Mycobacterium ulcerans is the causative agent of Buruli ulcer, a rapidly emerging human disease in which mycolactone, a cytotoxic and immunosuppressive macrocyclic polyketide, is responsible for massive skin destruction. The genome sequencing of M. ulceran ...
The role of biofilms in the pathogenesis of mycobacterial diseases remains largely unknown. Mycobacterium ulcerans, the etiological agent of Buruli ulcer, a disfiguring disease in humans, adopts a biofilm-like structure in vitro and in vivo, displaying an ...
Split-protein sensors have become an important tool for the analysis of protein-protein interactions in living cells. In general, two interacting proteins are expressed as fusion proteins with a pair of inactive fragments of a reporter enzyme. Interaction- ...
The invention concerns a combinatorial method for the generation of new split-protein sensors, and its application towards the (beta/alpha)8-barrel enzyme N-(5'-phosphoribosyl)-anthranilate isomerase Trp1p from Saccharomyces cerevisiae is demonstrated. The ...