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Serum metabolomics reveals higher levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids in lepromatous leprosy: potential markers for susceptibility and pathogenesis by Al-Mubarak, Reem, Vander Heiden, Jason, Broeckling, Corey D, Balagon, Marivic, Brennan, Patrick J, Vissa, Varalakshmi D

“…Leprosy is a disease of the skin and peripheral nervous system caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Mycobacterium leprae. The clinical presentations…”
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Biosynthesis of Mycobacterial Lipoarabinomannan: Role of a Branching Mannosyltransferase by Kaur, Devinder, Berg, Stefan, Dinadayala, Premkumar, Gicquel, Brigitte, Chatterjee, Delphi, McNeil, Michael R., Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Crick, Dean C., Jackson, Mary, Brennan, Patrick J.

“…Lipoarabinomannan (LAM), one of the few known bacterial glycosylphosphoinositides (GPIs), occurs in various structural forms in Mycobacterium species. It has…”
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Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae for better understanding of leprosy transmission in Fortaleza, Northeastern Brazil by Fontes, Amanda N B, Lima, Luana N G C, Mota, Rosa M S, Almeida, Rosa L F, Pontes, Maria A, Gonçalves, Heitor de S, Frota, Cristiane C, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Brennan, Patrick J, Guimaraes, Ricardo J P S, Kendall, Carl, Kerr, Ligia R F S, Suffys, Philip N

“…Leprosy is endemic in large part of Brazil with 28,761 new patients in 2015, the second largest number worldwide and reaches 9/10.000 in highly endemic regions…”
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Genetic Basis for the Synthesis of the Immunomodulatory Mannose Caps of Lipoarabinomannan in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Dinadayala, Premkumar, Kaur, Devinder, Berg, Stefan, Amin, Anita G., Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Chatterjee, Delphi, Brennan, Patrick J., Crick, Dean C.

“…Lipoarabinomannan (LAM) is a high molecular weight, heterogenous lipoglycan present in abundant quantities in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and many other…”
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Roles of Conserved Proline and Glycosyltransferase Motifs of EmbC in Biosynthesis of Lipoarabinomannan by Berg, Stefan, Starbuck, James, Torrelles, Jordi B., Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Crick, Dean C., Chatterjee, Delphi, Brennan, Patrick J.

“…d-Arabinans, composed of d-arabinofuranose (d-Araf), dominate the structure of mycobacterial cell walls in two settings, as part of lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and…”
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Multiple Polymorphic Loci for Molecular Typing of Strains of Mycobacterium leprae by GROATHOUSE, Nathan A, RIVOIRE, Becky, KIM, Hansuk, LEE, Hyeyoung, CHO, Sang-Nae, BRENNAN, Patrick J, VISSA, Varalakshmi D

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Identification and Distribution of Mycobacterium leprae Genotypes in a Region of High Leprosy Prevalence in China: a 3-Year Molecular Epidemiological Study by Weng, Xiaoman, Wang, Zheng, Liu, Jian, Kimura, Miyako, Black, William C. IV, Brennan, Patrick J, Li, Huanying, Vissa, Varalakshmi D

“…Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) has been proposed as a means of strain typing for tracking the transmission of leprosy…”
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Genotyping of Mycobacterium leprae present on Ziehl-Neelsen-stained microscopic slides and in skin biopsy samples from leprosy patients in different geographic regions of Brazil by Fontes, Amanda Nogueira Brum, Gomes, Harrison Magdinier, Araujo, Marcelo Ivens de, Albuquerque, Edson Cláudio Araripe de, Baptista, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias, Moura, Maria Manuela da Fonseca, Rezende, Denise Silva, Pessolani, Maria Cristina Vidal, Lara, Flávio Alves, Pontes, Maria Araci de Andrade, Gonçalves, Heitor de Sá, Lucena-Silva, Norma, Sarno, Euzenir Nunes, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Brennan, Patrick J, Suffys, Philip Noel

“…We analysed 16 variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) and three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in Mycobacterium leprae present on 115 Ziehl-Neelsen…”
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Drug Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cell Wall Synthesis: Genetics of dTDP-Rhamnose Synthetic Enzymes and Development of a Microtiter Plate-Based Screen for Inhibitors of Conversion of dTDP-Glucose to dTDP-Rhamnose by Ma, Y, Stern, R J, Scherman, M S, Vissa, V D, Yan, W, Jones, V C, Zhang, F, Franzblau, S G, Lewis, W H, McNeil, M R

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Crystal structure of the secreted form of antigen 85C reveals potential targets for mycobacterial drugs and vaccines by Sacchettini, James C, Ronning, Donald R, Klabunde, Thomas, Besra, Gurdyal S, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Belisle, John T

