Author response: Flexible nitrogen utilisation by the metabolic generalist pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Aleksandra Agapova, Agnese Serafini, Michael Petridis, Debbie M Hunt, Acely Garza-Garcı́a, Charles D. Sohaskey, Luiz Pedro S. de Carvalho
Abstract
Metabolomics and stable isotope labelling studies of virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveal a de-centralised metabolic network able to utilise various amino acids as nitrogen sources to a better extent than ammonium.
MeSH terms
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis
- Amino acid metabolism
- Amino acid
- Disease
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Microbiology
- Biochemistry