Disruption of the mycobacterial cell entry gene of Mycobacterium bovis BCG results in a mutant that exhibits a reduced invasiveness for epithelial cells

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 237-242

  Flesselles, Bruno ^a   Anand, Naveen N ^a   Remani, Jack ^a   Loosmore, Sheena M ^a   Klein, Michel H ^a  

^a Pasteur Merieux Connaught Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Guerin; Cell invasion; Homologous recombination

Indexed keywords

HYGROMYCIN B;

ARTICLE; CELL INVASION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032815631     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00301-8     Document Type: Article

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