In vitro characterization of constitutive CysB proteins from Salmonella typhimurium.

abstract：:In almost all bacteria, cell division is co-ordinated by the essential tubulin homologue FtsZ and represents an attractive but as yet unexploited target for new antibiotics. The benzamides, e.g. PC190723, are potent FtsZ inhibitors that have the potential to yield an important new class of antibiotic. However, the evo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Adams DW,Wu LJ,Errington J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18 633 bp region containing the replicon from the approximately 53 kb pBM400 plasmid of Bacillus megaterium QM B1551 has been sequenced and characterized. This region contained a complete rRNA operon plus 10 other potential open reading frames (ORFs). The replicon consisted of an upstream promoter and three contigu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kunnimalaiyaan M,Stevenson DM,Zhou Y,Vary PS

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-essential RGD1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae encodes a protein that has been characterized in vitro as a Rho GTPase activating protein (RhoGAP) for the Rho3 and Rho4 proteins. Rgd1p, which displays a conserved FCH-coiled coil-Rho-GAP domain organization, showed a patch-like distribution in the cell, inclu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roumanie O,Peypouquet MF,Bonneu M,Thoraval D,Doignon F,Crouzet M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine Gram-negative bacteria Rhodopirellula baltica and Oceanicaulis alexandrii have, in contrast to Escherichia coli, membrane insertases with extended positively charged C-terminal regions similar to the YidC homologues in mitochondria and Gram-positive bacteria. We have found that chimeric forms of E. coli Yid...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Seitl I,Wickles S,Beckmann R,Kuhn A,Kiefer D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical approach to identify proteins with high affinity for choline-containing pneumococcal cell walls has allowed the localization, cloning and sequencing of a gene (lytC ) coding for a protein that degrades the cell walls of Streptococcus pneumoniae. The lytC gene is 1506 bp long and encodes a protein (LytC) ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： García P,Paz González M,García E,García JL,López R

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite whose rapid lytic replication cycles define its pathogenicity. We identified a temperature-sensitive growth mutant, FV-P6, which irreversibly arrests before the middle of the G1 stage of the tachyzoite cell cycle. This arrest is caused by a point mutati...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Szatanek T,Anderson-White BR,Faugno-Fusci DM,White M,Saeij JP,Gubbels MJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Francisella tularensis are the causative agent of the zoonotic disease, tularaemia. Among four F. tularensis subspecies, ssp. novicida (F. novicida) is pathogenic only for immunocompromised individuals, while all four subspecies are pathogenic for mice. This study utilized proteomic and bioinformatic approaches to ide...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hager AJ,Bolton DL,Pelletier MR,Brittnacher MJ,Gallagher LA,Kaul R,Skerrett SJ,Miller SI,Guina T

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell envelope of mycobacteria is a complex multilaminar structure that protects the cell from stresses encountered in the environment, and plays an important role against the bactericidal activity of immune system cells. The outermost layer of the mycobacterial envelope typically contains species-specific glycolip...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sondén B,Kocíncová D,Deshayes C,Euphrasie D,Rhayat L,Laval F,Frehel C,Daffé M,Etienne G,Reyrat JM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobile insertion sequence, IS6110, is an important marker in tracking of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. Here, we demonstrate that IS6110 can upregulate downstream genes through an outward-directed promoter in its 3' end, thus adding to the significance of this element. Promoter activity was orientation depend...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Safi H,Barnes PF,Lakey DL,Shams H,Samten B,Vankayalapati R,Howard ST

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration host factor (IHF) binds to two sites near the origin of transfer of the conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmid, R100. DNase I footprinting shows that one site is immediately adjacent to oriT and the gene X promoter, and another is adjacent to the traM promoter. A third site, known only from retardation ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dempsey WB,Fee BE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Mutants (glk) of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) that are resistant to the non-utilizable glucose analogue 2-deoxyglucose are deficient in glucose kinase activity, defective in glucose repression, and usually unable to utilize glucose. A 2.9 kb BclI fragment, previously shown to restore a wild-type phenotype to a glk de...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Angell S,Schwarz E,Bibb MJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ICEMlSym(R7A) of Mesorhizobium loti is an integrative and conjugative element (ICE) that confers the ability to form a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with Lotus species. Horizontal transfer is activated by TraR and N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL), which can stimulate ICE excision in 100% of cells. However, in wild-type cu...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ramsay JP,Major AS,Komarovsky VM,Sullivan JT,Dy RL,Hynes MF,Salmond GP,Ronson CW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli RnlA-RnlB is a newly identified toxin-antitoxin (TA) system that plays a role in bacteriophage resistance. RnlA functions as a toxin with mRNA endoribonuclease activity and the cognate antitoxin RnlB inhibits RnlA toxicity in E. coli cells. Interestingly, T4 phage encodes the antitoxin Dmd, which acts...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wei Y,Gao ZQ,Otsuka Y,Naka K,Yonesaki T,Zhang H,Dong YH

