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MinireviewThe genome of Mycobacterium leprae: a minimal mycobacterial gene setVaralakshmi D Vissa  and Patrick J Brennan Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA  author email corresponding author email
Genome Biology 2001,
2:reviews1023.1-1023.8doi:10.1186/gb-2001-2-8-reviews1023
Subject areas: Microbiology and parasitology, Genome studies, Cell biology, Biochemistry and structural biology Abstract
Comparison of the recently sequenced genome of the leprosy-causing pathogen Mycobacterium leprae with other mycobacterial genomes reveals a drastic gene reduction and decay in M. leprae affecting many metabolic areas, exemplified by the retention of a minimal set of genes required for cell-wall biosynthesis. | 
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