Expression and regulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa hibernation promoting factor.

abstract：:Arsenic is the most ubiquitous environmental toxin. Here, we demonstrate that bacteria have evolved the ability to use arsenic to gain a competitive advantage over other bacteria at least twice. Microbes generate toxic methylarsenite (MAs(III)) by methylation of arsenite (As(III)) or reduction of methylarsenate (MAs(V...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen J,Yoshinaga M,Rosen BP

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bioassay was developed to identify stimuli that promote the transcriptional induction of the algD operon for alginate biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Strain PAO1 carried the algD promoter fused to a chloramphenicol acetyl-transferase cartridge (PalgD-cat), and > 50 compounds were tested for promoting chloram...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wood LF,Leech AJ,Ohman DE

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Replication of the bacterial chromosome is initiated by the binding of the DnaA protein to a unique DNA region, called oriC. Many regulatory factors in numerous species act by controlling the ability of DnaA to bind and unwind DNA, but the Helicobacter pylori genome does not contain homologues to any of these factors....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zawilak-Pawlik A,Kois A,Stingl K,Boneca IG,Skrobuk P,Piotr J,Lurz R,Zakrzewska-Czerwińska J,Labigne A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enhancement of enzyme thermostability by protein engineering gives us information about the thermostabilization mechanism as well as advantages for industrial use of enzymes. In this study, we enhanced the thermostability of endoglucanase EngB, one component of the cellulase complex (cellulosome) from Clostridium cell...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Murashima K,Kosugi A,Doi RH

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-cell and cell-surface adherence represents initial steps in forming multicellular aggregates or in establishing cell-surface interactions. The commonly used Saccharomyces cerevisiae laboratory strain S288c carries a flo8 mutation, and is only able to express the flocculin-encoding genes FLO1 and FLO11, when FLO8 ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fichtner L,Schulze F,Braus GH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P), a bioactive sphingolipid metabolite, plays a critical role in the orchestration of immune responses. S1P levels within the mammalian host are tightly regulated, in part through the activity of S1P lyase (S1PL) which catalyses its irreversible degradation. Herein, we describe the identifi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Custódio R,McLean CJ,Scott AE,Lowther J,Kennedy A,Clarke DJ,Campopiano DJ,Sarkar-Tyson M,Brown AR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhizobium phaseoli cytochrome mutant, unable to oxidize N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMPD), was isolated after Mu-dl (Kan lac) mutagenesis of the wild-type strain CE-3. Mutant strain CFN4202 had sixfold less haem-c but similar levels of b type, o and aa3 cytochromes than the wild-type strain. CFN4202 st...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Soberón M,Aguilar GR,Sánchez F

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：:Regions close to the replication terminus of the Escherichia coli chromosome are strongly refractory to genomic inversions. Since these regions also harbour polar replication terminator-like sequences or pause sites, we have investigated the possibility that slowing of replication as a result of pausing at inverted pa...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： François V,Louarn J,Patte J,Rebollo JE,Louarn JM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entamoeba histolytica cells secrete electron-dense granules (EDGs) that have collagenase activity. To study the possible involvement of calmodulin (CaM) on EDG secretion, the effect of several CaM antagonists (TFP, R24571, W-7, W-5, dibucaine and DL-propranolol) was tested on this cellular function. Except for W-5 and...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Muñoz Mde L,Moreno MA,Pérez-Garcia JN,Tovar GR,Hernandez VI

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:citS and citT genes encoding a new two-component system were identified in the 71 degrees region between the pel and citM loci on the Bacillus subtilis chromosome. citS- and citT-deficient strains were unable to grow on minimal plates including citrate as a sole carbon source. In addition, a strain deficient in citM, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yamamoto H,Murata M,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosomes are divided into topologically independent regions, called domains, by the action of uncharacterized barriers. With the goal of identifying domain barrier components, we designed a genetic selection for mutants with reduced negative supercoiling of the Escherichia coli chromosome. We employed a strain that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hardy CD,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell differentiation is widespread during the development of multicellular organisms, but rarely observed in prokaryotes. One example of prokaryotic differentiation is the gram-negative bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. In response to starvation, this gliding bacterium initiates a complex developmental programme that resu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hoiczyk E,Ring MW,McHugh CA,Schwär G,Bode E,Krug D,Altmeyer MO,Lu JZ,Bode HB

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:The 9.5 kb virB operon is the largest of the six major operons in the Ti plasmid vir region. This operon contains eleven genes, the largest of which is virB4. This gene encodes an 84 kDa protein whose function has not been identified. Its roles in conferring virulence on Agrobacterium tumefaciens and in the T-DNA tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shirasu K,Koukolíková-Nicola Z,Hohn B,Kado CI

