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Noise in a Metabolic Pathway Leads to Persister Formation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis is difficult to treat due to dormant cells formed in response to immune stress and stochastically formed persisters, both of which are tolerant of antibiotics. Bactericidal antibiotics kill by corrupting their energy-dependent targets. We reasoned that stochastic variation, or noise, in...

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Autores principales: Quigley, Jeffrey, Lewis, Kim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36194154
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02948-22