Studies on lipids in mycobacterial cell wall: their important structure and function relating to pathogenicity and their biological activity.

The lipids cord-factor, mycosides and sulpholipids are supposed to be vitally linked with the pathogenecity of mycobacteria. In this paper an attempt has been made to clarify the understanding of the occurrence, organisation and possible interaction of the diverse lipids present in the mycobacterial cell wall and their possible structure and function.