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Identification of substrates of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis proteasome.
The EMBO journal - 15 Nov 2006
Pearce Michael J, Arora Pooja, Festa Richard A, Butler-Wu Susan M, Gokhale Rajesh S, Darwin K Heran
Abstract excerpt
The putative proteasome-associated proteins Mpa (Mycobaterium proteasomal ATPase) and PafA (proteasome accessory factor A) of the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) are essential for virulence and resistance to nitric oxide. However, a direct link between the proteasome protease and Mpa or PafA has never been demonstrated. Furthermore, protein degradation by bacterial proteasomes in vitro has not...
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