Project description:The emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) strains, resistant to the frontline anti-tubercular drugs rifampicin and isoniazid, forces treatment with less effective and toxic second-line drugs and stands to derail TB control efforts. However, the immune response to MDR Mtb infection remains poorly understood. Here, we determined the RNA transcriptional profile of in vitro generated macrophages to infection with either drug susceptible Mtb HN878 or MDR Mtb W_7642 infection.
Project description:Comparison of gene expression profile of the whiB4 mutant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with the wild type Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37RV Mtb WhiB4 mutant mRNA was compared with the mRNA of wtMtb H37RV under aerobic conditons
Project description:The emergence of drug resistance among tuberculosis (TB) patients is often associated with their non-compliance to the length of the chemotherapy, which can reach up to 2 years for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. Drugs that would kill TB faster and would not lead to the development of drug resistance could shorten chemotherapy significantly. In Escherichia coli, the common mechanism of cell death by bactericidal antibiotics is the generation of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals via the Fenton reaction. Since ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is known to drive the Fenton reaction, we tested whether the Fenton reaction could lead to a bactericidal event in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by treating M. tuberculosis cultures with vitamin C. Here, we report that the addition of vitamin C to drug-susceptible, MDR and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) M. tuberculosis strains results in sterilization of the cultures in vitro. We show that the sterilizing effect of vitamin C on M. tuberculosis was dependent on the production of high ferrous ion levels and reactive oxygen species. Although, this potent sterilizing activity of vitamin C against M. tuberculosis in vitro was not observed in mice, we believe this activity needs further investigation. Comparison of vitamin C treated Mycobacterium tuberculosis transcriptome relative to untreated; Three biological replicates, second is a dye flip
Project description:Phagosome acidification is one of the challenges faced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection. This intracellular pathogen is known to adapt to its stressful environment though stress response pathways and by secreting proteins to modify the host immune response for survival and proliferation. However, M. tuberculosis also holds the potential to form viable but non-replicating (VBNR) and antibiotic tolerant persisters in response to environmental stress, including acid stress. In this study we used a in vitro acid stress model to stimulate the formation of a VBNR subpopulation in a M. tuberculosis clinical isolate with an increased propensity to form VBNR bacteria. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics was used to characterize the cellular proteome and culture filtrate proteome of actively replicating (pH 6,5) and VBNR enriched (pH 4,5) cultures. We show that in response to acid stress, M. tuberculosis S169 increases the expression of known stress response proteins, including the methyltransferase Rv1405c and the acid stress response two-component regulatory protein TcrX. Interestingly, we found that the dormancy response regulon components were less abundant in acid stressed M. tuberculosis S169. Our protein aggregation capture culture filtrate proteomic approach revealed that the culture filtrates of low pH stressed M. tuberculosis S169 contained less proteins than that of actively replicating cultures. We identified several proteins previously implicated in M. tuberculosis persistence, including toxin-antitoxin proteins (VapC51 and VapB10), the chorismate mutase (Rv1885c), and several uncharacterized proteins. The observed differences identified in the characterisation of this clinical isolate in comparison to published M. tuberculosis H37Rv highlights the need to investigate M. tuberculosis clinical isolates for a more representative understanding of the tuberculosis stress response.
Project description:Phagosome acidification is one of the challenges faced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis during infection. This intracellular pathogen is known to adapt to its stressful environment though stress response pathways and by secreting proteins to modify the host immune response for survival and proliferation. However, M. tuberculosis also holds the potential to form viable but non-replicating (VBNR) and antibiotic tolerant persisters in response to environmental stress, including acid stress. In this study we used a in vitro acid stress model to stimulate the formation of a VBNR subpopulation in a M. tuberculosis clinical isolate with an increased propensity to form VBNR bacteria. Mass spectrometry-based proteomics was used to characterize the cellular proteome and culture filtrate proteome of actively replicating (pH 6,5) and VBNR enriched (pH 4,5) cultures. We show that in response to acid stress, M. tuberculosis S169 increases the expression of known stress response proteins, including the methyltransferase Rv1405c and the acid stress response two-component regulatory protein TcrX. Interestingly, we found that the dormancy response regulon components were less abundant in acid stressed M. tuberculosis S169. Our protein aggregation capture culture filtrate proteomic approach revealed that the culture filtrates of low pH stressed M. tuberculosis S169 contained less proteins than that of actively replicating cultures. We identified several proteins previously implicated in M. tuberculosis persistence, including toxin-antitoxin proteins (VapC51 and VapB10), the chorismate mutase (Rv1885c), and several uncharacterized proteins. The observed differences identified in the characterisation of this clinical isolate in comparison to published M. tuberculosis H37Rv highlights the need to investigate M. tuberculosis clinical isolates for a more representative understanding of the tuberculosis stress response.
Project description:Rifampicin plays an important role during tuberculosis treatment, which historically contributed for shortening therapy; however, rifampicin resistance has been the intersection for the definition of multi (MDR-TB) and extensively (XDR-TB) resistant outcomes. A key aspect which has contributed for investigations of drug action/resistance is the understanding of the dynamic genome expression, as that analyzed by Proteomics. Proteins from the reference strain, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv were extracted after 12, 24 and 48 hours over rifampicin challenge at the minimal inhibitory concentration (0.03 μg•mL-1) and identified by LC-MS.
Project description:Among the multidrug-resistant (MDR) clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that were epidemiologically particularly successful, the 100-32 MDR Beijing clone, also called B0/W148 clone, has emerged since the early sixties. These B0/W148 strains belonging to the lineage 2 within the global Mtb phylogeny, are the main contributors to the MDR epidemic in Russia and Eastern Europe, and since the USSR’s fall, have also propagated to Western Europe. Among the various mutations that were identified as being specific for the MDR B0/W148 clone, we focused on two found in the transcriptional regulators KdpDE and WhiB6 and characterized in a H37Rv strain background the transcriptional profile associated with these mutations and their potential impact on the in vitro and in vivo growth characteristics.
Project description:Among the multidrug-resistant (MDR) clones of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) that were epidemiologically particularly successful, the 100-32 MDR Beijing clone, also called B0/W148 clone, has emerged since the early sixties. These B0/W148 strains belonging to the lineage 2 within the global Mtb phylogeny, are the main contributors to the MDR epidemic in Russia and Eastern Europe, and since the USSR’s fall, have also propagated to Western Europe. Among the various mutations that were identified as being specific for the MDR B0/W148 clone, we focused on two found in the transcriptional regulators KdpDE and WhiB6 and characterized in a H37Rv strain background the transcriptional profile associated with these mutations and their potential impact on the in vitro and in vivo growth characteristics.
Project description:The emergence of drug resistance among tuberculosis (TB) patients is often associated with their non-compliance to the length of the chemotherapy, which can reach up to 2 years for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. Drugs that would kill TB faster and would not lead to the development of drug resistance could shorten chemotherapy significantly. In Escherichia coli, the common mechanism of cell death by bactericidal antibiotics is the generation of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals via the Fenton reaction. Since ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is known to drive the Fenton reaction, we tested whether the Fenton reaction could lead to a bactericidal event in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by treating M. tuberculosis cultures with vitamin C. Here, we report that the addition of vitamin C to drug-susceptible, MDR and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) M. tuberculosis strains results in sterilization of the cultures in vitro. We show that the sterilizing effect of vitamin C on M. tuberculosis was dependent on the production of high ferrous ion levels and reactive oxygen species. Although, this potent sterilizing activity of vitamin C against M. tuberculosis in vitro was not observed in mice, we believe this activity needs further investigation.