Immunological roads diverged: map** tuberculosis outcomes in mice

RK Meade, CM Smith - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
The journey from phenotypic observation to causal genetic mechanism is a long and
challenging road. For pathogens like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), which causes …

Nucleoid‐associated proteins of mycobacteria come with a distinctive flavor

M Santoshi, P Tare, V Nagaraja - Molecular Microbiology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In every bacterium, nucleoid‐associated proteins (NAPs) play crucial roles in chromosome
organization, replication, repair, gene expression, and other DNA transactions. Their central …

Preclinical murine models for the testing of antimicrobials against Mycobacterium abscessus pulmonary infections: Current practices and recommendations

V Dartois, TL Bonfield, JP Boyce, CL Daley, T Dick… - Tuberculosis, 2024 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous mycobacterium, is
increasingly recognized as an important pathogen of the human lung, disproportionally …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsB and PerM interact via a C-terminal helix in FtsB to modulate cell division

JR Ferreira, R Xu, Z Hensel - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Latent infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) impedes effective tuberculosis therapy
and eradication. The protein PerM is essential for chronic Mtb infections in mice and acts via …

Genetic Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Response to Stressors During Infection

K Dinshaw - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a bacterial pathogen that establishes a pulmonary
infection in the lung, and a quarter of the world's population is estimated to be latently …

Evolution of targets at the host-pathogen interface

C Beaudoin - 2024 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Using comparative genomics, I investigate the protein-coding potential of globally-
distributed Mtb strains. Previous reports had suggested that the pan-genome (or all unique …

Inhibitors of the Thioesterase Activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Pks13 Discovered Using DNA-Encoded Chemical Library Screening

IV Krieger, S Yalamanchili, P Dickson… - ACS Infectious …, 2024 - ACS Publications
DNA-encoded chemical library (DEL) technology provides a time-and cost-efficient method
to simultaneously screen billions of compounds for their affinity to a protein target of interest …