The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ag85A is a novel diacylglycerol acyltransferase involved in lipid body formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1577-1592

  Elamin, Ayssar A ^a   Stehr, Matthias ^a   Spallek, Ralf ^b   Rohde, Manfred ^a   Singh, Mahavir ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b LIONEX DIAGNOSTICS AND THERAPEUTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIPALMITIN; ACYL COENZYME A; ACYLGLYCEROL; ALANINE; COENZYME A; CORD FACTOR; DIACYLGLYCEROL; DIACYLGLYCEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; FAT DROPLET; GLYCOLIPID; MYCOLYLTRANSFERASE; SERINE; TREHALOSE 6' MONOMYCOLATE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CARBON STORAGE; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMANCY; ENERGY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; LIPID BODY; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSESTERIFICATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DIACYLGLYCEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80052744192     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07792.x     Document Type: Article

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