Functional analysis of the Helicobacter pylori principal sigma subunit of RNA polymerase reveals that the spacer region is important for efficient transcription.

abstract：:The AMA1 sequence is an efficient plasmid replicator and transformation enhancer in Aspergillus nidulans. It comprises two long perfect inverted repeats (MATE elements) flanking a short, unique, central spacer. Subclone analysis indicates that the complete inverted duplication, but not the unique central spacer, is ne...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aleksenko A,Gems D,Clutterbuck J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:bfp, the structural gene of the major repeating bundle-forming pilus (BFP) subunit, was cloned from the enteroadherent factor (EAF) plasmid of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain B171 (O111:NM). The bfp open reading frame encoded a 193-amino-acid protein; comparison of this sequence with the biochemically ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sohel I,Puente JL,Murray WJ,Vuopio-Varkila J,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic approaches can address the question of how integral membrane Sec factors interact with each other and facilitate protein translocation across the cytoplasmic membrane of E. coli. This review summarizes genetic analyses of SecY, SecE and some other protein translocation factors, utilizing 'prl' mutations, 'sec'...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ito K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the ansB gene, encoding L-asparaginase II, is positively regulated by cAMP receptor protein (CRP) and by the product of the fnr gene, the FNR protein. These global regulatory proteins mediate the expression of ansB in Escherichia coli in response to carbon source and to anaerobiosis, respectively, and...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Jennings MP,Beacham IR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prediction studies, conformational analyses and membrane-topology mapping lead to the conclusion that the penicillin sensory transducer, BlaR, involved in the inducibility of beta-lactamase synthesis in Bacillus licheniformis, is embedded in the plasma membrane bilayer via four transmembrane segments TM1-TM4 that form...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hardt K,Joris B,Lepage S,Brasseur R,Lampen JO,Frère JM,Fink AL,Ghuysen JM

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn 1546 confers resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics in enterococci and encodes two D,D-peptidases (VanX and VanY) in addition to the enzymes for the synthesis of D-alanyl-D-lactate (D-Ala-D-Lac). VanY was produced in the baculovirus expression system and purified as a proteolytic fragment that lacked the...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Arthur M,Depardieu F,Cabanié L,Reynolds P,Courvalin P

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative oxidase (AOX) is a respiratory oxidase found in certain eukaryotes and bacteria; however, its role in bacterial physiology is unclear. Exploiting the genetic tractability of the bacterium Vibrio fischeri, we explore the regulation of aox expression and AOX function. Using quantitative PCR and reporter assa...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dunn AK,Karr EA,Wang Y,Batton AR,Ruby EG,Stabb EV

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the topology of the PhoE porin has been proposed according to which the polypeptide traverses the outer membrane sixteen times mostly as amphipathic beta-sheets, thereby exposing eight loops at the cell surface. Until now, no evidence has been obtained for the surface exposure of the third loop. Recently, ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Struyvé M,Visser J,Adriaanse H,Benz R,Tommassen J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is the causal agent of black rot in crucifers. Our previous findings revealed that Xcc can degrade 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (4-HBA) via the β-ketoadipate pathway. This present study expands on this knowledge in several ways. First, we show that infective Xcc cells induce in sit...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen B,Li RF,Zhou L,Qiu JH,Song K,Tang JL,He YW

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo and in vitro analyses indicate that transcription of the argO gene coding for an arginine exporter is regulated by the global transcriptional regulator Lrp, an effect that went by unnoticed in previous genome-scale screenings of the Lrp regulatory network in Escherichia coli. Lrp activates the argO promoter fo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Peeters E,Nguyen Le Minh P,Foulquié-Moreno M,Charlier D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is a common cause of urinary tract infection (UTI) in individuals with structural abnormalities or long-term catheterization. The expression of mannose-resistant/Proteus-like (MR/P) fimbria is phase variable because of the inversion of a 251 bp DNA fragment that carries the promoter for the mrp opero...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Li X,Lockatell CV,Johnson DE,Mobley HL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the corn smut fungus Ustilago maydis, pathogenic development is controlled by the b mating type locus that encodes the two homeodomain proteins bE and bW. A heterodimer of bE and bW controls a large set of genes, either directly by binding to cis regulatory sequences or indirectly via a b-dependent regulatory casca...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Reichmann M,Jamnischek A,Weinzierl G,Ladendorf O,Huber S,Kahmann R,Kämper J

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if the food-grade bacterium Lactococcus lactis holds promise as a vaccine antigen delivery vector we have investigated whether this bacterium can be made to produce high levels of a heterologous protein antigen. A regulated expression system has been developed which may be generally suitable for the expre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wells JM,Wilson PW,Norton PM,Gasson MJ,Le Page RW

