abstract：:The septum-located DNA translocase, FtsK, acts to co-ordinate the late steps of Escherichia coli chromosome segregation with cell division. The FtsK gamma regulatory subdomain interacts with 8 bp KOPS DNA sequences, which are oriented from the replication origin to the terminus region (ter) in each arm of the chromoso...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Sivanathan V,Emerson JE,Pages C,Cornet F,Sherratt DJ,Arciszewska LK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ustilago maydis is able to initiate pathogenic development after fusion of two haploid cells with different mating type. On the maize leaf surface, the resulting dikaryon switches to filamentous growth, differentiates appressoria and penetrates the host. Here, we report on the plant signals required for filament forma...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mendoza-Mendoza A,Berndt P,Djamei A,Weise C,Linne U,Marahiel M,Vranes M,Kämper J,Kahmann R

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphonuclear neutrophils are the most important mammalian host defence cells against infections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Screening of a signature tagged mutagenesis library of the non-piliated P. aeruginosa strain TBCF10839 uncovered that transposon inactivation of its pilY1 gene rendered the bacterium more r...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bohn YS,Brandes G,Rakhimova E,Horatzek S,Salunkhe P,Munder A,van Barneveld A,Jordan D,Bredenbruch F,Häussler S,Riedel K,Eberl L,Jensen PØ,Bjarnsholt T,Moser C,Hoiby N,Tümmler B,Wiehlmann L

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress serves as an important host/environmental signal that triggers a wide range of responses from the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. Among these, a thiol-based oxidation sensing pathway through a global regulator MgrA controls the virulence and antibiotic resistance of the bacterium. Herein, we rep...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chen PR,Nishida S,Poor CB,Cheng A,Bae T,Kuechenmeister L,Dunman PM,Missiakas D,He C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soupene et al. [J. Bacteriol. (2003) 185 5611-5626] made the unexpected observation that the presence of a mutation, in the gene for the N-acetylglucosamine repressor, nagC, increased the growth rate of Escherichia coli MG1655 on galactose, an unrelated sugar. We have found that NagC, binds to a single, high-affinity ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： El Qaidi S,Allemand F,Oberto J,Plumbridge J

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Campylobacter jejuni, a prevalent cause of bacterial gastroenteritis, must adapt to different environments to be a successful pathogen. We previously identified a C. jejuni two-component regulatory system (Cj1226/7c) as upregulated during cell infections. Analyses described herein led us to designate the system CprRS ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Svensson SL,Davis LM,MacKichan JK,Allan BJ,Pajaniappan M,Thompson SA,Gaynor EC

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival and replication inside host cells by Brucella spp. requires a type IV secretion system (T4SS), encoded by the virB locus. However, the identity of the molecules secreted by the T4SS has remained elusive. We hypothesized that proteins translocated by the T4SS would be co-regulated with the virB operon. The Lux...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： de Jong MF,Sun YH,den Hartigh AB,van Dijl JM,Tsolis RM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Leishmania major aquaglyceroporin, LmAQP1, is responsible for the transport of antimonite [Sb(III)], an activated form of Pentostam or Glucantime. Downregulation of LmAQP1 provides resistance to trivalent antimony compounds and increased expression of LmAQP1 in drug-resistant parasites can reverse the resistance. ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Uzcategui NL,Zhou Y,Figarella K,Ye J,Mukhopadhyay R,Bhattacharjee H

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase G of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been implicated in virulence and in regulation of glutamate metabolism. Here we show that this kinase undergoes a pattern of autophosphorylation that is distinct from that of other M. tuberculosis protein kinases characterized to date and we identify GarA as a substra...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： O'Hare HM,Durán R,Cerveñansky C,Bellinzoni M,Wehenkel AM,Pritsch O,Obal G,Baumgartner J,Vialaret J,Johnsson K,Alzari PM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica subspecies I serotypes are responsible for the vast majority of salmonellosis in mammals and birds, yet only a few factors specific to this group that allow them to persist in this niche have been identified. We show that STM0557, a S. enterica subspecies I-specific gene encoding an inner membrane ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Bogomolnaya LM,Santiviago CA,Yang HJ,Baumler AJ,Andrews-Polymenis HL

