Oxygenated mycolic acids are necessary for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 630-637

  Dubnau, Eugenie ^a   Chan, John ^b   Raynaud, Catherine ^c   Mohan, Vellore P ^b   Lanéelle, Marie Antoinette ^c   Yu, Keming ^b   Quémard, Annaik ^c   Smith, Issar ^a   Daffé, Mamadou ^c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CHENODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCEROL; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MONOCYTES; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

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

EID: 0034073375     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01882.x     Document Type: Article

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