Nitrite reductase NirBD is induced and plays an important role during in vitro dormancy of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4592-4599

  Akhtar, Shamim ^a   Khan, Arshad ^b   Sohaskey, Charles D ^c   Jagannath, Chinnaswamy ^b   Sarkar, Dhiman ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL EXTRACT; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMANCY; ENZYME INDUCTION; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MONOCYTES; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885444710     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00698-13     Document Type: Article

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