Porins limit the intracellular persistence of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2403-2410

  Sharbati Tehrani, Soroush ^a   Stephan, Joachim ^b   Holland, Gudrun ^a   Appel, Bernd ^a   Niederweis, Michael ^b,c   Lewin, Astrid ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PORIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BONE MARROW CELL; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; MSPA GENE; MSPC GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL WALL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PORINS;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; EUKARYOTA; MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 22144458681     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27969-0     Document Type: Article

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