Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv1302 and Mycobacterium smegmatis MSMEG-4947 have WecA function and MSMEG-4947 is required for the growth of M. smegmatis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-61

  Jin, Yue ^a   Xin, Yi ^a   Zhang, Wenli ^a   Ma, Yufang ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GlcNAc 1 phosphate transferase; MSMEG 4947; Rv1302; WecA

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WECA GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFERASES (OTHER SUBSTITUTED PHOSPHATE GROUPS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 77955261030     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2010.02045.x     Document Type: Article

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