Three conserved consensus sequences identify the NAD-binding site of ADP-ribosylating enzymes, expressed by eukaryotes, bacteria and T-even bacteriophages.

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：:The fungus Magnaporthe oryzae causes blast, the most devastating disease of cultivated rice. After penetrating the leaf cuticle, M. oryzae grows as a biotroph in intimate contact with living rice epidermal cells before necrotic lesions develop. Biotrophic growth requires maintaining metabolic homeostasis while suppres...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Rocha RO,Wilson RA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms of transcription repression and derepression in vivo are not fully understood. We have obtained evidence that begins to clarify the minimum requirements for counteracting nucleosomal repression in vivo. Location of the TATA element near the nucleosome dyad does not block RNA polymerase II transcription ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Moss DR,Laybourn PJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:We report selective phosphorylation of the DNA-binding domain of the Streptococcus pneumoniae transcriptional regulator RitR. RitR is annotated as a two-component response regulator, but lacks a cognate His kinase as a neighbouring locus in the genome. In addition, Asn replaces Asp at the expected acceptor site. By th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ulijasz AT,Falk SP,Weisblum B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluidity and phase state of bacterial lipid bilayers commonly change in response to ambient environmental conditions to maintain the critical functions of the envelope as a semipermeable and selective boundary. A special, and intricate, set of alterations in membrane lipid metabolism is elicited by conditions caus...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： DiRusso CC,Nyström T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadherence to the vaginal epithelium is a critical step in infection by the eukaryotic flagellate Trichomonas vaginalis. Four trichomonad surface proteins (AP65, AP51, AP33 and AP23) mediate cytoadherence. The cDNA encoding the AP65 adhesin was isolated from a phagemid cDNA expression library by screening with anti...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alderete JF,O'Brien JL,Arroyo R,Engbring JA,Musatovova O,Lopez O,Lauriano C,Nguyen J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 2711bp DNA segment which contains the N-terminal coding sequence and the 5' flanking region of a crystal protein gene (bta) from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai 7.29 has been determined. The coding region encodes an 824 amino-acid polypeptide corresponding to a carboxy-terminally tru...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sanchis V,Lereclus D,Menou G,Chaufaux J,Guo S,Lecadet MM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eukaryotes, frataxin deficiency (FXN) causes severe phenotypes including loss of iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster protein activity, accumulation of mitochondrial iron and leads to the neurodegenerative disease Friedreich's ataxia. In contrast, in prokaryotes, deficiency in the FXN homolog, CyaY, was reported not to cause...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roche B,Huguenot A,Barras F,Py B

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the characterization of the msbA gene, isolated as a multicopy suppressor of the HtrB temperature-sensitive phenotype. The msbA gene maps to 20.5 min on the Escherichia coli genetic map and encodes a protein with an estimated molecular mass of 64,460 Da, with the properties of an integral membrane protein. T...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Karow M,Georgopoulos C

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c biogenesis describes the posttranslational pathway for the conversion of pre-apocytochrome c into the mature holocytochrome c. It involves an unknown number of consecutive biochemical steps, including translocation of the precursor polypeptide and haem into the periplasm and the covalent linkage between t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thöny-Meyer L,Ritz D,Hennecke H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, RecA protein regulates the DNA damage-inducible survival-enhancing SOS response. Mutant allele recA730, which causes constitutive SOS expression, is lethal at high temperatures in B/r, a derivative of wild-type B, but not in K-12 or in certain B/r--K-12 hybrids. We present evidence that killing is...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kirchner J,Lim D,Witkin EM,Garvey N,Roegner-Maniscalco V

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recombination of short homologous ends in Escherichia coli has been known for 30 years, and it is often used for both site-directed mutagenesis and in vivo cloning. For cloning, a plasmid and target DNA fragments were converted into linear DNA fragments with short homologous ends, which are joined via recombinatio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yang Y,Wang T,Yu Q,Liu H,Xun L,Xia Y

