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Diguanylate cyclase activity of the Mycobacterium leprae T cell antigen ML1419c.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Sept 2016
Rotcheewaphan Suwatchareeporn, Belisle John T, Webb Kristofor J, Kim Hee-Jin, Spencer John S, Borlee Bradley R
Abstract excerpt
The second messenger, bis-(3',5')-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate (cyclic di-GMP), is involved in the control of multiple bacterial phenotypes, including those that impact host-pathogen interactions. Bioinformatics analyses predicted that Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular bacterium and the causative agent of leprosy, encodes three active diguanylate cyclases. In contrast, the related pathogen...
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