Diversity in prokaryotic glycosylation: an archaeal-derived N-linked glycan contains legionaminic acid.

abstract：:Microtubules are key players in the biology of Trypanosomatid parasites, not only as classical components of the mitotic spindle, microtubule-organizing centres and flagellum but also as the essential constituent of the cytoskeleton. Their length dynamics are regulated by, among others, microtubule-severing proteins. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Casanova M,Crobu L,Blaineau C,Bourgeois N,Bastien P,Pagès M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion is critical for Vibrio cholerae to successfully combat phagocytic eukaryotes and to survive in the presence of competing bacterial species. V. cholerae type VI secretion system genes are encoded in one large and two small clusters. In V. cholerae, type VI secretion is controlled by quorum sensing, th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shao Y,Bassler BL

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of the class 5 colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) fimbriae of enterotoxigenic E. coli was proposed to proceed via the alternate chaperone-usher pathway. Here, we show that in the absence of the chaperone CfaA, CfaB, the major pilin subunit of CFA/I fimbriae, is able to spontaneously refold and polymeri...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bao R,Liu Y,Savarino SJ,Xia D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Establishment of an axis of cell polarity and differentiation of the cell poles are fundamental aspects of cellular development in many organisms. We compared the effects of two bacterial cytoskeletal-like systems, the MreB and MinCDE systems, on these processes in Escherichia coli. We report that the Min proteins are...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shih YL,Kawagishi I,Rothfield L

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present structural and biochemical evidence for a redox switch in the archaeal transcriptional regulator SurR of Pyrococcus furiosus, a hyperthermophilic anaerobe. P. furiosus produces H(2) during fermentation, but undergoes a metabolic shift to produce H(2) S when elemental sulfur (S(0) ) becomes available. Change...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yang H,Lipscomb GL,Keese AM,Schut GJ,Thomm M,Adams MW,Wang BC,Scott RA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes acrAB encode a multidrug efflux pump in Escherichia coli. We have previously reported that transcription of acrAB is increased under general stress conditions (i.e. 4% ethanol, 0.5 M NaCl, and the stationary phase in Luria-Bertani medium). In this study, lacZ transcriptional fusions and an in vitro gel mobility ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ma D,Alberti M,Lynch C,Nikaido H,Hearst JE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous evidence showed that b- and a-type flagellins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are modified in vivo by phosphorylation at tyrosine. This research was designed to demonstrate phosphorylation of flagellin at tyrosine in vitro. Evidence presented showed that flagellin is labelled by [gamma-32P]-ATP, but not by [alpha-3...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： South SL,Nichols R,Montie TC

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:The bacterium Burkholderia glumae causes rice grain rot by producing toxoflavin, whose expression is regulated by quorum sensing (QS). We report a major deviation from the current paradigm for the regulation of bacterial polar flagellum genes. The N-octanoyl homoserine lactone (C8-HSL)-deficient mutant of B. glumae is...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kim J,Kang Y,Choi O,Jeong Y,Jeong JE,Lim JY,Kim M,Moon JS,Suga H,Hwang I

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like other bacterial species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis has multiple sigma (sigma) factors encoded in its genome. In previously published work, we and others have shown that mutations in some of these transcriptional activators render M. tuberculosis sensitive to various environmental stresses and, in some cases, cau...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Manganelli R,Voskuil MI,Schoolnik GK,Dubnau E,Gomez M,Smith I

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpollE is an integral membrane protein that governs the establishment of cell-specific gene transcription during the process of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Synthesis of SpollE commences shortly after the onset of sporulation, after which the protein localizes at sites of potential cell division near both ends of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Levin PA,Losick R,Stragier P,Arigoni F

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 25 kbp DNA fragment from the chromosome of Rhodobacter capsulatus B10 carrying hydrogenase (hup) determinants was completely sequenced. Coding regions corresponding to 20 open reading frames were identified. The R. capsulatus hydrogenase-specific gene (hup and hyp) products bear significant structural identity to hy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Colbeau A,Richaud P,Toussaint B,Caballero FJ,Elster C,Delphin C,Smith RL,Chabert J,Vignais PM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of strains of the widespread aerobic soil bacterium, Bacillus sphaericus, possess crystalline inclusions of a toxin lethal to a variety of insect (larvae) which are vectors of major tropical diseases. Partial amino acid sequence data from one strain, B. sphaericus 2362 have permitted us to design oligonucleot...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hindley J,Berry C

