Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein Rv2652c enhances intracellular survival by inhibiting host immune responses.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the pathogen responsible for tuberculosis, secretes a multitude of proteins that modulate the host's immune response to ensure its own persistence. The region of difference (RD) genes encoding proteins play key roles in TB immunity and pathogenesis. Nevertheless, the roles of the majority of RD-encoded proteins remain to be elucidated.

Objects

To elucidate the role of Rv2652c located in RD13 in Mtb on bacterial growth, bacterial survival, and host immune response.

Methods

We constructed the strain MS_Rv2652c which over-expresses Mtb RD-encoding protein Rv2652c in M. smegmatis (MS), and compared it with the wild strain in the bacterial growth, bacterial survival, virulence of Rv2652c, and determined the effect of MS_Rv2652c

SUBMITTER: Li J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11378267 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature