Structural and biochemical characterization of EDTA monooxygenase and its physical interaction with a partner flavin reductase.

abstract：:The genes encoding the three terminal enzymes in the threonine biosynthetic pathway, homoserine dehydrogenase (hom), homoserine kinase (thrB) and threonine synthase (thrC) have been isolated from Corynebacterium glutamicum. The C. glutamicum hom and thrB genes were subcloned on a 3.6 kb SalI-generated chromosomal frag...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Follettie MT,Shin HK,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of the Streptomyces temperate phage phiC31 integrates into the host chromosome via a recombinase belonging to a novel group of phage integrases related to the resolvase/invertase enzymes. Previously, it was demonstrated that, in an in vitro recombination assay, phiC31 integrase catalyses integration (attP/a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thorpe HM,Wilson SE,Smith MC

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their high genomic synteny, the Leishmania major and Leishmania infantum species exhibit extensive differences in mRNA expression patterns throughout the parasite's development. Yet, the underlying mechanisms for this species-specific differential gene expression are largely unknown. Here we report that Short ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Müller M,Padmanabhan PK,Papadopoulou B

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteic toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci were first identified in bacterial plasmids, and they were regarded as involved in stable plasmid maintenance by a so-called 'addiction' mechanism. Later, chromosomally encoded TA loci were identified and their function ascribed to survival mechanisms when bacteria were subjected to s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nieto C,Pellicer T,Balsa D,Christensen SK,Gerdes K,Espinosa M

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 fixes nitrogen in specialized cells called heterocysts using either a Mo-nitrogenase or a V-nitrogenase. V-nitrogenase structural genes, vnfDGK, as well as vnfEN form an operon with ava4025, located upstream of vnfDG that is repressed by fixed nitrogen and by Mo. The ava4025-vnfDGKEN ope...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pratte BS,Sheridan R,James JA,Thiel T

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of flagellar genes in Caulobacter crecentus is programmed to occur during the predivisional stage of the cell cycle. The mechanism of activation of Class II flagellar genes, the highest identified genes in the Caulobacter flagellar hierarchy, is unknown. As a step toward understanding this process, we ha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stephens CM,Shapiro L

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Frz pathway of Myxococcus xanthus controls cell reversal frequency to support directional motility during swarming and fruiting body formation. Previously, we showed that phosphorylation of the response regulator FrzZ correlates with reversal frequencies, suggesting that this activity represents the output of the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kaimer C,Zusman DR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli UvrD helicase (or helicase II) is known for its involvement in DNA repair. We report that UvrD is required for DNA replication of several different rolling-circle plasmids in E. coli, whereas its homologue, the Rep helicase, is not. Lack of UvrD helicase does not impair the first step of plasmid r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bruand C,Ehrlich SD

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:Populations of surface-attached microorganisms comprising either single or multiple species are commonly referred to as biofilms. Using a simple assay for the initiation of biofilm formation (e.g. attachment to an abiotic surface) by Pseudomonas fluorescens strain WCS365, we have shown that: (i) P. fluorescens can for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Toole GA,Kolter R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tprK gene sequence of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum (T. pallidum) is heterogeneous within and among isolates. Heterogeneity in the tprK open reading frame is localized in seven discrete variable (V) regions, and variability results from apparent base changes, insertions or deletions. The TprK V regions ar...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Centurion-Lara A,LaFond RE,Hevner K,Godornes C,Molini BJ,Van Voorhis WC,Lukehart SA

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:The 29 kDa protein of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica is a cysteine-rich surface antigen which we recently characterized by cDNA sequencing and by using monoclonal antibodies which differentiated between pathogenic and non-pathogenic clinical isolates. To determine the structure and biochemical attributes of this pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Flores BM,Batzer MA,Stein MA,Petersen C,Diedrich DL,Torian BE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria can respond to a variety of environmental stimuli by means of systems generally composed of two proteins. The first protein (sensor or transmitter) is usually a transmembrane protein with cytoplasmic and extracytoplasmic domains. The extracytoplasmic domain (sensor) senses the environment and transfers the si...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gross R,Aricò B,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:TOL plasmid pWW0 of Pseudomonas putida contains two operons that specify a pathway for the degradation of aromatic hydrocarbons. The upper pathway operon encodes the enzymes for the oxidation of toluene/xylenes to benzoate/toluates, and the metacleavage pathway operon encodes the enzymes for the further oxidation of t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marqués S,Ramos JL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioluminescent marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi controls light production (lux) by an elaborate quorum-sensing circuit. V. harveyi produces and responds to two different autoinducer signals (AI-1 and AI-2) to modulate the luciferase structural operon (luxCDABEGH) in response to changes in cell-population density. U...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lilley BN,Bassler BL

