Tuberculosis
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 544-548 , November 2011

Expression of OmpATb is dependent on small membrane proteins in Mycobacterium bovis BCG

  • Romain Veyron-Churlet

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, Universités de Montpellier II et I, CNRS, UMR 5235, case 107, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    • Present address: Institut Pasteur, Pathogénomique Mycobactérienne Intégrée, 25 rue du Docteur Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France.
    • ,
  • Belinda Brust

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, Universités de Montpellier II et I, CNRS, UMR 5235, case 107, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    • ,
  • Laurent Kremer

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, Universités de Montpellier II et I, CNRS, UMR 5235, case 107, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    • INSERM, DIMNP, CNRS, UMR 5235, Montpellier, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, Universités de Montpellier II et I, CNRS, UMR 5235, case 107, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France. Tel.: +33 4 67 14 33 81; fax: +33 4 67 14 42 86.
    • ,
  • Anne-Béatrice Blanc-Potard

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Membranaires Normales et Pathologiques, Universités de Montpellier II et I, CNRS, UMR 5235, case 107, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +33 4 67 14 47 26; fax: +33 4 67 14 42 86.

Received 23 March 2011 ,Revised 26 May 2011 ,Accepted 22 June 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.06.008

Tuberculosis
Volume 91, Issue 6 , Pages 544-548 , November 2011

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