Escherichia coli radD (yejH) gene: a novel function involved in radiation resistance and double-strand break repair.

abstract：:The evolutionary relationship within prokaryotes is examined based on signature sequences (defined as conserved inserts or deletions shared by specific taxa) and phylogenies derived from different proteins. Archaebacteria are indicated as being monophyletic by a number of proteins related to the information transfer p...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gupta RS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The K1 killer toxin of Saccharomyces cerevisiae consists of 103- and 83-residue alpha and beta components whose derivation, from a 316-residue precursor preprotoxin, requires processing at the alpha N-terminus (after ProArg-44), the alpha C-terminus (after ArgArg-149) and at the beta N-terminus (after LysArg-233). The...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhu YS,Zhang XY,Cartwright CP,Tipper DJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICEMlSym(R7A) of Mesorhizobium loti is an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) that confers the ability to form a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with Lotus species. Horizontal transfer is activated by TraR and N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL), which can stimulate ICE excision in 100% of cells. However, in wild-type cu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ramsay JP,Major AS,Komarovsky VM,Sullivan JT,Dy RL,Hynes MF,Salmond GP,Ronson CW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restart of arrested replication forks is an important process and PriA, the main Escherichia coli replication restart protein, is essential for viability under any condition that increases the frequency of fork arrest. In priA mutant, replication forks are arrested by spontaneously occurring roadblocks and blocked rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grompone G,Sanchez N,Dusko Ehrlich S,Michel B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin (VacA) induces degenerative vacuolation of sensitive mammalian cell lines. Although evidence is accumulating that VacA enters cells and functions from an intracellular site of action, the biochemical mechanism by which VacA mediates cellular vacuolation has not been establ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ye D,Blanke SR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria are a beautiful example of prokaryotic multicellularity. The filaments can achieve simultaneous nitrogen fixation and oxygenic photosynthesis by cooperation between two cell types: the photosynthetic vegetative cells and the nitrogen-fixing heterocysts. The multicellular fe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mullineaux CW,Nürnberg DJ

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, rare-earth elements (REEs) had been thought to be biologically inactive. This view changed with the discovery of the methanol dehydrogenase XoxF that strictly relies on REEs for its activity. Some methylotrophs only contain xoxF, while others, including the model phyllosphere colonizer Methylobacterium...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ochsner AM,Hemmerle L,Vonderach T,Nüssli R,Bortfeld-Miller M,Hattendorf B,Vorholt JA

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：:Kinetoplastid topoisomerase IB is an unusual bisubunit enzyme where reconstitution of the large (LdTOPIL or L) and small (LdTOPIS or S) subunits shows functional activity. It is yet to be deciphered whether one subunit or both navigate the heterodimer to its cellular DNA targets. Tethering a specific DNA-binding prote...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： BoseDasgupta S,Ganguly A,Das BB,Roy A,Khalkho NV,Majumder HK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaperone/usher (CU) pathway is a conserved bacterial secretion system that assembles adhesive fibres termed pili or fimbriae. Pilus biogenesis by the CU pathway requires a periplasmic chaperone and an outer membrane (OM) assembly platform termed the usher. The usher catalyses formation of subunit-subunit interact...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Henderson NS,Ng TW,Talukder I,Thanassi DG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of the structural gene (yopE) of one of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis virulence plas-mid-plB1-encoded proteins, Yop5, is presented. The deduced protein showed a molecular weight of 22971 Daltons. A specific mutant, having a kanamycin-resistance fragment inserted within the yopE gene was no longer vi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Forsberg A,Wolf-Watz H

更新日期：1988-01-01 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

abstract：:Phosphorylcholine (ChoP) is a common surface feature of many mucosal organisms, including Neisseria spp., in which it is present exclusively on pili of pathogenic Neisseria and on the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of commensal Neisseria (Cn). Its presence in Cn has been confirmed by nuclear magnetic resonance. It appears t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Serino L,Virji M

