Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU with structure-based inhibitors

T Bhowmick, S Ghosh, K Dixit, V Ganesan… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
… gene expression changes in Mtb that resemble those induced by HU deficiency. Our results
indicate that HU is a potential target for the development of therapies against tuberculosis. …

Computational Approaches for the Structure-Based Identification of Novel Inhibitors Targeting Nucleoid-Associated Proteins in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis

Sunita, N Singhvi, V Gupta, Y Singh, P Shukla - Molecular Biotechnology, 2024 - Springer
mycobacterial genes. The virtual screening used in this study to find new potential inhibitors
that target Mtb nucleoid-associated proteins … as potential novel targets for these NAPs from a …

… Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Histone Like Protein HU And Structure Based Design Of Molecules To Inhibit MtbHU-DNA Interaction: Leads For A New Target …

T Bhowmick - 2015 - etd.iisc.ac.in
… class of DNAinteraction inhibitors and HU as a druggable target, more so because … ,
targeting the nucleoid associated protein HU in Mtb can strategize design of new anti-mycobacterial

Phylogenetic studies and inhibitor design targeting protein interacting interface of nucleoid-associated protein HU

D Dey, S Ramakumar - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… organisms HU like proteins are essential, which makes them a promising drug target for
infectious pathogens, which encouraged our group to design structure-based inhibitors against …

Rv0802c is an acyltransferase that succinylates and acetylates Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU

C Anand, M Santoshi, PR Singh… - Microbiology, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
… Among the nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs), HU is the most conserved in … Targeting
Mycobacterium tuberculosis nucleoid-associated protein HU with structure-based inhibitors

Functional Characterization of Nucleoid Associated Proteins Acting as Global Transcription Factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

NT Odermatt - 2017 - infoscience.epfl.ch
inhibitor of Lsr2-DNA complex formation, was found to intercalate into the DNA. The resulting
toxic effect on both its target M… IHF belongs to the HU family of DNA binding proteins due to …

Mycobacterial nucleoid associated proteins: an added dimension in gene regulation

NL Kriel, J Gallant, N van Wyk, P van Helden… - Tuberculosis, 2018 - Elsevier
… The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to adapt to the … The IHF/HU fold is highly
conserved and is able to induce a … A structure-based approach aimed at designing HupB-DNA …

HupB, a nucleoid-associated protein, is critical for survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under host-mediated stresses and for enhanced tolerance to key first-line …

…, N Sharma, P Singh, M Pandey, M Ilyas… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
targeting of HupB with SD1, a known small molecule inhibitor, … a highly promising therapeutic
target especially for potential … HupB is an Mtb-encoded HU-like protein of E. coli and a …

Bacteriophage protein Gp46 is a cross-species inhibitor of nucleoid-associated HU proteins

P Zhang, X Zhao, Y Wang, K Du… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… is the most abundant nucleoid-associated protein in bacteria, … In most other bacteria, including
Mycobacterium tuberculosis… , using structure-based drug design, inhibitors targeting the α-…

Direct regulation of topoisomerase activity by a nucleoid-associated protein

S Ghosh, B Mallick, V Nagaraja - Nucleic acids research, 2014 - academic.oup.com
HU, a major NAP of Mycobacterium tuberculosis specifically stimulates the DNA relaxation
ability of mycobacterial … achieved by HU, and such sites are likely targets for TopoI inhibition. …