Mycolic acids are major components of the cell envelope of mycobacteria, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and play an important role in its architecture, impermeability and interaction with the environment. Synthesis of mycolic acids is carried out by t ...

2010

Sigma Factor F does not Prevent Rifampin Inhibition of RNA Polymerase or Cause Rifampin Tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Jeffrey Chen, Sophie Magnet

The tolerance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to anti-tuberculosis drugs is a major reason for the lengthy therapy needed to treat a tuberculosis infection. Rifampin is a potent inhibitor of RNA polymerase (RNAP) in vivo, but has been shown to be less effect ...

2010

Towards anti-virulence drugs targeting ESX-1 mediated pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Jeffrey Chen, Benjamin Blasco

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) causes 1.7 million deaths annually. According to the World Health Organization, in some areas of the world, 25% of TB cases are due to multi- or extensively drug resistant M. tb st ...

Elsevier2010

Biological and structural characterization of the Mycobacterium smegmatis nitroreductase NfnB, and its role in benzothiazinone resistance

Stewart Cole, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Giulia Manina

Summary Tuberculosis is still a leading cause of death in developing countries, for which there is an urgent need for new pharmacological agents. The synthesis of the novel antimycobacterial drug class of benzothiazinones (BTZs) and the identification of t ...

2010

Application of broad-spectrum resequencing microarray for genotyping rhabdoviruses

Stewart Cole, Iain Old

The rapid and accurate identification of pathogens is critical in the control of infectious disease. To this end, we analyzed the capacity for viral detection and identification of a newly described high-density resequencing microarray (RMA), termed Pathog ...

2010

Effect of serial subculturing on the genetic composition and cytotoxic activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole

Continuous subculture has been observed to produce changes in the virulence of micro-organisms, e.g. rabies virus, poliovirus and Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The latter has been used as a vaccine for tuberculosis for the last 100 years; however, in some insta ...

2010

Leads for antitubercular compounds from kinase inhibitor library screens

Stewart Cole, Gerardo Turcatti, Marc Chambon, Damiano Banfi, Ruben Hartkoorn, Edina Rita Székely, Sophie Magnet

Discovering new drugs to treat tuberculosis more efficiently and to overcome multidrug resistance is a world health priority. To find antimycobacterial scaffolds, we screened a kinase inhibitor library of more than 12,000 compounds using an integrated stra ...

2010

Antimicrobial drug discovery

Stewart Cole

2011

New medicines for tuberculosis: benzothiazinones

Stewart Cole

2011

Biological and structural characterization of the Mycobacterium smegmatis nitroreductase NfnB, and its role in benzothiazinone resistance

Stewart Cole, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Giulia Manina

2010

Sigma Factor F does not Prevent Rifampin Inhibition of RNA Polymerase or Cause Rifampin Tolerance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Jeffrey Chen, Sophie Magnet

2010

Towards anti-virulence drugs targeting ESX-1 mediated pathogenesis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Jeffrey Chen, Benjamin Blasco

Elsevier2010