Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in space and time

C Bussi, MG Gutierrez - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacterial pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)
remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases with over a billion deaths in the past 200 …

The granuloma in tuberculosis: dynamics of a host–pathogen collusion

S Ehlers, UE Schaible - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
A granuloma is defined as an inflammatory mononuclear cell infiltrate that, while capable of
limiting growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, also provides a survival niche from which the …

Robust IgM responses following intravenous vaccination with Bacille Calmette–Guérin associate with prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in …

EB Irvine, A O'Neil, PA Darrah, S Shin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Development of an effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccine has suffered from an
incomplete understanding of the correlates of protection against Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Engineered luciferase reporter from a deep sea shrimp utilizing a novel imidazopyrazinone substrate

MP Hall, J Unch, BF Binkowski, MP Valley… - ACS chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Bioluminescence methodologies have been extraordinarily useful due to their high
sensitivity, broad dynamic range, and operational simplicity. These capabilities have been …

Auranofin exerts broad-spectrum bactericidal activities by targeting thiol-redox homeostasis

MB Harbut, C Vilchèze, X Luo… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a rising public health threat and make
the identification of new antibiotics a priority. From a cell-based screen for bactericidal …

Design of a broad-range bacteriophage cocktail that reduces Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms and treats acute infections in two animal models

F Forti, DR Roach, M Cafora, ME Pasini… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
The alarming diffusion of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains requires investigations
on nonantibiotic therapies. Among such therapies, the use of bacteriophages (phages) as …

Seeing (and using) the light: recent developments in bioluminescence technology

AC Love, JA Prescher - Cell Chemical Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Bioluminescence has long been used to image biological processes in vivo. This technology
features luciferase enzymes and luciferin small molecules that produce visible light …

Zebrafish embryos and larvae: a new generation of disease models and drug screens

S Ali, DL Champagne, HP Spaink… - … Research Part C …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Technological innovation has helped the zebrafish embryo gain ground as a disease model
and an assay system for drug screening. Here, we review the use of zebrafish embryos and …

Maturing Mycobacterium smegmatis peptidoglycan requires non-canonical crosslinks to maintain shape

C Baranowski, MA Welsh, LT Sham, HA Eskandarian… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In most well-studied rod-shaped bacteria, peptidoglycan is primarily crosslinked by penicillin-
binding proteins (PBPs). However, in mycobacteria, crosslinks formed by L, D …

NAD (H) homeostasis underlies host protection mediated by glycolytic myeloid cells in tuberculosis

HT Pacl, KC Chinta, VP Reddy, S Nadeem… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) disrupts glycolytic flux in infected myeloid cells through an
unclear mechanism. Flux through the glycolytic pathway in myeloid cells is inextricably …