Inositol monophosphate phosphatase genes of <it>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Mycobacteria use inositol in phosphatidylinositol, for anchoring lipoarabinomannan (LAM), lipomannan (LM) and phosphatidylinosotol mannosides (PIMs) in the cell envelope, and for the production of mycothiol, which maintains the redox...

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Main Authors: Parish Tanya, Av-Gay Yossef, Dinadayala Premkumar, Wheeler Paul R, Movahedzadeh Farahnaz, Daffé Mamadou, Stoker Neil G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-02-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/10/50