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Identification of a diacylglycerol acyltransferase gene involved in accumulation of triacylglycerol in Mycobacterium tuberculosis under stress.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Sept 2006
Sirakova Tatiana D, Dubey Vinod S, Deb Chirajyoti, Daniel Jaiyanth, Korotkova Tatiana A, Abomoelak Bassam, Kolattukudy Pappachan E
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis under stress stores triacylglycerol (TG). There are 15 genes in M. tuberculosis that belong to a novel family of TG synthase genes (tgs), but it is not known which of them is responsible for this accumulation of TG. In this paper, it is reported that M. tuberculosis H37...
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