Inactivation of the antigen 85C gene profoundly affects the mycolate content and alters the permeability of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell envelope

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1573-1587

  Jackson, Mary ^a   Raynaud, Catherine ^b   Lanéelle, Marie Antoinette ^b   Guilhot, Christophe ^a   Laurent Winter, Christine ^a   Ensergueix, Danielle ^a   Gicquel, Brigitte ^a   Daffé, Mamadou ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOGALACTAN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; GLYCEROL; ISONIAZID; SECRETORY PROTEIN; TRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; DIFFUSION; ESTERIFICATION; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MARROW; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GLYCEROL; LIPOSOMES; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; SILVER STAINING; TIME FACTORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032982736     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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