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

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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 ...

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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

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