Search Results - "Senaratne, Ryan"
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Attenuation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Functionally Disrupted in a Fatty Acyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase Gene fadD5
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-04-2010)“…One key adaptation that Mycobacterium tuberculosis established to survive long term in vivo is a reliance on lipids as an energy source. M. tuberculosis H37Rv…”
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Inhibition of toll‐like receptor 2 (TLR‐2)‐mediated response in human alveolar epithelial cells by mycolic acids and Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant
Published in Pathogens and disease (01-03-2014)“…In human lungs, the earliest encounter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of tuberculosis, involves alveolar epithelial cells. Droplets expectorated by a…”
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains disrupted in mce3 and mce4 operons are attenuated in mice
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-02-2008)“…1 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2 School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2…”
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5′‐Adenosinephosphosulphate reductase (CysH) protects Mycobacterium tuberculosis against free radicals during chronic infection phase in mice
Published in Molecular microbiology (01-03-2006)“…Summary A major obstacle to tuberculosis (TB) control is the problem of chronic TB infection (CTBI). Here we report that 5′‐adenosinephosphosulphate reductase…”
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Trehalose Is Required for Growth of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (09-07-2004)“…Mycobacteria contain high levels of the disaccharide trehalose in free form as well as within various immunologically relevant glycolipids such as cord factor…”
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Attenuated Activation of Macrophage TLR9 by DNA from Virulent Mycobacteria
Published in Journal of innate immunity (01-01-2009)“…Alveolar macrophages are the first line of host defence against mycobacteria, but an insufficient host response allows survival of bacteria within macrophages…”
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Identification, function and structure of the mycobacterial sulfotransferase that initiates sulfolipid-1 biosynthesis
Published in Nature structural & molecular biology (01-08-2004)“…Sulfolipid-1 (SL-1) is an abundant sulfated glycolipid and potential virulence factor found in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. SL-1 consists of a…”
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5′-Adenosinephosphosulfate Lies at a Metabolic Branch Point in Mycobacteria
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (06-09-2002)“…Bacterial sulfate assimilation pathways provide for activation of inorganic sulfur for the biosynthesis of cysteine and methionine, through either adenosine…”
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A Sulfated Metabolite Produced by stf3 Negatively Regulates the Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-03-2006)“…Sulfated molecules have been shown to modulate isotypic interactions between cells of metazoans and heterotypic interactions between bacterial pathogens or…”
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Inhibition of toll-like receptor 2 (TLR-2)-mediated response in human alveolar epithelial cells by mycolic acids and Mycobacterium tuberculosismce1 operon mutant
Published in Pathogens and disease (01-03-2014)“…Abstract In human lungs, the earliest encounter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of tuberculosis, involves alveolar epithelial cells. Droplets…”
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Discovery of Sulfated Metabolites in Mycobacteria with a Genetic and Mass Spectrometric Approach
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-12-2002)“…The study of the metabolome presents numerous challenges, first among them being the cataloging of its constituents. A step in this direction will be the…”
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Mechanisms of pyrazinamide resistance in mycobacteria: importance of lack of uptake in addition to lack of pyrazinamidase activity
Published in Microbiology (Society for General Microbiology) (01-06-1999)“…1 Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Université Paul Sabatier, 205 route de Narbonne,…”
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Vaccine efficacy of an attenuated but persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis cysH mutant
Published in Journal of medical microbiology (01-04-2007)“…1 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 2 Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA 3…”
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Expression of a gene for a porin-like protein of the OmpA family from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
Published in Journal of bacteriology (01-07-1998)“…An open reading frame in the genomic database of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv was identified as having homology with an outer membrane protein. We found…”
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Posttreatment Reactivation of Tuberculosis in Mice Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Disrupted in mce1R
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (01-09-2010)“…Background. The reactivation of tuberculosis arises in persons who are latently infected and in those who have been previously treated. The mechanism of the…”
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Post-treatment reactivation tuberculosis in mice caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis disrupted in mce1R
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Attenuation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis functionally disrupted in a fatty acyl-CoA synthetase gene fadD5
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-04-2010)“…One key adaptation that Mycobacterium tuberculosis established to survive long term in vivo is a reliance on lipids as an energy source. M. tuberculosis H37Rv…”
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Attenuation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FunctionaHy Disrupted in a Fatly Acyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase Gene fadD5
Published in The Journal of infectious diseases (15-04-2010)“…One key adaptation that Mycobacterium tuberculosis established to survive long term in vivo is a reliance on lipids as an energy source. M. tuberculosis H37Rv…”
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Enhanced mortality despite control of lung infection in mice aerogenically infected with a Mycobacterium tuberculosis mce1 operon mutant
Published in Microbes and infection (01-09-2007)“…Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes a variety of host clinical outcomes. We previously showed that M. tuberculosis disrupted in an operon called mce1…”
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