Investigating function roles of hypothetical proteins encoded by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv genome

Abstract Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a common bacterium causing tuberculosis and remains a major pathogen for mortality. Although the MTB genome has been extensively explored for two decades, the functions of 27% (1051/3906) of encoded proteins have yet to be determined and these...

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Main Authors: Zhiyuan Yang, Xi Zeng, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-019-5746-6