Upregulation of thymidine kinase activity compensates for loss of thymidylate synthase activity in Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

abstract：:The genes of nicotine dehydrogenase (NDH) were identified, cloned and sequenced from the catabolic plasmid pAO1 of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans. In immediate proximity to this gene cluster is the beginning of the 6-hydroxy-L-niotine oxidase (6-HLNO) gene. NDH is composed of three subunits (A, B and C) of M(r) 30,011, 1...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grether-Beck S,Igloi GL,Pust S,Schilz E,Decker K,Brandsch R

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms underpinning switching of variant antigens on the surface of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that insertional disruption of the A4var gene, one of two var genes located within the subtelomeric region of one end of chromosome 13, would...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Horrocks P,Pinches R,Kyes S,Kriek N,Lee S,Christodoulou Z,Newbold CI

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used DNA macroarray analysis to identify genes that respond to the status of the intracellular acetyl phosphate (acP) pool. Genes whose expression correlated negatively with the ability to synthesize acP (i.e. negatively regulated genes) function primarily in flagella biosynthesis, a result consistent with observat...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wolfe AJ,Chang DE,Walker JD,Seitz-Partridge JE,Vidaurri MD,Lange CF,Prüss BM,Henk MC,Larkin JC,Conway T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to many type II restriction enzymes, dimeric proteins that cleave DNA at individual recognition sites 4-6 bp long, the SfiI endonuclease is a tetrameric protein that binds to two copies of an elongated sequence before cutting the DNA at both sites. The mode of action of the SfiI endonuclease thus seems mor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bilcock DT,Halford SE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria co-ordinate their social behaviour in a density-dependent manner by production of diffusible signal molecules by a process known as quorum sensing (QS). It is generally assumed that in homogenous environments and at high cell density, QS synchronizes cells in the population to perform collective social tasks ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pradhan BB,Chatterjee S

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli toxin exporter HlyB comprises an integral membrane domain fused to a cytoplasmic domain of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) super-family, and it directs translocation of the 110kDa haemolysin protein out of the bacterial cell without using an N-terminal secretion signal peptide. We have exploited th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koronakis E,Hughes C,Milisav I,Koronakis V

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi survives in an enzootic cycle, and Dps proteins protect DNA against damage during starvation or oxidative stress. The role of a Dps homologue encoded by Borrelia in spirochaete survival was assessed. Dps-deficient spirochaetes were infectious in mice via needle-inoculation at the dose of 10(5) spi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li X,Pal U,Ramamoorthi N,Liu X,Desrosiers DC,Eggers CH,Anderson JF,Radolf JD,Fikrig E

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:Transcript degradation is a key step in gene regulation. In eukaryotes, mRNA decay is generally initiated by removal of the poly(A) tail mediated by the Ccr4-Caf1-Not complex. Deadenylated transcripts are then rapidly degraded, primarily via the decapping-dependent pathway. Components of this pathway can be localized ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Morozov IY,Jones MG,Spiller DG,Rigden DJ,Dattenböck C,Novotny R,Strauss J,Caddick MX

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between pathogenic bacteria and the host need to be resolved at the molecular level in order to develop novel vaccines and drugs. We have previously identified strepadhesin, a novel glycoprotein-binding activity in Streptococcus pyogenes, which is regulated by Mga, a regulator of streptococcal virulen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hytönen J,Haataja S,Gerlach D,Podbielski A,Finne J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fundamental cellular processes depend on enzymes that utilize chemical energy to catalyse unfavourable reactions. Certain classes of ATPases provide a particularly vivid example of the process of energy conversion, employing cycles of nucleotide turnover to move and/or rearrange biological polymers such as protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thomsen ND,Berger JM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel two-component system (TCS) designated as DraR-K (sco3063/sco3062) was identified to be involved in differential regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. The S. coelicolor mutants with deletion of either or both of draR and draK exhibited significantly reduced actinorhodin (ACT) but inc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yu Z,Zhu H,Dang F,Zhang W,Qin Z,Yang S,Tan H,Lu Y,Jiang W

