Mycobacterium tuberculosis is extraordinarily sensitive to killing by a vitamin C-induced Fenton reaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Vilchèze, Catherine ^a   Hartman, Travis ^a   Weinrick, Brian ^a   Jacobs, William R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDOTRANSFERASE; ASCORBIC ACID; BIOTIN SYNTHASE; CHORISMATE MUTASE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE A; CYSTEINYL TRANSFER RIBONUCLEIC ACID SYNTHETASE; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; FERROCHELATASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HALOALKANE DEHALOGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; ISONIAZID; MYRISTIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PALMITIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STEARIC ACID; SUCCINYL DIAMINOPIMELATE DESUCCINYLASE; TUBERCULOSTEARIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE ALPHA;

ANTIBIOTICS; ASCORBIC ACID; CHEMOTHERAPY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRUG; HYDROXYL RADICAL; PATHOGEN; PLEIOTROPY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FENTON REACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84878682986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2898     Document Type: Article

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