Characterization of a new cytotoxin that contributes to Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis.

abstract：:Streptomyces lividans has a novel DNA modification, which sensitises its DNA to degradation during electrophoresis (the Dnd phenotype). The entire gene cluster (dnd) involved in this modification was localized on an 8 kb DNA fragment and was expressed in a S. lividans deletion mutant (dnd) and in several heterologous ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhou X,He X,Liang J,Li A,Xu T,Kieser T,Helmann JD,Deng Z

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimum time (E) required for a new pair of replication origins (oriCs) produced upon initiating a round of replication to be ready to initiate the next round after one cell mass doubling, the 'eclipse', is explained in terms of a minimal distance (l(min)) that the replication forks must move away from oriC before...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zaritsky A,Vischer N,Rabinovitch A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crop destruction by the hemibiotrophic rice pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae requires plant defence suppression to facilitate extensive biotrophic growth in host cells before the onset of necrosis. How this is achieved at the genetic level is not well understood. Here, we report that a M. oryzae sirtuin, MoSir2, plays an e...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fernandez J,Marroquin-Guzman M,Nandakumar R,Shijo S,Cornwell KM,Li G,Wilson RA

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:Messenger RNA decay in Bacillus subtilis is accomplished by a combination of exoribonucleases and endoribonucleases. Intermediates in the decay process have not been readily detectable, and previous studies on mRNA decay have used a handful of highly expressed transcripts as models. Here, we use RNA-Seq analysis to pr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu B,Deikus G,Bree A,Durand S,Kearns DB,Bechhofer DH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential early event in Shigella and Salmonella pathogenesis is invasion of non-phagocytic intestinal epithelial cells. Pathogen entry is triggered by the delivery of multiple bacterial effector proteins into target mammalian cells. The Shigella invasion plasmid antigen B (IpaB), which inserts into the host plasma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hume PJ,McGhie EJ,Hayward RD,Koronakis V

更新日期：2003-07-01 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：:Lactose is an abundant dietary carbohydrate metabolized by the dental pathogen Streptococcus mutans. Lactose metabolism presents both classic diauxic behaviors and long-term memory, where the bacteria can pause for >11 h before initiating growth on lactose. Here, we explored mechanisms contributing to unusual aspects ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zeng L,Burne RA

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadherence to the vaginal epithelium is a critical step in infection by the eukaryotic flagellate Trichomonas vaginalis. Four trichomonad surface proteins (AP65, AP51, AP33 and AP23) mediate cytoadherence. The cDNA encoding the AP65 adhesin was isolated from a phagemid cDNA expression library by screening with anti...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alderete JF,O'Brien JL,Arroyo R,Engbring JA,Musatovova O,Lopez O,Lauriano C,Nguyen J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli treA gene encodes an osmotically inducible periplasmic trehalase. A strain carrying a treA-lacZ transcriptional fusion was constructed. The beta-galactosidase activity produced in this strain growing exponentially in a medium of high osmotic pressure was 10-fold higher than that produced in a medi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Repoila F,Gutierrez C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Successful pathogens must be able to swiftly respond to and repair DNA damages inflicted by the host defence. The replication protein A (RPA) complex plays multiple roles in DNA damage response and is regulated by phosphorylation. However, the regulators of RPA phosphorylation remain unclear. Here, we investigated Rfa...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gao J,Wang H,Wong AH,Zeng G,Huang Z,Wang Y,Sang J,Wang Y

