Identification of genes encoding exported Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteins using a Tn552'phoA in vitro transposition system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2732-2740

  Braunstein, Miriam ^a   Griffin IV, Thomas J ^b   Kriakov, Jordan I ^a   Friedman, Sarah T ^a   Grindley, Nigel D F ^b   Jacobs Jr , William R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; TRANSPOSON;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COSMIDS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034101573     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.10.2732-2740.2000     Document Type: Article

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