Comparison of ccd of F, parDE of RP4, and parD of R1 using a novel conditional replication control system of plasmid R1.

abstract：:During pathogenesis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) colonizes environments, such as the macrophage or necrotic granuloma, that are acidic and rich in cholesterol and fatty acids. The goal of this study was to examine how acidic pH and available carbon sources interact to regulate Mtb physiology. Here we report that ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Baker JJ,Johnson BK,Abramovitch RB

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of the Leishmania infantum genome with Leishmania braziliensis and Leishmania major genomes has identified 25 L. infantum species-specific genes that are absent or pseudogenes in L. major and L. braziliensis. To determine whether these L. infantum species-specific genes are involved in visceral Leishmania i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhang WW,Matlashewski G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that is notorious for its intrinsic drug resistance. We have used chemical and genetic techniques to characterize three putative kinase genes that are involved in the addition of phosphate to the inner core region of P. aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide. The first gene i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Walsh AG,Matewish MJ,Burrows LL,Monteiro MA,Perry MB,Lam JS

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tra operon of the prototypical F plasmid and its relatives enables transfer of a copy of the plasmid to other bacterial cells via the process of conjugation. Tra proteins assemble to form the transferosome, the transmembrane pore through which the DNA is transferred, and the relaxosome, a complex of DNA-binding pr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wong JJ,Lu J,Glover JN

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HapR is a quorum sensing-regulated transcription factor that represses the virulence cascade in Vibrio cholerae by binding to a specific site centred at -71 in the aphA promoter, ultimately preventing activation of the tcpPH promoter on the Vibrio pathogenicity island. In an effort to elucidate the mechanism by which ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lin W,Kovacikova G,Skorupski K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crown gall tumorigenesis by Agrobacterium tumefaciens requires the co-ordinate transcriptional induction of a set of pathogenesis genes. At least three classes of environmental stimuli act synergistically to induce these genes: (i) monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as acetosyringone, coniferyl alcohol, and vanilli...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Winans SC

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An essential early event in Shigella and Salmonella pathogenesis is invasion of non-phagocytic intestinal epithelial cells. Pathogen entry is triggered by the delivery of multiple bacterial effector proteins into target mammalian cells. The Shigella invasion plasmid antigen B (IpaB), which inserts into the host plasma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hume PJ,McGhie EJ,Hayward RD,Koronakis V

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hok/sok locus of plasmid R1 mediates plasmid stabilization by the killing of plasmid-free cells. Many bacterial plasmids carry similar loci. For example, the F plasmid carries two hok homologues, flm and srnB, that mediate plasmid stabilization by this specialized type of programmed cell death. Here, we show that ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pedersen K,Gerdes K

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the topology of the PhoE porin has been proposed according to which the polypeptide traverses the outer membrane sixteen times mostly as amphipathic beta-sheets, thereby exposing eight loops at the cell surface. Until now, no evidence has been obtained for the surface exposure of the third loop. Recently, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Struyvé M,Visser J,Adriaanse H,Benz R,Tommassen J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial actin homologue MreB forms a helix underneath the cytoplasmic membrane and was shown to be essential in the morphogenesis of the rod-shaped cells. Additionally, MreB was implicated to be involved in DNA segregation. However, in our hands the mreBCD deletion strain (PA340-678) grew without apparent DNA se...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Karczmarek A,Martínez-Arteaga R,Alexeeva S,Hansen FG,Vicente M,Nanninga N,den Blaauwen T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the not well understood composition of the stalk, a key ribosomal structure, in eukaryotes having multiple 12 kDa P1/P2 acidic protein components has been approached using these proteins tagged with a histidine tail at the C-terminus. Tagged Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomes, which contain two P1 prot...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Guarinos E,Santos C,Sánchez A,Qiu DY,Remacha M,Ballesta JP

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Members of the bacterial genus Brucella are facultative intracellular pathogens that reside predominantly within membrane-bound compartments within two host cell types, macrophages and placental trophoblasts. Within macrophages, the brucellae route themselves to an intracellular compartment that is favourable for surv...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roop RM 2nd,Bellaire BH,Valderas MW,Cardelli JA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated and sequenced a set of deletions stimulated by DNA palindromes in Escherichia coli. All of the deletions are asymmetric with respect to the parental sequence and have occurred at short direct repeats. This is consistent with deletion by strand slippage during DNA replication. The orientation of the as...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Pinder DJ,Blake CE,Lindsey JC,Leach DR

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RNA-binding protein Hfq functions in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. There is evidence in a range of bacteria for specific subcellular localization of Hfq; however, the mechanism and role of Hfq localization remain unclear. Cyanobacteria harbour a subfamily of Hfq that is structurally...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schuergers N,Ruppert U,Watanabe S,Nürnberg DJ,Lochnit G,Dienst D,Mullineaux CW,Wilde A

