A Mycobacterium smegmatis mutant with a defective inositol monophosphate phosphatase gene homolog has altered cell envelope permeability

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 7827-7833

  Parish, Tanya ^c   Liu, Jun ^a   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^a   Stoker, Neil G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOSITOL PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE MUTATION; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030865450     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.24.7827-7833.1997     Document Type: Article

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