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Long-Chain Fatty Acyl Coenzyme A Ligase FadD2 Mediates Intrinsic Pyrazinamide Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Feb 2017
Rosen Brandon C, Dillon Nicholas A, Peterson Nicholas D, Minato Yusuke, Baughn Anthony D
Abstract excerpt
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a first-line tuberculosis (TB) drug that has been in clinical use for 60 years yet still has an unresolved mechanism of action. Based upon the observation that the minimum concentration of PZA required to inhibit the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is approximately 1,000-fold higher than that of other first-line drugs, we hypothesized that M. tuberculosis expresses factors that mediate...
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