Disruption of msl3 abolishes the synthesis of mycolipanoic and mycolipenic acids required for polyacyltrehalose synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and causes cell aggregation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1451-1459

  Dubey, Vinod S ^a   Sirakova, Tatiana D ^a   Kolattukudy, P E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYCOCEROSIC ACID SYNTHETASE; MYCOLIPANOIC ACID; MYCOLIPENIC ACID; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANCHORAGE INDEPENDENT GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; DNA FLANKING REGION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH RATE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLIPIDS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

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

EID: 0036047931     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03119.x     Document Type: Article

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