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal and its derivatives represent essential compounds in many biological systems. In animals, they are synthesized through a symmetrical cleavage of beta-carotene catalysed by a monooxygenase. Here, we demonstrate that the open reading frame sll1541 from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 encodes the fi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ruch S,Beyer P,Ernst H,Al-Babili S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pyloriattaches to healthy and inflamed gastric tissue through members of a paralogous family of 'Helicobacter outer membrane proteins' (Hops), including adhesins BabA, SabA, HopQ, LabA and HopZ. Hops share a conserved 25 kDa C-terminal region that is thought to form an autotrans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Coppens F,Castaldo G,Debraekeleer A,Subedi S,Moonens K,Lo A,Remaut H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their natural habitats, microorganisms are often exposed to osmolality changes in the environment. The osmotic stress must be sensed and converted into an activity change of specific enzymes and transport proteins and/or it must trigger their synthesis such that the osmotic imbalance can be rapidly restored. On the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Poolman B,Glaasker E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bvg locus contains two genes, bvgA and bvgS, which control the expression of the virulence-associated genes in Bordetella species by a system similar to the two-component systems used by a variety of bacterial species to respond to environmental stimuli. We determined the nucleotide sequence of the bvg loci of Bor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aricò B,Scarlato V,Monack DM,Falkow S,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two operons, comAB and comCDE, play a key role in the co-ordination of spontaneous competence development in cultures of Streptococcus pneumoniae. ComAB is required for export of the comC-encoded competence-stimulating peptide (CSP). Upon CSP binding, the histidine kinase ComD activates ComE, its cognate response regu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Martin B,Prudhomme M,Alloing G,Granadel C,Claverys JP

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified gene fusions of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC, speD) and aminopropyltransferase (speE) orthologues in diverse bacterial phyla. Both domains are functionally active and we demonstrate the novel de novo synthesis of the triamine spermidine from the diamine...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Green R,Hanfrey CC,Elliott KA,McCloskey DE,Wang X,Kanugula S,Pegg AE,Michael AJ

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:We recently identified a gene (FTN_0818) required for Francisella virulence that seemed likely involved in biotin metabolism. However, the molecular function of this virulence determinant was unclear. Here we show that this protein named BioJ is the enzyme of the biotin biosynthesis pathway that determines the chain l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feng Y,Napier BA,Manandhar M,Henke SK,Weiss DS,Cronan JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate phage P2 has the capacity to function as a helper for the defective, unrelated, satellite phage P4. In the absence of a helper, P4 can either lysogenize its host or establish itself as a plasmid. For lytic growth, P4 requires the structural genes, packaging and lysis functions of the helper. P4 can get acces...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu T,Renberg SK,Haggård-Ljungquist E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the SeqA protein is known as a negative regulator of chromosome replication. This protein is also suggested to have a role in chromosome organization. SeqA preferentially binds to hemi-methylated DNA and is by immunofluorescence microscopy seen as foci situated at the replication factories. Loss o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klungsøyr HK,Skarstad K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that disruption of the htrA (high temperature requirement A) gene in either the virulent Bacillus anthracis Vollum (pXO1(+) , pXO2(+) ), or in the ΔVollum (pXO1(-), pXO2(-), nontoxinogenic and noncapsular) strains, affect significantly the ability of the resulting mutants to withstand heat, oxidative, e...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chitlaru T,Zaide G,Ehrlich S,Inbar I,Cohen O,Shafferman A

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo and in vitro analyses indicate that transcription of the argO gene coding for an arginine exporter is regulated by the global transcriptional regulator Lrp, an effect that went by unnoticed in previous genome-scale screenings of the Lrp regulatory network in Escherichia coli. Lrp activates the argO promoter fo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peeters E,Nguyen Le Minh P,Foulquié-Moreno M,Charlier D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of genomic DNA fragments from Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DL42 was constructed in plasmid pBR322, transformed into Escherichia coli strain RR1, and screened for recombinant clones with haemin-binding activity by plating onto haemin-containing agar. Expression of haemin-binding activity by clones corr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hanson MS,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palindromic units (PU or REP) were defined as 40-nucleotide DNA sequences which are highly repeated in the genome of several members of the Enterobacteriaceae. They were shown to be a constituent of the bacterial interspersed mosaic element (BIME), in which they are associated with other repetitive sequences. We repor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bachellier S,Saurin W,Perrin D,Hofnung M,Gilson E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syrD gene of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar syringae strain B301D-R was characterized and sequenced. The syrD open reading frame is 1695 bp long and encodes a predicted protein, SyrD, of approximately 63 kDa. Database searches revealed that SyrD shares a high degree of similarity with the ATP-binding cassette (ABC)...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Quigley NB,Mo YY,Gross DC

更新日期：1993-08-01 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

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces type 4 fimbriae which promote adhesion to epithelial cells and are associated with a form of surface translocation called twitching motility. Transposon mutagenesis was used to identify loci required for fimbrial assembly or function by screening for mutants t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Martin PR,Watson AA,McCaul TF,Mattick JS

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversible yeast-hyphae transition of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans is tightly linked to its pathogenicity. In this study, we show that histone H2B mono-ubiquitination (H2Bub) at lysine 123 was maintained at a low level in the yeast state, whereas it increased significantly during yeast-to-hyphae tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhu W,Fan X,Zhao Q,Xu Y,Wang X,Chen J

更新日期：2020-10-03 00:00:00