Phylogeny to function: PE/PPE protein evolution and impact on Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenicity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 901-916

  Fishbein, S ^a,b   van Wyk, N ^b   Warren, R M ^b   Sampson, S L ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PE PPE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PE-PGRS PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM; PPE14 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PPE2 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEM; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PE PPE GENE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GUINEA PIG; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GUINEA PIGS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84929692702     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12981     Document Type: Article

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