A lipoprotein modulates activity of the MtrAB two-component system to provide intrinsic multidrug resistance, cytokinetic control and cell wall homeostasis in Mycobacterium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 348-364

  Nguyen, Hoa T ^a   Wolff, Kerstin A ^a   Cartabuke, Richard H ^a   Ogwang, Sam ^a   Nguyen, Liem ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIPOPROTEIN; PROTEIN IPQB; PROTEIN MTRA; PROTEIN MTRB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABC TRANSPORTER; MTRA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MTRB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL KINETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL WALL; CYTOKINESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CYTOKINESIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; LIPOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77951189021     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07110.x     Document Type: Article

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