Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Plasticity of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis respiratory chain and its impact on tuberculosis drug development

  • Tiago Beites,
  • Kathryn O’Brien,
  • Divya Tiwari,
  • Curtis A. Engelhart,
  • Shaun Walters,
  • Jenna Andrews,
  • Hee-Jeong Yang,
  • Michelle L. Sutphen,
  • Danielle M. Weiner,
  • Emmanuel K. Dayao,
  • Matthew Zimmerman,
  • Brendan Prideaux,
  • Prashant V. Desai,
  • Thierry Masquelin,
  • Laura E. Via,
  • Véronique Dartois,
  • Helena I. Boshoff,
  • Clifton E. Barry,
  • Sabine Ehrt,
  • Dirk Schnappinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12956-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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New tuberculosis therapies, targeting respiratory chain components of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, are under development. Here the authors show that, contrary to common belief, some of these components are not essential for pathogen viability and/or virulence in animal models of infection.