Functional genomics reveals the sole sulphate transporter of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and its relevance to the acquisition of sulphur in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 653-663

  Wooff, Esen ^a   Michell, Stephen Ll ^a   Gordon, Stephen V ^a   Chambers, Mark A ^a   Bardarov, Stoyan ^b   Jacobs Jr , William R ^b   Hewinson, R Glyn ^a   Wheeler, Paul R ^a  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMINO ACID; METHIONINE; SULFOTRANSFERASE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSA GENE; CYSA2 GENE; CYSA3 GENE; DRUG ACTIVITY; GENE; GENOMICS; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUB1 GENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENOMICS; METHIONINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SULFUR;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; TRANSPOSONS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036271841     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02771.x     Document Type: Article

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