"Mycobacterium smegmatis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A rapid-growing, nonphotochromogenic species of MYCOBACTERIUM originally isolated from human smegma and found also in soil and water. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
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D020102
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.510.024.049.525.500.720.662 B03.510.460.400.410.552.552.720.662
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mycobacterium smegmatis" by people in Profiles.
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Prithviraj M, Freundlich JS, Morita YS. Proton gradient controls the lateral rearrangement of inner membrane domains in response to membrane fluidizer stress in Mycobacterium smegmatis. J Biol Chem. 2025 Jul; 301(7):110361.
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Rivera-Flores IV, Wang EX, Murphy KC. Mycobacterium smegmatis NucS-promoted DNA mismatch repair involves limited resection by a 5'-3' exonuclease and is independent of homologous recombination and NHEJ. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Nov 11; 52(20):12308-12323.
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Kitzmiller CE, Cheng TY, Prandi J, Sparks IL, Moody DB, Morita YS. Detergent-induced quantitatively limited formation of diacyl phosphatidylinositol dimannoside in Mycobacterium smegmatis. J Lipid Res. 2024 07; 65(7):100533.
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Sparks IL, Kado T, Prithviraj M, Nijjer J, Yan J, Morita YS. Lipoarabinomannan mediates localized cell wall integrity during division in mycobacteria. Nat Commun. 2024 Mar 11; 15(1):2191.
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Kado T, Akbary Z, Motooka D, Sparks IL, Melzer ES, Nakamura S, Rojas ER, Morita YS, Siegrist MS. A cell wall synthase accelerates plasma membrane partitioning in mycobacteria. Elife. 2023 09 04; 12.
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Sparks IL, Derbyshire KM, Jacobs WR, Morita YS. Mycobacterium smegmatis: The Vanguard of Mycobacterial Research. J Bacteriol. 2023 01 26; 205(1):e0033722.
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Wijesundera SA, Liyanage SH, Biswas P, Reuther JF, Yan M. Trehalose-Grafted Glycopolymer: Synthesis via the Staudinger Reaction and Capture of Mycobacteria. Biomacromolecules. 2023 01 09; 24(1):238-245.
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Freeman AH, Tembiwa K, Brenner JR, Chase MR, Fortune SM, Morita YS, Boutte CC. Arginine methylation sites on SepIVA help balance elongation and septation in Mycobacterium smegmatis. Mol Microbiol. 2023 02; 119(2):208-223.
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Melzer ES, Kado T, Garc?a-Heredia A, Gupta KR, Meniche X, Morita YS, Sassetti CM, Rego EH, Siegrist MS. Cell Wall Damage Reveals Spatial Flexibility in Peptidoglycan Synthesis and a Nonredundant Role for RodA in Mycobacteria. J Bacteriol. 2022 06 21; 204(6):e0054021.
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Rokicki CAZ, Brenner JR, Dills AH, Judd JJ, Kester JC, Puffal J, Sparks IL, Prithviraj M, Anderson BR, Wade JT, Gray TA, Derbyshire KM, Fortune SM, Morita YS. Fluorescence Imaging-Based Discovery of Membrane Domain-Associated Proteins in Mycobacterium smegmatis. J Bacteriol. 2021 10 25; 203(22):e0041921.