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：:Transcription in vitro of two osmoregulated promoters, for the Escherichia coli osmB and osmY genes, was analysed using two species of RNA polymerase holoenzyme reconstituted from purified core enzyme and either sigma D (sigma 70, the major sigma in exponentially growing cells) or sigma S (sigma 38, the principal sigm...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ding Q,Kusano S,Villarejo M,Ishihama A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a normal cell cycle, chromosomes are exposed to many biochemical reactions that require specific types of DNA movement. Separation forces move replicated chromosomes into separate sister cell compartments during cell division, and the contemporaneous acts of DNA replication, RNA transcription and cotranscriptio...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Deng S,Stein RA,Higgins NP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression in fungi by ambient pH is regulated via a conserved signalling cascade whose terminal component is the zinc finger transcription factor PacC/Rim1p. We have identified a pacC orthologue in the vascular wilt pathogen Fusarium oxysporum that binds the consensus 5'-GCCAAG-3' sequence and is proteolytically...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Caracuel Z,Roncero MI,Espeso EA,González-Verdejo CI,García-Maceira FI,Di Pietro A

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nitrogen-poor soils, rhizobia elicit nodule formation on legume roots, within which they differentiate into bacteroids that fix atmospheric nitrogen. Protection against reactive oxygen species (ROS) was anticipated to play an important role in Rhizobium-legume symbiosis because nitrogenase is extremely oxygen sensi...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Santos R,Hérouart D,Puppo A,Touati D

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phycobilisomes are the major constituents of the light-harvesting apparatus in both cyanobacteria and red algae and consist of a central core with radiating rods. From a genomic library of the cyanobacterium Calothrix 7601, a DNA fragment encoding allophycocyanin B, one of the two terminal energy acceptors of the core...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Houmard J,Capuano V,Coursin T,Tandean de Marsac N

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IV secretion systems are increasingly recognized as important virulence determinants of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens. While the examination of several type IV-secreted proteins suggested that their secretion depends on C-terminal signals, the nature of these signals and their conservation among different sys...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hohlfeld S,Pattis I,Püls J,Plano GV,Haas R,Fischer W

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytoadhesion of infected red blood cells (iRBC) is mediated through parasite-encoded, clonally variant surface antigens (VSA) and is a central process in the pathogenesis of Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM) has been linked to VSA-mediated adhesion of iRBC to the glycosaminoglycan chond...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Salanti A,Staalsoe T,Lavstsen T,Jensen AT,Sowa MP,Arnot DE,Hviid L,Theander TG

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage PRD1 is a tailless membrane-containing double-stranded (ds) DNA virus infecting a variety of Gram-negative bacteria. In order to affect cell lysis, like most dsDNA phages, PRD1 uses the holin-endolysin system. In this study, we identified two accessory lysis genes, XXXVI and XXXVII, coding for proteins P...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krupovic M,Cvirkaite-Krupovic V,Bamford DH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of eukaryotic proteins are already known to orchestrate key steps of mRNA metabolism and translation via interactions with the 5' m7GpppN cap. We have characterized a new type of histidine triad (HIT) motif protein (Nhm1) that co-purifies with the cap-binding complex eIF4F of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Nhm1 i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Salehi Z,Geffers L,Vilela C,Birkenhäger R,Ptushkina M,Berthelot K,Ferro M,Gaskell S,Hagan I,Stapley B,McCarthy JE

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Multidrug resistant (MDR) strains of Acinetobacter baumannii present a serious clinical challenge. The development of antibiotic resistance in this species is enabled by efflux pumps of the Resistance-Nodulation-Division (RND) superfamily of proteins creating an efficient permeability barrier for antibiotics. At least...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Leus IV,Adamiak J,Trinh AN,Smith RD,Smith L,Richardson S,Ernst RK,Zgurskaya HI

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：:Phytopathogenic bacteria possess a large number of genes that allow them to grow and cause disease on plants. Many of these genes should be induced when the bacteria come in contact with plant tissue. We used a modified in vivo expression technology (IVET) approach to identify genes from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Boch J,Joardar V,Gao L,Robertson TL,Lim M,Kunkel BN

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid homeostasis of the bacterial membrane is maintained by biochemical regulation of the synthesis enzymes depending on the environment. However, genes encoding phospholipid synthesis enzymes might also be regulated during stress responses, in order for the bacteria to adapt their growth to changing environme...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wahl A,My L,Dumoulin R,Sturgis JN,Bouveret E

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus is a Gram-negative, soil-dwelling bacterium with a complex life cycle which includes fruiting body formation and sporulation in response to starvation. This developmental process is slow, requiring a minimum of 24-48 h, and requires cells to be at high cell density on a solid surface. It is known th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Connor KA,Zusman DR

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of stalled ribosomes at the 3' end of mRNA without a stop codon (non-stop mRNA) is supposed to be toxic to bacterial cells. Escherichia coli has at least two distinct systems to rescue such stalled ribosomes: SsrA-dependent trans-translation and ArfA-dependent ribosome rescue. Combination of the ssrA and ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chadani Y,Ono K,Kutsukake K,Abo T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00