Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis impaired in stationary-phase survival

Microbiology

Volumn 146, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2209-2217

  Keer, J ^a   Smeulders, M J ^a   Gray, K M ^a   Williams, H D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colony morphology; Dormancy; Latency; Starvation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOTIN; CARBON; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0033832464     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-146-9-2209     Document Type: Article

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