Identification of Rv3852 as an Agrimophol-Binding Protein in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Mycobacterial tuberculosis (Mtb) is able to preserve its intrabacterial pH (pHIB) near neutrality in the acidic phagosomes of immunologically activated macrophages and to cause lethal pathology in immunocompetent mice. In contrast, when its ability to maintain pHIB homeostasis is genetically comprom...

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Main Authors: Nan Zhao, Mingna Sun, Kristin Burns-Huang, Xiuju Jiang, Yan Ling, Crystal Darby, Sabine Ehrt, Gang Liu, Carl Nathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4433263?pdf=render