A nuclear protein NsiA from Epichloë festucae interacts with a MAP kinase MpkB and regulates the expression of genes required for symbiotic infection and hyphal cell fusion.

abstract：:A number of small, multicopy plasmids from Gram-positive bacteria replicate by an asymmetric rolling-circle mechanism. Previous studies with several of these plasmids have identified a palindromic sequence, SSOA, that acts as the single-strand origin (SSO) for the replication of the lagging-strand DNA. Although not al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey LA,Zhao AC,Khan SA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal gdhA, encoding the NADP-specific l-glutamate dehydrogenase (NADP-GDH), is essential for systemic infection in an infant rat model. In this paper, a limited transcriptional analysis detected differences in gdhA expression among clinical isolates. In strains expressing high levels of gdhA mRNA, two promote...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pagliarulo C,Salvatore P,De Vitis LR,Colicchio R,Monaco C,Tredici M,Talà A,Bardaro M,Lavitola A,Bruni CB,Alifano P

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cheA gene encodes two overlapping polypeptides with a common carboxyl terminus: CheAL and CheAS. CheAL plays a central role in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signalling pathway by autophosphorylation and transferring the phosphate to both CheY and CheB. On the other hand, the physiological functions of CheAS rema...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang H,Matsumura P

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethionamide (ETH) is an important second-line antitubercular drug used for the treatment of patients infected with multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although ETH is a structural analogue of isoniazid, only little cross-resistance to these two drugs is observed among clinical isolates. Both isoniazid and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Engohang-Ndong J,Baillat D,Aumercier M,Bellefontaine F,Besra GS,Locht C,Baulard AR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate phage P2 has the capacity to function as a helper for the defective, unrelated, satellite phage P4. In the absence of a helper, P4 can either lysogenize its host or establish itself as a plasmid. For lytic growth, P4 requires the structural genes, packaging and lysis functions of the helper. P4 can get acces...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu T,Renberg SK,Haggård-Ljungquist E

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PII-like signalling molecules are trimeric proteins composed of 12-13 kDa polypeptides encoded by the glnB gene family. Heterologous expression of a cyanobacterial glnB gene in Escherichia coli leads to an inactivation of E. coli's own PII signalling system. In the present work, we show that this effect is caused by t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Forchhammer K,Hedler A,Strobel H,Weiss V

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atovaquone represents a class of antimicrobial agents with a broad-spectrum activity against various parasitic infections, including malaria, toxoplasmosis and Pneumocystis pneumonia. In malaria parasites, atovaquone inhibits mitochondrial electron transport at the level of the cytochrome bc1 complex and collapses mit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Srivastava IK,Morrisey JM,Darrouzet E,Daldal F,Vaidya AB

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Fusarium species produce the polyketide mycotoxin zearalenone (ZEA), a causative agent of hyperestrogenic syndrome in animals that is often found in F. graminearum-infected cereals in temperate regions. The ZEA biosynthetic cluster genes PKS4, PKS13, ZEB1 and ZEB2 encode a reducing polyketide synthase, a non-r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Park AR,Son H,Min K,Park J,Goo JH,Rhee S,Chae SK,Lee YW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CoiA is a transient protein expressed specifically during competence and required for genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae, but not for DNA uptake. It is widely conserved among Gram-positive bacteria but its function is unknown. Here we report that although the rate of DNA uptake was not affected in a co...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Desai BV,Morrison DA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have built a homology model of the AAA domain of the ATP-dependent protease FtsH of Escherichia coli based on the crystal structure of the hexamerization domain of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein. The resulting model of the hexameric ring of the ATP-bound form of the AAA ATPase suggests a plausible mechan...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Karata K,Verma CS,Wilkinson AJ,Ogura T

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An operon including two new genes (nasS and nasT) has been defined, cloned and sequenced. The deduced NASS protein is homologous to NRTA from Synechococcus sp. and to NASF from Klebsiella pneumoniae, two proteins involved in nitrate uptake. The predicted NAST polypeptide is homologous to the regulator proteins of the ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gutierrez JC,Ramos F,Ortner L,Tortolero M

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：: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：:Mycelial fungi play a central role in element cycling in nature by degrading dead organic material such as wood. Fungal colonization of a substrate starts with the invasion of exploring hyphae. These hyphae secrete enzymes that convert the organic material into small molecules that can be taken up by the fungus to ser...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vinck A,Terlou M,Pestman WR,Martens EP,Ram AF,van den Hondel CA,Wösten HA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti is a soil bacterium that invades the root nodules it induces on Medicago sativa, whereupon it undergoes an alteration of its cell cycle and differentiates into nitrogen-fixing, elongated and polyploid bacteroid with higher membrane permeability. In Caulobacter crescentus, a related alphaproteoba...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pini F,Frage B,Ferri L,De Nisco NJ,Mohapatra SS,Taddei L,Fioravanti A,Dewitte F,Galardini M,Brilli M,Villeret V,Bazzicalupo M,Mengoni A,Walker GC,Becker A,Biondi EG