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV pili (T4P) are surface structures that undergo extension/retraction oscillations to generate cell motility. In Myxococcus xanthus, T4P are unipolarly localized and undergo pole-to-pole oscillations synchronously with cellular reversals. We investigated the mechanisms underlying these oscillations. We show that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bulyha I,Schmidt C,Lenz P,Jakovljevic V,Höne A,Maier B,Hoppert M,Søgaard-Andersen L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulent phenotype of Shigella requires loci on the chromosome as well as on the large virulence plasmid, and is regulated via a complex web of interactions amongst various chromosomal and large plasmid genes. To further investigate the role of chromosomal loci in virulence, we performed random Tn10 mutagenesis in...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mac Síomóin RA,Nakata N,Murai T,Yoshikawa M,Tsuji H,Sasakawa C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcins are a class of ribosomally synthesized antibacterial peptides produced by Enterobacteriaceae and active against closely related bacterial species. While some microcins are active as unmodified peptides, others are heavily modified by dedicated maturation enzymes. Low-molecular-weight microcins from the post-...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Severinov K,Semenova E,Kazakov A,Kazakov T,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mouse model for systemic infection, natural a/alpha strains of C. albicans are more virulent and more competitive than their spontaneous MTL-homozygous offspring, which arise primarily by loss of one chromosome 5 homologue followed by duplication of the retained homologue (uniparental disomy). Deletion of eithe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wu W,Lockhart SR,Pujol C,Srikantha T,Soll DR

更新日期：2007-06-01 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：:In eukaryotes, frataxin deficiency (FXN) causes severe phenotypes including loss of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster protein activity, accumulation of mitochondrial iron and leads to the neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia. In contrast, in prokaryotes, deficiency in the FXN homolog, CyaY, was reported not to cause...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roche B,Huguenot A,Barras F,Py B

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:Whereas tetrahydrofolate is an essential cofactor in all bacteria, the gene that encodes the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) could not be identified in many of the bacteria whose genomes have been entirely sequenced. In this communication we show that the halophilic archaea Halobacterium salinarum and Haloarcula...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Levin I,Giladi M,Altman-Price N,Ortenberg R,Mevarech M

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of completed archaeal genome sequences led to the identification of a set of approximately 10-20 genes whose protein products were inferred to be involved in chromosomal DNA replication. Until recently, however, little was known of the biochemical properties of these proteins. Here, I review recent progre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： MacNeill SA

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silent information regulator 2 (Sir2)-related proteins or sirtuins function as NAD(+)-dependent deacetylases or ADP ribosylases that target a range of substrates, thereby influencing chromatin structure and a diverse range of other biological functions. Genes encoding three Sir2-related proteins (SIR2rp1-3) have been ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alsford S,Kawahara T,Isamah C,Horn D

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsular polysaccharides are well-established virulence factors of pathogenic bacteria. Their biosynthesis and export are regulated within the transmembrane polysaccharide assembly machinery by the autophosphorylation of atypical tyrosine-kinases, named BY-kinases. However, the accurate functioning of these tyrosine-k...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bechet E,Gruszczyk J,Terreux R,Gueguen-Chaignon V,Vigouroux A,Obadia B,Cozzone AJ,Nessler S,Grangeasse C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis responds to signals of environmental and metabolic stress by inducing over 40 general stress genes under the control of the sigma B transcription factor. sigma B activity is regulated post-translationally by a multi-component network composed of two coupled partner-switching modules, RsbX-RsbS-RsbT a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Akbar S,Kang CM,Gaidenko TA,Price CW

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli loses its rod shape by inactivation of PBP2 (penicillin-binding protein 2), target of the beta-lactam mecillinam. Under these conditions, cell division is blocked in rich medium. Division in the absence of PBP2 activity is restored (and resistance to mecillinam is conferred) when the three cell divisi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Navarro F,Robin A,D'Ari R,Joseleau-Petit D

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmission of Plasmodium species from a mammalian host to the mosquito vector requires the uptake, during an infected blood meal, of gametocytes, the precursor cells of the gametes. Relatively little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved in the developmental switch from asexual development to sexual diffe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Boisson B,Lacroix C,Bischoff E,Gueirard P,Bargieri DY,Franke-Fayard B,Janse CJ,Ménard R,Baldacci P

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slipped-strand mispairing at sites containing so-called coding repeats (CRs) can lead to phase variation of surface proteins in Gram-negative bacteria. This mechanism, believed to contribute to virulence, has so far not been identified in a Gram-positive bacterium. In the genome of the Gram-positive human pathogen Str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rasmussen M,Björck L

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:Chlamydia is predicted to encode two alternative sigma factors that could provide a mechanism for the regulation of gene expression via alternative forms of RNA polymerase. We have demonstrated that sigma 28, one of these alternative sigma factors, is transcriptionally active. Chlamydial sigma 28 RNA polymerase was re...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yu HH,Tan M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00