The Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigD sigma factor controls the expression of ribosome-associated gene products in stationary phase and is required for full virulence

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 233-244

  Calamita, Heather ^a,b   Ko, Chiew ^a,c   Tyagi, Sandeep ^a   Yoshimatsu, Tetsuyuki ^a   Morrison, Norman E ^a   Bishai, William R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b United States Patent and Trademark Office   (United States)

^c FASgen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARRIER PROTEIN; HOLOENZYME; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL LINE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LETHALITY; LUNG; MACROPHAGE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; STEADY STATE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LUNG; MACROPHAGES, ALVEOLAR; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; SPLEEN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 13844312836     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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