Cross-talk between Tor1 and Sch9 regulates hyphae-specific genes or ribosomal protein genes in a mutually exclusive manner in Candida albicans.

abstract：:A transposon mutant of Escherichia coli 5K was isolated which reduced 10- to 50-fold the secreted extracellular haemolytic activity of cells carrying the complete hlyCABD operon while leaving unaffected the intracellular haemolytic activity and the levels of intracellular and extracellular haemolysin protein, HlyA. Th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stanley PL,Diaz P,Bailey MJ,Gygi D,Juarez A,Hughes C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell walls of Sulfolobales species consist of proteinaceous S-layers assembled from two polypeptides, SlaA and SlaB. We isolated the large S-layer protein of Acidianus ambivalens and both S-layer subunits of Sulfolobus solfataricus and Metallosphaera sedula, respectively. The slaAB genes, lying adjacently in the c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Veith A,Klingl A,Zolghadr B,Lauber K,Mentele R,Lottspeich F,Rachel R,Albers SV,Kletzin A

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell wall lipids of Mycobacterium tuberculosis containing multiple methylbranched fatty acids play critical roles in pathogenesis and thus offer targets for new antimycobacterial drugs. Mycocerosicacid synthase gene (mas) encodes the enzyme that produces one class of such acids. Seven mas-like genes (msls) were identi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dubey VS,Sirakova TD,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chaperone/usher (CU) pathway is a conserved bacterial secretion system that assembles adhesive fibres termed pili or fimbriae. Pilus biogenesis by the CU pathway requires a periplasmic chaperone and an outer membrane (OM) assembly platform termed the usher. The usher catalyses formation of subunit-subunit interact...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Henderson NS,Ng TW,Talukder I,Thanassi DG

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the structural genes for lysine (LYS) biosynthesis is controlled by a pathway-specific regulation mediated by the transcriptional activator Lys14 in the presence of alpha-aminoadipate semialdehyde, an intermediate of the pathway acting as a co-inducer. Owing to end product inhibition of the first ste...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Becker B,Feller A,el Alami M,Dubois E,Piérard A

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmodium vivax is one of four Plasmodium species that cause human malaria. P. vivax and a related simian malaria parasite, Plasmodium knowlesi, invade erythrocytes by binding the Duffy antigen/receptor for chemokines (DARC) through their respective Duffy binding proteins. Here we show that tyrosines 30 and 41 of DAR...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Choe H,Moore MJ,Owens CM,Wright PL,Vasilieva N,Li W,Singh AP,Shakri R,Chitnis CE,Farzan M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence suggests that apicomplexan parasites possess bipartite promoters with basal and regulated cis-elements similar to other eukaryotes. Using a dual luciferase model adapted for recombinational cloning and use in Toxoplasma gondii, we show that genomic regions flanking 16 parasite genes, which encomp...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Behnke MS,Radke JB,Smith AT,Sullivan WJ Jr,White MW

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of biofilm results in a major lifestyle switch that is thought to affect the expression of multiple genes and operons. We used DNA arrays to study the global effect of biofilm formation on gene expression in mature Escherichia coli K-12 biofilm. We show that, when biofilm is compared with the exponential...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Beloin C,Valle J,Latour-Lambert P,Faure P,Kzreminski M,Balestrino D,Haagensen JA,Molin S,Prensier G,Arbeille B,Ghigo JM

更新日期：2004-02-01 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

abstract：:LamB glycoporin has an important general role in carbohydrate uptake during growth at low extracellular sugar concentrations. lamB and mal regulon induction during glucose starvation and glucose-limited continuous culture was investigated using lacZ fusions. A low-level burst of lamB induction occurred upon entry into...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Notley L,Ferenci T

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins encoded by gene cluster iscSUA-hscBA-fdx in Escherichia coli, IscA has a unique and strong iron binding activity and can provide iron for iron-sulphur cluster assembly in proteins in vitro. Deletion of IscA and its paralogue SufA results in an E. coli mutant that fails ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tan G,Cheng Z,Pang Y,Landry AP,Li J,Lu J,Ding H

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen. In immunocompromised individuals, it can cause bloodstream infections with high mortality rates. The ability to switch between yeast and hyphal morphologies is a critical virulence factor of C. albicans. In response to diverse environmental cues, several signaling ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen C,Zeng G,Wang Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major obstacle to tuberculosis (TB) control is the problem of chronic TB infection (CTBI). Here we report that 5'-adenosinephosphosulphate reductase (CysH), an enzyme essential for the production of reduced-sulphur-containing metabolites, is critical for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) survival in chronic infection...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Senaratne RH,De Silva AD,Williams SJ,Mougous JD,Reader JR,Zhang T,Chan S,Sidders B,Lee DH,Chan J,Bertozzi CR,Riley LW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaA protein of Escherichia coli is a multi-functional protein which, In addition to promoting initiation of replication, can regulate the initiation or termination of transcription of a variety of genes. It acts by binding to DNA at a defined sequence, termed a DnaA-box. Three candidate DnaA-boxes which occur wit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Smith RW,McAteer S,Masters M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we followed the genomic, lipidomic and metabolomic changes associated with the selection of miltefosine (MIL) resistance in two clinically derived Leishmania donovani strains with different inherent resistance to antimonial drugs (antimony sensitive strain Sb-S; and antimony resistant Sb-R). MIL-R was e...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shaw CD,Lonchamp J,Downing T,Imamura H,Freeman TM,Cotton JA,Sanders M,Blackburn G,Dujardin JC,Rijal S,Khanal B,Illingworth CJ,Coombs GH,Carter KC

