PerC and GrlA independently regulate Ler expression in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rho1p regulates (1,3)beta-d-glucan synthesis and is required for cell integrity maintenance and actin cytoskeleton organization, but nothing is known about the regulation of this protein. At least nine different S. pombe genes code for proteins predicted to act as Rho GTPase-activating protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Calonge TM,Arellano M,Coll PM,Perez P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the Streptomyces temperate phage phiC31 integrates into the host chromosome via a recombinase belonging to a novel group of phage integrases related to the resolvase/invertase enzymes. Previously, it was demonstrated that, in an in vitro recombination assay, phiC31 integrase catalyses integration (attP/a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thorpe HM,Wilson SE,Smith MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn 1546 confers resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics in enterococci and encodes two D,D-peptidases (VanX and VanY) in addition to the enzymes for the synthesis of D-alanyl-D-lactate (D-Ala-D-Lac). VanY was produced in the baculovirus expression system and purified as a proteolytic fragment that lacked the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Arthur M,Depardieu F,Cabanié L,Reynolds P,Courvalin P

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:A series of lipoproteins was detected in the membrane fraction of Yersinia enterocolitica W227, a typical strain from serotype O:9. At least two of them, YlpA and YlpB, are encoded by the pYV plasmid. The sequence of ylpA reveals the presence of a typical lipoprotein signal peptide. The mature YlpA protein would be 22...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： China B,Michiels T,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions or substitutions of amino acids at the carboxyl-terminus of the heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) affect its assembly into pentamers in a temperature-dependent manner. At 42 degrees C, the mutations prevent the B subunits from achieving their final pentameric structure resulting in membrane associatio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sandkvist M,Bagdasarian M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MtrCDE multidrug pump, from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is assembled from the inner and outer membrane proteins MtrD and MtrE, which are connected by the periplasmic membrane fusion protein MtrC. Although it is clear that MtrD delivers drugs to the channel of MtrE, it remains unclear how drug delivery and channel openi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Janganan TK,Bavro VN,Zhang L,Borges-Walmsley MI,Walmsley AR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 strain PS1-28-37 carries the multicopy plasmid pPSO28-37 containing a DNA fragment coding for two of the proteins that enable bacteria to utilize sucrose as sole carbon source. One of the different gene products of the plasmid is the outer membrane protein, ScrY. This protein was isolated and pur...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schülein K,Schmid K,Benzl R

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of characterized bacterial dipeptide permeases (Dpp) are membrane-associated complexes of five proteins belonging to the ABC-transporter family. They have been found to be involved in the uptake of essential amino acids, haem production, chemotaxis and sporulation. A 5.8 kb genomic DNA fragment of the ser...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Podbielski A,Leonard BA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii present a serious clinical challenge. The development of antibiotic resistance in this species is enabled by efflux pumps of the Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) superfamily of proteins creating an efficient permeability barrier for antibiotics. At least...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Leus IV,Adamiak J,Trinh AN,Smith RD,Smith L,Richardson S,Ernst RK,Zgurskaya HI

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional repression of porin synthesis has emerged as a major function of Hfq-dependent, small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs). Many enterobacteria express OmpX-like porins, a family of outer membrane proteins whose physiological roles and structural properties have been studied intensively. While regulatory sRNAs...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Papenfort K,Pfeiffer V,Lucchini S,Sonawane A,Hinton JC,Vogel J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the proximal half of the rfb region of Shigella flexneri has been determined, and the genes encoding enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of dTDP-rhamnose have been identified. These genes show strong homology to the rfb genes encoding dTDP-rhamnose biosynthesis in Salmonella enterica serova...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Macpherson DF,Manning PA,Morona R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable maintenance of low-copy-number plasmids requires active partitioning, with the most common mechanism in prokaryotes involving the ATPase ParA. ParA proteins undergo intricate spatiotemporal relocations across the nucleoid, dynamics that function to position plasmids at equally spaced intervals. This spacing...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Howard M,Gerdes K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deprivation of FtsN, the last protein in the hierarchy of divisome assembly, causes the disassembly of other elements from the division ring, even extending to already assembled proto-ring proteins. Therefore the stability and function of the divisome to produce rings active in septation is not guaranteed until FtsN i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rico AI,García-Ovalle M,Palacios P,Casanova M,Vicente M

