Regulation of mRNA stability during bacterial stress responses

DA Vargas-Blanco, SS Shell - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bacteria have a remarkable ability to sense environmental changes, swiftly regulating their
transcriptional and posttranscriptional machinery as a response. Under conditions that …

Applications of Transcriptomics and Proteomics for Understanding Dormancy and Resuscitation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Kundu, J Basu - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive within its host for extended periods of time without
any clinical symptoms of disease and reactivate when the immune system is weakened. A …

Cholesterol-dependent transcriptome remodeling reveals new insight into the contribution of cholesterol to Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis

J Pawełczyk, A Brzostek, A Minias, P Płociński… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an obligate human pathogen that can adapt to the
various nutrients available during its life cycle. However, in the nutritionally stringent …

Loss of RNase J leads to multi-drug tolerance and accumulation of highly structured mRNA fragments in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

MC Martini, ND Hicks, J Xiao, MN Alonso… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Despite the existence of well-characterized, canonical mutations that confer high-level drug
resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), there is evidence that drug resistance …

Bacterial RNA degradosomes: molecular machines under tight control

A Tejada-Arranz, V de Crecy-Lagard… - Trends in biochemical …, 2020 - cell.com
Bacterial RNA degradosomes are multienzyme molecular machines that act as hubs for post-
transcriptional regulation of gene expression. The ribonuclease activities of these …

Methodologies for bacterial ribonuclease characterization using RNA-seq

L Broglia, A Le Rhun… - FEMS microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Bacteria adjust gene expression at the post-transcriptional level through an intricate network
of small regulatory RNAs and RNA-binding proteins, including ribonucleases (RNases) …

PPE51 Is Involved in the Uptake of Disaccharides by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

M Korycka-Machała, J Pawełczyk, P Borówka… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
We have recently found that selected thio-disaccharides possess bactericidal effects against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis but not against Escherichia coli or S taphylococcus aureus …

Structural insights into RNase J that plays an essential role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA metabolism

L Bao, J Hu, B Zhan, M Chi, Z Li, S Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ribonucleases (RNases) are responsible for RNA metabolism. RNase J, the core enzyme of
the RNA degradosome, plays an essential role in global mRNA decay. Emerging evidence …

Small Noncoding RNAs and Their Role in the Pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection

AA Ostrik, TL Azhikina, EG Salina - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2021 - Springer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a significant arsenal of strategies to combat immune
defense of the host organism. Small noncoding RNAs, which constitute the largest group of …

Targeted protein degradation in mycobacteria uncovers antibacterial effects and potentiates antibiotic efficacy

HI Won, S Zinga, O Kandror, T Akopian, ID Wolf… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) represent a new therapeutic modality involving
selectively directing disease-causing proteins for degradation through proteolytic systems …