Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires the outer membrane lipid phthiocerol dimycocerosate for starvation-induced antibiotic tolerance

AM Block, SB Namugenyi, NP Palani, AM Brokaw… - Msystems, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antibiotics contributes to the long duration of
tuberculosis (TB) treatment and the emergence of drug-resistant strains. M. tuberculosis …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of covalent inhibitors that disrupt M. tuberculosis growth by targeting multiple serine hydrolases involved in lipid metabolism

BM Babin, LJ Keller, Y Pinto, VL Li, AS Eneim… - Cell chemical …, 2022 - cell.com
The increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections is a
global health threat necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Serine hydrolases …

Antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis alters tolerance to cell wall-targeting inhibitors

WJ Jowsey, GM Cook, MB McNeil - JAC-antimicrobial …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background A limited ability to eliminate drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis is a major contributor to the morbidity of TB. Complicating this problem, little is …

[HTML][HTML] Antimycobacterial activities of hydroxamic acids and their Iron (II/III), Nickel (II), copper (II) and zinc (II) complexes

D Yang, Y Zhang, IS Sow, H Liang, N El Manssouri… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Hydroxamic acid (HA) derivatives display antibacterial and antifungal activities. HA with
various numbers of carbon atoms (C2, C6, C8, C10, C12 and C17), complexed with different …

Interplays between copper and Mycobacterium tuberculosis GroEL1

D Yang, DP Klebl, S Zeng, F Sobott, M Prévost… - Metallomics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The recalcitrance of pathogenic Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of tuberculosis, to
eradication is due to various factors allowing bacteria to escape from stress situations. The …

Selection of new therapeutic targets in relation to lipid metabolism in Mycobacterium abscessus

T Dargham - 2024 - hal.science
Lipid droplets are conserved organelles in a large number of organisms, playing an
essential role in energy storage and membrane renewal. Among prokaryotes …

A screen of covalent inhibitors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis identifies serine hydrolases involved in lipid metabolism as potential therapeutic targets

BM Babin, LJ Keller, Y Pinto, VL Li, A Eneim, SE Vance… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
The increasing incidence of antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections is a
global health threat necessitating the development of new antibiotics. Serine hydrolases …