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Purifying Selective Pressure Suggests the Functionality of a Vitamin B12 Biosynthesis Pathway in a Global Population of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
27 Jul 2018
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the deadliest and most challenging pathogens to study in current microbiological research. One of the issues that remains to be resolved is the importance of cobalamin in the metabolism of M. tuberculosis. The functionality of a vitamin B12 biosynthesis pathway in M. tuberculosis is under dispute, and the ability of this pathogen to scavenge vitamin B12 from the host is...
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