Targets of the Sex Inducer homeodomain proteins are required for fungal development and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans.

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：:We report here the identification and characterization of a member of the Myxococcus xanthus SdeK signal transduction pathway, BrgE. This protein was identified as an SdeK-interacting component using a yeast two-hybrid screen, and we further confirmed this interaction by the glutathione S-transferase (GST) pulldown as...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pham VD,Shebelut CW,Zumstein EJ,Singer M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many proteins have developed the potential to sequester a client polypeptide chain in its various folding states as a specific intermolecular ligand and, thus, exhibit the properties of a holding chaperone. The resulting complexes can be of a diverse nature in terms of structure and reaction dynamics and are character...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fischer G,Wawra S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N15 is a bacteriophage of Escherichia coli that resembles lambda, but, unlike lambda, it lysogenizes as a linear plasmid. We show that stable maintenance of this unusual plasmid-prophage depends on the parA and parB genes, relatives of the partition genes of F and P1 plasmids. ParB of N15, like its F- and P1-encoded h...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grigoriev PS,Lobocka MB

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division in prokaryotes initiates with assembly of the Z-ring at midcell, which, in Escherichia coli, is tethered to the inner leaflet of the cytoplasmic membrane through a direct interaction with FtsA, a widely conserved actin homolog. The Z-ring is comprised of polymers of tubulin-like FtsZ and has been suggest...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Conti J,Viola MG,Camberg JL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross-talk. After overcoming terminological complications to sort out microbial nifS from sufS genes, we connect a bacterial operon, recently found to be involved in iron me...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ellis KE,Clough B,Saldanha JW,Wilson RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICP is a chagasin-family natural tight binding inhibitor of Clan CA, family C1 cysteine peptidases (CPs). We investigated the role of ICP in Trypanosoma brucei by generating bloodstream form ICP-deficient mutants (Deltaicp). A threefold increase in CP activity was detected in lysates of Deltaicp, which was restored to...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Santos CC,Coombs GH,Lima AP,Mottram JC

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi defend their ecological niche against antagonists by producing antibiosis molecules. Some of these molecules are only produced upon confrontation with the antagonist. The basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea induces the expression of the sesquiterpene synthase-encoding gene cop6 and its two neighboring genes coding...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stöckli M,Morinaka BI,Lackner G,Kombrink A,Sieber R,Margot C,Stanley CE,deMello AJ,Piel J,Künzler M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of capsular exopolysaccharide (EPS) in Mollicutes has been inferred from electron micrographs for over 50 years without conclusive data to support the production of complex carbohydrates by the organism. Mycoplasma pulmonis binds the lectin Griffonia simplicifolia I (GS-I), which is specific for terminal ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Daubenspeck JM,Bolland JR,Luo W,Simmons WL,Dybvig K

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:A 1.2kb DNA fragment was cloned from Synechococcus sp. PCC7942, which is able phenotypically to complement a phoR creC Escherichia coli mutant for the expression of alkaline phosphatase. A 2.5 kb DNA fragment encompassing the putative gene was then cloned and its complete nucleotide sequence determined. Nucleotide seq...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aiba H,Nagaya M,Mizuno T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA secondary structure is important in a wide variety of biological processes, but relatively little is known about the pathways and kinetics of RNA folding. When the IS10 transposase (tnp) gene is transcribed from a promoter outside the element, little increase in tnp expression is observed. This protection from out...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ma CK,Kolesnikow T,Rayner JC,Simons EL,Yim H,Simons RW

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Candida glabrata, the sirtuins Sir2 and Hst1 control the expression of a wide number of genes including adhesins required for host colonization and niacin transporters needed for growth. Given that these sirtuins can be inactivated during infection, we asked if their inhibition could modify the response of C. glabr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Orta-Zavalza E,Guerrero-Serrano G,Gutiérrez-Escobedo G,Cañas-Villamar I,Juárez-Cepeda J,Castaño I,De Las Peñas A

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation and re-initiation of chromosomal DNA replication in bacteria rely on divergent multiprotein assemblies, which direct the functional delivery of the replicative helicase on single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) at specific sites. These two processes are triggered either at the single chromosomal origin oriC or at arre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bruand C,Velten M,McGovern S,Marsin S,Sérèna C,Ehrlich SD,Polard P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces type 4 fimbriae which promote adhesion to epithelial cells and are associated with a form of surface translocation called twitching motility. Transposon mutagenesis was used to identify loci required for fimbrial assembly or function by screening for mutants t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Martin PR,Watson AA,McCaul TF,Mattick JS

