Deciphering the biology of mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6685, 1998, Pages 537-544

  Cole, S T ^b   Brosch, R ^b   Parkhill, J ^a   Garnier, T ^b   Churcher, C ^a   Harris, D ^a   Gordon, S V ^b   Eiglmeier, K ^b   Gas, S ^b   Barry III, C E ^c   Tekaia, F ^b   Badcock, K ^a   Basham, D ^a   Brown, D ^a   Chillingworth, T ^a   Connor, R ^a   Davies, R ^a   Devlin, K ^a   Feltwell, T ^a   Gentles, S ^a   Hamlin, N ^a   Holroyd, S ^a   Hornsby, T ^a   Jagels, K ^a   Krogh, A ^d   McLean, J ^a   Moule, S ^a   Murphy, L ^a   Oliver, K ^a   Osborne, J ^a   Quail, M A ^a   Rajandream, M A ^a   Rogers, J ^a   Rutter, S ^a   Seeger, K ^a   Skelton, J ^a   Squares, R ^a   Squares, S ^a   Sulston, J E ^a   Taylor, K ^a   Whitehead, S ^a   Barrell, B G ^a   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE PAIRING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE SEQUENCE; LIPOGENESIS; LIPOLYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032508046     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31159     Document Type: Review

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