“…The antigen 85 (ag85) complex, composed of three proteins (ag85A, B and C), is a major protein component of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell wall. Each…”
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Inactivation of the Mycobacterial Rhamnosyltransferase, Which Is Needed for the Formation of the Arabinogalactan-Peptidoglycan Linker, Leads to Irreversible Loss of Viability by Mills, Jonathan A, Motichka, Kelly, Jucker, Markus, Wu, Henry P, Uhlik, Brian C, Stern, Richard J, Scherman, Michael S, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Pan, Fei, Kundu, Manikuntala, Ma, Yu Fang, McNeil, Michael

“…Temperature-sensitive mutant 2-20/32 of Mycobacterium smegmatis mc 2 155 was isolated and genetically complemented with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv DNA…”
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Characterization of the epitope of anti-lipoarabinomannan antibodies as the terminal hexaarabinofuranosyl motif of mycobacterial arabinans by Kaur, Devinder, Lowary, Todd L, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Crick, Dean C, Brennan, Patrick J

“…Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1677, USA 1 Department of Chemistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH…”
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Genetic diversity of mycobacterium leprae isolates from Brazilian leprosy patients by Fontes, Amanda Nogueira Brum, Sakamuri, Rama Murthy, Baptista, Ida Maria Foschiani Dias, Ura, Somei, Moraes, Milton Ozório, Martínez, Alejandra Nóbrega, Sarno, Euzenir Nunes, Brennan, Patrick J, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Suffys, Philip Noel

“…Leprosy is a chronic disease caused by infection with Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular parasite. A problem in studying the transmission of…”
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Genotyping North American animal Mycobacterium bovis isolates using multilocus variable number tandem repeat analysis by Martinez, Lorene R, Harris, Beth, Black, William C. IV, Meyer, Robert M, Brennan, Patrick J, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Jones, Robert L

“…Correspondence: 1 Corresponding Author: Robert L. Jones, Colorado State University, 1682 Campus Delivery, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and…”
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Comparative Analysis of B- and T-Cell Epitopes of Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Culture Filtrate Protein 10 by SPENCER, John S, HEE JIN KIM, BRENNAN, Patrick J, MARQUES, Angela M, GONZALEZ-JUARERRO, Mercedes, LIMA, Monica C. B. S, VISSA, Varalakshmi D, TRUMAN, Richard W, GENNARO, Maria Laura, CHO, Sang-Nae, COLE, Stewart T

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Role of the Major Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Cell Wall Biogenesis by Belisle, John T., Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Sievert, Todd, Takayama, Kuni, Brennan, Patrick J., Besra, Gurdyal S.

“…The dominant exported proteins and protective antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are a triad of related gene products called the antigen 85 (Ag85) complex…”
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Intrapatient comparison of Mycobacterium leprae by VNTR analysis in nasal secretions and skin biopsy in a Brazilian leprosy endemic region by Lima, Luana N G C, Fontes, Amanda N B, Li, Wei, Suffys, Philip N, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Mota, Rosa M S, Almeida, Rosa L F, Pontes, Maria A, Gonçales, Heitor De S, Frota, Cristiane C, Rodrigues, Laura C, Kendall, Carl, Kerr, Ligia R F S

“…This study compares the strains of genotypes of M. leprae from nasal secretions (NS) and skin biopsy (SB) in the same patient, supplementing conventional…”
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Defining mycobacteria: Shared and specific genome features for different lifestyles by Vissa, Varalakshmi D., Sakamuri, Rama Murthy, Li, Wei, Brennan, Patrick J.

“…During the last decade, the combination of rapid whole genome sequencing capabilities, application of genetic and computational tools, and establishment of…”
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Study of rifampin and dapsone resistance in three patients with recurring leprosy by Hernández, Elkin, Cardona-Castro, Nora, Rodríguez, Gerzaín, Villegas, Sonia, Beltrán, Camilo, Kimura, Miyako, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Gómez, Yenny

“…To detect the presence of rifampin- and dapsone-resistant strains of Mycobacterium leprae in three patients with recurring leprosy and clinically-suspected…”
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Conversion of dTDP-4-keto-6-deoxyglucose to free dTDP-4-keto-rhamnose by the rmlC gene products of Escherichia coli and Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Stern, Richard J, Lee, Tae-Yoon, Lee, Tae-Jin, Yan, Wenxin, Scherman, Michael S, Vissa, Varalakshmi D, Kim, Soo-Ki, Wanner, Barry L, McNeil, Michael R

“…1 Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA 2 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University,…”
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