A Mycobacterium marinum TesA mutant defective for major cell wall-associated lipids is highly attenuated in Dictyostelium discoideum and zebrafish embryos

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 919-934

  Alibaud, Laeticia ^a   Rombouts, Yoann ^c   Trivelli, Xavier ^c   Burguière, Adeline ^a   Cirillo, Suat L G ^d   Cirillo, Jeffrey D ^d   Dubremetz, Jean François ^a   Guérardel, Yann ^c   Lutfalla, Georges ^a   Kremer, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^d TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENOLIC GLYCOLIPID; PHTHIOGLYCOLDIPHTHIOCERANATE; PROTEIN TESA; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYO; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; LIPOGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; TESA GENE; TRANSPOSON; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; CELL WALL; CELLS, CULTURED; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GLYCOLIPIDS; LIPIDS; MACROPHAGES; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NOTOCHORD; PALMITOYL-COA HYDROLASE; ZEBRAFISH;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; DANIO RERIO; DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79955719402     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07618.x     Document Type: Article

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