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- Furan-based Chalcone Annihilates the Multi-Drug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Protects Zebra Fish Against its Infection
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Santosh Pushpa Ramya Ranjan Nayak , Catharine Basty , Seenivasan Boopathi , Loganathan Sumathi Dhivya , Khaloud Mohammed Alarjani , Mohamed Ragab Abdel Gawwad , Raghda Hager , Muthu Kumaradoss Kathiravan , Jesu Arockiaraj
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J. Microbiol. 2024;62(2):75-89. Published online February 21, 2024
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The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a multi-drug-resistant bacteria, is becoming a serious
public health concern. This bacterium infects immunocompromised patients and has a high fatality rate. Both naturally and
synthetically produced chalcones are known to have a wide array of biological activities. The antibacterial properties of
synthetically produced chalcone were studied against P. aeruginosa. In vitro, study of the compound (chalcone derivative
named DKO1), also known as (2E)-1-(5-methylfuran-2-yl)-3-(4-nitrophenyl) prop-2-en-1-one, had substantial antibacterial
and biofilm disruptive action. DKO1 effectively shielded against P. aeruginosa-induced inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid
peroxidation, and apoptosis in zebrafish larvae. In adult zebrafish, the treatment enhanced the chances of survivability and
reduced the sickness-like behaviors. Gene expression, biochemical analysis, and histopathology studies found that proinflammatory
cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, iNOS) were down regulated; antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase
(SOD) and catalase (CAT) levels increased, and histoarchitecture was restored in zebrafish. The data indicate that DKO1 is
an effective antibacterial agent against P. aeruginosa demonstrated both in vitro and in vivo.
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- Chronic dietary tartrazine exposure leads disability in brain function through behavioural alteration and sex drive reduction in-vivo zebrafish: A translational model for human health risk assessment
S. Madesh, Mukil Srivasan, Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Sanjay Gopi, B. Aswinanand, Santhanam Sanjai Dharshan, Bader O. Almutairi, Ki Choon Choi, Jesu Arockiaraj
Journal of Hazardous Materials.2026; 501: 140692. CrossRef - Chalcone derivative enhance poultry meat preservation through quorum sensing inhibition against Salmonella (Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi) contamination
S.P. Ramya Ranjan Nayak, Pratik Pohokar, Anamika Das, L.S. Dhivya, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Ilavenil Soundharrajan, Bader O. Almutairi, Kathiravan Muthu Kumaradoss, Jesu Arockiaraj
Food Control.2025; 171: 111155. CrossRef - Harnessing Cyclic di-GMP Signaling: A Strategic Approach to Combat Bacterial Biofilm-Associated Chronic Infections
P. Snega Priya, Ramu Meenatchi, Mukesh Pasupuleti, S. Karthick Raja Namasivayam, Jesu Arockiaraj
Current Microbiology.2025;[Epub] CrossRef - Targeted inhibition of PqsR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 quorum-sensing network by chalcones as promising antibacterial compounds
Negin Arami, Amineh Sadat Tajani, Maryam Hashemi, Tahoura Rezaei, Razieh Ghodsi, Vahid Soheili, Bibi Sedigheh Fazly Bazzaz
Molecular Biology Reports.2025;[Epub] CrossRef - Exposure to bisphenol A and sodium nitrate found in processed meat induces endocrine disruption and dyslipidemia through PI3K/AKT/SREBP pathway in zebrafish larvae
Santosh Pushpa Ramya Ranjan Nayak, Anamika Das, Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Rajakrishnan Rajagopal, Jesu Arockiaraj
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.2025; 140: 109887. CrossRef - Starch films with triethanolamine and chalcone derivative for improved durability and antimicrobial properties in poultry packaging
S.P. Ramya Ranjan Nayak, Pratik Pohokar, L.S. Dhivya, Aveeda Herold, V. Chitra, Mansour K. Gatasheh, Selvaraj Arokiyaraj, Kathiravan Muthu Kumaradoss, Jesu Arockiaraj
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.2025; 316: 144627. CrossRef - Efficacy of 6-nitrobenzo[d]thiazol-2 Amine Derivative (N3) in Mitigating PTZ-Induced Epileptic Conditions Via Modulation of Inflammatory and Neuroprotective Pathways in-vivo Zebrafish
Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, S. P. Ramya Ranjan Nayak, S. Madesh, Siva Prasad Panda, K. Manikandan, Rajakrishnan Rajagopal, Ahmed Alfarhan, Senthilkumar Palaniappan, Ajay Guru, M. K. Kathiravan, Jesu Arockiaraj
Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology.2025;[Epub] CrossRef - Testing of Anti-EMT, Anti-Inflammatory and Antibacterial Activities of 2′,4′-Dimethoxychalcone
Peiling Zhao, Mengzhen Xu, Kai Gong, Kaihui Lu, Chen Ruan, Xin Yu, Jiang Zhu, Haixing Guan, Qingjun Zhu
Pharmaceuticals.2024; 17(5): 653. CrossRef - Furan-based chalcone protects β-cell damage and improves glucose uptake in alloxan-induced zebrafish diabetic model via influencing Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor agonists (PPAR-γ) signaling
