[HTML][HTML] Cytochrome bd in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: A respiratory chain protein involved in the defense against antibacterials

L Mascolo, D Bald - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
The branched respiratory chain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has attracted attention as a
highly promising target for next-generation antibacterials. This system includes two terminal …

Genome-Wide Transcriptional Responses of Mycobacterium to Antibiotics

J Briffotaux, S Liu, B Gicquel - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotics can stimulate or depress gene expression in bacteria. The analysis of
transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium to antimycobacterial compounds has improved …

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 …

Moxifloxacin-mediated killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis involves respiratory downshift, reductive stress, and accumulation of reactive oxygen species

S Shee, S Singh, A Tripathi, C Thakur… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Moxifloxacin is central to treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Effects of moxifloxacin
on the Mycobacterium tuberculosis redox state were explored to identify strategies for …

Systems-level profiling of early peripheral host-response landscape variations across COVID-19 severity states in an Indian cohort

U Banerjee, S Chunchanur, KN Balaji, A Singh… - Genes & …, 2023 - nature.com
Host immune response to COVID-19 plays a significant role in regulating disease severity.
Although big data analysis has provided significant insights into the host biology of COVID …

Cysteine desulfurase (IscS)–mediated fine-tuning of bioenergetics and SUF expression prevents Mycobacterium tuberculosis hypervirulence

M Das, S Sreedharan, S Shee, N Malhotra… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) biogenesis requires multiprotein assembly systems, SUF and ISC, in most
prokaryotes. M. tuberculosis (Mtb) encodes a complete SUF system, the depletion of which …

Cytochrome bd oxidase: An emerging anti-tubercular drug target

P Saha, S Das, HK Indurthi, R Kumar, A Roy… - RSC Medicinal …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Cytochrome bd (Cyt-bd) oxidase, one of the two terminal oxidases in the Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) oxidative phosphorylation pathway, plays an indispensable role in …

Functional and biochemical characterization of the MazEF6 toxin-antitoxin system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

G Chattopadhyay, M Bhasin, S Ahmed… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome harbors nine toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems that are
members of the mazEF family, unlike other prokaryotes, which have only one or two …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis requires SufT for Fe-S cluster maturation, metabolism, and survival in vivo

A Tripathi, K Anand, M Das, RA O'Niel, S P. S… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster proteins carry out essential cellular functions in diverse organisms,
including the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). The mechanisms …

VapC21 Toxin Contributes to Drug-Tolerance and Interacts With Non-cognate VapB32 Antitoxin in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A Sharma, G Chattopadhyay, P Chopra… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The prokaryotic ubiquitous Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules encodes for a stable toxin and an
unstable antitoxin. VapBC subfamily is the most abundant Type II TA system in M …