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ArticleACS infectious diseases2025

A Photoactivatable Free Mycolic Acid Probe to Investigate Mycobacteria-Host Interactions.

Kingsley C Agu, Nicholas Banahene, Carolina Santamaria, Christi Y Kim, Jessica Cabral, Kyle J Biegas, Casey Papson, Andrew D Kruskamp, M Sloan Siegrist, Benjamin M Swarts

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Article in ACS infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Biofilm Associated Persistence and Drug Tolerance in Mycobacteria Within Host Microenvironments.APMIS : acta pathologica, microbiologica, et immunologica Scandinavica · 2026
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  4. Trehalose dimycolate inhibits phagosome maturation and promotes intracellularProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Kingsley C AguDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.
Nicholas BanaheneDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.
Carolina SantamariaMolecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Christi Y KimDepartment of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Jessica CabralDepartment of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Kyle J BiegasDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.
Casey PapsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.
Andrew D KruskampDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.
M Sloan SiegristMolecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8232-3246
Benjamin M SwartsDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8402-359X

Funding

Host proteins that interact with the BCG cell envelopeR21AI163949 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI GRIMES, CATHERINE LEIMKUHLER, SIEGRIST, MARY SLOAN · 2021 to 2022
$432k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI163949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mycolic acids are long-chain, α-branched, β-hydroxylated fatty acid lipids that populate the outer mycomembrane of mycobacteria, including the pathogen

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Host-Pathogen InteractionsMolecular ProbesMycobacterium tuberculosisMycolic AcidsAnimalsHumansMacrophagesMiceReceptors, ImmunologicTuberculosisMolecular ProbesMycolic AcidsReceptors, Immunologicclick chemistryimmunologymacrophagesMycobacteriamycolic acidsouter membranephotoaffinitysynthesis

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PMID40228107
PMCPMC12070411

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