In Candida albicans hyphae, Sec2p is physically associated with SEC2 mRNA on secretory vesicles.

abstract：:We have devised a simple method for the reconstitution of bacterial membrane proteins directly from small (1-20 ml) volumes of cell culture, thus eliminating the preparation of membrane vesicles. Cells are subjected to simultaneous lysozyme digestion and osmotic lysis, and after brief centrifugation ghosts are solubil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Varadhachary A,Maloney PC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria which undergo a unique developmental cycle, alternating between non-replicative elementary bodies (EBs) and replicative reticulate bodies (RBs). The transition from RB to EB is characterized by condensation of the chromosome into a dense nucleoid structure. The chlamydial...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barry CE 3rd,Brickman TJ,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria differ from eukaryotes by having the enzyme DNA gyrase, which catalyses the ATP-dependent negative supercoiling of DNA. Negative supercoils are essential for condensing chromosomes into an interwound (plectonemic) and branched structure known as the nucleoid. Topo-1 removes excess supercoiling in an ATP-indep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Booker BM,Deng S,Higgins NP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NarL and NarP proteins are homologous response regulators of Escherichia coli that control the expression of several operons in response to nitrate and nitrite. A consensus heptameric NarL DNA-binding sequence has been identified, and previous observations suggest that the NarP protein has a similar sequence speci...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Darwin AJ,Tyson KL,Busby SJ,Stewart V

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of bacterial genomes encode a high number of two-component systems controlling gene expression in response to a variety of different stimuli. The Gram-positive soil bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum contains two homologous two-component systems (TCS) involved in the haem-dependent regulation of gene ex...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hentschel E,Mack C,Gätgens C,Bott M,Brocker M,Frunzke J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of DnaA, a key bacterial DNA replication initiation factor, increases during the Caulobacter swarmer-to-stalked transition just before the G1/S transition. We show that DnaA coordinates DNA replication initiation with cell cycle progression by acting as a global transcription factor. Using DnaA depletion and...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hottes AK,Shapiro L,McAdams HH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against maternal malaria has been associated with the acquisition of a specific antibody response that prevents adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to the glycosaminoglycan chondroitin-4-sulphate (CSA), which is present in the placental intervillous space. These antibodies are directed a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Andrews KT,Pirrit LA,Przyborski JM,Sanchez CP,Sterkers Y,Ricken S,Wickert H,Lépolard C,Avril M,Scherf A,Gysin J,Lanzer M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomes of the soil bacteria Streptomyces, unlike those of most other bacteria, are linear DNA molecules. Their telomeres contain long-terminal inverted repeats and covalently bound terminal proteins (TPs). These bacteria also harbour linear plasmids that share the same structural features. In this study, we d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yang CC,Huang CH,Li CY,Tsay YG,Lee SC,Chen CW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Neisseria meningitidis with the meninges that surround and protect the brain is a pivotal event in the progression of bacterial meningitis. Two models of the human meninges were established in vitro, using (i) sections of fresh human brain and (ii) cultures of viable cells grown from human meningiom...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hardy SJ,Christodoulides M,Weller RO,Heckels JE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa three type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) coexist, called H1- to H3-T6SSs. Several T6SS components are proposed to be part of a macromolecular complex resembling the bacteriophage tail. The T6SS protein HsiE1 (TagJ) is unique to the H1-T6SS and absent from the H2- and H3-T6SSs. We demonstrate t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lossi NS,Manoli E,Simpson P,Jones C,Hui K,Dajani R,Coulthurst SJ,Freemont P,Filloux A

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:While Vipp1 (also known as IM30) clearly is essential for proper biogenesis of thylakoid membranes in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria, the exact function of Vipp1/IM30 still remains unclear. The recent in vivo study of Gutu et al. now demonstrates that Vipp1/IM30 forms localized puncta specifically at highly curved mem...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Junglas B,Schneider D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus (GAS) causes a variety of human diseases, including toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, which are both associated with significant mortality. Even the superficial self-limiting diseases caused by GAS, such as pharyngitis, impose a significant economic burden on society. GAS can ca...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Churchward G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of lysine genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is dependent on Lys14p and on alpha-aminoadipate semialdehyde (alphaAASA), an intermediate of the pathway. The two-thirds C-terminal end of Lys14p is sufficient to ensure the activation function of the protein and its modulation by alphaAASA. Here, we show that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： El Alami M,Feller A,Piérard A,Dubois E

