Gene Review:
pncA - pyrazinamidase/nicotinamidase PncA
Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
- Characterization of pncA mutations in pyrazinamide-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Brazil. Rodrigues, V.d.e. .F., Telles, M.A., Ribeiro, M.O., Cafrune, P.I., Rossetti, M.L., Zaha, A. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2005)
- Detection of Multidrug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sekiguchi, J., Miyoshi-Akiyama, T., Augustynowicz-Kopec, E., Zwolska, Z., Kirikae, F., Toyota, E., Kobayashi, I., Morita, K., Kudo, K., Kato, S., Kuratsuji, T., Mori, T., Kirikae, T. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2007)
- Differentiation of BCG-induced lymphadenitis from tuberculosis in lymph node biopsy specimens by molecular analyses of pncA and oxyR. Yan, J.J., Chen, F.F., Jin, Y.T., Chang, K.C., Wu, J.J., Wang, Y.W., Su, I.J. J. Pathol. (1998)
- Mutations in pncA, a gene encoding pyrazinamidase/nicotinamidase, cause resistance to the antituberculous drug pyrazinamide in tubercle bacillus. Scorpio, A., Zhang, Y. Nat. Med. (1996)
- Detection by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of pncA mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from the United States-Mexico border region. McCammon, M.T., Gillette, J.S., Thomas, D.P., Ramaswamy, S.V., Rosas, I.I., Graviss, E.A., Vijg, J., Quitugua, T.N. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2005)
- pncA mutations as a major mechanism of pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: spread of a monoresistant strain in Quebec, Canada. Cheng, S.J., Thibert, L., Sanchez, T., Heifets, L., Zhang, Y. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2000)
- Simultaneous identification and typing of multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates by analysis of pncA and rpoB. Brown, T.J., Tansel, O., French, G.L. J. Med. Microbiol. (2000)
- Mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance in pncA of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms. Sreevatsan, S., Pan, X., Zhang, Y., Kreiswirth, B.N., Musser, J.M. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (1997)
- Phenotypic characterization of pncA mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Morlock, G.P., Crawford, J.T., Butler, W.R., Brim, S.E., Sikes, D., Mazurek, G.H., Woodley, C.L., Cooksey, R.C. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2000)
- Rapid differentiation of bovine and human tubercle bacilli based on a characteristic mutation in the bovine pyrazinamidase gene. Scorpio, A., Collins, D., Whipple, D., Cave, D., Bates, J., Zhang, Y. J. Clin. Microbiol. (1997)
- pncA mutations in pyrazinamide-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from the southeast region of Brazil. Barco, P., Cardoso, R.F., Hirata, R.D., Leite, C.Q., Pandolfi, J.R., Sato, D.N., Shikama, M.L., de Melo, F.F., Mamizuka, E.M., Campanerut, P.A., Hirata, M.H. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. (2006)
- Expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis pyrazinamidase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis confers hypersensitivity to pyrazinamide and related amides. Boshoff, H.I., Mizrahi, V. J. Bacteriol. (2000)
- Pyrazinamide-monoresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States. Hannan, M.M., Desmond, E.P., Morlock, G.P., Mazurek, G.H., Crawford, J.T. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2001)
- A multiplex-PCR for the differentiation of Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Shah, D.H., Verma, R., Bakshi, C.S., Singh, R.K. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. (2002)
- Genotypic determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic resistance using a novel mutation detection method, the branch migration inhibition M. tuberculosis antibiotic resistance test. Liu, Y.P., Behr, M.A., Small, P.M., Kurn, N. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2000)
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis subsp. caprae subsp. nov.: a taxonomic study of a new member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolated from goats in Spain. Aranaz, A., Liébana, E., Gómez-Mampaso, E., Galán, J.C., Cousins, D., Ortega, A., Blázquez, J., Baquero, F., Mateos, A., Súarez, G., Domínguez, L. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1999)
- Characterization of pyrazinamide and ofloxacin resistance among drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from Singapore. Lee, A.S., Tang, L.L., Lim, I.H., Wong, S.Y. Int. J. Infect. Dis. (2002)
- Microarray-based pncA genotyping of pyrazinamide-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Denkin, S., Volokhov, D., Chizhikov, V., Zhang, Y. J. Med. Microbiol. (2005)
- Temperature-mediated heteroduplex analysis for detection of pncA mutations associated with pyrazinamide resistance and differentiation between Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis by denaturing high- performance liquid chromatography. Mohamed, A.M., Bastola, D.R., Morlock, G.P., Cooksey, R.C., Hinrichs, S.H. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2004)
- New mutations in pncA of in vitro selected pyrazinamide-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bamaga, M., Zhang, H., Wright, D.J. Microb. Drug Resist. (2001)
- Mutation in pncA is a major mechanism of pyrazinamide resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Hirano, K., Takahashi, M., Kazumi, Y., Fukasawa, Y., Abe, C. Tuber. Lung Dis. (1997)