Tuberculosis (TB) is the number one cause of human death due to an infectious disease.
The causative agents of TB are a group of closely related bacteria known as the …

The causative agent of human tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC),
comprises seven phylogenetically distinct lineages associated with different geographical …

The causative agent of human tuberculosis (TB), M ycobacterium tuberculosis, is an obligate
pathogen that evolved to exclusively persist in human populations. For M. tuberculosis to …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has an unusual outer membrane that lacks canonical porin
proteins for the transport of small solutes to the periplasm. We discovered that 3, 3-bis-di …

The pe/ppe genes represent one of the most intriguing aspects of the M ycobacterium
tuberculosis genome. These genes are especially abundant in pathogenic mycobacteria …

With the continued increase of genomic information and computational analyses during the
recent years, the number of newly discovered calcium binding proteins (CaBPs) in …

Molecular typing has revolutionized epidemiological studies of infectious diseases,
including those of a mycobacterial etiology. With the advent of fingerprinting techniques …

Ubiquitin-mediated xenophagy, a type of selective autophagy, plays crucial roles in host
defense against intracellular pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) …

Suppression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigen presentation is
believed to be among the major mechanisms used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to …

The PE and PPE proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have been studied with great
interest since their discovery. Named after the conserved proline (P) and glutamic acid (E) …