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, an emerging nosocomial pathogen of increasing clinical significance, produces two large protein toxins that are responsible for the cellular damage associated with the disease. The precise mechanisms by which toxin synthesis is regulated in response to environmental change have yet to be discove...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Matamouros S,England P,Dupuy B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, ultrastructural investigations of Leishmania mexicana amastigotes revealed structures that were tentatively identified as autophagosomes. This study has now provided definitive data that autophagy occurs in the parasite during differentiation both to metacyclic promastigotes and to amastigotes, autophagos...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Williams RA,Tetley L,Mottram JC,Coombs GH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, DNA supercoil movement is restricted to subchromosomal regions or 'domains.' To elucidate the nature of domain boundaries, we analysed reaction kinetics for gammadelta site-specific resolution in six chromosomal intervals ranging in size from 14 to 90 kb. In stationary cultures of Salmonella typhimurium, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Staczek P,Higgins NP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry of Listeria monocytogenes into cultured epithelial cells requires production of internalin, a protein with features characteristic of some Gram-positive bacterial surface proteins, in particular an LPXTG motif preceding a hydrophobic sequence and a few basic residues at its C-terminal end. By immunofluorescence ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lebrun M,Mengaud J,Ohayon H,Nato F,Cossart P

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) of Sulfolobus fall into three main families based on their repeats, leader regions, associated cas genes and putative recognition sequences on viruses and plasmids. Spacer sequence matches to different viruses and plasmids of the Sulfolobales reveal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lillestøl RK,Shah SA,Brügger K,Redder P,Phan H,Christiansen J,Garrett RA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region of the antibiotic resistance plasmid R100 that encodes the plasmid-specific transfer gene traM has two tandemly aligned promoters separated by 145 nucleotides. The principal transcripts are 705 and 562 nucleotides long. Minor transcripts are 1550 and 1700 nucleotides long. The 705-base transcript appears to...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey WB

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli DNA glycosylase Mug excises 3,N(4)-ethenocytosines (epsilon C) and uracils from DNA, but its biological function is obscure. This is because epsilon C is not found in E. coli DNA, and uracil-DNA glycosylase (Ung), a distinct enzyme, is much more efficient at removing uracils from DNA than Mug. We ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mokkapati SK,Fernández de Henestrosa AR,Bhagwat AS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RpoS, an alternative primary sigma factor, has been shown to be regulated at multiple levels, including transcription, translation and protein stability. Here, we present evidence that suggests that RpoS is regulated at yet another level by the product of the crl gene. The crl gene was first thought to encode the majo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pratt LA,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cloning and determination of the nucleotide sequence of the gene encoding nucleoside diphosphate kinase (Ndk) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The amino acid sequence of Ndk was highly homologous with other known bacterial and eukaryotic Ndks (39.9 to 58.3% amino acid identity). We have previously reported t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sundin GW,Shankar S,Chugani SA,Chopade BA,Kavanaugh-Black A,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:The LuxR regulatory protein of Vibrio harveyi as well as the autoinducer molecule, N-(3-hydroxybutanoyl) homoserine lactone, are known to be required for expression of luminescence. Although LuxR has been implicated in the activation of the promoter of the lux operon of V. harveyi, and can bind to two distinct sites u...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Miyamoto CM,Smith EE,Swartzman E,Cao JG,Graham AF,Meighen EA

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caulobacter crescentus chromosome replication is precisely coupled to a developmental cell cycle. Like most eubacteria, C. crescentus has a DnaA homologue that is presumed to initiate chromosome replication. However, the C. crescentus replication origin (Cori) lacks perfect consensus Escherichia coli DnaA boxes. Inste...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gorbatyuk B,Marczynski GT

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpretation of the constantly expanding body of genomic information requires that the function of each gene be established. Here we report the genomic analysis and structural modelling of a previously uncharacterized redox-metabolism protein UrdA (SO_4620) of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, which led to a discovery of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bogachev AV,Bertsova YV,Bloch DA,Verkhovsky MI

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MtrCDE multidrug pump, from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is assembled from the inner and outer membrane proteins MtrD and MtrE, which are connected by the periplasmic membrane fusion protein MtrC. Although it is clear that MtrD delivers drugs to the channel of MtrE, it remains unclear how drug delivery and channel openi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Janganan TK,Bavro VN,Zhang L,Borges-Walmsley MI,Walmsley AR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00