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:In vitro, the sigma(s) subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP), RpoS, recognizes nearly identical -35 and -10 promoter consensus sequences as the vegetative sigma70. In vivo, promoter selectivity of RNAP holoenzyme containing either sigma(s) (Esigma(s)) or sigma70 (Esigma70) seems to be achieved by the differential ability o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Typas A,Hengge R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, DNA supercoil movement is restricted to subchromosomal regions or 'domains.' To elucidate the nature of domain boundaries, we analysed reaction kinetics for gammadelta site-specific resolution in six chromosomal intervals ranging in size from 14 to 90 kb. In stationary cultures of Salmonella typhimurium, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Staczek P,Higgins NP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional ribosomal RNAs are generated from longer precursor species in every organism known. Maturation of the 5' side of 16S rRNA in Escherichia coli is catalysed in a two-step process by the cooperative action of RNase E and RNase G. However, many bacteria lack RNase E and RNase G orthologues, raising the question...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Britton RA,Wen T,Schaefer L,Pellegrini O,Uicker WC,Mathy N,Tobin C,Daou R,Szyk J,Condon C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. typhimurium) genome contains a large repertoire of putative fimbrial operons that remain poorly characterized because they are not expressed in vitro. In this study, insertions that induced expression of the putative stdABCD fimbrial operon were identified from a random...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chessa D,Winter MG,Nuccio SP,Tükel C,Bäumler AJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XylR is a σ⁵⁴-dependent transcriptional factor of Pseudomonas putida that activates the Pu promoter of the TOL plasmid upon binding its natural effector, m-xylene. The search for mutants of the signal-sensing module of XylR that respond to the xenobiotic compound 2,4-dinitrotoluene recurrently yields protein variants ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： de Las Heras A,de Lorenzo V

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protozoan parasites of the phylum Apicomplexa harbour a chloroplast-like organelle, the apicoplast. The biosynthetic pathways localized to this organelle are of cyanobacterial origin and therefore offer attractive targets for the development of new drugs for the treatment of malaria and toxoplasmosis. The apicoplast a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vaishnava S,Striepen B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two papers in this issue of Molecular Microbiology from Carol Gross and colleagues describe experiments that investigate how two alternative Escherichia coli sigma proteins recognize target promoter -10 regions. A combination of genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics is used to show that determinants in two adjacen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Busby SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pyloriattaches to healthy and inflamed gastric tissue through members of a paralogous family of 'Helicobacter outer membrane proteins' (Hops), including adhesins BabA, SabA, HopQ, LabA and HopZ. Hops share a conserved 25 kDa C-terminal region that is thought to form an autotrans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Coppens F,Castaldo G,Debraekeleer A,Subedi S,Moonens K,Lo A,Remaut H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An msDNA operon, consisting of genes for msDNA and a reverse transcriptase, is present in Escherichia coliB and absent from E. coliK12. We have found that the msDNA operon is located on a DNA fragment, longer than 15kb, that is absent from E. coliK12. Using conjugation, P1 transduction, and nucleic acid hybridization ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lim D,Maas WK

更新日期：1990-12-01 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：:Whereas in Bacillus subtilis, a general stress response stimulon under the control of a single sigma factor (SigB) is induced by different physiological and environmental stresses (heat, salt or ethanol shock), in Streptomyces coelicolor, these environmental stresses induce independent sets of proteins, and its genome...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Viollier PH,Kelemen GH,Dale GE,Nguyen KT,Buttner MJ,Thompson CJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the asymmetrically located septum divides sporulating bacilli into two distinct cells: the mother cell and the prespore. The rigidifying wall material in the septum is subsequently removed by autolysis. Examination of published electron micrographs indicates that the two septal membranes then fuse to form...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Higgins ML,Piggot PJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most soft-rotting Erwinia spp., including E. carotovora subsp. carotovora strain 71 (Ecc71), production of the plant cell wall degrading enzyme pectin lyase (Pnl) is activated by DNA-damaging agents such as mitomycin C (MC). Induction of Pnl production in Ecc71 requires a functional recA gene and the rdg locus. DNA...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu Y,Chatterjee A,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to tuberculosis (TB) control is the problem of chronic TB infection (CTBI). Here we report that 5'-adenosinephosphosulphate reductase (CysH), an enzyme essential for the production of reduced-sulphur-containing metabolites, is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) survival in chronic infection...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Senaratne RH,De Silva AD,Williams SJ,Mougous JD,Reader JR,Zhang T,Chan S,Sidders B,Lee DH,Chan J,Bertozzi CR,Riley LW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication origins of a family of bacterial plasmids have multiple sites, called iterons, for binding a plasmid-specific replication initiator protein. The iteron-initiator interactions are essential for plasmid replication as well as for inhibition of plasmid over-replication. The inhibition increases with plasmid c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chattoraj DK

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis controls the expression of several genes involved in host adaptation by a process known as phase variation. The phase variation frequency of haemoglobin (Hb) receptors among clinical isolates of serogroups A, B and C differed drastically, ranging from approximately 10(-6) to 10(-2) cfu-1. Freque...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Richardson AR,Stojiljkovic I

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00