High-resolution phenotypic profiling defines genes essential for mycobacterial growth and cholesterol catabolism

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Griffin, Jennifer E ^a   Gawronski, Jeffrey D ^a   DeJesus, Michael A ^b   Ioerger, Thomas R ^b   Akerley, Brian J ^a   Sassetti, Christopher M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL CATABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80053459692     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1002251     Document Type: Article

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