The two faces of Janus: virulence gene regulation by CovR/S in group A streptococci.

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：:The structural complexity of a ligand in association with the molecular chaperones SecB and SecA was investigated using three species of precursor maltose-binding protein, which differ in their stability as a result of an amino acid substitution in each that affects the rate of folding of the polypeptide. In the prese...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： de Cock H,Randall LL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bottlenecks reduce the size of the gene pool within populations of all life forms with implications for their subsequent survival. Here, we examine the effects of bottlenecks on bacterial commensal-pathogens during transmission between, and dissemination within, hosts. By reducing genetic diversity, bottlenecks may al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： De Ste Croix M,Holmes J,Wanford JJ,Moxon ER,Oggioni MR,Bayliss CD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest event in bacterial cell division is the formation of a Z ring, composed of the tubulin-like FtsZ protein, at the division site at midcell. This ring then recruits several other division proteins and together they drive the formation of a division septum between two replicated chromosomes. Here we show tha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peters PC,Migocki MD,Thoni C,Harry EJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External factors regulate the formation of pigment protein complexes in facultatively photosynthetic bacteria. The puf operon of Rhodobacter capsulatus encodes the pigment binding proteins of the reaction centre and light-harvesting I complex. Here we demonstrate that a single base-pair exchange within a sequence of d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klug G,Gad'on N,Jock S,Narro ML

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segmented genome of Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of Lyme disease, contains a mixture of over 20 linear and circular plasmids. Genes encoding five paralogous families of plasmid replication proteins are located on both circular and linear DNA molecules. The effect of DNA topology on the transcription of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Beaurepaire C,Chaconas G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a simple method for the reconstitution of bacterial membrane proteins directly from small (1-20 ml) volumes of cell culture, thus eliminating the preparation of membrane vesicles. Cells are subjected to simultaneous lysozyme digestion and osmotic lysis, and after brief centrifugation ghosts are solubil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Varadhachary A,Maloney PC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial two-component systems (TCS) are key signal transduction networks regulating global responses to environmental change. Environmental signals may modulate the phosphorylation state of sensor kinases (SK). The phosphorylated SK transfers the phosphate to its cognate response regulator (RR), which causes physiol...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Igoshin OA,Alves R,Savageau MA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli UvrD helicase (or helicase II) is known for its involvement in DNA repair. We report that UvrD is required for DNA replication of several different rolling-circle plasmids in E. coli, whereas its homologue, the Rep helicase, is not. Lack of UvrD helicase does not impair the first step of plasmid r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bruand C,Ehrlich SD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface of Bacillus stearothermophilus PV72 is covered by a regular surface layer (S-layer) composed of single species of protein, SbsA, with a molecular weight of 130,000. Recently, the sequence of the corresponding gene (sbsA) has been determined. The SbsA coding region including the signal sequence was clo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kuen B,Sára M,Lubitz W

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:Roughly 10% of all genes in Escherichia coli are controlled by the global transcription factor Lrp, which responds to nutrient availability. Bioinformatically, we identified lrp as one of several putative targets for the sRNA MicF, which is transcriptionally downregulated by Lrp. Deleting micF results in higher Lrp le...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Holmqvist E,Unoson C,Reimegård J,Wagner EG

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unfolded protein response (UPR) is an important stress signalling pathway involved in the cellular development and environmental adaptation of fungi. We investigated the importance of the UPR pathway in the pathogenicity of the plant necrotrophic fungus Alternaria brassicicola, which causes black spot disease on a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Joubert A,Simoneau P,Campion C,Bataillé-Simoneau N,Iacomi-Vasilescu B,Poupard P,François JM,Georgeault S,Sellier E,Guillemette T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When fungi grow on plant or insect surfaces coated with wax polyesters that protect against pathogens, the fungi generally form aerial hyphae to contact the surfaces. Aerial structures such as hyphae and conidiophores are coated with hydrophobins, which are surface-active proteins involved in adhesion to hydrophobic s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Maeda H,Yoneda S,Ohtaki S,Yamagata Y,Hasegawa F,Gomi K,Nakajima T,Abe K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to tuberculosis (TB) control is the problem of chronic TB infection (CTBI). Here we report that 5'-adenosinephosphosulphate reductase (CysH), an enzyme essential for the production of reduced-sulphur-containing metabolites, is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) survival in chronic infection...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Senaratne RH,De Silva AD,Williams SJ,Mougous JD,Reader JR,Zhang T,Chan S,Sidders B,Lee DH,Chan J,Bertozzi CR,Riley LW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax is one of four Plasmodium species that cause human malaria. P. vivax and a related simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, invade erythrocytes by binding the Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC) through their respective Duffy binding proteins. Here we show that tyrosines 30 and 41 of DAR...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Choe H,Moore MJ,Owens CM,Wright PL,Vasilieva N,Li W,Singh AP,Shakri R,Chitnis CE,Farzan M

