Comparative expression studies of a complex phenotype: Cord formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 84, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 188-196

  Gao, Qian ^a   Kripke, Katharine ^b   Arinc, Zuhre ^b   Voskuil, Martin ^c   Small, Peter ^b,d  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Tuberculosis Global Health Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Cord; H37Ra; H37Rv; Lipid; Microarray; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL WALL; CODING; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 3042795389     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2003.12.013     Document Type: Article

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