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the possible role of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase (Pol) I in chromosomal replication fidelity. This was done by substituting the chromosomal polA gene by the polAexo variant containing an inactivated 3'-->5' exonuclease, which serves as a proofreader for this enzyme's misinsertion errors. Using...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Makiela-Dzbenska K,Jaszczur M,Banach-Orlowska M,Jonczyk P,Schaaper RM,Fijalkowska IJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized three genes, SUT1, SUT2 and SUT3, that encode glucose transporters of the yeast Pichia stipitis. When expressed in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae hxt null mutant strain that is unable to take up monosaccharides, all three proteins restored growth on glucose. Sequencing of the genes rev...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Weierstall T,Hollenberg CP,Boles E

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division in prokaryotes initiates with assembly of the Z-ring at midcell, which, in Escherichia coli, is tethered to the inner leaflet of the cytoplasmic membrane through a direct interaction with FtsA, a widely conserved actin homolog. The Z-ring is comprised of polymers of tubulin-like FtsZ and has been suggest...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Conti J,Viola MG,Camberg JL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The porin oprE gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 was isolated. Its nucleotide sequence indicated that the structural gene of 1383 nucleotide residues encodes a precursor consisting of 460 amino acid residues with a signal peptide of 29 amino acid residues, which was confirmed by the N-terminal 23-amino-acid sequence...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yamano Y,Nishikawa T,Komatsu Y

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, genes involved in phospholipid biosynthesis are activated by ICRE (inositol/choline-responsive element) up-stream motifs and the corresponding heterodimeric binding factor, Ino2 + Ino4. Both Ino2 and Ino4 contain basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) domains required for ICRE binding, wh...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dietz M,Heyken WT,Hoppen J,Geburtig S,Schüller HJ

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylation is a universal post-transcriptional modification involved in degradation and quality control of bacterial RNAs. In Escherichia coli, it is admitted that any accessible RNA 3' end can be tagged by a poly(A) tail for decay. However, we do not have yet an overall view of the population of polyadenylated m...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Maes A,Gracia C,Hajnsdorf E,Régnier P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormant bacterial spores are extraordinarily resistant to environmental insults and are vectors of various illnesses. However, spores cannot cause disease unless they germinate and become vegetative cells. The molecular details of initiation of germination are not understood, but proteins essential in early stages of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Griffiths KK,Zhang J,Cowan AE,Yu J,Setlow P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli urinary tract isolate C1212 contains two pyelonephritis-associated pili (pap) DNA sequences designated here as pap-17 and pap-21. Each of these pap sequences encodes antigenically-distinct pilin monomers, pilin-17 and pilin-21, respectively. Most individual strain C1212 cells isolated from a singl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Low D,Robinson EN Jr,McGee ZA,Falkow S

更新日期：1987-11-01 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：:Bacteria of Shigella spp. are responsible for shigellosis in humans. They use a type III secretion (TTS) system encoded by a 200 kb virulence plasmid to enter epithelial cells and trigger apoptosis in macrophages. This TTS system comprises a secretion apparatus, translocators and effectors that transit through this ap...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Penno C,Sansonetti P,Parsot C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces lividans has a novel DNA modification, which sensitises its DNA to degradation during electrophoresis (the Dnd phenotype). The entire gene cluster (dnd) involved in this modification was localized on an 8 kb DNA fragment and was expressed in a S. lividans deletion mutant (dnd) and in several heterologous ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhou X,He X,Liang J,Li A,Xu T,Kieser T,Helmann JD,Deng Z

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A respiratory quinol oxidase complex that is encoded by the soxABCD operon has been purified from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. The enzyme was solubilized with dodecyl maltoside and purified in the presence of this detergent and ethylene glycol. The complex is hydrodynamically homogeneous a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lübben M,Warne A,Albracht SP,Saraste M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti DctB is a typical transmembrane sensory histidine kinase, which senses C(4)-dicarboxylic acids (DCA) and regulates the expression of DctA, the DCA transporter. We previously reported the crystal structures of its periplasmic sensory domain (DctBp) in apo and succinate-bound states, and these str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nan B,Liu X,Zhou Y,Liu J,Zhang L,Wen J,Zhang X,Su XD,Wang YP

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pyloriattaches to healthy and inflamed gastric tissue through members of a paralogous family of 'Helicobacter outer membrane proteins' (Hops), including adhesins BabA, SabA, HopQ, LabA and HopZ. Hops share a conserved 25 kDa C-terminal region that is thought to form an autotrans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Coppens F,Castaldo G,Debraekeleer A,Subedi S,Moonens K,Lo A,Remaut H

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c biogenesis describes the posttranslational pathway for the conversion of pre-apocytochrome c into the mature holocytochrome c. It involves an unknown number of consecutive biochemical steps, including translocation of the precursor polypeptide and haem into the periplasm and the covalent linkage between t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thöny-Meyer L,Ritz D,Hennecke H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00