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A mycobacterium ESX-1-secreted virulence factor with unique requirements for export.
PLoS pathogens - 3 Aug 2007
McLaughlin Bryant, Chon Janet S, MacGurn Jason A, Carlsson Fredric, Cheng Terri L, Cox Jeffery S, Brown Eric J
Abstract excerpt
Specialized secretion systems of pathogenic bacteria commonly transport multiple effectors that act in concert to control and exploit the host cell as a replication-permissive niche. Both the Mycobacterium marinum and the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes contain an extended region of difference 1 (extRD1) locus that encodes one such pathway, the early secretory antigenic target 6 (ESAT-6) system 1 (ESX-1)...
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