DNA topology of highly transcribed operons in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium.

abstract：:Bacteria utilize phosphorelay systems to respond to environmental or intracellular stimuli. Salmonella enterica encodes a four-step phosphorelay system that involves two sensor kinase proteins, RcsC and RcsD, and a response regulator, RcsB. The physiological stimulus for Rcs phosphorelay activation is unknown; however...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Erickson KD,Detweiler CS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol catabolism is widespread in actinobacteria and is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) virulence. Catabolism of steroid nucleus rings C and D is poorly understood: it is initiated by the CoA thioesterification of 3aα-H-4α(3'-propanoate)-7aβ-methylhexahydro-1,5-indanedione (HIP) by FadD3, whose gen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Casabon I,Zhu SH,Otani H,Liu J,Mohn WW,Eltis LD

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria harbour both ferrous and ferric iron transporters. We now report that infection of macrophages and mice with a Salmonella enterica Typhimurium strain containing an inactivated feoB-encoded ferrous iron transporter results in increased bacterial replication, compared to infection with wild type. Inactivation o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nagy TA,Moreland SM,Detweiler CS

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：:GspB is a large cell-surface glycoprotein expressed by Streptococcus gordonii M99 that mediates binding of this organism to human platelets. This adhesin is glycosylated in the cytoplasm, and is then transported to the cell surface via an accessory Sec system. To assess the structural features of GspB that are needed ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bensing BA,Takamatsu D,Sullam PM

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the infectious agent responsible for the disease Asiatic cholera. The genes required for V. cholerae virulence, such as those encoding the cholera toxin (CT) and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), are controlled by a cascade of transcriptional activators. Ultimately, the dire...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Withey JH,DiRita VJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti, the endosymbiont of Medicago sativa, can use haem compounds, including haemoglobin and leghaemoglobin, when growing in the free-living state. The components of the system involved in haem acquisition were confirmed to be ShmR, an outer membrane receptor, and HmuTUV, predicted to be an ABC trans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cuív PO,Keogh D,Clarke P,O'Connell M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial secretion systems often employ molecular chaperones to recognize and facilitate export of their substrates. Recent work demonstrated that a secreted component of the type VI secretion system (T6SS), haemolysin co-regulated protein (Hcp), binds directly to effectors, enhancing their stability in the bacterial...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Whitney JC,Beck CM,Goo YA,Russell AB,Harding BN,De Leon JA,Cunningham DA,Tran BQ,Low DA,Goodlett DR,Hayes CS,Mougous JD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes are the major constituents of the light-harvesting apparatus in both cyanobacteria and red algae and consist of a central core with radiating rods. From a genomic library of the cyanobacterium Calothrix 7601, a DNA fragment encoding allophycocyanin B, one of the two terminal energy acceptors of the core...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Houmard J,Capuano V,Coursin T,Tandean de Marsac N

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the asymmetrically located septum divides sporulating bacilli into two distinct cells: the mother cell and the prespore. The rigidifying wall material in the septum is subsequently removed by autolysis. Examination of published electron micrographs indicates that the two septal membranes then fuse to form...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Higgins ML,Piggot PJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：:Cell wall lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis containing multiple methylbranched fatty acids play critical roles in pathogenesis and thus offer targets for new antimycobacterial drugs. Mycocerosicacid synthase gene (mas) encodes the enzyme that produces one class of such acids. Seven mas-like genes (msls) were identi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dubey VS,Sirakova TD,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the not well understood composition of the stalk, a key ribosomal structure, in eukaryotes having multiple 12 kDa P1/P2 acidic protein components has been approached using these proteins tagged with a histidine tail at the C-terminus. Tagged Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomes, which contain two P1 prot...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Guarinos E,Santos C,Sánchez A,Qiu DY,Remacha M,Ballesta JP

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide bonds are found in many proteins associated with the cell wall of Escherichia coli, and for some of these proteins the disulfide bond is critical to their stability and function. One protein found to contain a disulfide bond is the essential cell division protein FtsN, but the importance of this bond to the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meehan BM,Landeta C,Boyd D,Beckwith J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N15 is a bacteriophage of Escherichia coli that resembles lambda, but, unlike lambda, it lysogenizes as a linear plasmid. We show that stable maintenance of this unusual plasmid-prophage depends on the parA and parB genes, relatives of the partition genes of F and P1 plasmids. ParB of N15, like its F- and P1-encoded h...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grigoriev PS,Lobocka MB

