Is there an emerging endosymbiotic relationship between mycobacteria and the human host based on horizontal transfer of genetic sequences?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1419-1428

  Gericke, G S ^a  

^a TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; I KAPPA B KINASE GAMMA; IRON; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME XQ; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GLUCOSE 6 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE DEFICIENCY; HOST CELL; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; TUBERCULOSIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MYCOBACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 33748972789     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.02.057     Document Type: Article

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