Inactivation of mshB, a key gene in the mycothiol biosynthesis pathway in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1341-1349

  Rawat, Mamta ^a   Kovacevic, Svetozar ^b   Billman Jacobe, Helen ^c   Av Gay, Yossef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CERULENIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHIONAMIDE; HYDROLASE; INOSITOL DERIVATIVE; ISONIAZID; MYCOTHIOL; MYCOTHIOL AMIDE HYDROLASE; N ACETYL 1 MYOINOSITYL 2 AMINO 2 DEOXY ALPHA GLUCOPYRANOSIDE DEACETYLASE; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLINOSITOL; NITROFURANTOIN; RIFAMPICIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CYSTEINE; DISACCHARIDES; ETHIONAMIDE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLYCOPEPTIDES; INOSITOL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PYRAZOLES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0037853400     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26084-0     Document Type: Review

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