A Mycobacterium avium PPE gene is associated with the ability of the bacterium to grow in macrophages and virulence in mice

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 539-548

  Li, Yongjun ^a,b   Miltner, Elizabeth ^a   Wu, Martin ^a,b   Petrofsky, Mary ^a   Bermudez, Luiz E ^a,b  

^a Kuzell Institute for Arthritis and Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL STRAIN U937; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LYSOSOME; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSPOSON; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LYSOSOMES; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PHAGOSOMES; U937 CELLS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 15944409915     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2004.00484.x     Document Type: Article

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