Slow growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at acidic pH is regulated by phoPR and host-associated carbon sources

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-69

  Baker, Jacob J ^a   Johnson, Benjamin K ^a   Abramovitch, Robert B ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; OXALOACETIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; PHOP PROTEIN, BACTERIA; PHOR PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBON SOURCE; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; GROWTH REGULATION; LIPID METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; PH; PHOPR REGULON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GLYCOLYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACIDS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84907861845     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12688     Document Type: Article

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