Comparative characterization of the iga gene encoding IgA1 protease in Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Haemophilus influenzae.

abstract：:Ferrichrome-iron is actively transported across the outer membrane of Escherichia coli by the TonB-dependent receptor FhuA. To obtain FhuA in a form suitable for secondary-structure analyses, a hexahistidine tag was inserted into a surface-located site and the recombinant protein was purified by metal chelate chromato...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Moeck GS,Tawa P,Xiang H,Ismail AA,Turnbull JL,Coulton JW

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is one of the most important model organisms for studies on natural genetic transformation in bacteria. The prevalence of this gene exchange mechanism in the genus Streptococcus has not been subjected to systematic investigations, but it has been known for decades that only a few streptococcal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Håvarstein LS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bvg locus contains two genes, bvgA and bvgS, which control the expression of the virulence-associated genes in Bordetella species by a system similar to the two-component systems used by a variety of bacterial species to respond to environmental stimuli. We determined the nucleotide sequence of the bvg loci of Bor...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aricò B,Scarlato V,Monack DM,Falkow S,Rappuoli R

更新日期：1991-10-01 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

abstract：:A gene bank of Azorhizobium caulinodans DNA constructed in the bacteriophage lambda GEM11 was screened with Rhizobium meliloti fixL and fixJ genes as probes. One positive recombinant phage, ORS lambda L, was isolated. The nucleotide sequence of a 3.7 kb fragment was established. Two open reading frames of 1512bp and 6...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kaminski PA,Elmerich C

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the cloning of the arginine repressor gene argR of Bacillus stearothermophilus and the characterization and purification to homogeneity of its product. The deduced amino acid sequence of the 16.8-kDa ArgR subunit shares 72% identity with its mesophilic homologue AhrC of Bacilus subtilis. Sequence analys...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dion M,Charlier D,Wang H,Gigot D,Savchenko A,Hallet JN,Glansdorff N,Sakanyan V

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence of phi Ch1 contains an open reading frame (int1) in the central part of its genome that belongs to the lambda integrase family of site-specific recombinases. Sequence similarities to known integrases include the highly conserved tetrad R-H-R-Y. The flanking sequences of int1 contain several direct repeats...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rössler N,Klein R,Scholz H,Witte A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum assembles knob structures underneath the erythrocyte membrane that help present the major virulence protein, P. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein-1 (PfEMP1). Membranous structures called Maurer's clefts are established in the erythrocyte cytoplasm and function as sortin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dixon MW,Kenny S,McMillan PJ,Hanssen E,Trenholme KR,Gardiner DL,Tilley L

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline-binding proteins (CBPs) from Streptococcus pneumoniae are involved in several important processes. Inactivation of zmpB, a gene that encodes a surface-located putative zinc metalloprotease, in a S. pneumoniae serotype 4 strain was recently reported to reveal a composite phenotype, including extensive chain for...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bergé M,García P,Iannelli F,Prère MF,Granadel C,Polissi A,Claverys JP

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems on the chromosomes of free-living bacteria appear to facilitate cell survival during intervals of stress by inducing a state of reversible growth arrest. However, upon prolonged stress, TA toxin action leads to cell death. They have been implicated in several clinically important phenomena...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Prysak MH,Mozdzierz CJ,Cook AM,Zhu L,Zhang Y,Inouye M,Woychik NA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous human commensal Escherichia coli has been well investigated through its model representative E. coli K-12. In this work, we initially characterized E. coli Fec10, a recently isolated human commensal strain of phylogroup A/sequence type ST10. Compared to E. coli K-12, the 4.88 Mbp Fec10 genome is charact...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kamal SM,Cimdins-Ahne A,Lee C,Li F,Martín-Rodríguez AJ,Seferbekova Z,Afasizhev R,Wami HT,Katikaridis P,Meins L,Lünsdorf H,Dobrindt U,Mogk A,Römling U

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulent phenotype of Shigella requires loci on the chromosome as well as on the large virulence plasmid, and is regulated via a complex web of interactions amongst various chromosomal and large plasmid genes. To further investigate the role of chromosomal loci in virulence, we performed random Tn10 mutagenesis in...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mac Síomóin RA,Nakata N,Murai T,Yoshikawa M,Tsuji H,Sasakawa C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protection against maternal malaria has been associated with the acquisition of a specific antibody response that prevents adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to the glycosaminoglycan chondroitin-4-sulphate (CSA), which is present in the placental intervillous space. These antibodies are directed a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Andrews KT,Pirrit LA,Przyborski JM,Sanchez CP,Sterkers Y,Ricken S,Wickert H,Lépolard C,Avril M,Scherf A,Gysin J,Lanzer M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regions close to the replication terminus of the Escherichia coli chromosome are strongly refractory to genomic inversions. Since these regions also harbour polar replication terminator-like sequences or pause sites, we have investigated the possibility that slowing of replication as a result of pausing at inverted pa...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： François V,Louarn J,Patte J,Rebollo JE,Louarn JM

