Direct visualization by Cryo-EM of the mycobacterial capsular layer: A labile structure containing ESX-1-secreted proteins

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Sani, Musa ^a   Houben, Edith N G ^b   Geurtsen, Jeroen ^b   Pierson, Jason ^a   De Punder, Karin ^a   Van Zon, Maaike ^a   Wever, Brigitte ^b   Piersma, Sander R ^b   Jiménez, Connie R ^b   Daffé, Mamadou ^c,e   Appelmelk, Ben J ^b   Bitter, Wilbert ^b   Van Wel, Nicole Der ^a   Peters, Peter J ^a,d  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE ET DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCAN; ARABINOMANNAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; DETERGENT; GLUCAN; GLYCOLIPID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TYPE VII SECRETION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOGY; MACROPHAGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SECRETION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77950418216     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000794     Document Type: Article

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