenhuis M,Koningstein GM,Oswald J,Pick T,O'Keefe S,Koch HG,Cavalié A,Whitehead RC,Swanton E,High S,Luirink J

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that mutations that increased the transcription of the mgtCBR (Mg2+ transport-related) operon conferred increased thermotolerance on this organism. The 5' leader of the mgtCBR mRNA contains two short open reading frames (ORFs), mgtM and mgtP, whose translation regulates the expression of the mgtCBR operon by ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gall AR,Hegarty AE,Datsenko KA,Westerman RP,SanMiguel P,Csonka LN

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid encoded LlaI R/M system from Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis consists of a bidomain methylase, with close evolutionary ties to type IIS methylases, and a trisubunit restriction complex. Both the methylase and restriction subunits are encoded on a polycistronic 6.9 kb operon. In this study, the 5' end of the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Sullivan DJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH oxidases (Nox) produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) in multicellular eukaryotic organisms. They trigger defense reactions ('oxidative burst') - in phagocytes and plant cells -, and are involved in a broad range of differentiation processes. Fungal Nox-complexes play a central role in vegetative, sexual and path...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marschall R,Tudzynski P

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conditions of halted or limited genome replication, like those experienced in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis, a more immediate detriment caused by DNA damage is altering the transcriptional programme that drives this developmental process. Here, we report that mfd, which encodes a conserved bacterial protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ramírez-Guadiana FH,Del Carmen Barajas-Ornelas R,Ayala-García VM,Yasbin RE,Robleto E,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2013-12-01 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

abstract：:The fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes blast, the most devastating disease of cultivated rice. After penetrating the leaf cuticle, M. oryzae grows as a biotroph in intimate contact with living rice epidermal cells before necrotic lesions develop. Biotrophic growth requires maintaining metabolic homeostasis while suppres...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rocha RO,Wilson RA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of plasmids carrying an IRL-kan-IRR transposable cassette, in which IRL and IRR are the left- and right-terminal sequences of IS91, have been constructed. These cassettes could be complemented for transposition with similar efficiency when IS91 transposase was provided either in cis or in trans. A total of 87...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bernales I,Mendiola MV,de la Cruz F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell and cell-surface adherence represents initial steps in forming multicellular aggregates or in establishing cell-surface interactions. The commonly used Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory strain S288c carries a flo8 mutation, and is only able to express the flocculin-encoding genes FLO1 and FLO11, when FLO8 ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fichtner L,Schulze F,Braus GH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 29 kDa protein of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica is a cysteine-rich surface antigen which we recently characterized by cDNA sequencing and by using monoclonal antibodies which differentiated between pathogenic and non-pathogenic clinical isolates. To determine the structure and biochemical attributes of this pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Flores BM,Batzer MA,Stein MA,Petersen C,Diedrich DL,Torian BE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flow of information from the outside to the inside of bacterial cells is largely directed by protein kinases. In addition to histidine/aspartate phosphorelays of two-component response regulators, recent work in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) reinforces the idea that phosphorylation on serine (Ser), threonine (T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sherman DR,Grundner C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidylate, an essential building block of DNA, is synthesized either from deoxyuridylate by thymidylate synthase (TS) or thymidine (dT) by thymidine kinase (TK). Thymidylate kinase (TMPK) phosphorylates dTMP to dTTP. Thymidine phosphorylase (TP) catalyses reversible phosphorolysis of dT. Using transposon mutagenesis...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang L,Hames C,Schmidl SR,Stülke J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural sequence variation was investigated among serogroup A subgroup IV-1 Neisseria meningitidis isolated from diseased patients and healthy carriers in The Gambia, West Africa. The frequencies of DNA import were analysed by sequencing fragments of four linked genes encoding the immunogenic outer membrane proteins T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Linz B,Schenker M,Zhu P,Achtman M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their high genomic synteny, the Leishmania major and Leishmania infantum species exhibit extensive differences in mRNA expression patterns throughout the parasite's development. Yet, the underlying mechanisms for this species-specific differential gene expression are largely unknown. Here we report that Short ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Müller M,Padmanabhan PK,Papadopoulou B

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two papers in this issue of Molecular Microbiology from Carol Gross and colleagues describe experiments that investigate how two alternative Escherichia coli sigma proteins recognize target promoter -10 regions. A combination of genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics is used to show that determinants in two adjacen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Busby SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeriolysin O (LLO) binds to cholesterol-containing membranes in which it oligomerizes to form pores. Preincubation of the toxin with cholesterol is known to inhibit haemolysis, whereas the oxidized form of cholesterol has no inhibitory effect. Using immunoblot analyses and flow cytometry we demonstrate that preincu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jacobs T,Darji A,Frahm N,Rohde M,Wehland J,Chakraborty T,Weiss S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00