Coryneform bacteria are aerobically growing, asporogenous, non-partially-acid-fast, gram-
positive rods of irregular morphology. Within the last few years, there has been a massive …

Bacteria live in environments that are subject to rapid changes in the availability of the
nutrients that are necessary to provide energy and biosynthetic intermediates for the …

During the past decade significant progress has been made towards identifying some of the
schemes that Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses to obtain iron and towards cataloguing and …

Iron is an essential element for almost all organisms, although an overload of this element
results in toxicity because of the formation of hydroxyl radicals. Consequently, most living …

The Bacillus subtilis yqhN gene encodes a metalloregulatory protein distantly related to the
Corynebacterium diphtheriae diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR). While DtxR mediates the …

Diphtheria toxin (DT) is an extracellular protein of Corynebacterium diphtheriae that inhibits
protein synthesis and kills susceptible cells. The gene that encodes DT (tox) is present in …

Publisher Summary The discovery of ets proteins as transcription factors provided a
framework for understanding the oncogenic potential of ets genes. Ets proteins became a …

Likely DNA-binding domains in archaeal proteins were analyzed using sequence profile
methods and available structural information. It is shown that all archaea encode a large …

Transition metals function as structural and catalytic cofactors for a large diversity of proteins
and enzymes that collectively comprise the metalloproteome. Metallostasis considers all …

The coleopteran-active δ-endotoxin Cry3Bb1 from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) strain EG7231
is uniquely toxic to Diabrotica undecimpunctata, the Southern corn rootworm, while retaining …