S.P. Ramya Ranjan Nayak, B. Haridevamuthu, Raghul Murugan, L.S. Dhivya, S. Venkatesan, Mikhlid H. Almutairi, Bader O. Almutairi, M.K. Kathiravan, S. Karthick Raja Namasivayam, Jesu Arockiaraj
Process Biochemistry.2024; 142: 149. CrossRef - Protective role of 2-aminothiazole derivative against ethanol-induced teratogenic effects in-vivo zebrafish
S. Madesh, Gokul Sudhakaran, Karthikeyan Ramamurthy, Avra Sau, Kathiravan Muthu Kumaradoss, Mikhlid H. Almutairi, Bader O. Almutairi, Senthilkumar Palaniappan, Jesu Arockiaraj
Biochemical Pharmacology.2024; 230: 116601. CrossRef - Tissue damage alleviation and mucin inhibition by P5 in a respiratory infection mouse model with multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Jun Hee Oh, Jonggwan Park, Hee Kyoung Kang, Hee Joo Park, Yoonkyung Park
Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.2024; 181: 117724. CrossRef - Toxicity and therapeutic property of dioxopiperidin derivative SKT40 demonstrated in-vivo zebrafish model due to inflammatory bowel disease
B. Aswinanand, S.P. Ramya Ranjan Nayak, S. Madesh, Suthi Subbarayudu, S. Kaliraj, Rajakrishnan Rajagopal, Ahmed Alfarhan, Muthu Kumaradoss Kathiravan, Jesu Arockiaraj
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C: Toxicology & Pharmacology.2024; 284: 109990. CrossRef
- Coumarin-based combined computational study to design novel drugs against Candida albicans
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Akhilesh Kumar Maurya , Nidhi Mishra
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J. Microbiol. 2022;60(12):1201-1207. Published online November 10, 2022
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Candida species cause the most prevalent fungal illness, candidiasis.
Candida albicans is known to cause bloodstream infections.
This species is a commensal bacterium, but it can
cause hospital–acquired diseases, particularly in COVID-19
patients with impaired immune systems. Candida infections
have increased in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Coumarins are both naturally occurring and synthetically
produced. In this study, the biological activity of 40 coumarin
derivatives was used to create a three-dimensional quantitative
structure activity relationship (3D-QSAR) model. The
training and test minimum inhibitory concentration values
of C. albicans active compounds were split, and a regression
model based on statistical data was established. This model
served as a foundation for the creation of coumarin derivative
QSARs. This is a unique way to create new therapeutic compounds
for various ailments. We constructed novel structural
coumarin derivatives using the derived QSAR model, and the
models were confirmed using molecular docking and molecular
dynamics simulation.
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Farid M. Sroor, Ahmed Younis, Mohamed Abdelraof, Ismail A. Abdelhamid
Journal of Molecular Structure.2025; 1331: 141520. CrossRef - Coumarin derivatives ameliorate the intestinal inflammation and pathogenic gut microbiome changes in the model of infectious colitis through antibacterial activity
Hui-su Jung, Yei Ju Park, Bon-Hee Gu, Goeun Han, Woonhak Ji, Su mi Hwang, Myunghoo Kim
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.2024;[Epub] CrossRef - Therapeutic Effects of Coumarins with Different Substitution Patterns
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- Enhancement of the solubility of recombinant proteins by fusion with a short-disordered peptide
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Jun Ren , Suhee Hwang , Junhao Shen , Hyeongwoo Kim , Hyunjoo Kim , Jieun Kim , Soyoung Ahn , Min-gyun Kim , Seung Ho Lee , Dokyun Na
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J. Microbiol. 2022;60(9):960-967. Published online July 14, 2022
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In protein biotechnology, large soluble fusion partners are
widely utilized for increased yield and solubility of recombinant
proteins. However, the production of additional large
fusion partners poses an additional burden to the host, leading
to a decreased protein yield. In this study, we identified
two highly disordered short peptides that were able to increase
the solubility of an artificially engineered aggregationprone
protein, GFP-GFIL4, from 0.6% to 61% (D3-DP00592)
and 46% (D4-DP01038) selected from DisProt database. For
further confirmation, the peptides were applied to two insoluble
E. coli proteins (YagA and YdiU). The peptides also
enhanced solubility from 52% to 90% (YagA) and from 27%
to 93% (YdiU). Their ability to solubilize recombinant proteins
was comparable with strong solubilizing tags, maltosebinding
protein (40 kDa) and TrxA (12 kDa), but much smaller
(< 7 kDa) in size. For practical application, the two peptides
were fused with a restriction enzyme, I-SceI, and they increased
I-SceI solubility from 24% up to 75%. The highly disordered
peptides did not affect the activity of I-SceI while I-SceI fused
with MBP or TrxA displayed no restriction activity. Despite
the small size, the highly disordered peptides were able to
solubilize recombinant proteins as efficiently as conventional
fusion tags and did not interfere with the function of recombinant
proteins. Consequently, the identified two highly disordered
peptides would have practical utility in protein biotechnology
and industry.
