Independent acquisition and insertion into different chromosomal locations of the same pathogenicity island in Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.

abstract：:A transposon mutant of Escherichia coli 5K was isolated which reduced 10- to 50-fold the secreted extracellular haemolytic activity of cells carrying the complete hlyCABD operon while leaving unaffected the intracellular haemolytic activity and the levels of intracellular and extracellular haemolysin protein, HlyA. Th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stanley PL,Diaz P,Bailey MJ,Gygi D,Juarez A,Hughes C

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A respiratory quinol oxidase complex that is encoded by the soxABCD operon has been purified from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. The enzyme was solubilized with dodecyl maltoside and purified in the presence of this detergent and ethylene glycol. The complex is hydrodynamically homogeneous a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lübben M,Warne A,Albracht SP,Saraste M

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli have been produced which express very high levels of the tRNA(1Leu) isoacceptor. This was accomplished by transforming cells with plasmids containing the leuV operon which encodes three copies of the tRNA(1Leu) gene. Most transformants grew very slowly and exhibited a 15-fold increase in ce...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wahab SZ,Rowley KO,Holmes WM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The translational roles of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, the initiation codon, the space between them, and the second codon have been studied. The Shine-Dalgarno sequence UAAGGAGG initiated translation roughly four times more efficiently than did the shorter AAGGA sequence. Each Shine-Dalgarno sequence required a minim...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ringquist S,Shinedling S,Barrick D,Green L,Binkley J,Stormo GD,Gold L

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human stomach pathogen Helicobacter pyloriattaches to healthy and inflamed gastric tissue through members of a paralogous family of 'Helicobacter outer membrane proteins' (Hops), including adhesins BabA, SabA, HopQ, LabA and HopZ. Hops share a conserved 25 kDa C-terminal region that is thought to form an autotrans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Coppens F,Castaldo G,Debraekeleer A,Subedi S,Moonens K,Lo A,Remaut H

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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 Escherichia coli DNA glycosylase Mug excises 3,N(4)-ethenocytosines (epsilon C) and uracils from DNA, but its biological function is obscure. This is because epsilon C is not found in E. coli DNA, and uracil-DNA glycosylase (Ung), a distinct enzyme, is much more efficient at removing uracils from DNA than Mug. We ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mokkapati SK,Fernández de Henestrosa AR,Bhagwat AS

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BldD generally functions as a repressor controlling morphological development of Streptomyces. In this work, evidences that BldD also activates antibiotic production are provided. In Streptomyces roseosporus (which produces daptomycin widely used for treatment of human infections), deletion of bldD notably reduced dap...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yan H,Lu X,Sun D,Zhuang S,Chen Q,Chen Z,Li J,Wen Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti, the endosymbiont of Medicago sativa, can use haem compounds, including haemoglobin and leghaemoglobin, when growing in the free-living state. The components of the system involved in haem acquisition were confirmed to be ShmR, an outer membrane receptor, and HmuTUV, predicted to be an ABC trans...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cuív PO,Keogh D,Clarke P,O'Connell M

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initiation of translation involves recognition of the start codon by the initiator tRNA in the 30S subunit. To investigate the role of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) in this process, we isolated a number of 16S rRNA mutations that increase translation from the non-canonical start codon AUC. These mutations cluster to distinct r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Qin D,Fredrick K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer of toxin and antibiotic resistance plasmids in Clostridium perfringens is mediated by the tcp conjugation locus. Surprisingly, neither a relaxase gene nor an origin of transfer (oriT) has been identified on these plasmids, which are typified by the 47 kb tetracycline resistance plasmid pCW3. The t...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wisniewski JA,Traore DA,Bannam TL,Lyras D,Whisstock JC,Rood JI

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA encoding the zinc metalloprotease of Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia 1 has been isolated and expressed in Escherichia coli. This protein, which is 38,000 Daltons in size, possesses immunological and biochemical properties identical to those previously described for the purified L. pneumophila protease. Per...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Quinn FD,Tompkins LS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SaPIs are chromosomal islands in staphylococci and other Gram-positive bacteria that carry genes for superantigens, virulence factors, resistance and certain metabolic functions. They have intimate relationships with certain temperate phages involving phage-induced excision, replication and efficient packaging in ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ubeda C,Maiques E,Barry P,Matthews A,Tormo MA,Lasa I,Novick RP,Penadés JR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search was performed for a periplasmic molecular chaperone which may assist outer membrane proteins of Escherichia coli on their way from the cytoplasmic to the outer membrane. Proteins of the periplasmic space were fractionated on an affinity column with sepharose-bound outer membrane porin OmpF. A 17 kDa polypepti...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen R,Henning U

