Activation of the eis gene in a W-Beijing strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis correlates with increased SigA levels and enhanced intracellular growth

Microbiology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1272-1281

  Wu, Shiping ^a,e   Barnes, Peter F ^a,b   Samten, Buka ^a   Pang, Xiuhua ^a   Rodrigue, Sébastien ^c,f   Ghanny, Saleena ^d   Soteropoulos, Patricia ^d   Gaudreau, Luc ^c   Howard, Susan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b Health Science Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Protez Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA; PROTEIN EIS; PROTEIN SIGA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; EIS PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL LYSATE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIQUID CULTURE; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; UPREGULATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A, SECRETORY; MONOCYTES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 65649115454     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.024638-0     Document Type: Article

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