Metabolic principles of persistence and pathogenicity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Ehrt, D Schnap**er, KY Rhee - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018‏ - nature.com
Metabolism was once relegated to the supply of energy and biosynthetic precursors, but it
has now become clear that it is a specific mediator of nearly all physiological processes. In …

The spectrum of latent tuberculosis: rethinking the biology and intervention strategies

CE Barry 3rd, HI Boshoff, V Dartois, T Dick… - Nature Reviews …, 2009‏ - nature.com
Immunological tests provide evidence of latent tuberculosis in one third of the global
population, which corresponds to more than two billion individuals. Latent tuberculosis is …

Genome-wide gene expression tuning reveals diverse vulnerabilities of M. tuberculosis

B Bosch, MA DeJesus, NC Poulton, W Zhang… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Antibacterial agents target the products of essential genes but rarely achieve complete
target inhibition. Thus, the all-or-none definition of essentiality afforded by traditional genetic …

Neutrophils are the predominant infected phagocytic cells in the airways of patients with active pulmonary TB

SY Eum, JH Kong, MS Hong, YJ Lee, JH Kim… - Chest, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Background The exact role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of TB is poorly understood.
Recent evidence suggests that neutrophils are not simply scavenging phagocytes in …

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis DosR Regulon Assists in Metabolic Homeostasis and Enables Rapid Recovery from Nonrespiring Dormancy

RL Leistikow, RA Morton, IL Bartek… - Journal of …, 2010‏ - journals.asm.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives in latently infected individuals, likely in a
nonreplicating or dormancy-like state. The M. tuberculosis DosR regulon is a genetic …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB3 Maintains Redox Homeostasis by Regulating Virulence Lipid Anabolism to Modulate Macrophage Response

A Singh, DK Crossman, D Mai, L Guidry… - PLoS …, 2009‏ - journals.plos.org
The metabolic events associated with maintaining redox homeostasis in Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) during infection are poorly understood. Here, we discovered a novel …

Reengineering Redox Sensitive GFP to Measure Mycothiol Redox Potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during Infection

A Bhaskar, M Chawla, M Mehta, P Parikh… - PLoS …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) survives under oxidatively hostile environments
encountered inside host phagocytes. To protect itself from oxidative stress, Mtb produces …

Insight into human alveolar macrophage and M. tuberculosis interactions via metabolic reconstructions

A Bordbar, NE Lewis, J Schellenberger… - Molecular systems …, 2010‏ - embopress.org
Metabolic coupling of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to its host is foundational to its
pathogenesis. Computational genome‐scale metabolic models have shown utility in …

Niacinamide-mechanisms of action and its topical use in dermatology

J Wohlrab, D Kreft - Skin pharmacology and physiology, 2014‏ - karger.com
Niacinamide, an amide of vitamin B 3 (niacin), is a hydrophilic endogenous substance. Its
effects after epicutaneous application have long been described in the literature. Given a …

Redox homeostasis in mycobacteria: the key to tuberculosis control?

A Kumar, A Farhana, L Guidry, V Saini… - Expert reviews in …, 2011‏ - cambridge.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a metabolically flexible pathogen that has the
extraordinary ability to sense and adapt to the continuously changing host environment …