Cloning of mce1 locus of Mycobacterium leprae in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155 SMR5 and evaluation of expression of mce1 genes in M. smegmatis and M. leprae

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-302

  Santhosh, Ramachandran Sarojini ^a   Pandian, Shunmugiah Karutha ^a,b   Lini, Nirmala ^a   Shabaana, Abdul Khader ^a,c   Nagavardhini, Avuthu ^a   Dharmalingam, Kuppamuthu ^a  

^a MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrase; Mammalian cell entry; Mycobacterium leprae; Mycobacterium smegmatis; pSET152; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; LEPROSY, LEPROMATOUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 22844437189     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsim.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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