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essential proteins DnaB, DnaD and DnaI of Bacillus subtilis are required for initiation, but not elongation, of DNA replication, and for replication restart at stalled forks. The interactions and functions of these proteins have largely been determined in vitro based on their roles in replication restart. During r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Smits WK,Goranov AI,Grossman AD

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new locus required for type 4 pilus biogenesis by Pseudomonas aeruginosa has been identified. A pilE mutant, designated MJ-6, was broadly resistant to pili-specific phages and unable to translocate across solid surfaces by the pilus-dependent mechanism of twitching motility (Twt-). Immunoblot analysis demonstrated t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Russell MA,Darzins A

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:In contrast to many antimicrobial peptides, members of the proline-rich group of antimicrobial peptides inactivate Gram-negative bacteria by a non-lytic mechanism. Several lines of evidence indicate that they are internalized into bacteria and their activity mediated by interaction with unknown cellular components. Wi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mattiuzzo M,Bandiera A,Gennaro R,Benincasa M,Pacor S,Antcheva N,Scocchi M

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory adaptation of low-abundance chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli requires assistance from high-abundance receptors, because only high-abundance receptors carry the carboxyl-terminal pentapeptide sequence NWETF that enhances adaptational covalent modification. Using membrane vesicles containing both high-abundanc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li M,Hazelbauer GL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several bacterial genera express proteins that contain collagen-like regions, which are associated with variable (V) non-collagenous regions. The streptococcal collagen-like proteins, Scl1 and Scl2, of group A Streptococcus (GAS) are members of this 'prokaryotic collagen' family, and they too contain an amino-terminal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Han R,Caswell CC,Lukomska E,Keene DR,Pawlowski M,Bujnicki JM,Kim JK,Lukomski S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fimbrial and afimbrial adhesins of the Dr family mediate the adherence of uropathogenic and diarrhoea-associated Escherichia coli to decay-accelerating factor (DAF) present on erythrocytes and other cell types. The Dr haemagglutinin binds type IV collagen and, unlike other members of the Dr family, mediates an adh...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Carnoy C,Moseley SL

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ro mutants of Neurospora crassa are defective in nuclear migration and hyphal morphogenesis. Several of the ro loci have recently been shown to encode components of the dynein/dynactin motor complex. Here we report on the cloning and characterization of the ro-2 gene which codes for a novel 80 kDa protein that has...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Vierula PJ,Mais JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA repeat region of fcrA76, the gene encoding a group A streptococcal Fc-binding protein, was subcloned in-frame into an Escherichia coli plasmid expression vector. The expressed protein product displayed the same Fc-binding properties as the full-length Fc-binding protein expressed from fcrA76. The affinity-puri...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Heath DG,Boyle MD,Cleary PP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to genotoxic stress (GS), Candida albicans can undergo polarized growth and massive genome rearrangements including loss-of-heterozygosity (LOH) events. We evaluated the contribution of the CaRad53p and CaDun1p kinases of the DNA damage checkpoint (DDCP) in these processes. Characterization of C. albicans ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Loll-Krippleber R,d'Enfert C,Feri A,Diogo D,Perin A,Marcet-Houben M,Bougnoux ME,Legrand M

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：: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：:Oligomerization of the initiator protein, DnaA, on the origin of replication (oriC) is crucial for initiation of DNA replication. Studies in Escherichia coli (Gram-negative) have revealed that binding of DnaA to ATP, but not hydrolysis of ATP, is sufficient to promote DnaA binding, oligomerization and DNA strand separ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Madiraju MV,Moomey M,Neuenschwander PF,Muniruzzaman S,Yamamoto K,Grimwade JE,Rajagopalan M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma28 controls the expression of flagella-related genes and is the most widely distributed alternative sigma factor, present in motile Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The distinguishing feature of sigma28 promoters is a long -10 region (GCCGATAA). Despite the fact that the upstream GC is highly conserved, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koo BM,Rhodius VA,Campbell EA,Gross CA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MarR, the negative regulator of the Escherichia coli multiple antibiotic resistance (marRAB) operon, is a member of a newly recognized family of regulatory proteins. The amino acid sequences of these proteins do not display any apparent homologies to the DNA binding domains of prokaryotic transcription regulators and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alekshun MN,Kim YS,Levy SB

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00