Socializing, networking and development: a report from the second 'Young Microbiologists Symposium on Microbe Signalling, Organization and Pathogenesis'.

abstract：:Mycelial fungi play a central role in element cycling in nature by degrading dead organic material such as wood. Fungal colonization of a substrate starts with the invasion of exploring hyphae. These hyphae secrete enzymes that convert the organic material into small molecules that can be taken up by the fungus to ser...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vinck A,Terlou M,Pestman WR,Martens EP,Ram AF,van den Hondel CA,Wösten HA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned, characterized and inactivated genes encoding putative UspA paralogues in Escherichia coli. The yecG (uspC), yiiT (uspD) and ydaA (uspE) genes were demonstrated to encode protein pro-ducts and these were mapped to spots in the E. coli proteomic database. Expression analysis using chromosomal transcripti...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gustavsson N,Diez A,Nyström T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the bacterial genus Brucella are facultative intracellular pathogens that reside predominantly within membrane-bound compartments within two host cell types, macrophages and placental trophoblasts. Within macrophages, the brucellae route themselves to an intracellular compartment that is favourable for surv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roop RM 2nd,Bellaire BH,Valderas MW,Cardelli JA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli Sm-like host factor I (Hfq) is thought to play direct and indirect roles in post-transcriptional regulation by targeting small regulatory RNAs and mRNAs. In this study, we have used proteomics to identify new mRNA targets of Hfq. We have identified 11 candidate proteins, synthesis of which was dif...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vecerek B,Moll I,Afonyushkin T,Kaberdin V,Bläsi U

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response regulator/histidine kinase pair LiaRS of Bacillus subtilis, together with its membrane-bound inhibitor protein LiaF, constitutes an envelope stress-sensing module that is conserved in Firmicutes bacteria. LiaR positively autoregulates the expression of the liaIH-liaGFSR operon from a strictly LiaR-depende...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schrecke K,Jordan S,Mascher T

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:The SaPIs are chromosomal islands in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria that carry genes for superantigens, virulence factors, resistance and certain metabolic functions. They have intimate relationships with certain temperate phages involving phage-induced excision, replication and efficient packaging in ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ubeda C,Maiques E,Barry P,Matthews A,Tormo MA,Lasa I,Novick RP,Penadés JR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OmpR activates expression of the two-component regulatory system located on Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) that controls the expression of a type III secretion system, as well as many other genes required for systemic infection in mice. Measurements of SsrA and SsrB protein levels under different growth con...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feng X,Walthers D,Oropeza R,Kenney LJ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation of Staphylococcus epidermidis on smooth polymer surfaces has been shown to be mediated by the ica operon. Upon activation of this operon, a polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA) is synthesized that supports bacterial cell-to-cell contacts and triggers the production of thick, multilayered biofil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ziebuhr W,Krimmer V,Rachid S,Lössner I,Götz F,Hacker J

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans, a commensal of the human oral cavity, can survive in the bloodstream and cause infective endocarditis (IE). However, the virulence factors associated with this manifestation of disease are not known. Here, we demonstrate that AtlA, an autolysin of S. mutans is a newly identified fibronectin (Fn) ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jung CJ,Zheng QH,Shieh YH,Lin CS,Chia JS

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative, soil-dwelling bacterium with a complex life cycle which includes fruiting body formation and sporulation in response to starvation. This developmental process is slow, requiring a minimum of 24-48 h, and requires cells to be at high cell density on a solid surface. It is known th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Connor KA,Zusman DR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone-based compounds have been exploited to treat infectious diseases and cancer, with such chemicals often functioning as inhibitors of key metabolic pathways or as prodrugs. Here, we screened an aziridinyl 1,4-benzoquinone (ABQ) library against the causative agents of trypanosomiasis, and cutaneous leishmaniasis,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meredith EL,Kumar A,Konno A,Szular J,Alsford S,Seifert K,Horn D,Wilkinson SR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the formation of symbiotic plasmids (pSyms), by genetic recombination between rearranged pSyms, which lack symbiotic information, and resistance plasmids carrying parts of different symbiotic plasmids (R's). This recombination was found to occur both between plasmids derived from different Rhizobium pha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Soberón-Chávez G,Nájera R,Espín G,Moreno S

