[HTML][HTML] Limitations of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis reference genome H37Rv in the detection of virulence-related loci

RF O'Toole, SS Gautam - Genomics, 2017 - Elsevier
The genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv is an important and
valuable reference point in the study of M. tuberculosis phylogeny, molecular epidemiology …

Functional genetic variation in pe/ppe genes contributes to diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineages and potential interactions with the human host

PJ Gómez-González, AD Grabowska… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Around 10% of the coding potential of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is constituted
by two poorly understood gene families, the pe and ppe loci, thought to be involved in host …

Portable sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for clinical and epidemiological applications

PJ Gómez-González, S Campino… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
With> 1 million associated deaths in 2020, human tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacteria
Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases. A plethora of …

A complete high-quality MinION nanopore assembly of an extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bei**g lineage strain identifies novel variation in …

A Bainomugisa, T Duarte, E Lavu… - Microbial …, 2018 - microbiologyresearch.org
A better understanding of the genomic changes that facilitate the emergence and spread of
drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains is currently required. Here, we report the …

Advances in the development of molecular genetic tools for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

C Chhotaray, Y Tan, J Mugweru, MM Islam… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a Gram-positive bacterium of great clinical relevance, is a
lethal pathogen owing to its complex physiological characteristics and development of drug …

Drivers and sites of diversity in the DNA adenine methylomes of 93 Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates

SJ Modlin, D Conkle-Gutierrez, C Kim, SN Mitchell… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
This study assembles DNA adenine methylomes for 93 Mycobacterium tuberculosis
complex (MTBC) isolates from seven lineages paired with fully-annotated, finished, de novo …

Structure-aware Mycobacterium tuberculosis functional annotation uncloaks resistance, metabolic, and virulence genes

SJ Modlin, A Elghraoui, D Gunasekaran, AM Zlotnicki… - …, 2021 - journals.asm.org
Accurate and timely functional genome annotation is essential for translating basic pathogen
research into clinically impactful advances. Here, through literature curation and structure …

Distribution of common and rare genetic markers of second-line-Injectable-drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by a genome-wide association …

D Conkle-Gutierrez, C Kim… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Point mutations in the rrs gene and the eis promoter are known to confer resistance to the
second-line injectable drugs (SLIDs) amikacin (AMK), capreomycin (CAP), and kanamycin …

Integrated Multi-Omic Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra Redefines Virulence Attributes

SM Pinto, R Verma, J Advani, O Chatterjee… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
H37Ra is a virulence attenuated strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis widely employed as a
model to investigate virulence mechanisms. Comparative high-throughput studies have …

High‐Accuracy Long‐Read Sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PSNK363 Isolated From the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

TB Dang, N Sung, K Lim, S Lee… - Canadian Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐read sequencing is a valuable technique for high‐precision genome analysis. Despite
the widespread use of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv genome sequence as a …