Conditional expression of
Mycobacterium smegmatis ftsZ, an essential cell division gene.
In a lawsuit filed 23 February, Illumina suggested that Oxford Nanopore used a bacteria - derived pore called
Mycobacterium smegmatis porin (Msp).
Eric J. Rubin, M.D., Ph.D., of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and E. Hesper Rego, Ph.D., of Yale University School of Medicine, and their coworkers first studied
Mycobacterium smegmatis, a close relative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the microbe that causes TB.
Professor Cook's team have established that
Mycobacterium smegmatis metabolises molecular hydrogen using three enzymes called hydrogenases.
In collaboration with researchers in the US and Germany, Otago microbiologists have teased out the mechanisms by which the aerobic soil microbe
Mycobacterium smegmatis is able to persist for extreme lengths of time in the absence, or near - absence, of oxygen.