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<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>mammalian cell entry operon (<i>mce</i>) homologs in<i>Mycobacterium</i>other than tuberculosis (MOTT)
1 Jun 2002
Abstract excerpt
The cloned mammalian cell entry gene mce1a from Mycobacterium tuberculosis confers to non-pathogenic Escherichia coli the ability to invade and survive inside macrophages and HeLa cells. The aim of this work was to search for and characterize homologs of the four M. tuberculosis mammalian cell entry operons (mce1, mce2, mce3 and mce4) in mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT). The dot-blot and polymerase...
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