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:The cytokinetic apparatus of bacteria is initially formed by the polymerization of the tubulin-like FtsZ protein into a ring structure at midcell. This so-called Z-ring facilitates the recruitment of many additional proteins to the division site to form the mature divisome machine. Although the assembly pathway leadin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tsang MJ,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Among enteric bacteria, the ability to grow on N-acetyl-galactosamine (GalNAc or Aga) and on D-galactosamine (GalN or Gam) differs. Thus, strains B, C and EC3132 of Escherichia coli are Aga+ Gam+ whereas E. coli K-12 is Aga- Gam-, similarly to Klebsiella pneumoniae KAY2026, Klebsiella oxytoca M5a1 and Salmonella typhi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Brinkkötter A,Klöss H,Alpert C,Lengeler JW

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rotA gene of Escherichia coli encodes a peptidyl-prolyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase), which is supposed to catalyse protein folding in the periplasm. To investigate the importance of the enzyme, the rotA gene was cloned and a chromosomal deletion mutant was created. The rotA mutant was normally viable. No residual...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kleerebezem M,Heutink M,Tommassen J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replacement of the amino-terminal 40-amino-acid region of the 588-amino-acid precursor of the membrane-bound penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) by the decapeptide MKGKEFQAWI was carried out by altering the amino-coding end of the ftsI gene. Insertion of the modified gene into a runaway-replication plasmid under the c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Belder JB,Nguyen-Distèche M,Houba-Herin N,Ghuysen JM,Maruyama IN,Hara H,Hirota Y,Inouye M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable RNA promoters of Escherichia coli are exquisitely sensitive to variations in the superhelical density of DNA. Previously, we have shown that binding of the DNA architectural protein FIS at the upstream activating sequences (UASs) of stable RNA promoters prevents the transcription complexes from inactivation...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rochman M,Blot N,Dyachenko M,Glaser G,Travers A,Muskhelishvili G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the rpoD gene encoding the principal sigma (sigma) factor of Helicobacter pylori. The deduced amino acid sequence reveals a predicted polypeptide of 676 residues that has amino acid homology with the principal sigma factors of a number of divergent prokaryotes. We have designated this factor sigma80. Am...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Beier D,Spohn G,Rappuoli R,Scarlato V

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella Typhimurium causes bacterial enterocolitis. The type III secretion system (TTSS)-1 is a key virulence determinant of S. Typhimurium mediating host cell invasion and acute enterocolitis. The TTSS-1 effector protein SipA is transported into host cells, accumulates in characteristic foci at the bacteria-host c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schlumberger MC,Käppeli R,Wetter M,Müller AJ,Misselwitz B,Dilling S,Kremer M,Hardt WD

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possible role of accessory subunits of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme (HE) in determining chromosomal replication fidelity, we have investigated the role of the dnaX gene. This gene encodes both the tau and gamma subunits of HE, which play a central role in the organization and funct...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pham PT,Zhao W,Schaaper RM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crown gall tumorigenesis by Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires the co-ordinate transcriptional induction of a set of pathogenesis genes. At least three classes of environmental stimuli act synergistically to induce these genes: (i) monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as acetosyringone, coniferyl alcohol, and vanilli...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Winans SC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression is a key strategy adopted by the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi, for adaptation and survival in the mammalian host and the tick vector. Many B. burgdorferi surface lipoproteins fall into two distinct groups according to their expression patterns: one group primarily express...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang P,Dadhwal P,Cheng Z,Zianni MR,Rikihisa Y,Liang FT,Li X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conditions of halted or limited genome replication, like those experienced in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis, a more immediate detriment caused by DNA damage is altering the transcriptional programme that drives this developmental process. Here, we report that mfd, which encodes a conserved bacterial protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ramírez-Guadiana FH,Del Carmen Barajas-Ornelas R,Ayala-García VM,Yasbin RE,Robleto E,Pedraza-Reyes M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the capacity of the 11 phase-variable, opacity-associated (Opa) proteins encoded by Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 to mediate traversal across polarized monolayers of the human colonic carcinoma T84 cell line. Gonococci expressing either the heparan sulphate proteoglycan (HSPG) binding Opa protein (Opa50)...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang J,Gray-Owen SD,Knorre A,Meyer TF,Dehio C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation in Bacillus subtilis requires the differentiation of a subpopulation of cells responsible for the production of the extracellular matrix that structures the biofilm. Differentiation of matrix-producing cells depends, among other factors, on the FloT and YqfA proteins. These proteins are present exclu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yepes A,Schneider J,Mielich B,Koch G,García-Betancur JC,Ramamurthi KS,Vlamakis H,López D

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00