Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB4 regulates oxidative stress response to modulate survival and dissemination in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1148-1165

  Chawla, Manbeena ^a   Parikh, Pankti ^a   Saxena, Alka ^a   Munshi, Mohamedhusen ^a   Mehta, Mansi ^a   Mai, Deborah ^b   Srivastava, Anup K ^b   Narasimhulu, K V ^c   Redding, Kevin E ^d   Vashi, Nimi ^a   Kumar, Dhiraj ^a   Steyn, Adrie J C ^b,e   Singh, Amit ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c St Joseph Children's Hospital   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AFRICA HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKYL HYDROPEROXIDASE; ANTIOXIDANT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; RUBREDOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHIB4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA BINDING; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUINEA PIG; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MACROPHAGE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WHIB4 GENE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUINEA PIGS; LUNG; MACROPHAGES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRIC OXIDE; OXIDANTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN; SPLEEN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

CAVIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RUBA;

EID: 84866029444     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08165.x     Document Type: Article

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