Global regulatory roles of the cAMP/PKA pathway revealed by phenotypic, transcriptomic and phosphoproteomic analyses in a null mutant of the PKA catalytic subunit in Candida albicans.

abstract：:The secretion of numerous proteins during vegetative growth of Myxococcus xanthus, and the multicellular development cycle induced upon starvation of these bacteria, are partially interrelated in so far as mutants impaired in extracellular protein production are unable to undergo development. We have cloned and sequen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Laval-Favre K,Letouvet-Pawlak B,Friedrich T,Alexandre J,Guespin-Michel JF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli have been produced which express very high levels of the tRNA(1Leu) isoacceptor. This was accomplished by transforming cells with plasmids containing the leuV operon which encodes three copies of the tRNA(1Leu) gene. Most transformants grew very slowly and exhibited a 15-fold increase in ce...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wahab SZ,Rowley KO,Holmes WM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micrococcus luteus secretes a small protein called Rpf, which has autocrine and paracrine signalling functions and is required for the resuscitation of dormant cells. Originally isolated from the supernatant of actively growing cultures, Rpf was also detected on the surface of actively growing bacteria. Most molecules...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mukamolova GV,Turapov OA,Kazarian K,Telkov M,Kaprelyants AS,Kell DB,Young M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renewed interest in gene amplification stems from its importance in evolution and a variety of medical problems ranging from drug resistance to cancer. However, amplified DNA segments (amplicons) are not fully characterized in any organism. Here we report a novel Acinetobacter baylyi system for genome-wide studies. Am...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Seaton SC,Elliott KT,Cuff LE,Laniohan NS,Patel PR,Neidle EL

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall transcription of DNA has previously been demonstrated to proceed at extremely high levels of accuracy. We review the evidence that the process of transcription is subject to proof-reading in the Hopfield sense. In addition, we speculate that the proof-reading activity associated with transcription is subje...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Libby RT,Gallant JA

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:Advances in automated fluorescence microscopy have made snapshot and time-lapse imaging of bacterial cells commonplace, yet fundamental challenges remain in analysis. The vast quantity of data collected in high-throughput experiments requires a fast and reliable automated method to analyze fluorescence intensity and l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cass JA,Stylianidou S,Kuwada NJ,Traxler B,Wiggins PA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone-based compounds have been exploited to treat infectious diseases and cancer, with such chemicals often functioning as inhibitors of key metabolic pathways or as prodrugs. Here, we screened an aziridinyl 1,4-benzoquinone (ABQ) library against the causative agents of trypanosomiasis, and cutaneous leishmaniasis,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meredith EL,Kumar A,Konno A,Szular J,Alsford S,Seifert K,Horn D,Wilkinson SR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we present the localization and characterization of the repl promoter (Prepl) and show aspects of the regulation. Comparison of Prepl with other autoregulated replication protein gene promoters revealed similarities, but Prepl differs from some of these characterized promoters in not being regulated by th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gammie AE,Crosa JH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi appear to be unique in their requirement for a third soluble translation elongation factor. This factor, designated elongation factor 3 (EF-3), was first described in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and has subsequently been identified in a wide range of fungal species including Candida albicans and Schizosac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Belfield GP,Tuite MF

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging lipidomic technologies have enabled researchers to dissect the complex roles of phospholipases in lipid metabolism, cellular signaling and immune regulation. Host phospholipase products are involved in stimulating and resolving the inflammatory response to pathogens. While many pathogen-derived phospholipases...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wilson SK,Knoll LJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 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 plasmid-encoded gene systems are thought to stabilize plasmids by killing plasmid-free cells (also termed post-segregational killing or plasmid addiction). Here we analyse the mechanisms of plasmid stabilization by ccd of F, parDE of RP4 and parD of R1, and compare them to hok/sok of R1. To induce synchron...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jensen RB,Grohmann E,Schwab H,Díaz-Orejas R,Gerdes K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pseudomonas aeruginosa protein PtxS negatively regulates its own synthesis by binding to the upstream region of its gene. We have recently identified a 14 bp palindromic sequence within the ptxS upstream region as the PtxS operator site (OP1). In this study, we searched the P. aeruginosa genomic sequence to determ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Swanson BL,Hager P,Phibbs P Jr,Ochsner U,Vasil ML,Hamood AN

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of low pH on inducible gene expression in Lactobacillus acidophilus was investigated by the use of differential display. Logarithmic phase cultures were exposed to pH 3.5 for various intervals, and RNA was isolated and reverse transcribed. The resultant cDNAs were subjected to PCR and the products were r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kullen MJ,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, sexual development in the heterothallic ascomycete Trichoderma reesei (anamorph of Hypocrea jecorina) has been achieved and thus initiated attempts to elucidate regulation and determinants of this process. While the α-type pheromone of this fungus fits the consensus known from other fungi, the assumed a-type...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schmoll M,Seibel C,Tisch D,Dorrer M,Kubicek CP

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：:Oxidative stress serves as an important host/environmental signal that triggers a wide range of responses from the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Among these, a thiol-based oxidation sensing pathway through a global regulator MgrA controls the virulence and antibiotic resistance of the bacterium. Herein, we rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen PR,Nishida S,Poor CB,Cheng A,Bae T,Kuechenmeister L,Dunman PM,Missiakas D,He C

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:The threonine dehydratase IlvA is part of the isoleucine biosynthesis pathway in the Gram-positive model bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Consequently, deletion of ilvA causes isoleucine auxotrophy. It has been reported that ilvA pseudo-revertants having a derepressed hom-thrCB operon appear in the presence of threonine. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rosenberg J,Müller P,Lentes S,Thiele MJ,Zeigler DR,Tödter D,Paulus H,Brantl S,Stülke J,Commichau FM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FNR protein of Escherichia coli is a regulatory protein that activates the transcription of its target genes in response to oxygen limitation. Site-directed mutagenesis was used to show that a 28-residue N-terminal segment containing three cysteines is essential for normal FNR function. The cysteine residue which ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Spiro S,Guest JR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In almost all bacteria, cell division is co-ordinated by the essential tubulin homologue FtsZ and represents an attractive but as yet unexploited target for new antibiotics. The benzamides, e.g. PC190723, are potent FtsZ inhibitors that have the potential to yield an important new class of antibiotic. However, the evo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Adams DW,Wu LJ,Errington J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently identified recA gene of the naturally transformable bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae has been further characterized by constructing a recA null mutation and by investigating its regulation. The recA mutation has been shown to confer both DNA repair (as judged from sensitivity to u.v. and methyl methane ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Martin B,García P,Castanié MP,Claverys JP

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The process of bacterial cell division involves the assembly of a complex of proteins at the site of septation that probably provides both the structural and the cytokinetic functions required for elaboration and closure of the septal annulus. During sporulation in Bacillus subtilis, this complex of proteins is modifi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fawcett P,Melnikov A,Youngman P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subspecies I serotypes are responsible for the vast majority of salmonellosis in mammals and birds, yet only a few factors specific to this group that allow them to persist in this niche have been identified. We show that STM0557, a S. enterica subspecies I-specific gene encoding an inner membrane ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bogomolnaya LM,Santiviago CA,Yang HJ,Baumler AJ,Andrews-Polymenis HL

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：: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：:Mycobacterial genomes contain large sets of loci encoding membrane proteins that belong to a family of multidrug resistance pumps designated Resistance-Nodulation-Cell Division (RND) permeases. Mycobacterial membrane protein Large (MmpL) transporters represent a subclass of RND transporters known to participate in the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Viljoen A,Dubois V,Girard-Misguich F,Blaise M,Herrmann JL,Kremer L

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00