Structure and function of Listeria teichoic acids and their implications.

abstract：:The ctaD gene encoding subunit I of the aa3-type cytochrome c oxidase from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been cloned. The gene encodes a polypeptide of 565 residues which is highly homologous to the sequences of subunit I from other prokaryotic and eukaryotic sources, e.g. 51% identity with that from bovine, and 75% ide...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shapleigh JP,Gennis RB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened the putative rap-phr (response regulator aspartyl-phosphate phosphatase-phosphatase regulator) systems identified in the Bacillus subtilis genome for a rap gene that affects aprE (alkaline protease gene) expression by using a multicopy plasmid. We found that rapG was involved in the regulation of aprE, whi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ogura M,Shimane K,Asai K,Ogasawara N,Tanaka T

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RbpA is an RNA polymerase-binding protein that occurs in the actinomycete family of bacteria and is regulated by the disulphide stress-response sigma factor, sigma(R), in Streptomyces coelicolor. Here we demonstrate that rbpA null mutants exhibit a slow-growth phenotype and are particularly sensitive to the transcript...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Newell KV,Thomas DP,Brekasis D,Paget MS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis infects one-third of the world's population and causes two million deaths annually. The unusually low permeability of its cell wall contributes to the ability of M. tuberculosis to grow within host macrophages, a property required for pathogenesis of infection. Mycobacterium marinum is an es...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gao LY,Laval F,Lawson EH,Groger RK,Woodruff A,Morisaki JH,Cox JS,Daffe M,Brown EJ

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable RNA promoters of Escherichia coli are exquisitely sensitive to variations in the superhelical density of DNA. Previously, we have shown that binding of the DNA architectural protein FIS at the upstream activating sequences (UASs) of stable RNA promoters prevents the transcription complexes from inactivation...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rochman M,Blot N,Dyachenko M,Glaser G,Travers A,Muskhelishvili G

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopic studies have demonstrated that various gliding filamentous cyanobacteria have trichome surfaces with a common structural organization. They contain an S-layer attached to the outer membrane and an array of parallel fibrils on top of the S-layer. In all species studied, the helical arrangement of t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hoiczyk E,Baumeister W

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical approach to identify proteins with high affinity for choline-containing pneumococcal cell walls has allowed the localization, cloning and sequencing of a gene (lytC ) coding for a protein that degrades the cell walls of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The lytC gene is 1506 bp long and encodes a protein (LytC) ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： García P,Paz González M,García E,García JL,López R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diffusible factor synthase XanB2, originally identified in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc), is highly conserved across a wide range of bacterial species, but its substrate and catalytic mechanism have not yet been investigated. Here, we show that XanB2 is a unique bifunctional chorismatase that hydroly...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhou L,Wang JY,Wu J,Wang J,Poplawsky A,Lin S,Zhu B,Chang C,Zhou T,Zhang LH,He YW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A decline in our ability to successfully treat patients with malaria infections of the parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum with cheap quinoline drugs has led to a huge escalation in morbidity and mortality in recent years. Many approaches have been taken, including classical genetics, reverse genetics and molecu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Duraisingh MT,Refour P

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent, has double-stranded linear plasmids with covalently closed ends. DNA at the ends, or telomeres, of two linear plasmids of B. burgdorferi strain B31 was examined. Telomeric sequences from both ends of a 16 kb linear plasmid and from one end of a 49 kb linear plasmid were cl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hinnebusch J,Bergström S,Barbour AG

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross-talk. After overcoming terminological complications to sort out microbial nifS from sufS genes, we connect a bacterial operon, recently found to be involved in iron me...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ellis KE,Clough B,Saldanha JW,Wilson RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutaredoxins and thioredoxins are small heat-stable oxidoreductases that have been conserved throughout evolution. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains two gene pairs encoding cytoplasmic glutaredoxins (GRX1, GRX2) and thioredoxins (TRX1, TRX2). We report here that the quadruple trx1 trx2 grx1 grx2 mutant is i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Draculic T,Dawes IW,Grant CM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actin-like protein FtsA is present in many eubacteria, and genetic experiments have shown that it plays an important, sometimes essential, role in cell division. Here, we show that Bacillus subtilis FtsA is targeted to division sites in both vegetative and sporulating cells. As in other organisms FtsA is probably ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Feucht A,Lucet I,Yudkin MD,Errington J

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of signal transduction in the repair of radiation-induced damage to DNA has been known in eukaryotes but remains understudied in bacteria. This article for the first time demonstrates a role for the periplasmic lipoprotein (YfgL) with protein kinase activity transducing a signal for DNA strand break re...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Khairnar NP,Kamble VA,Mangoli SH,Apte SK,Misra HS

