Mycobacterium tuberculosis ECF sigma factor sigC is required for lethality in mice and for the conditional expression of a defined gene set

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-38

  Sun, Ronggai ^a   Converse, Paul J ^a   Ko, Chiew ^a   Tyagi, Sandeep ^a   Morrison, Norman E ^a   Bishai, William R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN SIGC; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HSPX GENE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LETHALITY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MTRA GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENX3 GENE; SIGC GENE; SURVIVAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

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

EID: 1942455731     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2003.03958.x     Document Type: Article

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