Cholesterol utilization in mycobacteria is controlled by two TetR-type transcriptional regulators: kstR and kstR2

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is able to use a variety of carbon sources in vivo and current knowledge suggests that cholesterol is used as a carbon source during infection. The catabolized cholesterol is used both as an energy source (ATP generation) and as a source of precursor molecules for the synt...

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Autores principales: Kendall, Sharon L., Burgess, Philippa, Balhana, Ricardo, Withers, Mike, ten Bokum, Annemieke, Lott, J. Shaun, Gao, Chen, Uhia-Castro, Iria, Stoker, Neil G.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2010
Materias:
Cell and Molecular Biology of Microbes
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20167624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.034538-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20167624
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.034538-0

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