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ArticleScientific reports2018

In vivo virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis depends on a single homologue of the LytR-CpsA-Psr proteins.

S Malm, S Maaß, U E Schaible, S Ehlers, S Niemann

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

S MalmMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, 23845, Borstel, Germany. smalm@fz-borstel.de.
S MaaßMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, 23845, Borstel, Germany.
U E SchaibleCellular Microbiology, Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, 23845, Borstel, Germany.
S EhlersMolecular Inflammation Medicine, Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, 23845, Borstel, Germany.
S NiemannMolecular and Experimental Mycobacteriology, Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, 23845, Borstel, Germany.
Research Center Borstel - Leibniz Lung Center · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

LytR-cpsA-Psr (LCP) domain containing proteins fulfil important functions in bacterial cell wall synthesis. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (Mtbc) strains, the causative agents of tuberculosis (TB), the genes Rv3484 and Rv3267 encode for LCP proteins which are putatively involved in arabinogalactan transfer to peptidoglycan. To evaluate the significance of Rv3484 for Mtbc virulence, we generated a deletion mutant in the Mtbc strain H37Rv and studied its survival in mice upon aerosol infection. The deletion mutant failed to establish infection demonstrating that Rv3484 is essential for growth in mice. Following an initial phase of marginal replication in the lungs until day 21, the Rv3484 deletion mutant was almost eliminated by day 180 post-infectionem. Interestingly, the mutant also showed higher levels of resistance to meropenem/clavulanate and lysozyme, both targeting peptidoglycan structure. We conclude that Rv3484 is essential for Mtbc virulence in vivo where its loss of function cannot be compensated by Rv3267.

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AerosolsAir MicrobiologyAnimalsBacterial ProteinsHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMutationMycobacterium tuberculosisTuberculosisVirulenceAerosolsBacterial Proteins

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PMID29500450
PMCPMC5834633
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