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:In mammalian cells RACK1 serves as a scaffold protein that has a role in integrating inputs from different signalling pathways and affects translation through association with ribosomes. Ustilago maydis contains a seven-WD40 repeat motif protein designated Rak1, which shows 68% identity to RACK1 and 51% identity to As...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang L,Berndt P,Xia X,Kahnt J,Kahmann R

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：: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：:MisL is an autotransporter protein encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 3 (SPI3). To investigate the role of MisL in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) pathogenesis, we characterized its function during infection of mice and identified a host receptor for this adhesin. In a mouse model of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dorsey CW,Laarakker MC,Humphries AD,Weening EH,Bäumler AJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of transcription repression and derepression in vivo are not fully understood. We have obtained evidence that begins to clarify the minimum requirements for counteracting nucleosomal repression in vivo. Location of the TATA element near the nucleosome dyad does not block RNA polymerase II transcription ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Moss DR,Laybourn PJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic recombination impacts on neisserial biology in two ways: (i) specific loci undergo rearrangement at high frequency leading to the formation of many different alleles; and (ii) Neisseria, being naturally competent for DNA transformation, provide a means to disseminate the novel alleles throughout a population. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hill SA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is a social behaviour that generates favourable conditions for sustained survival in the natural environment. For the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis the process involves the differentiation of cell fate within an isogenic population and the production of communal goods that form the biofil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cairns LS,Hobley L,Stanley-Wall NR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4.0 kb EcoRI fragment of Bacillus subtilis conferring thiostrepton resistance was cloned and characterized. By nucleotide sequencing of the relevant region, six open reading frames were established, which corresponded to a part of spo0H, a ribosomal protein gene (rpmG), an unidentified open reading frame (orfE), a t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jeong SM,Yoshikawa H,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:The plasmid encoded LlaI R/M system from Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis consists of a bidomain methylase, with close evolutionary ties to type IIS methylases, and a trisubunit restriction complex. Both the methylase and restriction subunits are encoded on a polycistronic 6.9 kb operon. In this study, the 5' end of the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Sullivan DJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptacistronic dnaK heat shock operon of Bacillus subtilis consists of the genes hrcA, grpE, dnaK, dnaJ, orf35, orf28 and orf50. It is controlled by the CIRCE/HrcA operator/repressor system and specifies three primary transcripts, two of which are processed into three different products. We have analysed the regul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Homuth G,Mogk A,Schumann W

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subspecies I serotypes are responsible for the vast majority of salmonellosis in mammals and birds, yet only a few factors specific to this group that allow them to persist in this niche have been identified. We show that STM0557, a S. enterica subspecies I-specific gene encoding an inner membrane ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bogomolnaya LM,Santiviago CA,Yang HJ,Baumler AJ,Andrews-Polymenis HL

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pAM beta 1 is a low-copy-number, promiscuous plasmid from Gram-positive bacteria that replicates by a unidirectional theta-type mode. Its replication is initiated by an original mechanism, involving the positive rate-limiting RepE protein. Here we show that the pAM beta 1-encoded CopF protein is involved in negative r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Le Chatelier E,Ehrlich SD,Jannière L

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-like protein FtsA is present in many eubacteria, and genetic experiments have shown that it plays an important, sometimes essential, role in cell division. Here, we show that Bacillus subtilis FtsA is targeted to division sites in both vegetative and sporulating cells. As in other organisms FtsA is probably ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feucht A,Lucet I,Yudkin MD,Errington J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae is controlled in part by a quorum-sensing system mediated by a peptide pheromone called competence-stimulating peptide (CSP), which acts to coordinate transient activation of genes required for competence. To characterize the transcriptional response and regul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peterson SN,Sung CK,Cline R,Desai BV,Snesrud EC,Luo P,Walling J,Li H,Mintz M,Tsegaye G,Burr PC,Do Y,Ahn S,Gilbert J,Fleischmann RD,Morrison DA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00