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the infectious agent responsible for the disease Asiatic cholera. The genes required for V. cholerae virulence, such as those encoding the cholera toxin (CT) and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), are controlled by a cascade of transcriptional activators. Ultimately, the dire...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Withey JH,DiRita VJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, an opportunistic human pathogen, deploys several strategies to resist antibiotics. It uses multidrug efflux pumps, including the MexAB-OprM pump, for antibiotic resistance, and it also produces hydrogen sulfide (H2 S) that provides some defense against antibiotics. MexR functions as a tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Xuan G,Lü C,Xu H,Chen Z,Li K,Liu H,Liu H,Xia Y,Xun L

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two papers in this issue of Molecular Microbiology from Carol Gross and colleagues describe experiments that investigate how two alternative Escherichia coli sigma proteins recognize target promoter -10 regions. A combination of genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics is used to show that determinants in two adjacen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Busby SJ

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells have evolved a complex set of intracellular organelles, each of which possesses a specific complement of enzymes and performs unique metabolic functions. This compartmentalization of cellular functions provides a level of metabolic control not available to prokaryotes. However, it presents the eukaryo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aitchison JD,Nuttley WM,Szilard RK,Brade AM,Glover JR,Rachubinski RA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence factors secreted by Listeria monocytogenes are known to interfere with host cellular signalling pathways. We investigated whether L. monocytogenes modulates T-cell receptor signalling by examining surface expression of proteins known to be upregulated on activated T cells. In vitro culture of murine splenocy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zenewicz LA,Skinner JA,Goldfine H,Shen H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TonB system of Escherichia coli (TonB/ExbB/ExbD) transduces the protonmotive force (pmf) of the cytoplasmic membrane to drive active transport by high-affinity outer membrane transporters. In this study, chromosomally encoded ExbD formed formaldehyde-linked complexes with TonB, ExbB and itself (homodimers) in vivo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ollis AA,Manning M,Held KG,Postle K

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reveal functional properties of recombination involving short ssDNAs in hyperthermophilic archaea, we evaluated oligonucleotide-mediated transformation (OMT) in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Escherichia coli as a function of the molecular properties of the ssDNA substrates. Unmodified ssDNAs as short as 20...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grogan DW,Stengel KR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage D3 is capable of lysogenizing Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 (serotype O5), converting the O-antigen from O5 to O16 and O-acetylating the N-acetylfucosamine moiety. To investigate the mechanism of lysogenic conversion, a 3.6 kb fragment from the D3 genome was isolated capable of mediating serotypic conversi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Newton GJ,Daniels C,Burrows LL,Kropinski AM,Clarke AJ,Lam JS

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH) is an abundant low-molecular-mass thiol which has been implicated in numerous cellular processes including protection against cytotoxic agents such as xenobiotics, carcinogens and free radicals. Utilization of GSH results in its conversion to the oxidized form (GSSG), and it is recycled to GSH by the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grant CM,Maciver FH,Dawes IW

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Holins control the length of the infection cycle of tailed phages (the Caudovirales) by oligomerizing to form lethal holes in the cytoplasmic membrane at a time dictated by their primary structure. Nothing is currently known about the physical basis of their oligomerization or the structure of the oligomers formed by ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Savva CG,Dewey JS,Deaton J,White RL,Struck DK,Holzenburg A,Young R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The [NiFe]hydrogenase of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus is encoded by the structural hupSLC operon, the expression of which is induced by H2. H2 activation was no longer observable in chromosomal hupR mutants, an indication that HupR is implicated directly in the activation by H2 of hupS gene expr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Toussaint B,de Sury d'Aspremont R,Delic-Attree I,Berchet V,Elsen S,Colbeau A,Dischert W,Lazzaroni Y,Vignais PM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors that enhance the transmission of pathogens are poorly understood. We show that Vibrio cholerae shed in human 'rice-water' stools have a 10-fold lower oral infectious dose in an animal model than in vitro grown V. cholerae, which may aid in transmission during outbreaks. Furthermore, we identify a bacterial fac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Butler SM,Nelson EJ,Chowdhury N,Faruque SM,Calderwood SB,Camilli A

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:A challenge common to all bacterial pathogens is to acquire nutrients from hostile host environments. Iron is an important cofactor required for essential cellular processes such as DNA repair, energy production and redox balance. Within a mammalian host, most iron is sequestered within heme, which in turn is predomin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Clark J,Terwilliger A,Nguyen C,Green S,Nobles C,Maresso A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cell division requires the assembly of FtsZ protofilaments into a dynamic structure called the 'Z-ring'. The Z-ring recruits the division machinery and directs local cell wall remodeling for constriction. The organization and dynamics of protofilaments within the Z-ring coordinate local cell wall synthesis d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sundararajan K,Vecchiarelli A,Mizuuchi K,Goley ED

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small GTP-binding proteins of the highly conserved Rho family act as molecular switches regulating cell signalling, cytoskeletal organization and vesicle trafficking in eukaryotic cells. Here we show that in the dimorphic plant pathogenic fungus Ustilago maydis deletion of either cdc42 or rac1 results in loss of virul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mahlert M,Leveleki L,Hlubek A,Sandrock B,Bölker M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00