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:A search with the proposed amino acid translation product from the new 'candidate gene' for human Menkes disease against protein sequence libraries showed a remarkable similarity to that for the cadmium efflux ATPase from Staphylococcus aureus resistance plasmids. The Menkes sequence appears closer to the CadA Cd2+ se...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Silver S,Nucifora G,Phung LT

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:Four outer-membrane proteins of Aeromonas hydrophila were purified and their N-terminal sequences and channel-forming properties were determined. Three could be matched with proteins from other species. One was a maltoporin, as its level increased when cells were grown in maltose-containing media, and the channel it f...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jeanteur D,Gletsu N,Pattus F,Buckley JT

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of small, multicopy plasmids from Gram-positive bacteria replicate by an asymmetric rolling-circle mechanism. Previous studies with several of these plasmids have identified a palindromic sequence, SSOA, that acts as the single-strand origin (SSO) for the replication of the lagging-strand DNA. Although not al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey LA,Zhao AC,Khan SA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are the major bacterial cause of diarrhea in young children in developing countries and in travelers, causing significant mortality in children. Adhesive fimbriae are a prime virulence factor for ETEC, initiating colonization of the small intestinal epithelium. Simila...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mortezaei N,Epler CR,Shao PP,Shirdel M,Singh B,McVeigh A,Uhlin BE,Savarino SJ,Andersson M,Bullitt E

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells use two distinct sensory circuits during chemotaxis towards carbohydrates. One circuit requires the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system (PTS) and is independent of any specific chemoreceptor, whereas the other uses a chemoreceptor-dependent sensory mechanism analogous to that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kristich CJ,Glekas GD,Ordal GW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Lactobacillus casei BL23 strain defective in an OmpR-family response regulator encoded by LCABL_18980 (PrcR, RR11), showed enhanced proteolytic activity caused by overexpression of the gene encoding the proteinase PrtP. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that, in addition to prtP expression, PrcR regulates genes encod...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alcántara C,Bäuerl C,Revilla-Guarinos A,Pérez-Martínez G,Monedero V,Zúñiga M

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：: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：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the regulation of cell types by homeodomain transcription factors is a key paradigm; however, many questions remain regarding this class of developmental regulators in other fungi. In the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, the homeodomain transcription factors Sxi1α a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mead ME,Stanton BC,Kruzel EK,Hull CM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human gut bifidobacteria rely on ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters for oligosaccharide uptake. Multiple oligosaccharide-specific solute-binding protein (SBP) genes are occasionally associated with a single ABC transporter, but the significance of this multiplicity remains unclear. Here, we characterize BlMnBP1 a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ejby M,Guskov A,Pichler MJ,Zanten GC,Schoof E,Saburi W,Slotboom DJ,Abou Hachem M

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell envelope of mycobacteria is a complex multilaminar structure that protects the cell from stresses encountered in the environment, and plays an important role against the bactericidal activity of immune system cells. The outermost layer of the mycobacterial envelope typically contains species-specific glycolip...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sondén B,Kocíncová D,Deshayes C,Euphrasie D,Rhayat L,Laval F,Frehel C,Daffé M,Etienne G,Reyrat JM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins are polyaromatic mycotoxins that contaminate a range of food crops as a result of fungal growth and contribute to serious health problems in the developing world because of their toxicity and mutagenicity. Although relatively resistant to biotic degradation, aflatoxins can be metabolized by certain species ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Taylor MC,Jackson CJ,Tattersall DB,French N,Peat TS,Newman J,Briggs LJ,Lapalikar GV,Campbell PM,Scott C,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00