"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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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 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Mycobacterium smegmatis" by people in Profiles.
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Wee D, Pandey M, Chen Y, Lorenzini PA, Chow EW, Wang Y, Singhal A, Oehlers SH. Primary tuberculous mycobacterial granulomas provide a niche for superinfecting Mycobacterium abscessus. Nat Commun. 2025 Nov 28; 16(1):10760.
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Puffal J, Sparks IL, Brenner JR, Li X, Leszyk JD, Hayashi JM, Shaffer SA, Morita YS. Compartmentalized cell envelope biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio. 2026 Jan 14; 17(1):e0268025.
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Liyanage SH, Yan M. Bacterial adhesion on glyco-hydrogels: impact of glycan and hydrogel stiffness. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2026 Mar; 259:115313.
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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 07; 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.