Cell wall peptidolipids of Mycobacterium avium: from genetic prediction to exact structure of a nonribosomal peptide

What is it about?

We have discovered by reverse genetics that M. avium subsp. paratuberculosis S-type strains, more adapted in sheep, produce a specific peptidolipid. This new molecular signature in the Mycobacterium cell wall involving cell mediated responses that may form the basis in patho-adaptation of these bacteria.

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