A purF mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis has impaired survival during oxygen-starved stationary phase

Microbiology

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 473-481

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

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dormancy; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Oxygen; Purine; VBNC

Indexed keywords

AMIDOPHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; CARBON; OXYGEN; PURINE;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BACTERIUM TRANSDUCTION; CATALYSIS; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERMENTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HYPOXIA; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURINE SYNTHESIS; RESUSCITATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPRESSOR GENE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035135556     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-2-473     Document Type: Article

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