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- Current status and perspectives on vaccine development against dengue virus infection
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Jisang Park , Ju Kim , Yong-Suk Jang
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J. Microbiol. 2022;60(3):247-254. Published online February 14, 2022
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Dengue virus (DENV) consists of four serotypes in the family
Flaviviridae and is a causative agent of dengue fever, dengue
hemorrhagic fever, and dengue shock syndrome. DENV is
transmitted by mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus,
and is mainly observed in areas where vector mosquitoes live.
The number of dengue cases reported by the World Health
Organization increased more than 8-fold over the last two
decades from 505,430 in 2000 to over 2.4 million in 2010 to
5.2 million in 2019. Although vaccine is the most effective
method
against DENV, only one commercialized vaccine exists,
and it cannot be administered to children under 9 years of
age. Currently, many researchers are working to resolve the
various problems hindering the development of effective dengue
vaccines; understanding of the viral antigen configuration
would provide insight into the development of effective
vaccines against DENV infection. In this review, the current
status and perspectives on effective vaccine development for
DENV are examined. In addition, a plausible direction for
effective vaccine development against DENV is suggested.
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- Potent antibacterial and antibiofilm activities of TICbf-14, a peptide with increased stability against trypsin
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Liping Wang , Xiaoyun Liu , Xinyue Ye , Chenyu Zhou , Wenxuan Zhao , Changlin Zhou , Lingman Ma
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J. Microbiol. 2022;60(1):89-99. Published online December 29, 2021
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The poor stability of peptides against trypsin largely limits
their development as potential antibacterial agents. Here, to
obtain a peptide with increased trypsin stability and potent
antibacterial activity, TICbf-14 derived from the cationic peptide
Cbf-14 was designed by the addition of disulfide-bridged
hendecapeptide (CWTKSIPPKPC) loop. Subsequently, the
trypsin stability and antimicrobial and antibiofilm activities
of this peptide were evaluated. The possible mechanisms underlying
its mode of action were also clarified. The results
showed that TICbf-14 exhibited elevated trypsin inhibitory
activity and effectively mitigated lung histopathological damage
in bacteria-infected mice by reducing the bacterial counts,
further inhibiting the systemic dissemination of bacteria and
host inflammation. Additionally, TICbf-14 significantly repressed
bacterial swimming motility and notably inhibited
biofilm formation. Considering the mode of action, we observed
that TICbf-14 exhibited a potent membrane-disruptive
mechanism, which was attributable to its destructive effect
on ionic bridges between divalent cations and LPS of the bacterial
membrane. Overall, TICbf-14, a bifunctional peptide
with both antimicrobial and trypsin inhibitory activity, is
highly likely to become an ideal candidate for drug development
against bacteria.
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- Trans-acting regulators of ribonuclease activity
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Jaejin Lee , Minho Lee , Kangseok Lee
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J. Microbiol. 2021;59(4):341-359. Published online March 29, 2021
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RNA metabolism needs to be tightly regulated in response to
changes in cellular physiology. Ribonucleases (RNases) play
an essential role in almost all aspects of RNA metabolism, including
processing, degradation, and recycling of RNA molecules.
Thus, living systems have evolved to regulate RNase
activity at multiple levels, including transcription, post-transcription,
post-translation, and cellular localization. In addition,
various trans-acting regulators of RNase activity have
been discovered in recent years. This review focuses on the
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Multi-omics approaches, including metagenomics and single-
cell amplified genomics, have revolutionized our understanding
of the hidden diversity and function of microbes
in nature. Even in the omics age, cultivation is an essential
discipline in microbial ecology since microbial cultures are
necessary to assess the validity of an in silico prediction about
the microbial metabolism and to isolate viruses infecting bacteria
and archaea. However, the ecophysiological characteristics
of predominant freshwater bacterial lineages remain
largely unknown due to the scarcity of cultured representatives.
