Mycobacterium tuberculosis expresses a novel pH-dependent divalent cation transporter belonging to the Nramp family

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 717-724

  Agranoff, Daniel ^a   Monahan, Irene M ^b   Mangan, Joseph A ^b   Butcher, Philip D ^b   Krishna, Sanjeev ^a,b  

^a Department of Infectious Diseases ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Guerin; Metal ion; Phagosome intracellular pathogen; Xenopus oocyte

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; COPPER ION; DIVALENT CATION; FERROUS ION; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; ZINC ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CATION TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PH; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION TRANSPORT; IRON-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OOCYTES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032841842     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.190.5.717     Document Type: Article

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