Glycopeptidolipid of Mycobacterium smegmatis J15cs Affects Morphology and Survival in Host Cells

• Nagatoshi Fujiwara ,

  * E-mail: fujiwara@tezukayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Contemporary Human Life Science, Tezukayama University, Nara City, Nara, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan

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• Naoya Ohara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naoya Ohara, Midori Ogawa

  Affiliation Department of Oral Microbiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama City, Okayama, Japan

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• Midori Ogawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Naoya Ohara, Midori Ogawa

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Shinji Maeda,

  Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Division, Mycobacterium Reference Center, The Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiyose City, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takashi Naka,

  Affiliations Department of Bacteriology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan, MBR Co. Ltd., Toyonaka City, Osaka, Japan

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• Hatsumi Taniguchi,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka, Japan

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• Saburo Yamamoto,

  Affiliation Japan BCG Laboratory, Kiyose City, Tokyo, Japan

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• Minoru Ayata

  Affiliation Department of Virology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan

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