Identification and characterization of the pupB gene encoding an inducible ferric-pseudobactin receptor of Pseudomonas putida WCS358.

abstract：:Many physiological adjustments to nutrient changes involve ppGpp. Recent attempts to deduce ppGpp regulatory effects using proteomics or gene profiling can rigorously identify proteins or transcripts, but the functional significance is often unclear. Using a random screen for synthetic lethals we found a ppGpp-depende...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Harinarayanan R,Murphy H,Cashel M

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:The K1 killer toxin of Saccharomyces cerevisiae consists of 103- and 83-residue alpha and beta components whose derivation, from a 316-residue precursor preprotoxin, requires processing at the alpha N-terminus (after ProArg-44), the alpha C-terminus (after ArgArg-149) and at the beta N-terminus (after LysArg-233). The...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhu YS,Zhang XY,Cartwright CP,Tipper DJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the intracellular pathogen Brucella abortus, the general stress response (GSR) signalling system determines survival under acute stress conditions in vitro, and is required for long-term residence in a mammalian host. To date, the identity of the Brucella sensor kinase(s) that function to perceive stress and direct...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kim HS,Willett JW,Jain-Gupta N,Fiebig A,Crosson S

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various physiological stimuli trigger the conversion of noninfective Leishmania donovani promastigotes to the infective form. Here, we present the first evidence of the effect of glucose starvation, on virulence and survival of these parasites. Glucose starvation resulted in a decrease in metabolically active parasite...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Saini S,Kumar Ghosh A,Singh R,Das S,Abhishek K,Kumar A,Verma S,Mandal A,Hasan Sardar A,Purkait B,Kumar A,Kumar Sinha K,Das P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rho1p regulates (1,3)beta-d-glucan synthesis and is required for cell integrity maintenance and actin cytoskeleton organization, but nothing is known about the regulation of this protein. At least nine different S. pombe genes code for proteins predicted to act as Rho GTPase-activating protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Calonge TM,Arellano M,Coll PM,Perez P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shdA gene is the only determinant known to be required for persistence of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) in the murine caecum and for efficient and prolonged shedding of the organism with the faeces. To study the biological activity of the ShdA protein, we examined its expression and bin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kingsley RA,Santos RL,Keestra AM,Adams LG,Bäumler AJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of Escherichia coli hupA and hupB, the structural genes encoding the most abundant nucleoid-associated proteins HUalpha and HUbeta has been studied during cold shock. This article demonstrates that: (i) transcriptional expression of hupA is blocked following a sudden temperature downshift (from 37 degrees C...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Giangrossi M,Giuliodori AM,Gualerzi CO,Pon CL

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli, a gene for the alkyl hydroperoxide reductase subunit C (ahpC) had unique patterns of regulation by various forms of OxyR. Reduced OxyR repressed expression of the gene, whereas oxidized OxyR activated its expression. This dual regulation of ahpC is unique and unlike all other Ox...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Loprasert S,Fuangthong M,Whangsuk W,Atichartpongkul S,Mongkolsuk S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene conferring low-level isoniazid (INH) resistance on Mycobacterium smegmatis was isolated from a cosmid library of the genome of an INH-resistant Mycobacterium bovis strain. The gene had good homology with ahpC, the product of which is a subunit of alkyl hydroperoxide reductase, and also with a family of thiol-sp...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wilson TM,Collins DM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinone-based compounds have been exploited to treat infectious diseases and cancer, with such chemicals often functioning as inhibitors of key metabolic pathways or as prodrugs. Here, we screened an aziridinyl 1,4-benzoquinone (ABQ) library against the causative agents of trypanosomiasis, and cutaneous leishmaniasis,...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Meredith EL,Kumar A,Konno A,Szular J,Alsford S,Seifert K,Horn D,Wilkinson SR

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces scabies is the best studied of those streptomycetes that cause an economically important disease known as potato scab. The phytotoxin thaxtomin is made exclusively by these pathogens and is required for virulence. Here we describe regulation of thaxtomin biosynthesis by TxtR, a member of the AraC/XylS fam...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Joshi MV,Bignell DR,Johnson EG,Sparks JP,Gibson DM,Loria R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated hypervariability of native short-motif repeats (microsatellites) in Escherichia coli. Twenty-five of the longest microsatellites in the E. coli genome were identified. These were analysed for length variability among 22 wild-type (non-mutator) isolates from the E. coli collection of reference (ECO...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Metzgar D,Thomas E,Davis C,Field D,Wills C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:P66 is a Borrelia burgdorferi surface protein with β₃ integrin binding and channel forming activities. In this study, the role of P66 in mammalian and tick infection was examined. B. burgdorferiΔp66 strains were not infectious in wild-type, TLR2⁻/⁻- or MyD88⁻/⁻-deficient mice. Strains with p66 restored to the chromoso...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ristow LC,Miller HE,Padmore LJ,Chettri R,Salzman N,Caimano MJ,Rosa PA,Coburn J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids are essential structural constituents of bacterial cell membranes and walls, and their biosynthetic pathways are stringently regulated at both biochemical and genetic levels. The recent surge of new information about transcriptional regulation of bacterial lipid metabolism is highlighted by two studies in this ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Zhang YM,Rock CO

