CarD integrates three functional modules to promote efficient transcription, antibiotic tolerance, and pathogenesis in mycobacteria

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 682-697

  Garner, Ashley L ^a   Weiss, Leslie A ^a   Manzano, Ana Ruiz ^a   Galburt, Eric A ^a   Stallings, Christina L ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; PROTEIN CARD; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG TOLERANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84926506878     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12681     Document Type: Article

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