Construction and phenotypic characterization of Mycobacterium smegmatis mutants deficient in the MutY DNA glycosylase
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a facultative pathogen that causes tuberculosis and it accounted for 1.4 million deaths worldwide in 2011. During infection reactive species are released by macrophages as part of the hosts‟ immune response, causing damage to the pathogen‟s DNA. Since mycobacterial geno...
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| Language: | en |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net10539/13867 |