MprAB regulates the espA operon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and modulates ESX-1 function and host cytokine response

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-75

  Pang, Xiuhua ^a   Samten, Buka ^b   Cao, Guangxiang ^a   Wang, Xisheng ^b   Tvinnereim, Amy R ^b   Chen, Xiu Lan ^a   Howard, Susan T ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CULTURE FILTRATE PROTEIN 10; EARLY SECRETORY ANTIGENIC TARGET 6; ESCHERICHIA COLI SECRETED PROTEIN A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 8; PROTEIN ESX 1; PROTEIN MPRAB; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84872026611     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01067-12     Document Type: Article

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