A family of genes encoding a cell-killing function may be conserved in all gram-negative bacteria.

abstract：:In contrast to many type II restriction enzymes, dimeric proteins that cleave DNA at individual recognition sites 4-6 bp long, the SfiI endonuclease is a tetrameric protein that binds to two copies of an elongated sequence before cutting the DNA at both sites. The mode of action of the SfiI endonuclease thus seems mor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bilcock DT,Halford SE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonium movement across biological membranes is facilitated by a class of ubiquitous channel proteins from the Amt/Rh family. Amt proteins have also been implicated in cellular responses to ammonium availability in many organisms. Ammonium sensing by Amt in bacteria is mediated by complex formation with cytosolic pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Huergo LF,Merrick M,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS,Araujo LM,Souza EM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strategy was developed to mutate and genetically identify exported proteins in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Vectors were created and used to screen pneumococcal DNA in Escherichia coli and S. pneumoniae for translational gene fusions to alkaline phosphatase (PhoA). Twenty five PhoA+ pneumococcal mutants were isolated a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pearce BJ,Yin YB,Masure HR

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many streptococci, quorum sensing utilizes secreted, linear peptides that engage cognate receptors to coordinate gene expression among members of a local population. Streptococcus mutans employs the secreted peptides CSP and XIP to stimulate production of antimicrobial bacteriocins and to induce development of comp...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Federle MJ,Morrison DA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria contain nanometre-sized, membrane-bound organelles, called magnetosomes, which are tasked with the biomineralization of small crystals of the iron oxide magnetite allowing the organism to use geomagnetic field lines for navigation. A key player in this process is the HtrA/DegP family protease Ma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Quinlan A,Murat D,Vali H,Komeili A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RelA and SpoT of Gram-negative organisms critically regulate cellular levels of (p)ppGpp. Here, we have dissected the spoT gene function of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae by extensive genetic analysis. Unlike Escherichia coli, V. choleraeDeltarelADeltaspoT cells accumulated (p)ppGpp upon fatty acid or glucose st...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Das B,Pal RR,Bag S,Bhadra RK

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reputed iron-responsive region, which contains multiple nuclear protein-binding DNA sequences, was shown previously to regulate iron-inducible transcription of the ap65-1 gene in the protozoan pathogen, Trichomonas vaginalis. These DNA sequences include two overlapping MYB recognition elements (MRE-1/MRE-2r) and thr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ong SJ,Huang SC,Liu HW,Tai JH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial chemoreceptors cluster into exquisitively sensitive, tunable, highly ordered, polar arrays. While these arrays serve as paradigms of cell signalling in general, it remains unclear what conformational changes transduce signals from the periplasmic tips, where attractants and repellents bind, to the cytoplasmi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Briegel A,Beeby M,Thanbichler M,Jensen GJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus thuringiensis insecticidal crystal protein CryIIA has both high mosquito activity and gypsy moth activity; in contrast CryIIB, which is 87% homologous, displays no mosquito activity and has a three-fold lower gypsy moth activity. The regions responsible for specificity against gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liang Y,Dean DH

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HypB protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum is a metal-binding GTPase required for hydrogenase expression. In-frame mutagenesis of hypB resulted in strains that were partially or completely deficient in hydrogenase expression, depending on the degree of disruption of the gene. Complete deletion of the gene yielded ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Olson JW,Fu C,Maier RJ

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability for light sensing is found from bacteria to humans but relies only on a small number of evolutionarily conserved photoreceptors. A large number of fungi react to light, mostly to blue light. Aspergillus nidulans also responds to red light using a phytochrome light sensor, FphA, for the control of hundreds ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hedtke M,Rauscher S,Röhrig J,Rodríguez-Romero J,Yu Z,Fischer R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the gene encoding the TRK transporter of the soil yeast Schwanniomyces occidentalis and obtained the HAK1 trk1 delta and the hak1 delta TRK1 mutant strains. Analyses of the transport capacities of these mutants have shown that (i) the HAK1 and the TRK1 potassium transporters are the only transporters op...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bañuelos MA,Madrid R,Rodríguez-Navarro A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific recombination by the Cre recombinase takes place at a simple DNA site (loxP), requires no additional proteins and gives topologically simple recombination products. In contrast, cer and psi sites for Xer recombination contain approximately 150 bp of accessory sequences, require accessory proteins PepA, A...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gourlay SC,Colloms SD

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, survives in macrophages by altering the endocytic pathway of its host cell. To accomplish this, the bacterium utilizes a type IVB secretion system to deliver effector molecules into the host cell cytoplasm. In a previous report, we performed an exte...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vincent CD,Friedman JR,Jeong KC,Sutherland MC,Vogel JP

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-oxidation (beta-ox) occurs exclusively in the peroxisomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts, leading to the supposition that fungi lack mitochondrial beta-ox. Here we present unequivocal evidence that the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans houses both peroxisomal and mitochondrial beta-ox. While g...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Maggio-Hall LA,Keller NP