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:Protein ubiquitylation plays a major role in the regulation of cellular processes mainly through proteasome-dependent degradation, although it has become increasingly clear that it is also involved in other processes. In the fungus Mucor circinelloides, blue light regulates carotene biosynthesis, with this response co...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Silva F,Navarro E,Peñaranda A,Murcia-Flores L,Torres-Martínez S,Garre V

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cytoplasmic bridges between adjacent cells in the filaments of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria have been known for decades, the existence also of a continuous periplasm along the filaments raised the possibility that alternative modes of communication between cells could be utilized. The latter hypothesis was i...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Haselkorn R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial protein secretion is catalysed by the SecYEG protein-conducting channel complexed with the SecA ATPase motor. To gain insight into the SecA-SecYEG interaction we used peptide arrays, thermodynamic quantification, mutagenesis and functional assays. Our data reveal that: (i) SecA binds with low affinity on sev...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Karamanou S,Bariami V,Papanikou E,Kalodimos CG,Economou A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exosporium is the outermost layer of the Bacillus anthracis spore. The predominant protein on the exosporium surface is BclA, a collagen-like glycoprotein. BclA is incorporated on the spore surface late in the B. anthracis sporulation pathway. A second collagen-like protein, BclB, has been shown to be surface-expo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thompson BM,Stewart GC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleases J1 and J2 of Bacillus subtilis are evolutionarily conserved enzymes combining an endoribonucleolytic and a 5'-3' exoribonucleolytic activity in a single polypeptide. Their endoribonucleolytic cleavage specificity resembles that of RNase E, a key player in the processing and degradation of RNA in Escheric...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Mäder U,Zig L,Kretschmer J,Homuth G,Putzer H

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex is essential in mycobacterial species, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is the target of several antitubercular drugs. For instance, ethambutol targets arabinogalactan biosynthesis through inhibition of the arabinofuranosyltransferases Mt-EmbA and Mt-Em...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Birch HL,Alderwick LJ,Bhatt A,Rittmann D,Krumbach K,Singh A,Bai Y,Lowary TL,Eggeling L,Besra GS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many fundamental cellular processes depend on enzymes that utilize chemical energy to catalyse unfavourable reactions. Certain classes of ATPases provide a particularly vivid example of the process of energy conversion, employing cycles of nucleotide turnover to move and/or rearrange biological polymers such as protei...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Thomsen ND,Berger JM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The conserved bacterial protein RloC, a distant homologue of the tRNA(Lys) anticodon nuclease (ACNase) PrrC, is shown here to act as a wobble nucleotide-excising and Zn(++)-responsive tRNase. The more familiar PrrC is silenced by a genetically linked type I DNA restriction-modification (R-M) enzyme, activated b...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Davidov E,Kaufmann G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to reveal functional properties of recombination involving short ssDNAs in hyperthermophilic archaea, we evaluated oligonucleotide-mediated transformation (OMT) in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Escherichia coli as a function of the molecular properties of the ssDNA substrates. Unmodified ssDNAs as short as 20...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Grogan DW,Stengel KR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans generally initiates infection in mammalian lung tissue and subsequently disseminates to the brain. We performed serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) on C. neoformans cells recovered from the lungs of mice and found elevated expression of genes for central carbo...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hu G,Cheng PY,Sham A,Perfect JR,Kronstad JW

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of the MDR1 gene, encoding a multi-drug efflux pump of the major facilitator superfamily, is a major cause of resistance to the widely used antifungal agent fluconazole and other toxic substances in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans. We found that all tested clinical and in vitro generated C. albican...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Dunkel N,Blass J,Rogers PD,Morschhäuser J

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Gyrase-mediated hypernegative supercoiling is one manifestation of R-loop formation, a phenomenon that is normally suppressed by topoisomerase I (topA) in Escherichia coli. Overproduction of RNase HI (rnhA), an enzyme that removes the RNA moiety of R-loops, prevents hypernegative supercoiling and allows growth of topA...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Usongo V,Nolent F,Sanscartier P,Tanguay C,Broccoli S,Baaklini I,Drlica K,Drolet M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori colonization of the human stomach is characterized by profound disease-causing inflammation. Bacterial proteins that detoxify reactive oxygen species or recognize damaged DNA adducts promote infection, suggesting that H. pylori requires DNA damage repair for successful in vivo colonization. The mol...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Amundsen SK,Fero J,Hansen LM,Cromie GA,Solnick JV,Smith GR,Salama NR

