Insights into the smooth-to-rough transitioning in Mycobacterium bolletii unravels a functional Tyr residue conserved in all mycobacterial MmpL family members

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 866-883

  Bernut, Audrey ^a   Viljoen, Albertus ^a,b   Dupont, Christian ^a   Sapriel, Guillaume ^c   Blaise, Mickaël ^a   Bouchier, Christiane ^d   Brosch, Roland ^d   de Chastellier, Chantal ^b   Herrmann, Jean Louis ^c   Kremer, Laurent ^a,e  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e University of Montpellier I and II   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN MMPL3; PROTEIN MMPL4A; PROTEIN MMPL4B; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN; MMPL3 PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; IN VITRO STUDY; LIPID TRANSPORT; MYCOBACTERIUM MASSILIENSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL WALL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE; TYROSINE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84961683897     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13283     Document Type: Article

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