Essential roles for mycobacterium tuberculosis rel beyond the production of (p)ppGpp

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 5629-5638

  Weiss, Leslie A ^a   Stallings, Christina L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HYDROLASE; PYROPHOSPHATE; SYNTHETASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REL;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RATE; HYDROLYSIS; KWASHIORKOR; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; MICE; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POINT MUTATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84890131771     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00759-13     Document Type: Article

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