Functional analysis of a clonal deletion in an epidemic strain of Mycobacterium bovis reveals a role in lipid metabolism

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3731-3742

  Wheeler, Paul R ^a   Brosch, Roland ^b   Coldham, Nicholas G ^a   Inwald, Jacqueline K ^a   Hewinson, R Glyn ^a   Gordon, Stephen V ^a,c  

^a VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPID; MYCOLIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; PROTEIN ALD; PROTEIN PYKA; PYRUVIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; EPIDEMIC; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE DELETION; LIPID METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOLIC ACIDS; PROPIONATES; PYRUVIC ACID; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE;

EID: 58949087896     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/022269-0     Document Type: Article

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