Comparative transcriptional study of the putative mannose donor biosynthesis genes in virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis and attenuated Mycobacterium bovis bcg strains

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 79, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4668-4673

  Keiser, Tracy L ^a   Azad, Abul K ^a   Guirado, Evelina ^a   Bonacci, Robert ^a   Schlesinger, Larry S ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNOSE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BROTH DILUTION; CELL WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACROPHAGE; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MANNOSE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 80855129171     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.05635-11     Document Type: Article

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