Requirement for kasB in Mycobacterium mycolic acid biosynthesis, cell wall impermeability and intracellular survival: Implications for therapy

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1547-1563

  Gao, Lian Yong ^a   Laval, Francoise ^b   Lawson, Elise H ^a   Groger, Richard K ^c   Woodruff, Andy ^a   Morisaki, J Hiroshi ^a   Cox, Jeffery S ^a,d   Daffe, Mamadou ^b   Brown, Eric J ^a  

^a Prog in Host Pathogen Interactions   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESORPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIPOPHILICITY; MACROPHAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CELL LINE; CELL WALL; CERULENIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DEFENSINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MACROPHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICE; MURAMIDASE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOLIC ACIDS; PERMEABILITY; PHAGOSOMES; RIFAMPIN; SODIUM DODECYL SULFATE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANSPOSONS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0141677776     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03667.x     Document Type: Article

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