Toxin-antitoxin vapBC locus participates in formation of the dormant state in Mycobacterium smegmatis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 69-77

  Demidenok, Oksana I ^a   Kaprelyants, Arseny S ^a   Goncharenko, Anna V ^a  

^a BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dormant mycobacteria; Nonculturability; TA modules

Indexed keywords

ANTITOXIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; POTASSIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAPB PROTEIN; VAPC PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL DORMANCY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAPBC GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

DORMANT MYCOBACTERIA; NONCULTURABILITY; TA MODULES;

ANTITOXINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84896721821     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12380     Document Type: Letter

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