Chemical–genetic interaction mapping links carbon metabolism and cell wall structure to tuberculosis drug efficacy

EI Koh, PO Oluoch, N Ruecker… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Current chemotherapy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), an important human
pathogen, requires a multidrug regimen lasting several months. While efforts have been …

Understanding the contribution of metabolism to Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug tolerance

AN Samuels, ER Wang, GA Harrison… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infections is particularly arduous. One
challenge to effectively treating tuberculosis is that drug efficacy in vivo often fails to match …

Central carbon metabolism remodeling as a mechanism to develop drug tolerance and drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

H Eoh, R Liu, J Lim, JJ Lee, P Sell - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Suboptimal efficacy of the current antibiotic regimens and frequent emergence of antibiotic-
resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), an etiological agent of tuberculosis (TB), render …

The role of fatty acid metabolism in drug tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

CG Quinonez, JJ Lee, J Lim, M Odell, CP Lawson… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mycobacterium tuberculosis can cocatabolize a range of carbon sources. Fatty acids are
among the carbons available inside the host's macrophages. Here, we investigated the …

Harnessing biological insight to accelerate tuberculosis drug discovery

TJ de Wet, DF Warner, V Mizrahi - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of mortality globally resulting from an
infectious disease, killing almost 1.6 million people annually and accounting for …

Targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis response to environmental cues for the development of effective antitubercular drugs

RC Lavin, C Johnson, YM Ahn, KM Kremiller… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Sensing and response to environmental cues, such as pH and chloride (Cl−), is critical in
enabling Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) colonization of its host. Utilizing a fluorescent …

Model-based integration of genomics and metabolomics reveals SNP functionality in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

O Øyås, S Borrell, A Trauner… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Human tuberculosis is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
(MTBC) that vary in virulence and transmissibility. While genome-wide association studies …

Modeling the Metabolic State of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Upon Infection

RA Rienksma, PJ Schaap… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Genome-scale metabolic models of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent
of tuberculosis, have been envisioned as a platform for drug discovery. By systematically …

Revolutionizing control strategies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection through selected targeting of lipid metabolism

H Kim, SJ Shin - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Lipid species play a critical role in the growth and virulence expression of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB). During Mtb infection, foamy …

Metabolic fluxes for nutritional flexibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

K Borah, TA Mendum, ND Hawkins, JL Ward… - Molecular systems …, 2021 - embopress.org
The co‐catabolism of multiple host‐derived carbon substrates is required by Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (Mtb) to successfully sustain a tuberculosis infection. However, the metabolic …