Characterization of a five-gene cluster required for the biogenesis of type 4 fimbriae in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:To determine if the food-grade bacterium Lactococcus lactis holds promise as a vaccine antigen delivery vector we have investigated whether this bacterium can be made to produce high levels of a heterologous protein antigen. A regulated expression system has been developed which may be generally suitable for the expre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wells JM,Wilson PW,Norton PM,Gasson MJ,Le Page RW

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:External factors regulate the formation of pigment protein complexes in facultatively photosynthetic bacteria. The puf operon of Rhodobacter capsulatus encodes the pigment binding proteins of the reaction centre and light-harvesting I complex. Here we demonstrate that a single base-pair exchange within a sequence of d...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Klug G,Gad'on N,Jock S,Narro ML

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

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：:The small RNA, ArcZ (previously RyhA/SraH), was discovered in several genome-wide screens in Escherichia coli and Salmonella. Its high degree of genomic conservation, its frequent recovery by shotgun sequencing, and its association with the RNA chaperone, Hfq, identified ArcZ as an abundant enterobacterial 'core' smal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Papenfort K,Said N,Welsink T,Lucchini S,Hinton JCD,Vogel J

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in the Leishmania is controlled post-transcriptionally, and is likely to be impacted by both 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTRs). We have investigated the effects of trinucleotides in the AUG-proximal region (APR) (i.e. positions -3 to -1 upstream of an AUG) on two reporter genes in the context of an...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stanton JD,Mensa-Wilmot K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence genes of the plant pathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens are induced by more than 40 low-molecular-weight phenolic compounds. The prevailing opinion is that (i) wound-derived phenols produced on breach of the integrity of the cell wall act as the initiating signal in a series of events which results in host...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Duban ME,Lee K,Lynn DG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SpollE is an integral membrane protein that governs the establishment of cell-specific gene transcription during the process of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Synthesis of SpollE commences shortly after the onset of sporulation, after which the protein localizes at sites of potential cell division near both ends of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Levin PA,Losick R,Stragier P,Arigoni F

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DnaA protein, which initiates chromosomal replication in Escherichia coli, is negatively regulated by both the sliding clamp of DNA polymerase III holoenzyme and the IdaB protein. We have found that, when the amount of minichromosome is limited in an in vitro replication system, minichromosomal replication-stimula...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Su'etsugu M,Kawakami H,Kurokawa K,Kubota T,Takata M,Katayama T

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional repression of porin synthesis has emerged as a major function of Hfq-dependent, small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs). Many enterobacteria express OmpX-like porins, a family of outer membrane proteins whose physiological roles and structural properties have been studied intensively. While regulatory sRNAs...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Papenfort K,Pfeiffer V,Lucchini S,Sonawane A,Hinton JC,Vogel J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DivIB, DivIC and FtsL are bacterial proteins essential for cell division, which show interdependencies for their stabilities and localization. We have reconstituted in vitro a trimeric complex consisting of the recombinant extracellular domains of the three proteins from Streptococcus pneumoniae. The extracellular dom...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Noirclerc-Savoye M,Le Gouëllec A,Morlot C,Dideberg O,Vernet T,Zapun A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex is essential in mycobacterial species, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is the target of several antitubercular drugs. For instance, ethambutol targets arabinogalactan biosynthesis through inhibition of the arabinofuranosyltransferases Mt-EmbA and Mt-Em...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Birch HL,Alderwick LJ,Bhatt A,Rittmann D,Krumbach K,Singh A,Bai Y,Lowary TL,Eggeling L,Besra GS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain endospore-forming soil dwelling bacteria are important human, animal or insect pathogens. These organisms produce spores containing an outer layer, the exosporium. The exosporium is the site of interactions between the spore and the soil environment and between the spore and the infected host during the initia...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stewart GC

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：: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：:We report the construction and the expression in Escherichia coli of three different fusion genes encoding the extended human IgG3 hinge region (Hi) fused in-phase to the C-terminal end of bacterial TEM1 beta-lactamase (Bla). In the first fusion gene blahi, TEM1 beta-lactamase (Bla). In the first fusion gene blahi, th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： De Sutter K,Remaut E,Fiers W

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus, an important human nosocomial pathogen, is resistant to sordarin derivatives, a new family of antifungals that inhibit protein synthesis by interaction with the EF-2-ribosomal stalk complex. To explore the role of the A. fumigatus ribosome in the resistance mechanism, the fungal stalk proteins w...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Santos C,Ballesta JP

