Metabolic Rewiring of Mycobacterium tuberculosis upon Drug Treatment and Antibiotics Resistance

B Singha, S Murmu, T Nair, RS Rawat, AK Sharma… - Metabolites, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), remains a significant global
health challenge, further compounded by the issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). AMR …

Alternative therapeutics to control antimicrobial resistance: a general perspective

B Singha, V Singh, V Soni - Frontiers in Drug Discovery, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a critical global health challenge, and in this review
article, we examine the limitations of traditional therapeutic methods and the emerging role …

Mycobacterial HelD connects RNA polymerase recycling with transcription initiation

T Kovaľ, N Borah, P Sudzinová, B Brezovská… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Mycobacterial HelD is a transcription factor that recycles stalled RNAP by dissociating it from
nucleic acids and, if present, from the antibiotic rifampicin. The rescued RNAP, however …

MoaB2, a newly identified transcription factor, binds to σA in Mycobacterium smegmatis

B Brezovská, S Narasimhan, M Šiková… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - journals.asm.org
In mycobacteria, σA is the primary sigma factor. This essential protein binds to RNA
polymerase (RNAP) and mediates transcription initiation of housekee** genes. Our …

‐Aroyl‐N‐Aryl‐Phenylalanine Amides: A Promising Class of Antimycobacterial Agents Targeting the RNA Polymerase

RW Seidel, R Goddard, M Lang… - Chemistry & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains the leading cause of
death from a bacterium in the world. The global prevalence of clinically relevant infections …

In silico virtual screening for the identification of novel inhibitors against dihydrodipicolinate reductase (DapB) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a key enzyme of …

N Angrish, N Lalwani, G Khare - Microbiology spectrum, 2023‏ - journals.asm.org
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) is one of the most
devastating infectious diseases afflicting a large number of human lives. In spite of the …

Depletion of essential mycobacterial gene glmM reduces pathogen survival and induces host-protective immune responses against tuberculosis

M Agarwal, A Bhaskar, B Singha… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The limitations of TB treatment are the long duration and immune-dampening effects of anti-
tuberculosis therapy. The Cell wall plays a crucial role in survival and virulence; hence …

The heparin-binding hemagglutinin protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a nucleoid-associated protein

CC Keshavam, S Naz, A Gupta, P Sanyal… - Journal of Biological …, 2023‏ - jbc.org
Nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) regulate multiple cellular processes such as gene
expression, virulence, and dormancy throughout bacterial species. NAPs help in the survival …

HelD is a Global Transcription Factor Enhancing Gene Expression in Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria

V Vaňková Hausnerová, D Kumar, M Shoman… - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
HelD protein, also named HelR (encoded by MSMEG_2174 in Mycobacterium smegmatis),
interacts with mycobacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) and affects rifampicin resistance in …

[PDF][PDF] of Thesis: Structural Characterization of Proteins

S Narasimhan - Biol Chem, 2024‏ - is.muni.cz
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are a class of proteins that lack a fixed three-
dimensional structure and instead exist in a dynamic ensemble of conformations. IDPs are …