An antisense RNA controls synthesis of an SOS-induced toxin evolved from an antitoxin.

abstract：:The culturability of several actinobacteria is controlled by resuscitation-promoting factors (Rpfs). These are proteins containing a c. 70-residue domain that adopts a lysozyme-like fold. The invariant catalytic glutamate residue found in lysozyme and various bacterial lytic transglycosylases is also conserved in the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mukamolova GV,Murzin AG,Salina EG,Demina GR,Kell DB,Kaprelyants AS,Young M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strategy was developed to mutate and genetically identify exported proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Vectors were created and used to screen pneumococcal DNA in Escherichia coli and S. pneumoniae for translational gene fusions to alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). Twenty five PhoA+ pneumococcal mutants were isolated a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pearce BJ,Yin YB,Masure HR

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many types of microorganisms, including both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, have developed mechanisms to adapt to severe osmotic stress. In this study, we isolated multicopy suppressor genes for a Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutant, which exhibited the clear phenotype of being osmosensitive for growth (Osms) on agar plates...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ohmiya R,Yamada H,Nakashima K,Aiba H,Mizuno T

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Iron is a critical nutrient for the growth and survival of most bacterial species. Accordingly, much attention has been paid to the mechanisms by which host organisms sequester iron from invading bacteria and how bacteria acquire iron from their environment. However, under oxidative stress conditions such as those enc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Frawley ER,Fang FC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coli surface antigen 6 (CS6) is a widely expressed enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) colonization factor that mediates bacterial attachment to the small intestinal epithelium. CS6 is a polymer of two protein subunits CssA and CssB, which are secreted and assembled on the cell surface via the CssC/CssD chaperone ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roy SP,Rahman MM,Yu XD,Tuittila M,Knight SD,Zavialov AV

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases of the X family have been implicated in a variety of DNA repair processes in eukaryotes. Here we show that Deinococcus radiodurans, a highly radioresistant bacterium able to mend hundreds of radiation-induced double-stranded DNA breaks, expresses a DNA polymerase belonging to the X family. This novel b...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lecointe F,Shevelev IV,Bailone A,Sommer S,Hübscher U

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:The csiD-ygaF-gabDTP region in the Escherichia coli genome represents a cluster of sigma S-controlled genes. Here, we investigated promoter structures, sigma factor dependencies, potential co-regulation and environmental regulatory patterns for all of these genes. We find that this region constitutes a complex operon ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Metzner M,Germer J,Hengge R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Streptomyces wild-type chromosome is linear in all examples studied. The ends of the chromosome or telomeres consist of terminal inverted repeats of various sizes with proteins covalently bound to their 5' ends. The chromosome is very unstable and undergoes very large deletions spontaneously at rates higher than 0...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Volff JN,Altenbuchner J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although SsrA(tmRNA)-mediated trans-translation is thought to maintain the translation capacity of bacterial cells by rescuing ribosomes stalled on messenger RNA lacking an in-frame stop codon, single disruption of ssrA does not crucially hamper growth of Escherichia coli. Here, we identified YhdL (renamed ArfA for al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Ozawa S,Takahashi Y,Takai K,Nanamiya H,Tozawa Y,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemoreceptors play a central role in chemotaxis, allowing bacteria to detect chemical gradients and bias their swimming behavior in order to navigate toward favorable environments. The genome of the kiwifruit pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa) strain NZ-V13 encodes 43 predicted chemoreceptors, none o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McKellar JL,Minnell JJ,Gerth ML

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reputed iron-responsive region, which contains multiple nuclear protein-binding DNA sequences, was shown previously to regulate iron-inducible transcription of the ap65-1 gene in the protozoan pathogen, Trichomonas vaginalis. These DNA sequences include two overlapping MYB recognition elements (MRE-1/MRE-2r) and thr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ong SJ,Huang SC,Liu HW,Tai JH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of bacterial cells to temperature changes induces the synthesis of a set proteins. We investigated the control of expression of the cspA gene, coding for the major cold-shock protein of Escherichia coli. This protein was shown to be transiently induced upon shift to low temperature. We demonstrated that the c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Goldenberg D,Azar I,Oppenheim AB