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:While bacteria such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis harbour a single circular chromosome, some freshwater cyanobacteria have multiple chromosomes p er cell. The detailed mechanism(s) of cyanobacterialreplication remains unclear. To elucidate the replication origin (ori ), form and synchrony of the multi-copy...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Watanabe S,Ohbayashi R,Shiwa Y,Noda A,Kanesaki Y,Chibazakura T,Yoshikawa H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial chemoreceptors cluster into exquisitively sensitive, tunable, highly ordered, polar arrays. While these arrays serve as paradigms of cell signalling in general, it remains unclear what conformational changes transduce signals from the periplasmic tips, where attractants and repellents bind, to the cytoplasmi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Briegel A,Beeby M,Thanbichler M,Jensen GJ

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression from the Escherichia coli nrf operon promoter is activated by the anaerobically triggered transcription factor, FNR, and by the nitrate/nitrite ion-controlled response regulators, NarL or NarP, but is repressed by the IHF and Fis proteins. Here, we present in vitro studies on the nrf promoter, using permang...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Browning DF,Grainger DC,Beatty CM,Wolfe AJ,Cole JA,Busby SJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MsDef1 and MtDef4 from Medicago spp. are small cysteine-rich defensins with potent antifungal activity against a broad range of filamentous fungi. Each defensin has a hallmark γ-core motif (GXCX(3-9) C), which contains major determinants of its antifungal activity. In this study, the antifungal activities of MsDef1, M...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Muñoz A,Chu M,Marris PI,Sagaram US,Kaur J,Shah DM,Read ND

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The var multicopy gene family encodes Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) variant antigens, which, through their ability to adhere to a variety of host receptors, are thought to be important virulence factors. The predominant expression of a single cytoadherent PfEMP1 type on an infected red ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kyes SA,Christodoulou Z,Raza A,Horrocks P,Pinches R,Rowe JA,Newbold CI

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural complexity of a ligand in association with the molecular chaperones SecB and SecA was investigated using three species of precursor maltose-binding protein, which differ in their stability as a result of an amino acid substitution in each that affects the rate of folding of the polypeptide. In the prese...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： de Cock H,Randall LL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubules are key players in the biology of Trypanosomatid parasites, not only as classical components of the mitotic spindle, microtubule-organizing centres and flagellum but also as the essential constituent of the cytoskeleton. Their length dynamics are regulated by, among others, microtubule-severing proteins. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Casanova M,Crobu L,Blaineau C,Bourgeois N,Bastien P,Pagès M

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N15 is a bacteriophage of Escherichia coli that resembles lambda, but, unlike lambda, it lysogenizes as a linear plasmid. We show that stable maintenance of this unusual plasmid-prophage depends on the parA and parB genes, relatives of the partition genes of F and P1 plasmids. ParB of N15, like its F- and P1-encoded h...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grigoriev PS,Lobocka MB

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in fungi by ambient pH is regulated via a conserved signalling cascade whose terminal component is the zinc finger transcription factor PacC/Rim1p. We have identified a pacC orthologue in the vascular wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum that binds the consensus 5'-GCCAAG-3' sequence and is proteolytically...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Caracuel Z,Roncero MI,Espeso EA,González-Verdejo CI,García-Maceira FI,Di Pietro A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method called Muprinting has been developed that uses PCR to generate a detailed picture of the bacteriophage Mu transposition sites in chosen domains of the bacterial chromosome. Muprinting experiments in Escherichia coli show that the frequency of phage integration changes dramatically near two repressor binding s...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang X,Higgins NP

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bottlenecks reduce the size of the gene pool within populations of all life forms with implications for their subsequent survival. Here, we examine the effects of bottlenecks on bacterial commensal-pathogens during transmission between, and dissemination within, hosts. By reducing genetic diversity, bottlenecks may al...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： De Ste Croix M,Holmes J,Wanford JJ,Moxon ER,Oggioni MR,Bayliss CD

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus are bacteria found colonizing the gut of a specialized stage of the nematode Heterorhabditis, called the infective juvenile (IJ). The IJ is a free-living stage of the nematode that seeks out and infects insect larvae. Once inside the insect the IJ release Photorhabdus into the haemolymph where the bacteri...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Watson RJ,Joyce SA,Spencer GV,Clarke DJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes interacts with host fibronectin via distinct surface components. One of these components is the Sfbl protein (streptococcal fibronectin-binding protein, now specified as class I), an adhesin that represents a protein family with characteristic features. Here we present the complete structure of ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kreikemeyer B,Talay SR,Chhatwal GS

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00