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Cytokinin Signaling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
mBio - 19 Jun 2018
Samanovic Marie I, Hsu Hao-Chi, Jones Marcus B, Jones Victoria, McNeil Michael R, Becker Samuel H, Jordan Ashley T, Strnad Miroslav, Xu Changcheng, Jackson Mary, Li Huilin, Darwin K Heran
Abstract excerpt
It was recently reported that the human-exclusive pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis secretes cytokinins, which had only been known as plant hormones. While cytokinins are well-established, adenine-based signaling molecules in plants, they have never been shown to participate in signal transduction in other kingdoms of life. M. tuberculosis is not known to interact with plants. Therefore, we tested the...
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