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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mycobacterium tuberculosis
SUBMITTER: Eugenie Dubnau
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13978 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Nesbitt Natasha M NM Yang Xinxin X Fontán Patricia P Kolesnikova Irina I Smith Issar I Sampson Nicole S NS Dubnau Eugenie E
Infection and immunity 20091012 1
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, is an intracellular pathogen that shifts to a lipid-based metabolism in the host. Moreover, metabolism of the host lipid cholesterol plays an important role in M. tuberculosis infection. We used transcriptional profiling to identify genes transcriptionally regulated by cholesterol and KstR (Rv3574), a TetR-like repressor. The fadA5 (Rv3546) gene, annotated as a lipid-metabolizing thiolase, the expression of which is upregulated by ...[more]