Mechanistic insights into a novel exporter-importer system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis unravel its role in trafficking of iron

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Farhana, Aisha ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Rathore, Shailendra S ^b   Ghosh, Prahlad C ^b   Ehtesham, Nasreen Z ^c   Tyagi, Anil K ^b   Hasnain, Seyed E ^d,e,f  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^e INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^f JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IRON; LIPOSOME; PERMEASE; PROTEIN IRTA; PROTEIN IRTB; SIDEROPHORE; ABC TRANSPORTER BCATRB; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; IN VITRO STUDY; IRON TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE RECONSTITUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; IRON; MACROPHAGES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 47749094684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002087     Document Type: Article

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