The Mycobacterium tuberculosis PhoPR two-component system regulates genes essential for virulence and complex lipid biosynthesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 312-330

  Walters, Shaun B ^a,c   Dubnau, Eugenie ^a   Kolesnikova, Irina ^a   Laval, Francoise ^b   Daffe, Mamadou ^b   Smith, Issar ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIACYLTREHALOSE; ENZYME; LIPID; MAGNESIUM; POLYACYLTREHALOSE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SULFATIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL GROWTH; CELL LINE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPOGENESIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LIPIDS; MACROPHAGES; MAGNESIUM; METALS, HEAVY; MICE; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 33645307109     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05102.x     Document Type: Article

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