The mollicutes
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List of references

Apr 09, 2008 by Stülke J., Eilers H., and Schmidl S.

Metabolism and biochemistry / The phosphotransferase system

Reviews:

  • Halbedel, S., Hames, C., and Stülke, J. 2007. Regulation of carbon metabolism in the mollicutes and its relation to virulence. J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 12: 147-154.
  • Miles, R. J. 1992. Catabolism in mollicutes. J. Gen. Microbiol. 138: 1773-1783.
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    Original work:

  • Cocks, B. G., Brake, F. A., Mitchell, A., and Finch, L. R. 1985. Enzymes of intermediary carbohydrate metabolism in Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides. J. Gen. Microbiol. 131: 2129-2135.
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  • Allen, G. S., Steinhauer, K., Hillen, W., et al. 2003. Crystal structure of HPr kinase/ phosphatase from Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J. Mol. Biol. 326: 1203-1217.
  • Halbedel, S., Busse, J., Schmidl, S. R., and Stülke, J. 2006. Regulatory protein phosphorylation in Mycoplasma pneumoniae: A PP2C-type phosphatase serves to dephosphorylate HPr(Ser-P). J. Biol. Chem. 28: 26253-26259.
  • Halbedel, S., and Stülke, J. 2005. Dual phosphorylation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae HPr by Enzyme I and HPr kinase suggests an extended phosphoryl group susceptibility of HPr. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 247: 193-198.
  • Halbedel, S., Hames, C., and Stülke, J. 2004. In vivo activity of enzymatic and regulatory components of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. J. Bacteriol. 186: 7936-7943.
  • Hoischen, C., Dijkstra, A., Rottem, S., Reizer, J., and Saier, Jr. M. H. 1993. Presence of protein constituents of the gram-positive bacterial phosphotransferase regulatory system in Acholeplasma laidlawii. J. Bacteriol. 175: 6599-6604.
  • Merzbacher, M., Detsch, C., Hillen, W., and Stülke, J. 2004. Mycoplasma pneumoniae HPr kinase/ phosphorylase. Assigning functional roles to the P-loop and the HPr kinase/ phosphorylase signature sequence motif. Eur. J. Biochem. 271: 367-374.
  • Steinhauer, K., Allen, G. S., Hillen, W., Stülke, J., and Brennan, R. G. 2002. Crystallization, preliminary X-ray analysis and biophysical characterization of HPr kinase/phosphatase of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Acta Cryst. Sect. D 58: 515-518.
  • Steinhauer, K., Jepp, T., Hillen, W., and Stülke, J. 2002. A novel mode of control of Mycoplasma pneumoniae HPr kinase/phosphatase activity reflects its parasitic life style. Microbiology 148: 3277-3284.
  • Zhu, P.-P., Herzberg, O., and Peterkofsky, A. 1998. Topography of the interaction of HPr(Ser) kinase with HPr. Biochemistry 37: 11762-11770.
  • Zhu, P.-P., Nosworthy, N., Ginsburg, A., et al. 1997. Expression, purification, and characterization of Enzyme IIAglc of the phosphoenolpyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system of Mycoplasma capricolum. Biochemistry 36: 6947-6953.
  • Zigangirova, N. A., Gershanovich, V. N., Rakovskaya, I. V., et al. 2003. Correlation between activity of the phosphoenol-pyruvate-dependable phosphotransferase system (PTS) and synthesis of adhesion P1 protein in Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mol. Gen. Mikrobiol. Virusol. 2: 10-13.
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