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Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence

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Cole, S. T., Brosch, R., Parkhill, J., Garnier, T., Churcher, C., Harris, D., Gordon, S. V., Eiglmeier, K. +34 more·1998·Nature

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Countless millions of people have died from tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. The complete genome sequence of the best-characterized strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, H37Rv, has been determined and analysed in order to improve our understanding of the biology of this slow-growing pathogen and to help the conception of new prophylactic and therapeutic interventions. The genome comprises 4,411,529 base pairs, contains around 4,000 genes, and has a very high guanine + cytosine content that is reflected in the biased amino-acid content of the proteins. M. tuberculosis differs radically from other bacteria in that a very large portion of its coding capacity is devoted to the production of enzymes involved in lipogenesis and lipolysis, and to two new families of glycine-rich proteins with a repetitive structure that may represent a source of antigenic variation.

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Cole, S. T., Brosch, R., Parkhill, J., Garnier, T., Churcher, C., Harris, D., Gordon, S. V., Eiglmeier, K., Gas, S., Barry, C. E., Tekaia, F., Badcock, K., Basham, D., Brown, D., Chillingworth, T., Connor, R., Davies, R., Devlin, K., Feltwell, T., Gentles, S., Hamlin, N., Holroyd, S., Hornsby, T., Jagels, K., Krogh, A., McLean, J., Moule, S., Murphy, L., Oliver, K., Osborne, J., Quail, M. A., Rajandream, M.-A., Rogers, J., Rutter, S., Seeger, K., Skelton, J., Squares, R., Squares, S., Sulston, J. E., Taylor, K., Whitehead, S., & Barrell, B. G.
Affiliations
  • Institut Pasteur (FR)
  • Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
  • Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Corresponding author
Barrell, B. G.
Venue
Nature
Published
1998-06
Volume
393
Issue
6685
Pages
537-544
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2158023121
Cited by
7,847
References
53
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FWCI
249.58
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
  • Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • American Heart Association
  • Wellcome Trust
  • Medical Research Council Canada
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Medical Research Council
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Z01AI000783)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
Keywords
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, complete genome sequence, genome analysis, GC content, amino acid composition, lipogenesis, lipolysis, glycine-rich proteins, antigenic variation, tuberculosis pathogenesis, tuberculosis treatment
MeSH terms
Chromosome Mapping, Chromosomes, Bacterial, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Genome, Bacterial, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Lipid Metabolism

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