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the genes required for the conjugative transfer of DNA are encoded by the 33 kb transfer (tra) operon of F-like conjugative plasmids. Transcription of the tra operon is positively regulated by the TraJ transcriptional activator which, in turn, is negatively regulated by the FinOP fertility inhibition system. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van Biesen T,Frost LS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium marneffei is a thermally dimorphic opportunistic human pathogen with a saprophytic filamentous hyphal form at 25 degrees C and a pathogenic unicellular yeast form at 37 degrees C. During infection. P. marneffei yeast cells exist intracellularly in macrophages. To cope with nutrient deprivation during the i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cánovas D,Andrianopoulos A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ssuBACD gene cluster is required for the utilization of aliphatic sulphonates as sulphur sources. The regulation of expression of the ssu genes was studied in constructs carrying chromosomal transcriptional fusions of the ssu promoter region to lacZ. When sulphate or cystine served as sulphur sou...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van der Ploeg JR,Barone M,Leisinger T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA) is a critically important virulence factor produced by Bordetella species that cause respiratory infections in humans and other animals. It is also a prototypical member of the widespread two partner secretion (TPS) pathway family of proteins. First synthesized as a ~370 kDa protein cal...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nash ZM,Cotter PA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dps is a nucleoid-associated protein that plays a major role in condensation of the Escherichia coli chromosome in stationary phase. Here we show that two other nucleoid-associated proteins, Fis and H-NS, can bind at the dps gene promoter and downregulate its activity. Both Fis and H-NS selectively repress the dps pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grainger DC,Goldberg MD,Lee DJ,Busby SJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen that continues to be a significant global health threat because of the prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus strains (MRSA). The pathogenesis of this organism is partly attributed to the production of a large repertoire of cytotoxins that target and kill innate im...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dumont AL,Nygaard TK,Watkins RL,Smith A,Kozhaya L,Kreiswirth BN,Shopsin B,Unutmaz D,Voyich JM,Torres VJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified three well-dispersed mutations, E978-K, F989-L and D1009-R within the haemolysin A signal region, located at positions -46, -35 and -15, with respect to the C-terminus, respectively. Each mutation reduces the efficiency of secretion two- to threefold leaving 30-45% of the wild-type activity. W...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kenny B,Chervaux C,Holland IB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus (GAS) causes a variety of human diseases, including toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis, which are both associated with significant mortality. Even the superficial self-limiting diseases caused by GAS, such as pharyngitis, impose a significant economic burden on society. GAS can ca...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Churchward G

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoribonuclease RNase E plays an important role in RNA processing and degradation in Escherichia coli. The construction of an E. coli strain in which the cellular concentration of RNase E can be precisely controlled has made it possible to examine and quantify the effect of RNase E scarcity on RNA decay, gene reg...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jain C,Deana A,Belasco JG

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most abundant oxidants controlling bacterial colonization on mucosal barrier epithelia are hypochlorous acid (HOCl), hypobromous acid (HOBr) and hypothiocyanous acid (HOSCN). All three oxidants are highly antimicrobial but little is known about their relative efficacies, their respective cellular targets, or what ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Groitl B,Dahl JU,Schroeder JW,Jakob U

更新日期：2017-11-01 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：:The largest subunit of RNA polymerase II, Rpb1, contains an unusual C-terminal domain (CTD) composed of numerous repeats of the YSPTSPS consensus sequence. This sequence is the target of post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation, glycosylation, methylation and transitions between stereoisomeric states, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Drogat J,Hermand D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copper ions are essential but also very toxic. Copper resistance in bacteria is based on export of the toxic ion, oxidation from Cu(I) to Cu(II), and sequestration by copper-binding metal chaperones, which deliver copper ions to efflux systems or metal-binding sites of copper-requiring proteins. In their publication i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nies DH,Herzberg M

更新日期：2013-02-01 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 Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae is the infectious agent responsible for the disease Asiatic cholera. The genes required for V. cholerae virulence, such as those encoding the cholera toxin (CT) and toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), are controlled by a cascade of transcriptional activators. Ultimately, the dire...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Withey JH,DiRita VJ

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of H. influenzae is highly variable. Much of the structural diversity is derived from phase variation, or high frequency on-off switching, of molecules attached during LPS biosynthesis. In this study, we examined the dynamics of LPS phase variation following exposure to human serum as a so...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Clark SE,Eichelberger KR,Weiser JN

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00