Analysis of Corynebacterium diphtheriae macrophage interaction: Dispensability of corynomycolic acids for inhibition of phagolysosome maturation and identification of a new gene involved in synthesis of the corynomycolic acid layer

Corynebacterium diphtheriae is the causative agent of diphtheria, a toxin mediated disease of upper respiratory tract, which can be fatal. As a member of the CMNR group, C. diphtheriae is closely related to members of the genera Mycobacterium, Nocardia and Rhodococcus. Almost all members of these ge...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Ott, Lisa, Hacker, Elena, Kunert, Timo, Karrington, Ian, Etschel, Philipp, Lang, Roland, Wiesmann, Veit, Wittenberg, Thomas, Singh, Albel, Varela, Cristian, Bhatt, Apoorva, Sangal, Vartul, Burkovski, Andreas
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501465/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28686600
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180105
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