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a very common extraintestinal infection, and Escherichia coli is by far the most common causative organism. Uropathogenic E. coli possess traits that distinguish them from commensal strains of E. coli, such as secretion systems that allow virulence factors to be targeted to extracytopl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Guyer DM,Henderson IR,Nataro JP,Mobley HL

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two so-called Ter sites, which bind the Escherichia coli Tus protein, are located near the replication origin of plasmid R1. Inactivation of the tus gene caused a large decrease in the stability of maintenance of the R1 mini-derivative pOU47 despite the presence of a functional partition system on the plasmid. Deletio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krabbe M,Zabielski J,Bernander R,Nordström K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli, a gene for the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit C (ahpC) had unique patterns of regulation by various forms of OxyR. Reduced OxyR repressed expression of the gene, whereas oxidized OxyR activated its expression. This dual regulation of ahpC is unique and unlike all other Ox...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Loprasert S,Fuangthong M,Whangsuk W,Atichartpongkul S,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2000-09-01 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：:Post-translational modifications account for much of the biological diversity generated at the proteome level. Of these, glycosylation is the most prevalent. Long thought to be unique to Eukarya, it is now clear that both Bacteria and Archaea are also capable of N-glycosylation, namely the covalent linkage of oligosac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yurist-Doutsch S,Chaban B,VanDyke DJ,Jarrell KF,Eichler J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae is regulated by a quorum-sensing mechanism consisting of a competence-stimulating peptide (CSP), its dedicated secretion apparatus (ComAB), its histidine kinase receptor (ComD) and a response regulator (ComE). In this report, we show that ComE is a DNA-binding protein tha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ween O,Gaustad P,Håvarstein LS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virstatin is a previously described small molecule inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae virulence. We have demonstrated that the molecule inhibits the activity of the transcriptional activator ToxT, thereby preventing elaboration of the toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin in vitro and in vivo in O1 strains of V. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Sturtevant D,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori persists deep in the human gastric mucus layer in a harsh, nutrient-poor environment. Survival under these conditions depends on the ability of this human pathogen to invoke starvation/stress responses when needed. Unlike many bacteria, H. pylori lacks starvation/stress-responding alternative sigma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yang ZX,Zhou YN,Yang Y,Jin DJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report selective phosphorylation of the DNA-binding domain of the Streptococcus pneumoniae transcriptional regulator RitR. RitR is annotated as a two-component response regulator, but lacks a cognate His kinase as a neighbouring locus in the genome. In addition, Asn replaces Asp at the expected acceptor site. By th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ulijasz AT,Falk SP,Weisblum B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors secreted by Listeria monocytogenes are known to interfere with host cellular signalling pathways. We investigated whether L. monocytogenes modulates T-cell receptor signalling by examining surface expression of proteins known to be upregulated on activated T cells. In vitro culture of murine splenocy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zenewicz LA,Skinner JA,Goldfine H,Shen H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of trkA, a gene encoding a surface component of the constitutive K(+)-uptake systems TrkG and TrkH from Escherichia coli, was determined. The structure of the TrkA protein deduced from the nucleotide sequence accords with the view that TrkA is peripherally bound to the inner side of the cytopla...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schlösser A,Hamann A,Bossemeyer D,Schneider E,Bakker EP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress serves as an important host/environmental signal that triggers a wide range of responses from the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Among these, a thiol-based oxidation sensing pathway through a global regulator MgrA controls the virulence and antibiotic resistance of the bacterium. Herein, we rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen PR,Nishida S,Poor CB,Cheng A,Bae T,Kuechenmeister L,Dunman PM,Missiakas D,He C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Plasmodium falciparum genome sequence has boosted hopes for a new era of malaria research and for the application of comprehensive molecular knowledge to disease control, but formidable obstacles remain: approximately 60% of the predicted P. falciparum proteins have no known functions or homologues, and most life ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Su XZ,Wootton JC

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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