The exploitation of host autophagy and ubiquitin machinery by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sha** immune responses and host defense during infection

M Shariq, N Quadir, A Alam, S Zarin, JA Sheikh… - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Intracellular pathogens have evolved various efficient molecular armaments to subvert
innate defenses. Cellular ubiquitination, a normal physiological process to maintain …

[HTML][HTML] The PE-PPE family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: proteins in disguise

C D'Souza, U Kishore, AG Tsolaki - Immunobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis has thrived in parallel with humans for millennia, and despite
our efforts, M. tuberculosis continues to plague us, currently infecting a third of the world's …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Protein PE6 (Rv0335c), a Novel TLR4 Agonist, Evokes an Inflammatory Response and Modulates the Cell Death Pathways in …

N Sharma, M Shariq, N Quadir, J Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) is an intracellular pathogen that exploits moonlighting
functions of its proteins to interfere with host cell functions. PE/PPE proteins utilize host …

The unfoldase ClpC1 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulates the expression of a distinct subset of proteins having intrinsically disordered termini

A Lunge, R Gupta, E Choudhary, N Agarwal - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - jbc.org
The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) harbors a well-orchestrated Clp
(caseinolytic protease) proteolytic machinery consisting of two oligomeric segments, a barrel …

Immunological effects of the PE/PPE family proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and related vaccines

F Guo, J Wei, Y Song, B Li, Z Qian, X Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(Mtb), and its incidence and mortality are increasing. The BCG vaccine was developed in the …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE_PGRS Protein Family Acts as an Immunological Decoy to Subvert Host Immune Response

T Sharma, A Alam, A Ehtram, A Rani, S Grover… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) is a successful pathogen that can reside within the
alveolar macrophages of the host and can survive in a latent stage. The pathogen has …

[HTML][HTML] Teleological cooption of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE/PPE proteins as porins: Role in molecular immigration and emigration

A Ehtram, M Shariq, S Ali, N Quadir, JA Sheikh… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Permeation through bacterial cells for exchange or uptake of biomolecules and ions
invariably depend upon the existence of pore-forming proteins (porins) in their outer …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic disorder in proteins: Relevance to protein assemblies, drug design and host-pathogen interactions

TL Blundell, MN Gupta, SE Hasnain - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intrinsic disorder in proteins resulting in considerable variation in structure can lead to
multiple functions including multi-specificity and diverse pathologies. Protein interfaces can …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE/PPE proteins enhance the production of reactive oxygen species and formation of neutrophil extracellular traps

M García-Bengoa, M Meurer, M Stehr… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Neutrophil granulocytes predominate in the lungs of patients infected with
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) in earlier stages of the disease. During infection …

Modulators targeting protein-protein interactions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

G Luo, T Ming, L Yang, L He, T Tao, Y Wang - Microbiological Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.
tuberculosis), mainly transmitted through droplets to infect the lungs, and seriously affecting …