Ribonucleotide Reduction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Function and Expression of Genes Encoding Class Ib and Class II Ribonucleotide Reductases

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 6124-6131

  Dawes, Stephanie S ^a   Warner, Digby F ^a   Tsenova, Liana ^b,e   Timm, Juliano ^b   McKinney, John D ^b   Kaplan, Gilla ^b,e   Rubin, Harvey ^c   Mizrahi, Valerie ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RIBONUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE 1B; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE PROBE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NRDE GENE; NRDF2 GENE; NRDZ GENE; NULL ALLELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROXYUREA; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0242381240     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.11.6124-6131.2003     Document Type: Article

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