Deletion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis α-crystallin-like hspX gene causes increased bacterial growth in vivo

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 861-868

  Hu, Yanmin ^a   Movahedzadeh, Farahnaz ^b   Stoker, Neil G ^b   Coates, Anthony R M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL VIABILITY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOSR GENE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HSPX GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 31844449080     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.74.2.861-868.2006     Document Type: Article

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