Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigF regulates genes encoding cell wall-associated proteins and directly regulates the transcriptional regulatory gene phoY1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4234-4242

  Williams, Ernest P ^a   Lee, Jong Hee ^a   Bishai, William R ^a,b   Colantuoni, Carlo ^b   Karakousis, Petros C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GUANINE; ISONIAZID; MYCOBACTERIAL MEMBRANE LARGE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN PP; PROTEIN PPE; PROTEIN SIGF; RIFAMPICIN; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELETION MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT CONTENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATOR GENE PHOY1; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGF GENE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34249797287     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00201-07     Document Type: Article

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