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes controlling chemotaxis towards L-amino acids and D-mannitol in Rhizobium meliloti have been identified by Tn5 insertions that lead to chemotaxis-deficient mutants. The tagged genes span an 8.7 kbp region that has been sequenced. These genes are part of a large operon containing three novel open reading frames, o...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Greck M,Platzer J,Sourjik V,Schmitt R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, an opportunistic human pathogen, deploys several strategies to resist antibiotics. It uses multidrug efflux pumps, including the MexAB-OprM pump, for antibiotic resistance, and it also produces hydrogen sulfide (H2 S) that provides some defense against antibiotics. MexR functions as a tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Xuan G,Lü C,Xu H,Chen Z,Li K,Liu H,Liu H,Xia Y,Xun L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma agalactiae, an important pathogen of small ruminants, exhibits antigenic diversity by switching the expression of multiple surface lipoproteins called Vpmas (Variable proteins of M. agalactiae). Although phase variation has been shown to play important roles in many host-pathogen interactions, the biologica...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chopra-Dewasthaly R,Citti C,Glew MD,Zimmermann M,Rosengarten R,Jechlinger W

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 2004, over 100 bacteriologists from 19 different countries discussed recent progress in identification and understanding of individual signal transfer mechanisms in bacteria and in the mutual interactions between these systems to form a functional living cell. The meeting was held in San Feliu and supported by ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hellingwerf KJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase E autoregulates its production in Escherichia coli by governing the decay rate of rne (RNase E) mRNA. It does so by a mechanism that is dependent in part on hp2, a cis-acting stem-loop within the rne 5' untranslated region. In principle, hp2 could function either as a cleavage site for RNase E or as a binding si...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schuck A,Diwa A,Belasco JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flagellar genes of Caulobacter crescentus are expressed under cell-cycle control. Expression is regulated by both flagellar assembly cues and cell-cycle events. In this paper we define the sequences required for the expression of the flgF operon, a new class of sigma 54 flagellar promoter. This promoter type is ex...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Marques MV,Gober JW

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Anabaena responds to nitrogen deprivation by producing heterocysts, cells specialized for nitrogen fixation, at well-spaced intervals along its filaments. The gene hepA, required for heterocyst maturation, is expressed in response to nitrogen deprivation, prior to visible differentiation. A spatial ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wolk CP,Elhai J,Kuritz T,Holland D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that mutations that increased the transcription of the mgtCBR (Mg2+ transport-related) operon conferred increased thermotolerance on this organism. The 5' leader of the mgtCBR mRNA contains two short open reading frames (ORFs), mgtM and mgtP, whose translation regulates the expression of the mgtCBR operon by ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gall AR,Hegarty AE,Datsenko KA,Westerman RP,SanMiguel P,Csonka LN

更新日期：2018-08-01 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：:Antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei has selected for the evolution of a massive archive of silent Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) genes, which are activated by recombination into specialized expression sites. Such VSG switching can occur at rates substantially higher than background mutation and is dependent ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hartley CL,McCulloch R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multimer formation reduces plasmid copy number and is an established cause of segregational instability. Nevertheless, it is difficult to rationalize observations that low levels of dimers can cause severe instability, if we assume they are distributed evenly in cell populations. We report here that dimer distribution...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Summers DK,Beton CW,Withers HL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reveal functional properties of recombination involving short ssDNAs in hyperthermophilic archaea, we evaluated oligonucleotide-mediated transformation (OMT) in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Escherichia coli as a function of the molecular properties of the ssDNA substrates. Unmodified ssDNAs as short as 20...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grogan DW,Stengel KR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00