Antigen 84, an effector of pleiomorphism in Mycobactenum smegmatis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7896-7910

  Nguyen, Liem ^a,b,c   Scherr, Nicole ^b   Gatfield, John ^b   Walburger, Anne ^b   Pieters, Jean ^b   Thompson, Charles J ^b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN 84; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN FUNCTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SHAPE; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WAG31 GENE;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 35648951145     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00726-07     Document Type: Article

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