更新日期：2020-12-29 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：:Lyme disease is a tick-transmitted infection caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Ticks deposit B. burgdorferi into the dermis of the host, where they eventually become associated with collagen fibres. We demonstrated previously that B. burgdorferi is unable to bind collagen, but can bind the collagen-associ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Guo BP,Brown EL,Dorward DW,Rosenberg LC,Höök M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli regulatory proteins, EnvZ and OmpR, are crucially involved in expression of the outer membrane proteins OmpF/OmpC in response to the medium osmolarity. The EnvZ protein is presumably a membrane-located osmotic sensor (or signal transducer), which exhibits both kinase and phosphatase activities spe...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tokishita S,Mizuno T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review assembles data from three bodies of literature (bacterial genetics, plastid biogenesis and parasitology) that seldom have much direct cross-talk. After overcoming terminological complications to sort out microbial nifS from sufS genes, we connect a bacterial operon, recently found to be involved in iron me...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ellis KE,Clough B,Saldanha JW,Wilson RJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell cycle transitions are often triggered by the proteolysis of key regulatory proteins. In Caulobacter crescentus, the G1-S transition involves the degradation of an essential DNA-binding response regulator, CtrA, by the ClpXP protease. Here, we show that another critical cell cycle regulator, SciP, is also degraded...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Gora KG,Cantin A,Wohlever M,Joshi KK,Perchuk BS,Chien P,Laub MT

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:In the chemotaxis of Escherichia coli, adaptation requires the methylation and demethylation of transmembrane receptors, which are catalysed by the methyltransferase CheR and the methylesterase CheB respectively. CheR binds to major chemoreceptors through their C-terminal motif NWETF, which is distinct from the methyl...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shiomi D,Okumura H,Homma M,Kawagishi I

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli nusG gene product is required for transcription termination by phage HK022 Nun protein at the lambda nutR site in vivo. We show that it is also essential for Nun termination at lambda nutL. Three recessive mis-sense nusG mutations have been isolated that inhibit termination by Nun at lambda nutR. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Burova E,Hung SC,Chen J,Court DL,Zhou JG,Mogilnitskiy G,Gottesman ME

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Yersinia Ysc apparatus is made of more than 20 proteins, 11 of which have homologues in many type III systems. Here, we characterize YscP from Yersinia enterocolitica. This 515-residue protein has a high proline content, a large tandem repetition and a slow migration in SDS-PAGE. Unlike the products of neighbourin...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stainier I,Bleves S,Josenhans C,Karmani L,Kerbourch C,Lambermont I,Tötemeyer S,Boyd A,Cornelis GR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular bacteria which undergo a unique developmental cycle, alternating between non-replicative elementary bodies (EBs) and replicative reticulate bodies (RBs). The transition from RB to EB is characterized by condensation of the chromosome into a dense nucleoid structure. The chlamydial...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Barry CE 3rd,Brickman TJ,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aflatoxins are polyaromatic mycotoxins that contaminate a range of food crops as a result of fungal growth and contribute to serious health problems in the developing world because of their toxicity and mutagenicity. Although relatively resistant to biotic degradation, aflatoxins can be metabolized by certain species ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Taylor MC,Jackson CJ,Tattersall DB,French N,Peat TS,Newman J,Briggs LJ,Lapalikar GV,Campbell PM,Scott C,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RusA protein of Escherichia coli is a DNA structure-specific endonuclease that resolves Holliday junction intermediates formed during DNA replication, recombination and repair by introducing symmetrically paired incisions 5' to CC dinucleotides. It is encoded by the defective prophage DLP12, which raises the possi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sharples GJ,Bolt EL,Lloyd RG

更新日期：2002-04-01 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 heptacistronic dnaK heat shock operon of Bacillus subtilis consists of the genes hrcA, grpE, dnaK, dnaJ, orf35, orf28 and orf50. It is controlled by the CIRCE/HrcA operator/repressor system and specifies three primary transcripts, two of which are processed into three different products. We have analysed the regul...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Homuth G,Mogk A,Schumann W

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of numerous proteins during vegetative growth of Myxococcus xanthus, and the multicellular development cycle induced upon starvation of these bacteria, are partially interrelated in so far as mutants impaired in extracellular protein production are unable to undergo development. We have cloned and sequen...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Laval-Favre K,Letouvet-Pawlak B,Friedrich T,Alexandre J,Guespin-Michel JF

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a Lon protease homologue has been cloned from Brucella abortus. The putative Brucella abortus Lon shares > 60% amino acid identity with its Escherichia coli counterpart and the recombinant form of this protein restores the capacity of an Escherichia coli lon mutant to resist killing by ultraviolet ir...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Robertson GT,Kovach ME,Allen CA,Ficht TA,Roop RM 2nd

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions or substitutions of amino acids at the carboxyl-terminus of the heat-labile enterotoxin B subunit (EtxB) affect its assembly into pentamers in a temperature-dependent manner. At 42 degrees C, the mutations prevent the B subunits from achieving their final pentameric structure resulting in membrane associatio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sandkvist M,Bagdasarian M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00