Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigM positively regulates Esx secreted protein and nonribosomal peptide synthetase genes and down regulates virulence-associated surface lipid synthesis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 8460-8468

  Raman, Sahadevan ^a,c   Puyang, Xiaoling ^a   Cheng, Tan Yun ^b,c   Young, David C ^b,c   Moody, D Branch ^b,c   Husson, Robert N ^a,c,d  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESX PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIPID; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; PHTHIOCEROL DIMYCOCEROSATE; PROLINE; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIPID ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGM GENE; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33845382268     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01212-06     Document Type: Article

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