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell communication via the production and detection of chemical signal molecules has been the focus of a great deal of research over the past decade. One class of chemical signals widely used by proteobacteria consists of N-acyl-homoserine lactones, which are synthesized by proteins related to LuxI of Vibrio fisc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pappas KM,Weingart CL,Winans SC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine-threonine kinase TOR, the Target of Rapamycin, is an important regulator of nutrient, energy and stress signaling in eukaryotes. Sch9, a Ser/Thr kinase of AGC family (the cAMP-dependent PKA, cGMP- dependent protein kinase G and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C family), is a substrate of TOR. Here, we...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alves de Castro P,Dos Reis TF,Dolan SK,Oliveira Manfiolli A,Brown NA,Jones GW,Doyle S,Riaño-Pachón DM,Squina FM,Caldana C,Singh A,Del Poeta M,Hagiwara D,Silva-Rocha R,Goldman GH

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae induces respiratory disease in swine by colonizing cilia causing ciliostasis, cilial loss and epithelial cell death. Heparin binds to M. hyopneumoniae cells in a dose-dependent manner and blocks its ability to adhere to porcine cilia. We show here that Mhp493 (P216), a paralogue of the cilium ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wilton J,Jenkins C,Cordwell SJ,Falconer L,Minion FC,Oneal DC,Djordjevic MA,Connolly A,Barchia I,Walker MJ,Djordjevic SP

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae is regulated by a quorum-sensing mechanism consisting of a competence-stimulating peptide (CSP), its dedicated secretion apparatus (ComAB), its histidine kinase receptor (ComD) and a response regulator (ComE). In this report, we show that ComE is a DNA-binding protein tha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ween O,Gaustad P,Håvarstein LS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are essential structural constituents of bacterial cell membranes and walls, and their biosynthetic pathways are stringently regulated at both biochemical and genetic levels. The recent surge of new information about transcriptional regulation of bacterial lipid metabolism is highlighted by two studies in this ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhang YM,Rock CO

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the genera Bacillus and Clostridium form highly resistant spores, which in the case of some pathogens act as the infectious agents. An exosporium forms the outermost layer of some spores; it plays roles in protection, adhesion, dissemination, host targeting in pathogens and germination control. The exospor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Terry C,Jiang S,Radford DS,Wan Q,Tzokov S,Moir A,Bullough PA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of the constantly expanding body of genomic information requires that the function of each gene be established. Here we report the genomic analysis and structural modelling of a previously uncharacterized redox-metabolism protein UrdA (SO_4620) of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which led to a discovery of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bogachev AV,Bertsova YV,Bloch DA,Verkhovsky MI

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we present the localization and characterization of the repl promoter (Prepl) and show aspects of the regulation. Comparison of Prepl with other autoregulated replication protein gene promoters revealed similarities, but Prepl differs from some of these characterized promoters in not being regulated by th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gammie AE,Crosa JH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous bacteria accumulate poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) as an intracellular reservoir of carbon and energy in response to imbalanced nutritional conditions. In Bacillus spp., where PHB biosynthesis precedes the formation of the dormant cell type called the spore (sporulation), the direct link between PHB accumulati...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sadykov MR,Ahn JS,Widhelm TJ,Eckrich VM,Endres JL,Driks A,Rutkowski GE,Wingerd KL,Bayles KW

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary Spore formation in the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis is a last resort adaptive response to starvation. To initiate sporulation, the key regulator in this process, Spo0A, needs to be activated by the so-called phosphorelay. Within a sporulating culture of B. subtilis, some cells initiate this develo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Veening JW,Hamoen LW,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small RNA, ArcZ (previously RyhA/SraH), was discovered in several genome-wide screens in Escherichia coli and Salmonella. Its high degree of genomic conservation, its frequent recovery by shotgun sequencing, and its association with the RNA chaperone, Hfq, identified ArcZ as an abundant enterobacterial 'core' smal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Papenfort K,Said N,Welsink T,Lucchini S,Hinton JCD,Vogel J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being the major citric acid cycle aconitase in Escherichia coli the aconitase B protein (AcnB) is also a post-transcriptional regulator of gene expression. The AcnB proteins represent a distinct branch of the aconitase superfamily that possess a HEAT-like domain (domain 5). The HEAT domains of other pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tang Y,Guest JR,Artymiuk PJ,Green J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ler, encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, induces the expression of LEE genes by counteracting the silencing exerted by H-NS. Ler expression is modulated by several global regulators, and is activated by GrlA, which is also LEE-encoded. Typical enteropathogenic...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bustamante VH,Villalba MI,García-Angulo VA,Vázquez A,Martínez LC,Jiménez R,Puente JL

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:clpC of Bacillus subtilis is part of an operon containing six genes. Northern blot analysis suggested that all genes are co-transcribed and encode stress-inducible proteins. Two promoters (PA and PB) were mapped upstream of the first gene. PA resembles promoters recognized by the vegetative RNA polymerase E sigma A. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krüger E,Msadek T,Hecker M

更新日期：1996-05-01 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