Identification of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis putative classical nitroreductase gene whose expression is coregulated with that of the acr gene within macrophages, in standing versus shaking cultures, and under low oxygen conditions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1518-1529

  Purkayastha, Anjan ^a   McCue, Lee Ann ^a   McDonough, Kathleen A ^a  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; GENE PRODUCT; NITROREDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITROREDUCTASES; OXYGEN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 0036175346     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.3.1518-1529.2002     Document Type: Article

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