Iron-sulfur protein maturation in Helicobacter pylori: identifying a Nfu-type cluster carrier protein and its iron-sulfur protein targets.

abstract：:Crystallographic structure refinement at very high resolutions of a dozen periplasmic receptors has revealed that, though they have different sizes (26 to 60 kDa) and little sequence homology, they have high tertiary structure similarity. They consist of two distinct globular domains bisected by a cleft or groove wher...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Quiocho FA,Ledvina PS

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-linked glycosylation is recognized as an important post-translational modification across all three domains of life. However, the understanding of the genetic pathways for the assembly and attachment of N-linked glycans in eukaryotic and bacterial systems far outweighs the knowledge of comparable processes in Archae...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chaban B,Voisin S,Kelly J,Logan SM,Jarrell KF

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elaboration of a capsule composed of one of a range of acidic polysaccharides is a common feature of many bacteria, particularly those capable of causing serious infections in humans. Biochemical and genetical analyses of capsule biogenesis in Escherichia coli are beginning to reveal new aspects of polysaccharide bios...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Boulnois GJ,Jann K

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we evaluate the role of catalase in the survival of Bordetella pertussis within human polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs). Crude extracts of B. pertussis exhibited a single catalase activity when subjected to non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and assayed for catalase activity. A plasmid ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： DeShazer D,Wood GE,Friedman RL

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomes of the soil bacteria Streptomyces, unlike those of most other bacteria, are linear DNA molecules. Their telomeres contain long-terminal inverted repeats and covalently bound terminal proteins (TPs). These bacteria also harbour linear plasmids that share the same structural features. In this study, we d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yang CC,Huang CH,Li CY,Tsay YG,Lee SC,Chen CW

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens ATCC 17400 produces pyoverdine under iron-limiting conditions. A Tn5 mutant, 2G11, produced lower amounts of different pyoverdine forms and was unable to grow under iron limitation caused by ethylenediamine-di(o-hydroxy-phenylacetic acid) (EDDHA) or zinc. This mutant was complemented by a 9.6 k...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gaballa A,Koedam N,Cornelis P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic oscillation of the Min system in Escherichia coli determines the placement of the division plane at the midcell. In addition to stimulating MinD ATPase activity, we report here that MinE can directly interact with the membrane and this interaction contributes to the proper MinDE localization and dynamics. The ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hsieh CW,Lin TY,Lai HM,Lin CC,Hsieh TS,Shih YL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 34 kb fragment of the Nocardia lactamdurans DNA carrying the cluster of early cephamycin biosynthetic genes was cloned in lambda EMBL3 by hybridization with probes internal to the pcbAB and pcbC genes of Penicillium chrysogenum and Streptomyces griseus. The pcbAB and pcbC genes were found to be closely linked togeth...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Coque JJ,Martín JF,Calzada JG,Liras P

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti, the endosymbiont of Medicago sativa, can use haem compounds, including haemoglobin and leghaemoglobin, when growing in the free-living state. The components of the system involved in haem acquisition were confirmed to be ShmR, an outer membrane receptor, and HmuTUV, predicted to be an ABC trans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cuív PO,Keogh D,Clarke P,O'Connell M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence genes of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens are induced by more than 40 low-molecular-weight phenolic compounds. The prevailing opinion is that (i) wound-derived phenols produced on breach of the integrity of the cell wall act as the initiating signal in a series of events which results in host...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Duban ME,Lee K,Lynn DG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their natural habitats, microorganisms are often exposed to osmolality changes in the environment. The osmotic stress must be sensed and converted into an activity change of specific enzymes and transport proteins and/or it must trigger their synthesis such that the osmotic imbalance can be rapidly restored. On the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Poolman B,Glaasker E

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strain 1470 is the standard typing strain for serogroup F of Clostridium difficile containing both toxin genes, toxA-1470 and toxB-1470. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based approach to the sequencing of the total toxB-1470 gene identified an open reading frame (ORF) of 7104 nucleotides. In comparison with the prev...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： von Eichel-Streiber C,Meyer zu Heringdorf D,Habermann E,Sartingen S

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:RNA coliphage SP was propagated for several generations on a host expressing an inhibitory antisense RNA complementary to bases 31-270 of the positive-stranded genome. Phages evolved that escaped inhibition. Typically, these escape mutants contained 3-4 base substitutions, but different sequences were observed among d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bull JJ,Jacobson A,Badgett MR,Molineux IJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel two-component system (TCS) designated as DraR-K (sco3063/sco3062) was identified to be involved in differential regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. The S. coelicolor mutants with deletion of either or both of draR and draK exhibited significantly reduced actinorhodin (ACT) but inc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yu Z,Zhu H,Dang F,Zhang W,Qin Z,Yang S,Tan H,Lu Y,Jiang W