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic exchange by natural transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae occurs in a cell-density dependent process and is initiated by a small extracellular signalling molecule, the competence-stimulating peptide (CSP). comC, the gene for this peptide, has previously been identified and encodes a 44 amino acid pre-pept...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Cheng Q,Campbell EA,Naughton AM,Johnson S,Masure HR

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of plasmids carrying an IRL-kan-IRR transposable cassette, in which IRL and IRR are the left- and right-terminal sequences of IS91, have been constructed. These cassettes could be complemented for transposition with similar efficiency when IS91 transposase was provided either in cis or in trans. A total of 87...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bernales I,Mendiola MV,de la Cruz F

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae strain PAP996 was previously shown to secrete fatty acylated, aggregated (micellar) pullulanase only after the end of exponential growth. Here we show that the closely related strain K21 secretes large amounts of unacylated, non-aggregated (monomeric) pullulanase during exponential growth. Only a...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kornacker MG,Boyd A,Pugsley AP,Plastow GS

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in terrestrial habitats frequently reside as biofilm communities on surfaces that are unsaturated, i.e. biofilms are covered in water films varying in thickness depending on the environmental conditions. Water availability in these habitats is influenced by the osmolarity of the water (solute stress) and by c...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van de Mortel M,Halverson LJ

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA processing reactions often involve multiple components acting in concert to achieve the desired outcome. However, it is usually difficult to know how the components communicate and cooperate to orchestrate an ordered series of events. We address this question in the context of the Tn 10 transposition reaction, in ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Liu D,Sewitz S,Crellin P,Chalmers R

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ler, encoded by the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) of attaching and effacing (A/E) pathogens, induces the expression of LEE genes by counteracting the silencing exerted by H-NS. Ler expression is modulated by several global regulators, and is activated by GrlA, which is also LEE-encoded. Typical enteropathogenic...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bustamante VH,Villalba MI,García-Angulo VA,Vázquez A,Martínez LC,Jiménez R,Puente JL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA damage and stress response pathways interact to regulate cellular responses to genotoxins and environmental stresses. How these pathways interact in Schizosaccharomyces pombe is not well understood. We demonstrate that osmotic stress suppresses the DNA damage sensitivity of checkpoint mutants, and that this oc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Alao JP,Huis In 't Veld PJ,Buhse F,Sunnerhagen P

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Salmonella typhimurium to survive and replicate within murine macrophages is dependent on a low phagosomal pH. This requirement for an acidic vacuole suggests that low pH is an important environmental stimulus for the transcription of genes necessary for intracellular survival. To study the behaviour of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Valdivia RH,Falkow S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis controls the expression of several genes involved in host adaptation by a process known as phase variation. The phase variation frequency of haemoglobin (Hb) receptors among clinical isolates of serogroups A, B and C differed drastically, ranging from approximately 10(-6) to 10(-2) cfu-1. Freque...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Richardson AR,Stojiljkovic I

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HPr kinase of Gram-positive bacteria is an ATP-dependent serine protein kinase, which phosphorylates the HPr protein of the bacterial phosphotransferase system (PTS) and is involved in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. The hprK gene from Enterococcus faecalis was cloned via polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Kravanja M,Engelmann R,Dossonnet V,Blüggel M,Meyer HE,Frank R,Galinier A,Deutscher J,Schnell N,Hengstenberg W

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Ustilago maydis, the causal agent of corn smut disease, displays dimorphic growth in which it alternates between a budding haploid saprophyte and a filamentous dikaryotic pathogen. We are interested in identifying the genetic determinants of filamentous growth and pathogenicity in U. maydis. To do this, we have taken ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mayorga ME,Gold SE

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase and peroxiredoxins form an antioxidant network protecting cells against reactive oxygen species (ROS). Catalase is a potent H2O2-detoxifying enzyme, which is unexpectedly absent in some members of the Kinetoplastida and Apicomplexa, but present in Toxoplasma gondi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ding M,Kwok LY,Schlüter D,Clayton C,Soldati D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumococcus has been shown to bind to epithelial cells of the nasopharynx and lung, and to endothelial cells of the peripheral vasculature. To characterize bacterial elements required for attachment to these cell types, a library of genetically altered pneumococci with defects in exported proteins was screened for th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Spellerberg B,Cundell DR,Sandros J,Pearce BJ,Idanpaan-Heikkila I,Rosenow C,Masure HR

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive intracellular bacterium responsible for severe opportunistic infections in humans and animals. Signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) was used to identify a gene named fbpA, required for efficient liver colonization of mice inoculated intravenously. FbpA was also shown to be requi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dramsi S,Bourdichon F,Cabanes D,Lecuit M,Fsihi H,Cossart P

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00