A nonameric core sequence is required upstream of the LYS genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Lys14p-mediated activation and apparent repression by lysine.

abstract：:Genetic recombination impacts on neisserial biology in two ways: (i) specific loci undergo rearrangement at high frequency leading to the formation of many different alleles; and (ii) Neisseria, being naturally competent for DNA transformation, provide a means to disseminate the novel alleles throughout a population. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hill SA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kilB locus (which is unclonable in the absence of korB) of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 (60 kb) lies between the trfA operon (co-ordinates 16.4 to 18.2 kb), which encodes a protein essential for vegetative replication, and the Tra2 block of conjugative transfer genes (co-ordinates 20.0 to 27.0 kb). Promoter probe ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Motallebi-Veshareh M,Balzer D,Lanka E,Jagura-Burdzy G,Thomas CM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli harbours a pathogenicity island encoding a type 3 secretion system used to translocate effector proteins into the cytosol of intestinal epithelial cells and subvert their function. The structural proteins of the translocon are encoded in a major espADB mRNA processed from a precurso...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Lodato PB,Hsieh PK,Belasco JG,Kaper JB

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Myxococcus xanthus gene, pkn9, encodes a protein that contains significant homology with eukaryotic Ser/Thr protein kinases. The pkn9 gene was singled out of a previously identified family of kinase genes by amplification techniques that displayed differences in kinase gene expression during selected periods of th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hanlon WA,Inouye M,Inouye S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restart of arrested replication forks is an important process and PriA, the main Escherichia coli replication restart protein, is essential for viability under any condition that increases the frequency of fork arrest. In priA mutant, replication forks are arrested by spontaneously occurring roadblocks and blocked rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grompone G,Sanchez N,Dusko Ehrlich S,Michel B

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quorum-sensing control of luminescence in Vibrio harveyi, which involves an indirect autoinducer-mediated phosphorelay signal transduction system, contrasts with the prototypical quorum-sensing system of Vibrio fischeri, in which the autoinducer and the transcriptional activator LuxR directly activate lux operon expre...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Miyamoto CM,Dunlap PV,Ruby EG,Meighen EA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (TTSS) is a modular apparatus assembled by many pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria and is designed to translocate proteins through the bacterial cell wall into the eukaryotic host cell. The conserved components of the TTSS comprise stacks of rings spanning the inner and outer bacterial mem...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Daniell SJ,Kocsis E,Morris E,Knutton S,Booy FP,Frankel G

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reputed iron-responsive region, which contains multiple nuclear protein-binding DNA sequences, was shown previously to regulate iron-inducible transcription of the ap65-1 gene in the protozoan pathogen, Trichomonas vaginalis. These DNA sequences include two overlapping MYB recognition elements (MRE-1/MRE-2r) and thr...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Ong SJ,Huang SC,Liu HW,Tai JH

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous evidence showed that b- and a-type flagellins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are modified in vivo by phosphorylation at tyrosine. This research was designed to demonstrate phosphorylation of flagellin at tyrosine in vitro. Evidence presented showed that flagellin is labelled by [gamma-32P]-ATP, but not by [alpha-3...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： South SL,Nichols R,Montie TC

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system where archaeal gene expression could be controlled by simple manipulation of growth conditions would enable the construction of conditional lethal mutants in essential genes, and permit the controlled overproduction of proteins in their native host. As tools for the genetic manipulation of Haloferax volcanii ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Large A,Stamme C,Lange C,Duan Z,Allers T,Soppa J,Lund PA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein quality control and proteolysis are involved in cell maintenance and environmental acclimatization in bacteria and eukaryotes. The AAA protease FtsH2 of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 was identified during a screening for mutants impaired in osmoregulation. The ftsH2(-) mutant was salt sensitive...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Stirnberg M,Fulda S,Huckauf J,Hagemann M,Krämer R,Marin K

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only one species of Shigella, Shigella dysenteriae 1, has been demonstrated to produce Shiga toxin (Stx). Stx is closely related to the toxins produced by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). In STEC, these toxins are often encoded on lambdoid bacteriophages and are major virulence factors for these organism...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McDonough MA,Butterton JR

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:The glycopeptide antibiotic-producing bacterium, Streptomyces toyocaensis NRRL 15009, has proteins phosphorylated on Ser, Thr, Tyr and His, implying the presence of a battery of associated kinases. We have identified the Ser/Thr protein kinase gene fragments stoPK-1, stoPK-2, stoPK-3 and stoPK-4 from S. toyocaensis NR...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Neu JM,MacMillan SV,Nodwell JR,Wright GD

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable maintenance of low-copy-number plasmids requires active partitioning, with the most common mechanism in prokaryotes involving the ATPase ParA. ParA proteins undergo intricate spatiotemporal relocations across the nucleoid, dynamics that function to position plasmids at equally spaced intervals. This spacing...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Howard M,Gerdes K