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein degradation is required for homeostasis of all living organisms. Self-compartmentalized ATP-dependent proteases are required for virulence of several pathogenic bacteria. Among the proteases implicated are ClpP and Lon, as well as the more recently identified bacterial proteasome. It is generally assumed that ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Butler SM,Festa RA,Pearce MJ,Darwin KH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-essential RGD1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a protein that has been characterized in vitro as a Rho GTPase activating protein (RhoGAP) for the Rho3 and Rho4 proteins. Rgd1p, which displays a conserved FCH-coiled coil-Rho-GAP domain organization, showed a patch-like distribution in the cell, inclu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roumanie O,Peypouquet MF,Bonneu M,Thoraval D,Doignon F,Crouzet M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of the biofilm architecture is the presence of microcolonies. However, little is known about the underlying mechanisms governing microcolony formation. In the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, microcolony formation is dependent on the two-component regulator MifR, with mifR mutant biofilms exhibiting an over...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Petrova OE,Schurr JR,Schurr MJ,Sauer K

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BldD generally functions as a repressor controlling morphological development of Streptomyces. In this work, evidences that BldD also activates antibiotic production are provided. In Streptomyces roseosporus (which produces daptomycin widely used for treatment of human infections), deletion of bldD notably reduced dap...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yan H,Lu X,Sun D,Zhuang S,Chen Q,Chen Z,Li J,Wen Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential expression of the genes expressing Pap pili in Escherichia coli was suggested to involve mRNAs with different stabilities. As the result of a post-transcriptional processing event, a papA gene-specific mRNA product (mRNA-A) accumulates in large excess relative to the primary mRNA-BA transcript. Our result...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nilsson P,Uhlin BE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellum contains a specialized secretion apparatus in its base that pumps certain protein subunits through the growing structure to their sites of installation beyond the membrane. A related apparatus functions in the injectisomes of gram-negative pathogens to export virulence factors into host cells. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Erhardt M,Wheatley P,Kim EA,Hirano T,Zhang Y,Sarkar MK,Hughes KT,Blair DF

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clostridium difficile toxA and toxB genes, encoding cytotoxic and enterotoxic proteins responsible for antibiotic-associated colitis and pseudomembranous colitis, were shown to be transcribed both from gene-specific promoters and from promoters of upstream genes. However, the gene-specific transcripts represented ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dupuy B,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans generally initiates infection in mammalian lung tissue and subsequently disseminates to the brain. We performed serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) on C. neoformans cells recovered from the lungs of mice and found elevated expression of genes for central carbo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hu G,Cheng PY,Sham A,Perfect JR,Kronstad JW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti and host legumes enter into a nitrogen-fixing, symbiotic relationship triggered by an exchange of signals between bacteria and plant. S. meliloti produces Nod factor, which elicits the formation of nodules on plant roots, and succinoglycan, an exopolysaccharide that allows for bacterial invasion...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wells DH,Long SR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoregulatory mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a defect in their capacity to readjust the cell volume/buoyant density after osmotically induced dehydration were enriched by density gradient centrifugation. Colonies derived from cells that remained dense after dehydration were screened for sensitivity to high ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Larsson K,Ansell R,Eriksson P,Adler L

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria transmission requires that the parasites differentiate into gametocytes prior to ingestion by a mosquito during a blood meal. Once in the mosquito midgut the gametocytes emerge from red blood cells (RBCs), fertilize, develop into ookinetes and finally infectious sporozoites. Gamete surface antigen, Pfs230, is ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Eksi S,Czesny B,van Gemert GJ,Sauerwein RW,Eling W,Williamson KC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybrid genes were constructed to express bifunctional hybrid proteins in which staphyloccal nuclease A with or without an amino-terminal OmpA signal sequence was fused with TEM beta-lactamase (at the carboxyl terminal side) using the signal peptide of the major outer membrane lipoprotein of Escherichia coli as an inte...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kim H,Paul S,Gennity J,Jennity J corrected to Gennity J,Inouye M

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokinetic apparatus of bacteria is initially formed by the polymerization of the tubulin-like FtsZ protein into a ring structure at midcell. This so-called Z-ring facilitates the recruitment of many additional proteins to the division site to form the mature divisome machine. Although the assembly pathway leadin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tsang MJ,Bernhardt TG

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：:Proteic toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci were first identified in bacterial plasmids, and they were regarded as involved in stable plasmid maintenance by a so-called 'addiction' mechanism. Later, chromosomally encoded TA loci were identified and their function ascribed to survival mechanisms when bacteria were subjected to s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nieto C,Pellicer T,Balsa D,Christensen SK,Gerdes K,Espinosa M

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00