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Vitamin C induced DevR-dependent synchronization of Mycobacterium smegmatis growth and its effect on the proliferation of mycobacteriophage D29.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Jun 2016
Kirtania Prithwiraj, Ghosh Shreya, Bhawsinghka Niketa, Chakladar Madhumita, Das Gupta Sujoy K
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin C is known to inhibit mycobacterial growth by acting as a hypoxia inducing agent. While investigating how mycobacteriophage growth is influenced by hypoxic conditions induced by vitamin C, using Mycobacterium smegmatis- mycobacteriophage D29 as a model system, it was observed that prior exposure of the host to such conditions resulted in increased burst size of the phage. Vitamin C pre-exposure was also...
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