MOLECULAR DEFINITION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NEW PROTEINS OF MYCOBACTERIUM-LEPRAE

This report describes N-terminal group analysis of six new proteins is olated from in vivo-grown Mycobacterium leprae, three of which corresp ond to products of the cysA, ahpC, and rpIL genes, which were recently defined through the M. leprae genome project and which encode a putat ive sulfate sulfurtransferase, an antioxidant enzyme, and the L7/L12 r ibosomal protein, respectively.