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 expresses four different FtsH protease subunits (FtsH1-4) that assemble into specific homo- and heterocomplexes. The FtsH2/FtsH3 complex is involved in photoprotection but the physiological roles of the other complexes, notably the essential FtsH1/FtsH3 complex, remain unc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Krynická V,Tichý M,Krafl J,Yu J,Kaňa R,Boehm M,Nixon PJ,Komenda J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial RNA-binding protein Hfq functions in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. There is evidence in a range of bacteria for specific subcellular localization of Hfq; however, the mechanism and role of Hfq localization remain unclear. Cyanobacteria harbour a subfamily of Hfq that is structurally...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Schuergers N,Ruppert U,Watanabe S,Nürnberg DJ,Lochnit G,Dienst D,Mullineaux CW,Wilde A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In matings between Lactococcus lactis strains, the conjugative transposons Tn916 and Tn919 are found in the chromosome of the transconjugants in the same place as in the chromosome of the donor, indicating that no transposition has occurred. In agreement with this, the frequency of L. lactis transconjugants from intra...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bringel F,Van Alstine GL,Scott JR

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes two paralogous P1 B 4 -ATPases, CtpD (Rv1469) and CtpJ (Rv3743). Both proteins showed ATPase activation by Co(2+) and Ni(2+) , and both appear to be required for metal efflux from the cell. However, using a combination of biochemical and genetic studies we found that th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Raimunda D,Long JE,Padilla-Benavides T,Sassetti CM,Argüello JM

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:The Escherichia coli toxin exporter HlyB comprises an integral membrane domain fused to a cytoplasmic domain of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) super-family, and it directs translocation of the 110kDa haemolysin protein out of the bacterial cell without using an N-terminal secretion signal peptide. We have exploited th...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Koronakis E,Hughes C,Milisav I,Koronakis V

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodularia spumigena is a filamentous nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium that forms toxic blooms in brackish water bodies worldwide. Spumigins are serine protease inhibitors reported from a single strain of N. spumigena isolated from the Baltic Sea. These linear tetrapeptides contain non-proteinogenic amino acids including...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Fewer DP,Jokela J,Rouhiainen L,Wahlsten M,Koskenniemi K,Stal LJ,Sivonen K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to being the major citric acid cycle aconitase in Escherichia coli the aconitase B protein (AcnB) is also a post-transcriptional regulator of gene expression. The AcnB proteins represent a distinct branch of the aconitase superfamily that possess a HEAT-like domain (domain 5). The HEAT domains of other pro...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Tang Y,Guest JR,Artymiuk PJ,Green J

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured repair of both of the major lesions induced by ultraviolet irradiation (cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers and 6-4 photoproducts) in wild-type Schizosaccharomyces pombe and in selected rad mutants, including mutants with deletions in genes from the main phenotypic groups. We find that rad13 delta, rad15 an...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： McCready S,Carr AM,Lehmann AR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have followed the time-dependent transfection of Paramecium cells with a vector containing the gene of green fluorescent protein (GFP) attached to the C-terminus of the PtSERCA1 gene. The outlines of alveolar sacs (ASs) are labelled, as is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) throughout the cell. When GFP fluorescence is...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hauser K,Pavlovic N,Klauke N,Geissinger D,Plattner H

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Fusarium species produce the polyketide mycotoxin zearalenone (ZEA), a causative agent of hyperestrogenic syndrome in animals that is often found in F. graminearum-infected cereals in temperate regions. The ZEA biosynthetic cluster genes PKS4, PKS13, ZEB1 and ZEB2 encode a reducing polyketide synthase, a non-r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Park AR,Son H,Min K,Park J,Goo JH,Rhee S,Chae SK,Lee YW

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic cells have evolved a complex set of intracellular organelles, each of which possesses a specific complement of enzymes and performs unique metabolic functions. This compartmentalization of cellular functions provides a level of metabolic control not available to prokaryotes. However, it presents the eukaryo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Aitchison JD,Nuttley WM,Szilard RK,Brade AM,Glover JR,Rachubinski RA

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial ribosome requires elongation factor P to translate fragments harbouring consecutive proline codons. Given the abundance of ORFs with potential EF-P regulated sites, EF-P was assumed to be constitutively expressed. Here, we report that the intracellular pathogen Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium decreas...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Nam D,Choi E,Shin D,Lee EJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GS-1 (ncu04189) is a protein required for the synthesis of beta-1,3-glucan in Neurospora crassa. As chitin, beta-1,3-glucan is a morphogenetically relevant component of the fungal cell wall. Previously, we showed that chitin synthases are delivered to the growing hyphal tip of N. crassa by secretory microvesicles that...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Verdín J,Bartnicki-Garcia S,Riquelme M

更新日期：2009-12-01 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