Identification of a virulence gene cluster of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 257-267

  Camacho, Luis Reinaldo ^b   Ensergueix, Danielle ^b   Perez, Esther ^a,b   Gicquel, Brigitte ^b   Guilhot, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOLPHTHIOCEROL; PHTHIOCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0000812428     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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