The effect of oxygenated mycolic acid composition on cell wall function and macrophage growth in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1449-1458

  Yuan, Ying ^a   Zhu, YaQi ^a   Crane, Deborah D ^a   Barry III, Clifton E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA MYCOLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; GLYCINE; ISONIAZID; METHOXYMYCOLIC ACID; MYCOLIC ACID; OXOMYCOLIC ACID; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; GROWTH INHIBITION; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL WALL; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031694056     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01026.x     Document Type: Article

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