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The osteolytic toxin of Pasteurella multocida induces bone resorption in vivo and in vitro (Foged et al., 1988; Kimman et al., 1987). In this report the toxin-encoding toxA gene is sequenced, and the deduced primary structure of the toxin shows a protein of 1285 amino acids, containing a striking homology to a metal-b...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Petersen SK

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli urinary tract isolate C1212 contains two pyelonephritis-associated pili (pap) DNA sequences designated here as pap-17 and pap-21. Each of these pap sequences encodes antigenically-distinct pilin monomers, pilin-17 and pilin-21, respectively. Most individual strain C1212 cells isolated from a singl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Low D,Robinson EN Jr,McGee ZA,Falkow S

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maturation of c-type cytochromes in Escherichia coli is a complex process requiring eight membrane proteins encoded by the ccmABCDEFGH operon. CcmE is a mediator of haem delivery. It binds haem transiently at a conserved histidine residue and releases it for directed transfer to apocytochrome c. CcmC, an integral memb...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schulz H,Pellicioli EC,Thöny-Meyer L

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain 1470 is the standard typing strain for serogroup F of Clostridium difficile containing both toxin genes, toxA-1470 and toxB-1470. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approach to the sequencing of the total toxB-1470 gene identified an open reading frame (ORF) of 7104 nucleotides. In comparison with the prev...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： von Eichel-Streiber C,Meyer zu Heringdorf D,Habermann E,Sartingen S

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancement of enzyme thermostability by protein engineering gives us information about the thermostabilization mechanism as well as advantages for industrial use of enzymes. In this study, we enhanced the thermostability of endoglucanase EngB, one component of the cellulase complex (cellulosome) from Clostridium cell...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Murashima K,Kosugi A,Doi RH

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：:The FNR protein in Escherichia coli is an O(2) sensor that modifies global gene expression to adapt the cell to anaerobic growth. Regulation of FNR involves continuous cycling of the protein between its active and inactive states under aerobic conditions without apparent function. This raises the question of what bene...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tolla DA,Savageau MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface of Trypanosoma brucei is covered by a dense coat of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored glycoproteins. The major component is the variant surface glycoprotein (VSG) which is glycosylated by both paucimannose and oligomannose N-glycans. Surface glycans are poorly accessible and killing mediated by peptide...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Castillo-Acosta VM,Vidal AE,Ruiz-Pérez LM,Van Damme EJ,Igarashi Y,Balzarini J,González-Pacanowska D

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mid-June, the second Young Microbiologists Symposium took place under the broad title of 'Microbe signalling, organization and pathogenesis' on the picturesque campus of University College Cork, Ireland. The symposium attracted 150 microbiologists from 15 different countries. The key feature of this meeting was tha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Caly DL,Coulthurst SJ,Geoghegan JA,Malone JG,Ryan RP

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LeuO is a quiescent LysR-type regulator belonging to the H-NS regulon. Activation of leuO transcription represses expression of pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and inhibits invasion of epithelial cells. Loss of HilE suppresses LeuO-mediated downregulation of SPI-1. Activation ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Espinosa E,Casadesús J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium parasites possess a single pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) enzyme complex that is localized to the plastid-like organelle known as the apicoplast. Unlike most eukaryotes, Plasmodium parasites lack a mitochondrial PDH. The PDH complex catalyses the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA, an important precursor fo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pei Y,Tarun AS,Vaughan AM,Herman RW,Soliman JM,Erickson-Wayman A,Kappe SH

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:The transport of iron complexes through outer membrane transporters from Gram-negative bacteria is highly dependent on the TonB system. Together, the three components of the system, TonB, ExbB and ExbD, energize the transport of iron complexes through the outer membrane by utilizing the proton motive force across the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Garcia-Herrero A,Peacock RS,Howard SP,Vogel HJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00