A family of autocrine growth factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 623-635

  Mukamolova, Galina V ^a,b   Turapov, Obolbek A ^a,b   Young, Danielle I ^a   Kaprelyants, Arseny S ^b   Kell, Douglas B ^a,c   Young, Michael ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCRINE GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN RPF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL GROWTH; CYTOPLASM; DRUG CONCENTRATION; INOCULATION; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROCOCCUS; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0036439149     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03184.x     Document Type: Article

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