Mycobacterium tuberculosis-macrophage interaction: Molecular updates

H Bo, UAE Moure, Y Yang, J Pan, L Li… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of Tuberculosis (TB), remains a
pathogen of great interest on a global scale. This airborne pathogen affects the lungs, where …

Hit generation in TB drug discovery: from genome to granuloma

T Yuan, NS Sampson - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Current tuberculosis (TB) drug development efforts are not sufficient to end the global TB
epidemic. Recent efforts have focused on the development of whole-cell screening assays …

Targeting redox heterogeneity to counteract drug tolerance in replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis

R Mishra, S Kohli, N Malhotra… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
The capacity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to tolerate multiple antibiotics represents a
major problem in tuberculosis (TB) management. Heterogeneity in Mtb populations is one of …

[HTML][HTML] Reactive species and pathogen antioxidant networks during phagocytosis

L Piacenza, M Trujillo, R Radi - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2019 - rupress.org
The generation of phagosomal cytotoxic reactive species (ie, free radicals and oxidants) by
activated macrophages and neutrophils is a crucial process for the control of intracellular …

Acid fasting: modulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis metabolism at acidic pH

JJ Baker, SJ Dechow, RB Abramovitch - Trends in microbiology, 2019 - cell.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) senses and adapts to acidic host environments during the
course of pathogenesis. Mutants defective in acidic pH-dependent adaptations are often …

Host sirtuin 2 as an immunotherapeutic target against tuberculosis

A Bhaskar, S Kumar, MZ Khan, A Singh, VP Dwivedi… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) employs plethora of mechanisms to hijack the host
defence machinery for its successful survival, proliferation and persistence. Here, we show …

The actinobacterial WhiB‐like (Wbl) family of transcription factors

MJ Bush - Molecular Microbiology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The WhiB‐like (Wbl) family of proteins are exclusively found in Actinobacteria.
Wbls have been shown to play key roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance in …

[HTML][HTML] New roles for glutathione: Modulators of bacterial virulence and pathogenesis

JWK Ku, YH Gan - Redox Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Low molecular weight (LMW) thiols contain reducing sulfhydryl groups that are important for
maintaining antioxidant defense in the cell. Aside from the traditional roles of LMW thiols as …

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel Δ2-thiazolino 2-pyridone derivatives that potentiate isoniazid activity in an isoniazid-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis …

S Sarkar, AE Mayer Bridwell, JAD Good… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) drug resistance poses an alarming threat to global
tuberculosis control. We previously reported that C10, a ring-fused thiazolo-2-pyridone …

Alternate splicing of transcripts shape macrophage response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

H Kalam, MF Fontana, D Kumar - PLoS pathogens, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Transcriptional reprogramming of macrophages upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
infection is widely studied; however, the significance of alternate splicing (AS) in shaping …