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:Synthesis and secretion of the 110kDa haemolysin toxin of Escherichia coli and other pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria are governed by the four genes of the hly operon. We have identified, by transposon mutagenesis, an E. coli cellular locus, hlyT, required for the synthesis and secretion of haemolysin encoded in tran...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bailey MJ,Koronakis V,Schmoll T,Hughes C

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AtzR is a LysR-type regulator responsible for activation of the cyanuric acid utilization operon atzDEF. AtzR binds the PatzDEF promoter region at a strong recognition element, designated the repressor binding site, and a weaker binding determinant, the activator binding site (ABS). AtzR activates transcription in res...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Porrúa O,Platero AI,Santero E,Del Solar G,Govantes F

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screen for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) mutants sensitive to reactive nitrogen intermediates identified transposon insertions in the presumptive proteasomal ATPase gene mpa (mycobacterium proteasome ATPase; Rv2115c). mpa mutants are attenuated in both wild type and nitric oxide synthase 2 deficient mice. In this...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Darwin KH,Lin G,Chen Z,Li H,Nathan CF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The septum-located DNA translocase, FtsK, acts to co-ordinate the late steps of Escherichia coli chromosome segregation with cell division. The FtsK gamma regulatory subdomain interacts with 8 bp KOPS DNA sequences, which are oriented from the replication origin to the terminus region (ter) in each arm of the chromoso...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sivanathan V,Emerson JE,Pages C,Cornet F,Sherratt DJ,Arciszewska LK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins are polyaromatic mycotoxins that contaminate a range of food crops as a result of fungal growth and contribute to serious health problems in the developing world because of their toxicity and mutagenicity. Although relatively resistant to biotic degradation, aflatoxins can be metabolized by certain species ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Taylor MC,Jackson CJ,Tattersall DB,French N,Peat TS,Newman J,Briggs LJ,Lapalikar GV,Campbell PM,Scott C,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two so-called Ter sites, which bind the Escherichia coli Tus protein, are located near the replication origin of plasmid R1. Inactivation of the tus gene caused a large decrease in the stability of maintenance of the R1 mini-derivative pOU47 despite the presence of a functional partition system on the plasmid. Deletio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krabbe M,Zabielski J,Bernander R,Nordström K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is the single, most frequently isolated human fungal pathogen. As with most fungal pathogens, the factors which contribute to pathogenesis in C. albicans are not known, despite more than a decade of molecular genetic analysis. Candida albicans was thought to be asexual until the discovery of the MTL l...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Magee BB,Legrand M,Alarco AM,Raymond M,Magee PT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last years, several reports described an apoptosis-like programmed cell death process in yeast in response to different environmental aggressions. Here, evidence is presented that hyperosmotic stress caused by high glucose or sorbitol concentrations in culture medium induces in Saccharomyces cerevisiae a ce...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Silva RD,Sotoca R,Johansson B,Ludovico P,Sansonetty F,Silva MT,Peinado JM,Côrte-Real M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slipped-strand mispairing at sites containing so-called coding repeats (CRs) can lead to phase variation of surface proteins in Gram-negative bacteria. This mechanism, believed to contribute to virulence, has so far not been identified in a Gram-positive bacterium. In the genome of the Gram-positive human pathogen Str...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rasmussen M,Björck L

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria use quorum-sensing signals or autoinducers to communicate. The signals in Gram-positive bacteria are often peptides activated by proteolytic removal of an N-terminal leader sequence. While investigating stimulation of antimicrobial peptide production by the Streptococcus mutans synthetic competence stimulatin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Petersen FC,Fimland G,Scheie AA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomal gef gene of Escherichia coli is a member of the gef gene family which encodes strongly toxic proteins of about 50 amino acids. We demonstrate here that the Gef protein is detectable by anti-peptide antibodies. Furthermore, we show that Gef is anchored in the cytoplasmic membrane by the N-terminal part ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Poulsen LK,Refn A,Molin S,Andersson P

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One often compares cells to computers, and signalling proteins to transistors. Location and wiring of those molecular transistors is paramount in defining the function of the subcellular chips. The bacterial chemotactic sensing apparatus is a large, stable assembly consisting of thousands of receptors, signal transduc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shimizu TS,Le Novère N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of the asymmetrically located septum divides sporulating bacilli into two distinct cells: the mother cell and the prespore. The rigidifying wall material in the septum is subsequently removed by autolysis. Examination of published electron micrographs indicates that the two septal membranes then fuse to form...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Higgins ML,Piggot PJ

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colletotrichum lagenarium and Magnaporthe grisea are plant pathogenic fungi that produce melanin during the appressorial differentiation stage of conidial germination and during the late stationary phase of mycelial growth. Here, we report the identification of genes for two unique transcription factors, CMR1 (Colleto...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tsuji G,Kenmochi Y,Takano Y,Sweigard J,Farrall L,Furusawa I,Horino O,Kubo Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00