Silencing Essential Protein Secretion in Mycobacterium smegmatis by Using Tetracycline Repressors
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Silencing Essential Protein Secretion in Mycobacterium smegmatis by Using Tetracycline Repressors Xinzheng V. Guo, Mercedes Monteleone, Marcus Klotzsche, Annette Kamionka, Wolfgang Hillen, Miriam Braunstein, Sabine Ehrt,* and Dirk Schnappinger* Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, New York, New York 10021; Program in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis and Program in Molecular Biology, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, 445 East 69th Street, New York, New York 10021; Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstr. 5, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany; and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Rm. 804, Mary Ellen Jones Building, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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تاریخ انتشار 2007