Targeting Energy Metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a New Paradigm in Antimycobacterial Drug Discovery

D Bald, C Villellas, P Lu, A Koul - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Drug-resistant mycobacterial infections are a serious global health challenge, leading to
high mortality and socioeconomic burdens in developing countries worldwide. New …

Tuberculosis—metabolism and respiration in the absence of growth

HIM Boshoff, CE Barry 3rd - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2005 - nature.com
Human tuberculosis is a complex disease caused by bacterial populations that are located
in discrete lesions (microenvironments) in a single host. Some of these microenvironments …

The transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to inhibitors of metabolism: novel insights into drug mechanisms of action

HIM Boshoff, TG Myers, BR Copp, MR McNeil… - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
The differential transcriptional response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to drugs and growth-
inhibitory conditions was monitored to generate a data set of 430 microarray profiles …

Host cell-free growth of the Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii

A Omsland, DC Cockrell, D Howe… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The inability to propagate obligate intracellular pathogens under axenic (host cell-free)
culture conditions imposes severe experimental constraints that have negatively impacted …

Bactericidal mode of action of bedaquiline

K Hards, JR Robson, M Berney, L Shaw… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives It is not fully understood why inhibiting ATP synthesis in Mycobacterium species
leads to death in non-replicating cells. We investigated the bactericidal mode of action of the …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression during adaptation to stationary phase and low-oxygen dormancy

MI Voskuil, KC Visconti, GK Schoolnik - Tuberculosis, 2004 - Elsevier
The innate mechanisms used by Mycobacterium tuberculosis to persist during periods of
non-proliferation are central to understanding the physiology of the bacilli during latent …

Energetics of respiration and oxidative phosphorylation in mycobacteria

GM Cook, K Hards, C Vilchèze… - Molecular Genetics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Mycobacterium comprises a group of obligately aerobic bacteria that have
adapted to inhabit a wide range of intracellular and extracellular environments. A …

Reductive evolution and niche adaptation inferred from the genome of Mycobacterium ulcerans, the causative agent of Buruli ulcer

TP Stinear, T Seemann, S Pidot, W Frigui… - Genome …, 2007 - genome.cshlp.org
Mycobacterium ulcerans is found in aquatic ecosystems and causes Buruli ulcer in humans,
a neglected but devastating necrotic disease of subcutaneous tissue that is rampant …

Dual inhibition of the terminal oxidases eradicates antibiotic‐tolerant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BS Lee, K Hards, CA Engelhart… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
The approval of bedaquiline has placed energy metabolism in the limelight as an attractive
target space for tuberculosis antibiotic development. While bedaquiline inhibits the …

Changes in energy metabolism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mouse lung and under in vitro conditions affecting aerobic respiration

L Shi, CD Sohaskey, BD Kana… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Transcription profiling of genes encoding components of the respiratory chain and the ATP
synthesizing apparatus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was conducted in vivo in the infected …