Specific mutations in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis rpoB gene are associated with increased dnaE2 expression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 338-343

  Bergval, Indra L ^a   Klatser, Paul R ^a   Schuitema, Anja R J ^a   Oskam, Linda ^a   Anthony, Richard M ^a  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dnaE2; Drug resistance; Evolution; MDR TB; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN DNAE 2; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; DNA POLYMERASE III; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34548758472     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00905.x     Document Type: Article

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