Immune evasion and provocation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Chandra, SJ Grigsby, JA Philips - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, has infected humans for
millennia. M. tuberculosis is well adapted to establish infection, persist in the face of the host …

The many functions of ESCRTs

M Vietri, M Radulovic, H Stenmark - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular membranes can form two principally different involutions, which either exclude or
contain cytosol. The 'classical'budding reactions, such as those occurring during …

Pathogenicity and virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

KC Rahlwes, BRS Dias, PC Campos… - Virulence, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the causative agent of tuberculosis, an infectious
disease with one of the highest morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Leveraging its …

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 …

Plasma membrane damage causes NLRP3 activation and pyroptosis during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

KS Beckwith, MS Beckwith, S Ullmann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a global health problem in part as a result of extensive
cytotoxicity caused by the infection. Here, we show how M. tuberculosis causes caspase …

Lysosomal quality control: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications

H Yang, JX Tan - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Lysosomes are essential catabolic organelles with an acidic lumen and dozens of hydrolytic
enzymes. The detrimental consequences of lysosomal leakage have been well known since …

Life in the lumen: The multivesicular endosome

J Gruenberg - Traffic, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The late endosomes/endo‐lysosomes of vertebrates contain an atypical phospholipid,
lysobisphosphatidic acid (LBPA)(also termed bis [monoacylglycero] phosphate [BMP]) …

Repair or lysophagy: dealing with damaged lysosomes

C Papadopoulos, B Kravic, H Meyer - Journal of molecular biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Lysosomal membrane permeabilization or full rupture of lysosomes is a common and severe
stress condition that is relevant for degenerative disease, infection and cancer. If damage is …

Type VII secretion systems: structure, functions and transport models

A Rivera-Calzada, N Famelis, O Llorca… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Type VII secretion systems (T7SSs) have a key role in the secretion of effector proteins in
non-pathogenic mycobacteria and pathogenic mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium …

An ancestral mycobacterial effector promotes dissemination of infection

JW Saelens, MI Sweeney, G Viswanathan, AM Xet-Mull… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis typically causes lung disease but can
also disseminate to other tissues. We identified a M. tuberculosis (Mtb) outbreak presenting …