Gene Review:
embB - arabinosyltransferase
Mycobacterium tuberculosis CDC1551
- Role of embB in natural and acquired resistance to ethambutol in mycobacteria. Alcaide, F., Pfyffer, G.E., Telenti, A. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (1997)
- The role of the embA and embB gene products in the biosynthesis of the terminal hexaarabinofuranosyl motif of Mycobacterium smegmatis arabinogalactan. Escuyer, V.E., Lety, M.A., Torrelles, J.B., Khoo, K.H., Tang, J.B., Rithner, C.D., Frehel, C., McNeil, M.R., Brennan, P.J., Chatterjee, D. J. Biol. Chem. (2001)
- Significance of Mutations in embB Codon 306 for Prediction of Ethambutol Resistance in Clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates. Plinke, C., Rüsch-Gerdes, S., Niemann, S. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2006)
- Novel mutations within the embB gene in ethambutol-susceptible clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Lee, A.S., Othman, S.N., Ho, Y.M., Wong, S.Y. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2004)
- Role of embB codon 306 mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis revisited: a novel association with broad drug resistance and IS6110 clustering rather than ethambutol resistance. Hazbón, M.H., Bobadilla del Valle, M., Guerrero, M.I., Varma-Basil, M., Filliol, I., Cavatore, M., Colangeli, R., Safi, H., Billman-Jacobe, H., Lavender, C., Fyfe, J., García-García, L., Davidow, A., Brimacombe, M., León, C.I., Porras, T., Bose, M., Chaves, F., Eisenach, K.D., Sifuentes-Osornio, J., Ponce de León, A., Cave, M.D., Alland, D. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2005)
- Characterisation of rpsL, rrs and embB mutations associated with streptomycin and ethambutol resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tracevska, T., Jansone, I., Nodieva, A., Marga, O., Skenders, G., Baumanis, V. Res. Microbiol. (2004)
- Molecular genetic analysis of nucleotide polymorphisms associated with ethambutol resistance in human isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Ramaswamy, S.V., Amin, A.G., Göksel, S., Stager, C.E., Dou, S.J., El Sahly, H., Moghazeh, S.L., Kreiswirth, B.N., Musser, J.M. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. (2000)
- Detection of embB codon 306 mutations in ethambutol resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis directly from sputum samples: a low-cost, rapid approach. Rinder, H., Mieskes, K.T., Tortoli, E., Richter, E., Casal, M., Vaquero, M., Cambau, E., Feldmann, K., Löscher, T. Mol. Cell. Probes (2001)
- Dual-probe assay for rapid detection of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by real-time PCR. Wada, T., Maeda, S., Tamaru, A., Imai, S., Hase, A., Kobayashi, K. J. Clin. Microbiol. (2004)
- Mycobacterial arabinan biosynthesis: the use of synthetic arabinoside acceptors in the development of an arabinosyl transfer assay. Lee, R.E., Brennan, P.J., Besra, G.S. Glycobiology (1997)
- Nucleotide Polymorphism Associated with Ethambutol Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Srivastava, S., Garg, A., Ayyagari, A., Nyati, K.K., Dhole, T.N., Dwivedi, S.K. Curr. Microbiol. (2006)
- Mutations in the embB locus among Korean clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to ethambutol. Lee, H.Y., Myoung, H.J., Bang, H.E., Bai, G.H., Kim, S.J., Kim, J.D., Cho, S.N. Yonsei Med. J. (2002)