BacA, an ABC transporter involved in maintenance of chronic murine infections with mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 477-485

  Domenech, Pilar ^a,d   Kobayashi, Hajime ^b   Levier, Kristin ^b   Walker, Graham C ^b   Barry III, Clifton E ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Building 33   (United States)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LIPID; MYCOLIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN BACA; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLEOMYCIN; CELL MEMBRANE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; MUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 58649094872     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01132-08     Document Type: Article

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