A novel DnaA protein-binding site at 94.7 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome.

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：:Ammonium movement across biological membranes is facilitated by a class of ubiquitous channel proteins from the Amt/Rh family. Amt proteins have also been implicated in cellular responses to ammonium availability in many organisms. Ammonium sensing by Amt in bacteria is mediated by complex formation with cytosolic pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Huergo LF,Merrick M,Pedrosa FO,Chubatsu LS,Araujo LM,Souza EM

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoregulation of pigmentation during complementary chromatic acclimation (CCA) is well studied in Fremyella diplosiphon; however, mechanistic insights into the CCA-associated morphological changes are still emerging. F. diplosiphon cells are rectangular under green light (GL), whereas cells are smaller and spherical...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Singh SP,Montgomery BL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have addressed the question whether TFS, a protein that stimulates the intrinsic cleavage activity of the archaeal RNA polymerase, is able to improve the fidelity of transcription in Methanococcus. Using non-specific transcription experiments, we could demonstrate that misincorporation of non-templated nucleotides ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lange U,Hausner W

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall transcription of DNA has previously been demonstrated to proceed at extremely high levels of accuracy. We review the evidence that the process of transcription is subject to proof-reading in the Hopfield sense. In addition, we speculate that the proof-reading activity associated with transcription is subje...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Libby RT,Gallant JA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only few small, regulatory RNAs encoded opposite another gene have been identified in bacteria. Here, we report the characterization of a locus where a small RNA (SymR) is encoded in cis to an SOS-induced gene whose product shows homology to the antitoxin MazE (SymE). Synthesis of the SymE protein is tightly repressed...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kawano M,Aravind L,Storz G

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:A mechanistic hypothesis for the origin of the three domains of life is proposed. A population of evolving pre-cells is suggested to have had a membrane of a racemate of chiral lipids that continuously underwent spontaneous symmetry breaking by spatial phase segregation into two enantiomerically enriched membrane doma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wächtershäuser G

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of cell-density-dependent control of gene expression, called autoinduction, has long been a subject of interest and investigation in bioluminescent marine bacteria. It is now becoming clear that many other bacteria, including animal and plant pathogens, use an autoinduction mechanism to regulate a varie...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sitnikov DM,Schineller JB,Baldwin TO

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation is a social behaviour that generates favourable conditions for sustained survival in the natural environment. For the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis the process involves the differentiation of cell fate within an isogenic population and the production of communal goods that form the biofil...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cairns LS,Hobley L,Stanley-Wall NR

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:A 1.3 kb cDNA (cDNA52) was derived from Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote mRNA. Using single stranded probes in Northern blots, we identified the putative coding strand of cDNA52. In addition, a minor band was detected in RNA from epimastigotes that was absent in RNA from trypomastigotes. Nucleotide sequence analysis r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thertulien R,Harth G,Haidaris CG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary relationship within prokaryotes is examined based on signature sequences (defined as conserved inserts or deletions shared by specific taxa) and phylogenies derived from different proteins. Archaebacteria are indicated as being monophyletic by a number of proteins related to the information transfer p...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gupta RS

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductases supply cells with their deoxyribonucleotides. Three enzyme types are known, classes I, II and III. Class II enzymes are anaerobic whereas class I enzymes are aerobic, and so class I and II enzymes are often produced by the same organism under opposing oxygen regimes. Escherichia coli contains...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Andrews SC

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNase E autoregulates its production in Escherichia coli by governing the decay rate of rne (RNase E) mRNA. It does so by a mechanism that is dependent in part on hp2, a cis-acting stem-loop within the rne 5' untranslated region. In principle, hp2 could function either as a cleavage site for RNase E or as a binding si...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schuck A,Diwa A,Belasco JG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential gene expression is a key strategy adopted by the Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi, for adaptation and survival in the mammalian host and the tick vector. Many B. burgdorferi surface lipoproteins fall into two distinct groups according to their expression patterns: one group primarily express...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang P,Dadhwal P,Cheng Z,Zianni MR,Rikihisa Y,Liang FT,Li X

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analysed the capacity of the 11 phase-variable, opacity-associated (Opa) proteins encoded by Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 to mediate traversal across polarized monolayers of the human colonic carcinoma T84 cell line. Gonococci expressing either the heparan sulphate proteoglycan (HSPG) binding Opa protein (Opa50)...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang J,Gray-Owen SD,Knorre A,Meyer TF,Dehio C

