Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein kinase K confers survival advantage during early infection in mice and regulates growth in culture and during persistent infection: Implications for immune modulation

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2829-2841

  Malhotra, Vandana ^a   Arteaga Cortés, Lourdes T ^a   Clay, Gwendolyn ^b   Clark Curtiss, Josephine E ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12P40; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN KINASE K; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VIRULENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956357508     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.040675-0     Document Type: Article

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