Mycobacterium smegmatis is a fast-growing model mycobacterial system that shares many features with the pathogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis while allowing practical proteomics analysis. With the use
Members of the Mycobacterium (M.) abscessus complex (MABC) are rapidly growing mycobacteria showing smooth and/or rough colony morphotype. While not as virulent as M. tuberculosis, they can cause soft
The PE and PPE protein family are unique to mycobacteria. Though the complete genome sequences for over 500 M. tuberculosis strains and mycobacterial species are available, few PE and PPE proteins hav
Pellicles, a type of biofilm, have gathered a renewed interest in the field of tuberculosis as a structure that mimics some characteristics occurring during M. tuberculosis infection, such as antibiot