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of how obligate intracellular pathogens co-opt eukaryotic cellular functions has been limited by their intractability to genetic manipulation and by the abundance of pathogen-specific genes with no known functional homologues. In this report we describe a gene expression system to characterize protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sisko JL,Spaeth K,Kumar Y,Valdivia RH

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding the three terminal enzymes in the threonine biosynthetic pathway, homoserine dehydrogenase (hom), homoserine kinase (thrB) and threonine synthase (thrC) have been isolated from Corynebacterium glutamicum. The C. glutamicum hom and thrB genes were subcloned on a 3.6 kb SalI-generated chromosomal frag...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Follettie MT,Shin HK,Sinskey AJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of plasmid-encoded gene systems are thought to stabilize plasmids by killing plasmid-free cells (also termed post-segregational killing or plasmid addiction). Here we analyse the mechanisms of plasmid stabilization by ccd of F, parDE of RP4 and parD of R1, and compare them to hok/sok of R1. To induce synchron...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jensen RB,Grohmann E,Schwab H,Díaz-Orejas R,Gerdes K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tprK gene sequence of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum (T. pallidum) is heterogeneous within and among isolates. Heterogeneity in the tprK open reading frame is localized in seven discrete variable (V) regions, and variability results from apparent base changes, insertions or deletions. The TprK V regions ar...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Centurion-Lara A,LaFond RE,Hevner K,Godornes C,Molini BJ,Van Voorhis WC,Lukehart SA

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 136 codon (408 bp) denA gene encoding endonuclease II (Endoll) of bacteriophage T4 was unambiguously identified through sequencing and subsequent cloning. Endoll prepared from cloned DNA through coupled in vitro transcription-translation nicked and cut DNA in vitro in a sequence-specific manner. In vitro (and in v...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Carlson K,Kosturko LD,Nyström AC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of Escherichia coli chromosome replication is controlled by the DnaA initiator protein. Both rifampicin-mediated inhibition of transcription and ppGpp-induced changes in global transcription stops replication at the level of initiation. Here, we show that continued DnaA protein synthesis allows for replicat...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Riber L,Løbner-Olesen A

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:The cell wall of the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exclusively consists of hydroxyproline-containing glycoproteins. Protein chemical analysis of its polypeptide constituents was hindered by their cross-linking via peroxidase-catalysed intermolecular isodityrosine formation and transaminase-dependent...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Voigt J,Kiess M,Getzlaff R,Wöstemeyer J,Frank R

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among enteric bacteria, the ability to grow on N-acetyl-galactosamine (GalNAc or Aga) and on D-galactosamine (GalN or Gam) differs. Thus, strains B, C and EC3132 of Escherichia coli are Aga+ Gam+ whereas E. coli K-12 is Aga- Gam-, similarly to Klebsiella pneumoniae KAY2026, Klebsiella oxytoca M5a1 and Salmonella typhi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Brinkkötter A,Klöss H,Alpert C,Lengeler JW

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable RNA maturation is a key process in the generation of functional RNAs, and failure to correctly process these RNAs can lead to their elimination through quality control mechanisms. Studies of the maturation pathways of ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA in Bacillus subtilis showed they were radically different from ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gilet L,DiChiara JM,Figaro S,Bechhofer DH,Condon C

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) are thought to be important for the attachment of Staphylococcus aureus during infection. The regulation of the genes fnbA and fnbB by the global regulatory loci sar and agr was examined using site-specific regulatory mutants of S. aureus strain Newman. The results from binding ass...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wolz C,Pöhlmann-Dietze P,Steinhuber A,Chien YT,Manna A,van Wamel W,Cheung A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies against the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of the deep rough mutant I-69 Rd-/b+ of Haemophilus influenzae were obtained after immunization of mice with sheep erythrocytes which had been coated with de-O-acylated LPS. Characterization of antibodies was performed by enzyme immuno assay (EIA) using LPS or...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rozalski A,Brade L,Kosma P,Moxon R,Kusumoto S,Brade H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbapenems such as meropenem are being investigated for their potential therapeutic utility against highly drug-resistant tuberculosis. These β-lactams target the transpeptidases that introduce interpeptide cross-links into bacterial peptidoglycan thereby controlling rigidity of the bacterial envelope. Treatment of M...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kumar P,Arora K,Lloyd JR,Lee IY,Nair V,Fischer E,Boshoff HI,Barry CE 3rd

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00