Guardians of the mycobacterial genome: A review on DNA repair systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A Singh - Microbiology, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
The genomic integrity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is continuously threatened by the
harsh survival conditions inside host macrophages, due to immune and antibiotic stresses …

DNA Replication in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Z Ditse, MH Lamers, DF Warner - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Faithful replication and maintenance of the genome are essential to the ability of any
organism to survive and propagate. For an obligate pathogen such as Mycobacterium …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis thymidylate synthase (ThyX) is a target for plumbagin, a natural product with antimycobacterial activity

A Sarkar, S Ghosh, R Shaw, MM Patra, F Calcuttawala… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Plumbagin derived from the plant Plumbago indica, known as Chitrak in India, is an example
of a medicinal compound used traditionally to cure a variety of ailments. Previous reports …

Roles for mycobacterial DinB2 in frameshift and substitution mutagenesis

P Dupuy, S Ghosh, A Fay, O Adefisayo, R Gupta… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Translesion synthesis by translesion polymerases is a conserved mechanism of DNA
damage tolerance. In bacteria, DinB enzymes are the widely distributed promutagenic …

Epigenetic Phosphorylation Control of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Persistence

M Richard-Greenblatt, Y Av-Gay - Microbiology spectrum, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Reversible protein phosphorylation is the most common type of epigenetic posttranslational
modification in living cells used as a major regulation mechanism of biological processes …

DNA binding and gene regulatory functions of MSMEG_2295, a repressor encoded by the dinB2 operon of Mycobacterium smegmatis

MM Patra, P Ghosh, S Sengupta… - …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
MSMEG_2295 is a TetR family protein encoded by the first gene of a Mycobacterium
smegmatis (Msm) operon that expresses the gene for DinB2 (MSMEG_2294), a translesion …

Apoptosis like symptoms associated with abortive infection of Mycobacterium smegmatis by mycobacteriophage D29

F Calcuttawala, R Shaw, A Sarbajna, M Dutta, S Sinha… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Mycobacteriophages are phages that infect mycobacteria resulting in their killing. Although
lysis is the primary mechanism by which mycobacteriophages cause cell death, others such …

The effects of mycobacterial RmlA perturbation on cellular dNTP pool, cell morphology, and replication stress in Mycobacterium smegmatis

R Hirmondó, Á Horváth, D Molnár, G Török, L Nguyen… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The concerted action of DNA replication and cell division has been extensively investigated
in eukaryotes. Well demarcated checkpoints have been identified in the cell cycle, which …

DNA Replication Fidelity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

DF Warner, JM Rock, SM Fortune, V Mizrahi - Strain Variation in the …, 2017 - Springer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is genetically isolated, with no evidence for horizontal gene
transfer or the acquisition of episomal genetic information in the modern evolution of strains …

Evidence of positive regulation of mycobacteriophage D29 early gene expression obtained from an investigation using a temperature-sensitive mutant of the phage

S Ghosh, R Shaw, A Sarkar… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Mycobacteriophages are phages that infect and kill Mycobacteria, several of which,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), for example, cause the disease tuberculosis. Although …