Identification and characterization of a diamide sensitive mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-169

  Rawat, Mamta ^a   Heys, Jennifer ^a   Av Gay, Yossef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Disulfide; Mycothiol; Transposon mutant; VOC superfamily

Indexed keywords

1 CHLORO 2,4 DINITROBENZENE; DIAMIDE; EXTRADIOL DIOXYGENASE; FOSFOMYCIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLYOXALASE; IODOACETAMIDE; OXYGENASE; THIOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 0037470943     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00127-7     Document Type: Article

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