Deficiency in mycolipenate- and mycosanoate-derived acyltrehaloses enhances early interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with host cells.

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Lipids that are uniquely found in the cell envelope of pathogenic mycobacteria, such as those containing multiple methyl-branched long-chain fatty acids, have long been thought to play a role in host-pathogen interactions. The recent construction by Dubey et al. (2002) Mol Microbiol 45: 1451-1459, of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutant that is deficient in the synthesis of the di- and tri-methylbranched fatty...

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