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell morphogenesis is a complex process that depends on cytoskeleton and membrane organization, intracellular signalling and vesicular trafficking. The rod shape of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe and the availability of powerful genetic tools make this species an excellent model to study cell morphology. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cadou A,Couturier A,Le Goff C,Soto T,Miklos I,Sipiczki M,Xie L,Paulson JR,Cansado J,Le Goff X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions and actin polymerization, the hallmark of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and Citrobacter rodentium (CR) infections, are dependent on the effector Tir. Phosphorylation of Tir(EPEC/CR) Y474/1 leads to recruitment of Nck and neural Wiskott-A...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Crepin VF,Girard F,Schüller S,Phillips AD,Mousnier A,Frankel G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus are bacteria found colonizing the gut of a specialized stage of the nematode Heterorhabditis, called the infective juvenile (IJ). The IJ is a free-living stage of the nematode that seeks out and infects insect larvae. Once inside the insect the IJ release Photorhabdus into the haemolymph where the bacteri...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Watson RJ,Joyce SA,Spencer GV,Clarke DJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 2711bp DNA segment which contains the N-terminal coding sequence and the 5' flanking region of a crystal protein gene (bta) from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai 7.29 has been determined. The coding region encodes an 824 amino-acid polypeptide corresponding to a carboxy-terminally tru...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sanchis V,Lereclus D,Menou G,Chaufaux J,Guo S,Lecadet MM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of phi Ch1 contains an open reading frame (int1) in the central part of its genome that belongs to the lambda integrase family of site-specific recombinases. Sequence similarities to known integrases include the highly conserved tetrad R-H-R-Y. The flanking sequences of int1 contain several direct repeats...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rössler N,Klein R,Scholz H,Witte A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 produces pyoverdine under iron-limiting conditions. A Tn5 mutant, 2G11, produced lower amounts of different pyoverdine forms and was unable to grow under iron limitation caused by ethylenediamine-di(o-hydroxy-phenylacetic acid) (EDDHA) or zinc. This mutant was complemented by a 9.6 k...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gaballa A,Koedam N,Cornelis P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation is the key to ensuring that proteins are expressed at the proper time and the proper amount. In Escherichia coli, the transcription factor cAMP receptor protein (CRP) is responsible for much of this regulation. Questions remain, however, regarding the regulation of CRP activity itself. Here,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Davis R,Écija-Conesa A,Gallego-Jara J,de Diego T,Filippova EV,Kuffel G,Anderson WF,Gibson BW,Schilling B,Canovas M,Wolfe AJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimerization and inactivation of ribosomes in Escherichia coli is a two-step process that involves the binding of ribosome modulation factor (RMF) and hibernation promotion factor (HPF). Lactococcus lactis MG1363 expresses a protein, YfiA(L) (l) , which associates with ribosomes in the stationary phase of growth and i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Puri P,Eckhardt TH,Franken LE,Fusetti F,Stuart MC,Boekema EJ,Kuipers OP,Kok J,Poolman B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia enterocolitica uses type III secretion to transport Yop proteins into the cytoplasm of host cells. Previous work generated hypotheses for both co- and post-translational transport mechanisms in the Yersinia type III pathway. Here, we used ubiquitin (Ub) and UBP1, the Ub-specific protease, to examine whether Y...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Quenee LE,Schneewind O

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureaplasma urealyticum (U. urealyticum), belonging to the class Mollicutes, is a human pathogen colonizing the urogenital tract and causes among other things respiratory diseases in premature infants. We have studied the salvage of pyrimidine deoxynucleosides in U. urealyticum and cloned a key salvage enzyme, thymidin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Carnrot C,Wehelie R,Eriksson S,Bölske G,Wang L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomyelin is the main sphingolipid in Trypanosoma brucei, the causative agent of African sleeping sickness. In vitro and in vivo characterization of the T. brucei neutral sphingomyelinase demonstrates that it is directly involved in sphingomyelin catabolism. Gene knockout studies in the bloodstream form of the par...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Young SA,Smith TK

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The de novo purine biosynthetic enzymes 5-amino-4-imidazolecarboxamide-ribonucleotide (AICAR) transformylase (EC 2.1.2.3), IMP cyclohydrolase (EC 3.5.4.10) and glycineamide-ribonucleotide (GAR) synthetase (EC 2.1.2.2) are encoded by the purHD locus of Escherichia coli. The DNA sequence of this locus revealed two open ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Flannigan KA,Hennigan SH,Vogelbacker HH,Gots JS,Smith JM

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:The dominant, polA1-independent replicon of pGSH500, rep beta (1.8 kb), consists of a cis-acting oriV region of 245 bp; a repB gene that is essential for autonomous replication and 18, 30 to 36 bp iterons which constitute the inc/cop region. The molecular organization of rep beta resembles that of mini-pCU1 (IncN). Fu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： da Silva-Tatley FM,Steyn LM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated hypervariability of native short-motif repeats (microsatellites) in Escherichia coli. Twenty-five of the longest microsatellites in the E. coli genome were identified. These were analysed for length variability among 22 wild-type (non-mutator) isolates from the E. coli collection of reference (ECO...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Metzgar D,Thomas E,Davis C,Field D,Wills C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between pathogenic bacteria and extracellular matrix (ECM) components markedly influence the initiation and establishment of infection. We have identified two surface proteins of virulent Mycoplasma pneumoniae with molecular masses of 45 and 30 kDa that bind to the ECM constituent, fibronectin (Fn). T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dallo SF,Kannan TR,Blaylock MW,Baseman JB

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaA protein, which initiates chromosomal replication in Escherichia coli, is negatively regulated by both the sliding clamp of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme and the IdaB protein. We have found that, when the amount of minichromosome is limited in an in vitro replication system, minichromosomal replication-stimula...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Su'etsugu M,Kawakami H,Kurokawa K,Kubota T,Takata M,Katayama T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotactic adaptation to persisting stimulation involves reversible methylation of the chemoreceptors that form complexes with the histidine kinase CheA at a cell pole. The methyltransferase CheR targets to the C-terminal NWETF sequence of the chemoreceptor. In contrast, localization of the methylesterase CheB is lar...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Banno S,Shiomi D,Homma M,Kawagishi I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated self-transmissible elements called conjugative transposons have been found in many different bacteria, but little is known about how they excise from the chromosome to form the circular intermediate, which is then transferred by conjugation. We have now identified a gene, exc, which is required for the exci...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cheng Q,Sutanto Y,Shoemaker NB,Gardner JF,Salyers AA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00