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Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence

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  • S. T. Cole

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • R. Brosch

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • J. Parkhill

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • T. Garnier

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • C. Churcher

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • D. Harris

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. V. Gordon

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • K. Eiglmeier

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • S. Gas

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne)

  • C. E. Barry

    (Tuberculosis Research Unit, Laboratory of Intracellular Parasites, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health)

  • F. Tekaia

    (Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures)

  • K. Badcock

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • D. Basham

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • D. Brown

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • T. Chillingworth

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • R. Connor

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • R. Davies

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • K. Devlin

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • T. Feltwell

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Gentles

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • N. Hamlin

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Holroyd

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • T. Hornsby

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • K. Jagels

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • A. Krogh

    (Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark)

  • J. McLean

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Moule

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • L. Murphy

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • K. Oliver

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • J. Osborne

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • M. A. Quail

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • M.-A. Rajandream

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • J. Rogers

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Rutter

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • K. Seeger

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • J. Skelton

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • R. Squares

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Squares

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • J. E. Sulston

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • K. Taylor

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • S. Whitehead

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

  • B. G. Barrell

    (Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus)

Abstract

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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  • S. T. Cole & R. Brosch & J. Parkhill & T. Garnier & C. Churcher & D. Harris & S. V. Gordon & K. Eiglmeier & S. Gas & C. E. Barry & F. Tekaia & K. Badcock & D. Basham & D. Brown & T. Chillingworth & R., 1998. "Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence," Nature, Nature, vol. 393(6685), pages 537-544, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:393:y:1998:i:6685:d:10.1038_31159
    DOI: 10.1038/31159
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