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication-initiator protein DnaA is ubiquitous in the eubacterial world. It binds to an asymmetric 9 bp consensus DNA sequence, the DnaA box. Besides its primary function as an initiator, it acts as a transcription factor that represses or activates several genes, or terminates transcription, depending on the lo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Messer W,Weigel C

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication frequency of plasmid R1 is controlled by an unstable antisense RNA, CopA, which, by binding to its complementary target, blocks translation of the replication rate-limiting protein RepA. Since the degree of inhibition is directly correlated with the intracellular concentration of CopA, factors affectin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Söderbom F,Binnie U,Masters M,Wagner EG

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic AMP protein kinase A pathway governs numerous biological features of the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. The catalytic protein kinase A subunits, Tpk1 (orf19.4892) and Tpk2 (orf19.2277), have divergent roles, and most studies indicate a more pronounced role for Tpk2. Here we dissect two Tpk1-responsive pr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fanning S,Xu W,Beaurepaire C,Suhan JP,Nantel A,Mitchell AP

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.7 kb fragment of Helicobacter pylori UA802 chromosomal DNA was cloned and sequenced. Three open reading frames (designated ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3, respectively) were predicted from the DNA sequence, of which ORF1 and ORF2 appeared to be located within the same operon. The deduced 611-amino-acid sequence of ORF1, a P-...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ge Z,Hiratsuka K,Taylor DE

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Bacterial cytokinesis is orchestrated by an assembly of essential cell division proteins that form a supramolecular structure known as the divisome. DivIB and its orthologue FtsQ are essential members of the divisome in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria respectively. DivIB is a bitopic membrane protein composed...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wadsworth KD,Rowland SL,Harry EJ,King GF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many filamentous cyanobacteria are capable of gliding motility by an undefined mechanism. Within the heterocyst-forming clades, some strains, such as the Nostoc spp. and Fisherella spp., are motile only as specialized filaments termed hormogonia. Here we report on the phenotype of inactivation of a methyl-accepting ch...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Risser DD,Meeks JC

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of characterized bacterial dipeptide permeases (Dpp) are membrane-associated complexes of five proteins belonging to the ABC-transporter family. They have been found to be involved in the uptake of essential amino acids, haem production, chemotaxis and sporulation. A 5.8 kb genomic DNA fragment of the ser...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Podbielski A,Leonard BA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram-negative bacteria, mitochondria, and chloroplasts all possess an outer membrane populated with a host of β-barrel outer-membrane proteins (βOMPs). These βOMPs play crucial roles in maintaining viability of their hosts, and therefore, it is essential to understand the biogenesis of this class of membrane proteins....

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lundquist K,Billings E,Bi M,Wellnitz J,Noinaj N

更新日期：2020-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphatases 2C are a family of conserved enzymes involved in many aspects of the cell biology. We reported that, in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, overexpression of the Ptc3p isoform resulted in increased lithium tolerance in the hypersensitive hal3 background. We have found that the tolerance induced by...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ruiz A,González A,García-Salcedo R,Ramos J,Ariño J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal ions are crucial trace elements for bacteria infecting the human host. The LraI (lipoprotein receptor-associated antigen I) transporter in Streptococcus spp. belongs to the superfamily of ABC transporters. The transporter consists of a lipoprotein, an ATP-binding protein and a hydrophobic integral membrane prote...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Janulczyk R,Pallon J,Björck L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although iron is an essential nutrient, its toxicity at high levels necessitates regulated transport. In Gram-negative bacteria a central target for regulation is the TonB protein, an energy transducer that couples the cytoplasmic membrane proton motive force to active transport of (FeIII)-siderophore complexes across...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Young GM,Postle K

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year, several million tons of dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) are produced by marine phytoplankton and bacteria as an important osmolyte to regulate their cellular osmosis. Microbial breakdown of DMSP to the volatile gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) plays an important role in global biogeochemical cycles of the sulphu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Schäfer H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psaBCA locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae encodes a putative ABC Mn2+-permease complex. Downstream of the operon is psaD, which may be co-transcribed and encodes a thiol peroxidase. Previously, there has been discordance concerning the phenotypic impact of mutations in the psa locus, resolution of which has been co...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McAllister LJ,Tseng HJ,Ogunniyi AD,Jennings MP,McEwan AG,Paton JC

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heterotrimeric G-protein pathway is a ubiquitous eukaryotic signalling module that is known to regulate growth and differentiation in many plant pathogens. We previously identified Pigpa1, a gene encoding a G-protein alpha subunit from the potato late blight pathogen Phytophthora infestans. P. infestans belongs to...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Latijnhouwers M,Ligterink W,Vleeshouwers VG,van West P,Govers F

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00