CRISPR Interference Reveals That All-Trans-Retinoic Acid Promotes Macrophage Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Limiting Bacterial Access to Cholesterol …

GH Babunovic, MA DeJesus, B Bosch, MR Chase… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Macrophages are a protective replicative niche for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) but can
kill the infecting bacterium when appropriately activated. To identify mechanisms of …

One‐shot 13C15N‐metabolic flux analysis for simultaneous quantification of carbon and nitrogen flux

K Borah Slater, M Beyß, Y Xu, J Barber… - Molecular systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
Metabolic flux is the final output of cellular regulation and has been extensively studied for
carbon but much less is known about nitrogen, which is another important building block for …

A review of computational and mathematical modeling contributions to our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis within-host infection and treatment

D Kirschner, E Pienaar, S Marino… - Current opinion in systems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is an ancient and deadly disease characterized by complex host-
pathogen dynamics playing out over multiple time and length scales and physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic flux analysis—linking isotope labeling and metabolic fluxes

Y Wang, FE Wondisford, C Song, T Zhang, X Su - Metabolites, 2020 - mdpi.com
Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is an increasingly important tool to study metabolism
quantitatively. Unlike the concentrations of metabolites, the fluxes, which are the rates at …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Metabolism

GT Mashabela, TJ De Wet, DF Warner - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the cause of tuberculosis (TB), a disease which continues to
overwhelm health systems in endemic regions despite the existence of effective combination …

Comprehensive Examination of the Mouse Lung Metabolome Following Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Using a Multiplatform Mass Spectrometry Approach

M Fernández-García, F Rey-Stolle… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The mechanisms whereby Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) rewires the host metabolism in
vivo are surprisingly unexplored. Here, we used three high-resolution mass spectrometry …

[HTML][HTML] Rewiring of Metabolic Network in Mycobacterium tuberculosis During Adaptation to Different Stresses

A Rizvi, A Shankar, A Chatterjee, TH More… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Metabolic adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) to microbicidal
intracellular environment of host macrophages is fundamental to its pathogenicity. However …

Infect and Inject: How Mycobacterium tuberculosis Exploits Its Major Virulence-Associated Type VII Secretion System, ESX-1

S Tiwari, R Casey, CW Goulding… - Microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an ancient master of the art of causing human disease. One
important weapon within its fully loaded arsenal is the type VII secretion system. M …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing the impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on primary human macrophages by combined exploratory and targeted metabolomics

F Vrieling, S Kostidis, HP Spaink, MC Haks… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The pathogenic success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is tightly linked to its ability to
recalibrate host metabolic processes in infected host macrophages. Since changes in …

[HTML][HTML] Application of metabolomics to drug discovery and understanding the mechanisms of action of medicinal plants with anti-tuberculosis activity

N Tuyiringire, D Tusubira, JP Munyampundu… - Clinical and translational …, 2018 - Springer
Human tuberculosis (TB) is amongst the oldest and deadliest human bacterial diseases that
pose major health, social and economic burden at a global level. Current regimens for TB …