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Holins control the length of the infection cycle of tailed phages (the Caudovirales) by oligomerizing to form lethal holes in the cytoplasmic membrane at a time dictated by their primary structure. Nothing is currently known about the physical basis of their oligomerization or the structure of the oligomers formed by ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Savva CG,Dewey JS,Deaton J,White RL,Struck DK,Holzenburg A,Young R

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the genome-wide environmental stress response (ESR) expression profile of Candida glabrata, a human pathogen related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Despite different habitats, C. glabrata, S. cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Candida albicans have a qualitatively similar ESR. We investigate the fun...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Roetzer A,Gregori C,Jennings AM,Quintin J,Ferrandon D,Butler G,Kuchler K,Ammerer G,Schüller C

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One often compares cells to computers, and signalling proteins to transistors. Location and wiring of those molecular transistors is paramount in defining the function of the subcellular chips. The bacterial chemotactic sensing apparatus is a large, stable assembly consisting of thousands of receptors, signal transduc...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Shimizu TS,Le Novère N

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor Rex has been implicated in regulation of the expression of genes important for fermentative growth and for growth under conditions of low oxygen tension in several Gram-positive bacteria. Rex senses the redox poise of the cell through changes in the NADH/NAD(+) ratio. The crystal structures of...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Wang E,Bauer MC,Rogstam A,Linse S,Logan DT,von Wachenfeldt C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei has selected for the evolution of a massive archive of silent Variant Surface Glycoprotein (VSG) genes, which are activated by recombination into specialized expression sites. Such VSG switching can occur at rates substantially higher than background mutation and is dependent ...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Hartley CL,McCulloch R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence suggests that apicomplexan parasites possess bipartite promoters with basal and regulated cis-elements similar to other eukaryotes. Using a dual luciferase model adapted for recombinational cloning and use in Toxoplasma gondii, we show that genomic regions flanking 16 parasite genes, which encomp...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Behnke MS,Radke JB,Smith AT,Sullivan WJ Jr,White MW

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Bacterial two-component systems (TCS) are key signal transduction networks regulating global responses to environmental change. Environmental signals may modulate the phosphorylation state of sensor kinases (SK). The phosphorylated SK transfers the phosphate to its cognate response regulator (RR), which causes physiol...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Igoshin OA,Alves R,Savageau MA

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-translational modifications account for much of the biological diversity generated at the proteome level. Of these, glycosylation is the most prevalent. Long thought to be unique to Eukarya, it is now clear that both Bacteria and Archaea are also capable of N-glycosylation, namely the covalent linkage of oligosac...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Yurist-Doutsch S,Chaban B,VanDyke DJ,Jarrell KF,Eichler J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria retain certain proteins at their cell envelopes by attaching them in a non-covalent manner to peptidoglycan, using specific protein domains, such as the prominent LysM (Lysin Motif) domain. More than 4000 (Pfam PF01476) proteins of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes have been found to contain one or more Lysin M...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Buist G,Steen A,Kok J,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis OhrR protein functions as a transcriptional repressor of the inducible peroxidase, OhrA. Derepression is mediated by the organic-peroxide selective oxidation of an active site cysteine (C15). In the presence of cumene hydroperoxide (CHP), oxidation of OhrR leads to a sulphenic acid intermediate w...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Soonsanga S,Lee JW,Helmann JD

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-transcriptional repression of porin synthesis has emerged as a major function of Hfq-dependent, small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs). Many enterobacteria express OmpX-like porins, a family of outer membrane proteins whose physiological roles and structural properties have been studied intensively. While regulatory sRNAs...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Papenfort K,Pfeiffer V,Lucchini S,Sonawane A,Hinton JC,Vogel J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (S. typhimurium) genome contains a large repertoire of putative fimbrial operons that remain poorly characterized because they are not expressed in vitro. In this study, insertions that induced expression of the putative stdABCD fimbrial operon were identified from a random...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： Chessa D,Winter MG,Nuccio SP,Tükel C,Bäumler AJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial cytokinesis requires the divisome, a complex of proteins that co-ordinates the invagination of the cytoplasmic membrane, inward growth of the peptidoglycan layer and the outer membrane. Assembly of the cell division proteins is tightly regulated and the order of appearance at the future division site is well...

journal_title：Molecular microbiology

authors： van den Ent F,Vinkenvleugel TM,Ind A,West P,Veprintsev D,Nanninga N,den Blaauwen T,Löwe J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00