CsoR Is Essential for Maintaining Copper Homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a pathogen infecting one third of the world population, faces numerous challenges within the host, including high levels of copper. We have previously shown that M. tuberculosis CsoR is a copper inducible transcriptional regulator. Here we examined the hypothesis that cso...

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Main Authors: Sarah A Marcus, Sarah W Sidiropoulos, Howard Steinberg, Adel M Talaat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151816