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the transcription factors Gln3p and Nil1p of the GATA family play a determinant role in expression of genes that are subject to nitrogen catabolite repression. Here we report the isolation of a new yeast mutant, gan1-1, exhibiting dramatically decreased NAD-linked glutamate dehydrogenase (...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Soussi-Boudekou S,André B

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete understanding of host-parasite interactions must necessarily include the identification and characterization of gene products expressed by both parties during the infectious process. We have developed a new screen to identify bacterial genes that are transcriptionally induced during infection of a host anim...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Camilli A,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 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

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：:In general, wild Escherichia coli strains can grow effectively under moderately acidic organic acid-rich conditions. We found that the Shiga Toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157:H7 NGY9 grows more quickly than a K-12 strain in Luria-Bertani (LB)-2-morpholinoethanesulphonic acid (MES) broth supplemented with acetic acid...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barua S,Yamashino T,Hasegawa T,Yokoyama K,Torii K,Ohta M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Misfolded proteins are usually arrested in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and degraded by the ER-associated degradation (ERAD) machinery. Several mutant alleles of PMA1, the gene coding for the plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase, render misfolded proteins that are retained in the ER and degraded by ERAD. A subset of misfolde...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mazón MJ,Eraso P,Portillo F

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified a gene (FTN_0818) required for Francisella virulence that seemed likely involved in biotin metabolism. However, the molecular function of this virulence determinant was unclear. Here we show that this protein named BioJ is the enzyme of the biotin biosynthesis pathway that determines the chain l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feng Y,Napier BA,Manandhar M,Henke SK,Weiss DS,Cronan JE

更新日期：2014-01-01 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 chb1 gene, which encodes the unique lectin-like alpha-chitin-binding protein CHB1 of Streptomyces olivaceoviridis, was cloned. Transformants of Streptomyces lividans harbouring the plasmid pCHB10 overproduced the extracellular CHB1 protein; the protein showed neither enzymatic nor antifungal activity. Biochemical ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schnellmann J,Zeltins A,Blaak H,Schrempf H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatio-temporal oscillations of the Min proteins are essential for selecting the cell division site in Escherichia coli. These oscillations are a key example of a biological phenomenon that can only be understood on a systems level rather than on the level of its individual components. Here, we review the key concepts...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kruse K,Howard M,Margolin W

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:We have isolated and sequenced a set of deletions stimulated by DNA palindromes in Escherichia coli. All of the deletions are asymmetric with respect to the parental sequence and have occurred at short direct repeats. This is consistent with deletion by strand slippage during DNA replication. The orientation of the as...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pinder DJ,Blake CE,Lindsey JC,Leach DR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An internal segment of the (p)ppGpp synthetase gene, relA, of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) was amplified from genomic DNA using the polymerase chain reaction and used as a hybridization probe to isolate the complete gene from a cosmid library. relA lies downstream of a gene (apt) that apparently encodes adenine phosp...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chakraburtty R,White J,Takano E,Bibb M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria react to phosphate starvation by activating genes involved in the transport and assimilation of phosphate as well as other phosphorous compounds. Some soil bacteria have evolved an additional mechanism for saving phosphorous. Under phosphate-limiting conditions, they replace their membrane phospholipids by li...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Geiger O,Röhrs V,Weissenmayer B,Finan TM,Thomas-Oates JE

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of stalled ribosomes at the 3' end of mRNA without a stop codon (non-stop mRNA) is supposed to be toxic to bacterial cells. Escherichia coli has at least two distinct systems to rescue such stalled ribosomes: SsrA-dependent trans-translation and ArfA-dependent ribosome rescue. Combination of the ssrA and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductases supply cells with their deoxyribonucleotides. Three enzyme types are known, classes I, II and III. Class II enzymes are anaerobic whereas class I enzymes are aerobic, and so class I and II enzymes are often produced by the same organism under opposing oxygen regimes. Escherichia coli contains...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Andrews SC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00