TABLE 1.

Major thiols in M. tuberculosis wild-type and mshD mutant strains and in their pCV125::mshD complement strains

Strain	OD600	Major thiol content (nmol/109 cells)
		MSH	Cys-GlcN-Ins	fCys-GlcN-Ins
Wild type	0.28	27	<0.02	<0.02
Wild type	0.47	27	<0.02	<0.02
ΔmshD mutant	0.22	<0.03	0.71	1.36
ΔmshD mutant	1.07	0.59	4.8	4.4
Wild type + pCV125::mshD	0.36	31	<0.02	<0.02
Wild type + pCV125::mshD	0.92	35	<0.02	<0.02
ΔmshD mutant + pCV125::mshD	0.42	39	<0.02	<0.02
ΔmshD mutant + pCV125::mshD	1.01	46	<0.02	<0.02