In an ongoing effort to cultivate the uncultured majority
of freshwater bacteria, the most abundant freshwater
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Lake Soyang through catalase-supplemented high-throughput
cultivation based on dilution-to-extinction. This method
involves physical isolation of target microbes from mixed populations,
culture media simulating natural habitats, and removal
of toxic compounds. In this protocol, we describe detailed
procedures for isolating freshwater oligotrophic microbes,
as well as the essence of the dilution-to-extinction culturing.
As a case study employing the catalase-supplemented
dilution-to-extinction protocol, we also report a cultivation
trial using a water sample collected from Lake Soyang. Of the
480 cultivation wells inoculated with a single lake-water sample,
75 new acI strains belonging to 8 acI tribes (acI-A1, A2,
A4, A5, A6, A7, B1, B4, C1, and C2) were cultivated, and each
representative strain per subclade could be revived from glycerol
stocks. These cultivation results demonstrate that the
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bacterioplankton harboring streamlined genomes.
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The genome sequences of two pyrene-degrading bacterial
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Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the causative agent of tuberculosis
(TB), a major health issue of the present era. The bacterium
inhabits the host macrophage and other immune cells
where it modulates the lysosome trafficking protein, hinders
the formation of phagolysosome, and blocks the TNF receptor-
dependent apoptosis of host macrophage/monocytes.
Other limitations such as resistance to and low bioavailability
and bio-distribution of conventional drugs aid to their high
virulence and human mortality. This review highlights the
use of nanotechnology-based approaches for drug formulation
and delivery which could open new avenues to limit the
pathogenicity of tuberculosis. Moreover phytochemicals, such
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extracted from terrestrial plants and mangroves seem
promising against M. tuberculosis through different molecular
mechanisms. Further understanding of the genomics
and proteomics of this pathogenic microbe could also help
overcome various research gaps in the path of developing a
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Cultivation of the smooth colony Mycobacterium abscessus
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(smooth to rough) and cell arrangement (dispersed
to cord formation). In addition, reduced sliding motility and
biofilm formation were observed. The amount of glycogpetidolipid
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abscessus strain. An in vitro infection assay revealed that the
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pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6) than that
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Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (CO-DH) in Mycobacterium
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growth, when carbon monoxide (CO) is supplied as a
sole source of carbon and energy. This enzyme is also known
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Myeloid cell leukemia-1 (Mcl-1) plays an important role in
various cell survival pathways. Some studies indicated that
the expression of Mcl-1 was upregulated in host cells during
infection with the virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain,
H37Rv. The present study was designed to investigate the
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by the real time-polymerase chain reaction, western blotting,
and immunohistochemistry. Flow cytometry and transmission
electron microscopy were used to measure host macrophage
apoptosis. We found elevated Mcl-1 levels in host macrophages
infected with M. tuberculosis H37Rv. The expression of Mcl-1
was downregulated efficiently in H37Rv-infected host macrophages
using shRNA. Knockdown of Mcl-1 enhanced the
extent of apoptosis in H37Rv-infected host macrophages
significantly. The increased apoptosis correlated with a decrease
in M. tuberculosis colony forming units recovered from
H37Rv-infected cells that were treated with Mcl-1-shRNA.
Reducing Mcl-1 accumulation by shRNA also reduced accumulation
of the anti-apoptotic gene, Bcl-2, and increased
expression of the pro-apoptotic gene, Bax, in H37Rv-infected
host macrophages. Our results showed that specific knockdown
of Mcl-1 expression increased apoptosis of host macrophages
significantly and decreased the intracellular survival
of a virulent strain of M. tuberculosis. These data indicate that interference with Mcl-1 expression may provide
a new avenue for tuberculosis therapy.
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Mycobacterium chelonae (Mch) is an atypical rapidly growing
mycobacterium (RGM) that belongs to the M. chelonae
complex, which can cause a variety of human infections.
