Mycobacterium tuberculosis is able to accumulate and utilize cholesterol

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6584-6591

  Brzostek, Anna ^a   Pawelczyk, Jakub ^a   Rumijowska Galewicz, Anna ^a   Dziadek, Bozena ^b   Dziadek, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

9 HYDROXY 4 ANDROSTENE 3,17 DIONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CARBON; CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH INHIBITION; KSTD GENE; LIPID DEGRADATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHOLESTEROL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RIFAMPIN;

MAMMALIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 70350455934     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00488-09     Document Type: Article

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