Comparative genomics of cell envelope components in Mycobacteria

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Banerjee, Ruma ^a   Vats, Pankaj ^a   Dahale, Sonal ^a   Kasibhatla, Sunitha Manjari ^a   Joshi, Rajendra ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOGALACTAN; LIPID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOPROPANE FATTY ACYL PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHASE; GALACTAN; LIPOARABINOMANNAN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; MYCOLIC ACID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOMICS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERMEABILITY BARRIER; PREDICTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; GALACTANS; GENOMICS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOLIC ACIDS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 79955813827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019280     Document Type: Article

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