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SUBMITTER: Prados-Rosales R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3069770 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Prados-Rosales Rafael R Baena Andres A Martinez Luis R LR Luque-Garcia Jose J Kalscheuer Rainer R Veeraraghavan Usha U Camara Carmen C Nosanchuk Joshua D JD Besra Gurdyal S GS Chen Bing B Jimenez Juan J Glatman-Freedman Aharona A Jacobs William R WR Porcelli Steven A SA Casadevall Arturo A
The Journal of clinical investigation 20110401 4
Bacteria naturally release membrane vesicles (MVs) under a variety of growth environments. Their production is associated with virulence due to their capacity to concentrate toxins and immunomodulatory molecules. In this report, we show that the 2 medically important species of mycobacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis bacille Calmette-Guérin, release MVs when growing in both liquid culture and within murine phagocytic cells in vitro and in vivo. We documented MV productio ...[more]