Individual RD1 -region genes are required for export of ESAT-6/CFP-10 and for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 359-370

  Guinn, Kristi M ^a   Hickey, Mark J ^a   Mathur, Sanjeev K ^a   Zakel, Kelly L ^a   Grotzke, Jeff E ^b   Lewinsohn, David M ^b   Smith, Sherilyn ^c   Sherman, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; PROTEIN CFP 10; REGION OF DIFFERENCE 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BCG VACCINE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE DELETION; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0942290453     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03844.x     Document Type: Article

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