Inactivation of Rv2525c, a substrate of the twin arginine translocation (Tat) system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, increases β-lactam susceptibility and virulence

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 6669-6679

  Saint Joanis, Brigitte ^a   Demangel, Caroline ^a   Jackson, Mary ^a   Brodin, Priscille ^a   Marsollier, Laurent ^a   Boshoff, Helena ^b   Cole, Stewart T ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBON 14; CEFOXITIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CYCLOSERINE; GENOMIC DNA; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; PROPIONIC ACID; RV2525C PROTEIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TATA PROTEIN; TATB PROTEIN; TATC PROTEIN; TATD PROTEIN; TATE PROTEIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; ISOTOPE LABELING; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RV2525C GENE; TATA GENE; TATB GENE; TATC GENE; TATD GENE; TATE GENE; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748765246     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00631-06     Document Type: Article

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