The role of hydrophobicity in tuberculosis evolution and pathogenicity

Abstract The evolution of tubercle bacilli parallels a route from environmental Mycobacterium kansasii, through intermediate “Mycobacterium canettii”, to the modern Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Cell envelope outer membrane lipids change systematically from hydrophilic lipooligosaccharides and...

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Main Authors: Monika Jankute, Vijayashankar Nataraj, Oona Y. -C. Lee, Houdini H. T. Wu, Malin Ridell, Natalie J. Garton, Michael R. Barer, David E. Minnikin, Apoorva Bhatt, Gurdyal S. Besra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01501-0