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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2010

Mycobacterium tuberculosis MT2816 encodes a key stress-response regulator.

Smriti Mehra, Noton K Dutta, Hans-J Mollenkopf, Deepak Kaushal

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Smriti MehraDivision of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Covington, Louisiana 70433, USA.
Noton K Dutta
Hans-J Mollenkopf
Deepak Kaushal
Tulane University · USMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology · DE

Funding

ZCM:A NOVEL BROAD-SPECTRUM MICROBICIDE FOR SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONSP51RR000164 · NCRR · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI VEAZEY, RONALD S. · 1985 to 2011
$100.1M
TNF AND MCP-1 IN RETROVIRUS-INDUCED BRAIN DISEASEP20RR020159 · NCRR · LOUISIANA STATE UNIV A&M COL BATON ROUGE · PI PAHAR, BAPI · 2004 to 2011
$16.1M
Genetic Requirements for the survival of Tubercle Bacilli in Nonhuman PrimatesR01AI089323 · NIAID · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KAUSHAL, DEEPAK · 2010 to 2014
$3.2M
Macaque model of TB/AIDS co-infection via natural routes of exposureR21RR026006 · NCRR · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI KAUSHAL, DEEPAK · 2009 to 2010
$452k
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR020159NCRR NIH HHS P20RR020159NCRR NIH HHS P51 RR000164NCRR NIH HHS P51RR164NCRR NIH HHS R21 RR026006NCRR NIH HHS R21RR026006NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI089323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSigma (sigma) factors are transcription initiation factors that modulate the response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to changes in extracellular milieu, allowing it to survive stress.

methodsWe analyzed the expression of MT2816/Rv2745c under various stress conditions that mimic the intracellular environment faced by M. tuberculosis.

resultsMT2816/Rv2745c expression was induced in M. tuberculosis following redox stress, heat shock and acid shock and intracellular replication. Its expression was also induced by SDS and thioridazine, agents that impact M. tuberculosis cell-envelope. However, exposure to isoniazid or ethambutol, front-line antituberculosis drugs which also target the cell envelope, did not induce the expression of MT2816/Rv2745c. Studies using Delta-sigma(H) and Delta-sigma(E) mutants showed that sigma(H) was required for the induction of MT2816/Rv2745c. Conditional expression of the MT2816/Rv2745c in M. tuberculosis showed that apart from regulating proteolysis, this gene may control the expression of trehalose biosynthesis and impact the maintenance of cellular redox potential and energy generation.

conclusionsThe protein encoded by MT2816/Rv2745c is important for the pathogen's response to stress conditions that mimic in vivo growth and it is subject to complex regulation. The MT2816/Rv2745c encoded protein likely functions by protecting intracellular redox potential and by inducing the expression of trehalose, a constituent of M. tuberculosis cell walls that is important for defense against cell-surface and oxidative stress.

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Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialStress, PhysiologicalAcidsAnimalsAntitubercular AgentsBacterial ProteinsGene Expression ProfilingHot TemperatureHumansMacaca mulattaMycobacterium tuberculosisOxidative StressAcidsAntitubercular AgentsBacterial Proteins

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