Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a natural ornithine aminotransferase (rocD) mutant and depends on Rv2323c for growth on arginine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Hampel, Annegret ^a   Huber, Claudia ^b   Geffers, Robert ^c   Spona Friedl, Marina ^b   Eisenreich, Wolfgang ^b   Bange, Franz Christoph ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; ORNITHINE OXOACID AMINOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; GLYCOLYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; ROCD GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ORNITHINE-OXO-ACID TRANSAMINASE;

EID: 84947813822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136914     Document Type: Article

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