Identification and characterization of the genetic changes responsible for the characteristic smooth-to-rough morphotype alterations of clinically persistent Mycobacterium abscessus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 612-629

  Pawlik, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Garnier, Guillaume ^b,c   Orgeur, Mickael ^a   Tong, Pin ^d   Lohan, Amanda ^d   Le Chevalier, Fabien ^a   Sapriel, Guillaume ^b,c   Roux, Anne Laure ^b,c   Conlon, Kevin ^d   Honoré, Nadine ^a   Dillies, Marie Agnès ^a   Ma, Laurence ^a   Bouchier, Christiane ^a   Coppée, Jean Yves ^a   Gaillard, Jean Louis ^b,c   Gordon, Stephen V ^d   Loftus, Brendan ^d   Brosch, Roland ^a   Herrmann, Jean Louis ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOLIPID; GLYCOPEPTIDOLIPID; NONRIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GPL GENE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MMPL4B GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MPS1 GENE; MPS2 GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGH MORPHOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOOTH MORPHOTYPE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDEL MUTATION; LIPIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84887065850     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12387     Document Type: Article

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