Virulence factors of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

MA Forrellad, LI Klepp, A Gioffré, J Sabio y Garcia… - Virulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) consists of closely related species that
cause tuberculosis in both humans and animals. This illness, still today, remains to be one of …

Heterogeneity in tuberculosis pathology, microenvironments and therapeutic responses

A Lenaerts, CE Barry III, V Dartois - Immunological reviews, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tuberculosis (TB) lesions are extremely complex and dynamic. Here, we review the multiple
types and fates of pulmonary lesions that form following infection by M ycobacterium …

Carbon metabolism of intracellular bacterial pathogens and possible links to virulence

W Eisenreich, T Dandekar, J Heesemann… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
New technologies such as high-throughput methods and 13C-isotopologue-profiling
analysis are beginning to provide us with insight into the in vivo metabolism of …

Mycobacterial PE/PPE proteins at the host‐pathogen interface

SL Sampson - Journal of Immunology Research, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The mycobacterial PE/PPE proteins have attracted much interest since their formal
identification just over a decade ago. It has been widely speculated that these proteins may …

The σ factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

S Rodrigue, R Provvedi, PE Jacques… - FEMS microbiology …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a remarkable pathogen capable of adapting and surviving in
various harsh conditions. Correct gene expression regulation is essential for the success of …

The sigma factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: regulation of the regulators

P Sachdeva, R Misra, AK Tyagi, Y Singh - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One of the important determinants of virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is adaptation
to adverse conditions encountered in the host cells. The ability of Mycobacterium to …

Mycobacterial toxin MazF-mt6 inhibits translation through cleavage of 23S rRNA at the ribosomal A site

JM Schifano, R Edifor, JD Sharp… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome contains an unusually high number of toxin–
antitoxin modules, some of which have been suggested to play a role in the establishment …

Global Transcriptional Profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during THP-1 Human Macrophage Infection

P Fontán, V Aris, S Ghanny, P Soteropoulos… - Infection and …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
During lung infection, Mycobacterium tuberculosis resides in macrophages and subverts the
bactericidal mechanisms of these professional phagocytes. Comprehension of this host …

Probing Host Pathogen Cross-Talk by Transcriptional Profiling of Both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Infected Human Dendritic Cells and Macrophages

L Tailleux, SJ Waddell, M Pelizzola, A Mortellaro… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Transcriptional profiling using microarrays provides a unique opportunity to
decipher host pathogen cross-talk on the global level. Here, for the first time, we have been …

A subset of the diverse COG0523 family of putative metal chaperones is linked to zinc homeostasis in all kingdoms of life

CE Haas, DA Rodionov, J Kropat, D Malasarn… - BMC genomics, 2009 - Springer
Background COG0523 proteins are, like the nickel chaperones of the UreG family, part of the
G3E family of GTPases linking them to metallocenter biosynthesis. Even though the first …