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Modeling the structural origins of drug resistance to isoniazid via key mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis catalase-peroxidase, KatG.
Tuberculosis (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 1 Jan 2018
Marney Matthew W, Metzger Robert P, Hecht David, Valafar Faramarz
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WHO reported 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases and 1.8 million deaths in 2015, making M. tuberculosis the most successful human pathogen with highest mortality among infectious diseases [1,2]. Drug-resistant TB is a major threat to global TB control [2,3]. Recently Torres et al. [4] identified 14 novel substitutions in M. tuberculosis-KatG (the enzyme associated with resistance to isoniazid-an important...
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