The critical role of embC in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4335-4341

  Goude, Renan ^a   Amin, Anita G ^b   Chatterjee, Delphi ^b   Parish, Tanya ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOARABINOMANNAN; TRANSFERASE;

AEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DOWN REGULATION; EMB C GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOMODULATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; UPREGULATION;

ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 44949167725     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01825-07     Document Type: Article

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