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Plasmodium falciparum hexose transporter (PfHT) has previously been shown to be a facilitative glucose and fructose transporter. Its expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes and the use of a glucose analogue inhibitor permitted chemical validation of PfHT as a novel drug target. Following recent re-annotations of the P....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Slavic K,Straschil U,Reininger L,Doerig C,Morin C,Tewari R,Krishna S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When fungi grow on plant or insect surfaces coated with wax polyesters that protect against pathogens, the fungi generally form aerial hyphae to contact the surfaces. Aerial structures such as hyphae and conidiophores are coated with hydrophobins, which are surface-active proteins involved in adhesion to hydrophobic s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Takahashi T,Maeda H,Yoneda S,Ohtaki S,Yamagata Y,Hasegawa F,Gomi K,Nakajima T,Abe K

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal pathogens have evolved sophisticated machinery to precisely balance the fine line between acquiring essential metals and defending against metal toxicity. Iron and copper are essential metals for many processes in both fungal pathogens and their mammalian hosts, but reduce viability when present in excess. Howe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ding C,Festa RA,Sun TS,Wang ZY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans hyphae grow in a highly polarized fashion from their tips. This polarized growth requires the continuous delivery of secretory vesicles to the tip region. Vesicle delivery depends on Sec2p, the Guanine Exchange Factor (GEF) for the Rab GTPase Sec4p. GTP bound Sec4p is required for the transit of secre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Caballero-Lima D,Hautbergue GM,Wilson SA,Sudbery PE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) are protein injection devices essential for the interaction of many Gram-negative bacteria with eukaryotic cells. While Shigella assembles its T3SS when the environmental conditions are appropriate for invasion, secretion is only activated after physical contact with a host cell. Fir...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roehrich AD,Guillossou E,Blocker AJ,Martinez-Argudo I

更新日期：2013-02-01 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 expression of dnaA is autoregulated, in that transcription of the gene increases when DnaA is inactivated (and initiation of replication prevented) and decreases when DnaA is supplied in excess. However, the inactivation of DnaA does not necessarily lead to increased DnaA production, as dnaA(Ts; temperature sensit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Smith RW,McAteer S,Masters M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular analyses were applied to the genes encoding variants of the serosubtyping antigen, the class 1 outer membrane protein (PorA), from 55 serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis strains. These genes were evolutionarily stable and exhibited a limited range of genetic variation, primarily generated by recombination. Tr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Suker J,Feavers IM,Achtman M,Morelli G,Wang JF,Maiden MC

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the basis of bacterial persistence in latent infections is critical for eradication of tuberculosis. Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mRNA expression in an in vitro model of non-replicating persistence indicated that the bacilli require electron transport chain components and ATP synthesis for surv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dhiman RK,Mahapatra S,Slayden RA,Boyne ME,Lenaerts A,Hinshaw JC,Angala SK,Chatterjee D,Biswas K,Narayanasamy P,Kurosu M,Crick DC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated RNA polymerase from Mycobacterium smegmatis and established conditions for specific transcription initiation in vitro. The M. smegmatis enzyme has a strong dependence on supercoiling of the DNA substrate for transcription from mycobacterial promoters. We also show that RNA polymerase is the target for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Levin ME,Hatfull GF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron is a critical nutrient for the growth and survival of most bacterial species. Accordingly, much attention has been paid to the mechanisms by which host organisms sequester iron from invading bacteria and how bacteria acquire iron from their environment. However, under oxidative stress conditions such as those enc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Frawley ER,Fang FC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The gene cbhA from the cellulolytic bacterium Cellulomonas fimi encodes a protein of 872 amino acids designated cellobiohydrolase A (CbhA). Mature CbhA contains 832 amino acid residues and has a predicted molecular mass of 85,349 Da. It is composed of five domains: an N-terminal catalytic domain, three repeated sequen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meinke A,Gilkes NR,Kwan E,Kilburn DG,Warren RA,Miller RC Jr

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens transforms plants by transferring DNA to the plant cell nucleus. The VirB membrane proteins are postulated to form a pore for the transport of the DNA across the bacterial membranes. Immunofluorescence and immunoelectron microscopy were used to study the transport pore complex. Three likely c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kumar RB,Xie YH,Das A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A virulence-associated region in the genome of Dichelobacter nodosus has been shown to contain an integrase gene which is highly related to the integrases of Shigella flexneri phage Sf6 and coliphages P4 and phi R73, together with open reading frames (vapB, C and D) related to genes borne on plasmids in Neisseria gono...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cheetham BF,Katz ME

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00