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume of electron flow through the cbb3 branch of the electron transport chain and the redox state of the quinone pool generate signals that regulate photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. An inhibitory signal is generated at the level of the catalytic subunit of the cbb3 cytochrome c oxidase ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Oh JI,Kaplan S

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharides (LPS), particularly the O-antigen component, are one of many virulence determinants necessary for Shigella flexneri pathogenesis. O-antigen biosynthesis is determined mostly by genes located in the rfb region of the chromosome. The rfc/wzy gene encodes the O-antigen polymerase, an integral membrane...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Daniels C,Vindurampulle C,Morona R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida WCS358 can transport iron complexed to a wide variety of pseudobactins produced by other Pseudomonas strains. The pupB gene encoding an outer membrane ferric-pseudobactin receptor was isolated from a genomic library of P. putida WCS358. The PupB receptor facilitated iron transport via two distinct h...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koster M,van de Vossenberg J,Leong J,Weisbeek PJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of genomic DNA fragments from Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) DL42 was constructed in plasmid pBR322, transformed into Escherichia coli strain RR1, and screened for recombinant clones with haemin-binding activity by plating onto haemin-containing agar. Expression of haemin-binding activity by clones corr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hanson MS,Hansen EJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptococcal antigen I/II (AgI/II)-family polypeptides are cell wall-anchored adhesins expressed by most indigenous oral streptococci. Proteins sharing 30-40% overall amino acid sequence similarities with AgI/II-family proteins are also expressed by Streptococcus pyogenes. The S. pyogenes M28_Spy1325 polypeptide ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Maddocks SE,Wright CJ,Nobbs AH,Brittan JL,Franklin L,Strömberg N,Kadioglu A,Jepson MA,Jenkinson HF

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like many other bacteria, Burkholderia sp. take up iron in its ferric form via siderophore-dependent transporters. We observed that mutant strains of B. cenocepacia H111 unable to synthesize siderophores did not exhibit any growth defect under iron limited conditions. This finding suggested that this opportunistic pat...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mathew A,Eberl L,Carlier AL

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-specific insertion of gene cassettes into the insert region of integrons has been demonstrated. Insertion was only observed if the integron DNA integrase was expressed in the recipient cell and if the cassette DNA was ligated prior to transformation. The essential ligation products were resistant to treatment wit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Collis CM,Grammaticopoulos G,Briton J,Stokes HW,Hall RM

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest event in bacterial cell division is the formation of a Z ring, composed of the tubulin-like FtsZ protein, at the division site at midcell. This ring then recruits several other division proteins and together they drive the formation of a division septum between two replicated chromosomes. Here we show tha...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peters PC,Migocki MD,Thoni C,Harry EJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 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：:The predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus swims rapidly by rotation of a single, polar flagellum comprised of a helical filament of flagellin monomers, contained within a membrane sheath and powered by a basal motor complex. Bdellovibrio collides with, enters and replicates within bacterial prey, a process pr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lambert C,Evans KJ,Till R,Hobley L,Capeness M,Rendulic S,Schuster SC,Aizawa S,Sockett RE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus nidulans was used as a model organism to investigate the fungal propionate metabolism and the mechanism of growth inhibition by propionate. The fungus is able to grow slowly on propionate as sole carbon and energy source. Propionate is oxidized to pyruvate via the methylcitrate cycle. The key enzyme methyl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Brock M,Fischer R,Linder D,Buckel W

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome b558 in the cytoplasmic membrane of Bacillus subtilis constitutes the anchor and electron acceptor to the flavoprotein (Fp) and iron-sulphur protein (Ip) in succinate:quinone oxidoreductase, and seemingly contains two haem groups. EPR and MCD spectroscopic data indicate bis-imidazole ligation of the haem. A...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fridén H,Hederstedt L

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, glucose activation of cAMP synthesis requires both the presence of the G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) system, Gpr1-Gpa2, and uptake and phosphorylation of the sugar. In a hxt-null strain that lacks all physiologically important glucose carriers, glucose transport as well as glucose-indu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rolland F,De Winde JH,Lemaire K,Boles E,Thevelein JM,Winderickx J

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virstatin is a previously described small molecule inhibitor of Vibrio cholerae virulence. We have demonstrated that the molecule inhibits the activity of the transcriptional activator ToxT, thereby preventing elaboration of the toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP) and cholera toxin in vitro and in vivo in O1 strains of V. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shakhnovich EA,Sturtevant D,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GPI-anchoring is a universal and critical post-translational protein modification in eukaryotes. In fungi, many cell wall proteins are GPI-anchored, and disruption of GPI-anchored proteins impairs cell wall integrity. After being synthesized and attached to target proteins, GPI anchors undergo modification on lipid mo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chung D,Thammahong A,Shepardson KM,Blosser SJ,Cramer RA

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00