During this type of mycobacterial infection, macrophagederived
chemokines play an important role in the mediation
of intracellular communication and immune surveillance
by which they orchestrate cellular immunity. However,
the intracellular signaling pathways involved in the macrophage-
induced chemokine production during Mch infections
remain unknown. Thus, the present study aimed to
determine the molecular mechanisms by which Mch activates
the gene expressions of chemokine (C-C motif) ligand
2 (CCL2) and CCL5 in murine bone marrow-derived macrophages
(BMDMs) and in vivo mouse model. Toll-like receptor
2 (TLR2)-deficient mice showed increased bacterial
burden in spleen and lung and decreased protein expression
of CCL2 and CCL5 in serum. Additionally, Mch infection
triggered the mRNA and protein expression of CCL2 and
CCL5 in BMDMs via TLR2 and myeloid differentiation
primary response gene 88 (MyD88) signaling and that it
rapidly activated nuclear factor (NF)-κB signaling, which is
required for the Mch-induced expressions of CCL2 and
CCL5 in BMDMs. Moreover, while the innate receptor
Dectin-1 was only partly involved in the Mch-induced expression
of the CCL2 and CCL5 chemokines in BMDMs,
the generation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS)
was an important contributor to these processes. Taken together,
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Mycobacteria cause a variety of illnesses that differ in severity
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most frequently identified NTM species were M. intracellulare
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of NTM species as well as MTB and sensitive and
specific and comparable to conventional methods.
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Tripti Anandan , Jaeil Han , Heather Baun , Seeta Nyayapathy , Jacob T. Brown , Rebekah L. Dial , Juan A. Moltalvo , Min-Seon Kim , Seung Hwan Yang , Donald R. Ronning , Robert N. Husson , Joowon Suh , Choong-Min Kang
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a proteasome system that is required for the microbe to resist elimination by the host immune system. Despite the importance of the proteasome in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis, the molecular mechanisms by which proteasome activity is controlled remain largely unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the α-subunit (PrcA) of the M. tuberculosis proteasome is phosphorylated by the PknB kinase at three threonine residues (T84, T202, and T178) in a sequential manner. Furthermore, the proteasome with phosphorylated PrcA enhances the degradation of Ino1, a known proteasomal substrate, suggesting that PknB regulates the proteolytic activity of the proteasome. Previous studies showed that depletion of the proteasome and the proteasome- associated proteins decreases resistance to reactive nitrogen intermediates (RNIs) but increases resistance to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Here we show that PknA phosphorylation of unprocessed proteasome β-subunit (pre-PrcB) and α-subunit reduces the assembly of the proteasome complex and thereby enhances the mycobacterial resistance to H2O2 and that H2O2 stress diminishes the formation of the proteasome complex in a PknA-dependent manner. These findings indicate that phosphorylation of the M. tuberculosis proteasome not only modulates proteolytic activity of the proteasome, but also affects the proteasome complex formation contributing to the survival of M. tuberculosis under oxidative stress conditions.
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*For correspondence. (S.J. Han) E-mail: hansjung@yuhs.ac / (S.N. Cho)
E-mail: raycho@yuhs.ac
Paul J. Park, Ah Reum Kim, Yangkyo P. Salch,
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Department of Microbiology and Institute for Immunology and
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Journal of Microbiology (2014) Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 871–878
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DOI 10.1007/s12275-014-4235-5
Characterization of a Novel Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis K
strain and Its Use in Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific antigens would be of
great value in developing immunodiagnostic tests for tuberculosis
(TB), but regional differences in molecular types of
the organism may result in antigenic variation, which in turn
affects the outcome of the tests. For example, the Beijing
strains of M. tuberculosis are prevalent in East Asia, and in
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family, are most frequently isolated during school outbreaks
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non-Beijing type, we identified a K strain-specific gene, InsB,
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IL-17 responses and a weak IL-2 response, all of which have
been implicated in disease expression and used for the immunodiagnosis
of TB. Serum samples from TB patients also
showed significant antibody responses to the InsB protein as
compared to healthy control samples. These results indicate
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antigen that could further improve the current immunodiagnostic
methods
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A cytosolic superoxide dismutase (SOD) was purified and characterized from a fast-growing Mycobacterium sp. strain JC1 DSM 3803 grown on methanol. The native molecular weight of the purified SOD was estimated to be 48 kDa. SDS-PAGE revealed a subunit of 23 kDa, indicating that the enzyme is a homodimer. The enzyme activity was inhibited by H2O2 and azide. The purified SOD contained 1.12 and 0.56 g-atom of Mn and Fe per mol of enzyme, respectively, suggesting that it may be a Fe/Mn cambialistic SOD. The apo-SOD reconstitution study revealed that Mn salts were more specific than Fe salts in the SOD activity. The gene encoding the SOD was identified from the JC1 cosmid genomic library by PCR screening protocol. The cloned gene, sodA, had an open reading frame (ORF) of 624 nt, encoding a protein with a calculated molecular weight of 22,930 Da and pI of 5.33. The deduced SodA sequence exhibited 97.6% identity with that of Mycobacterium fortuitum Mn-SOD and clustered with other mycobacterial Mn-SODs. A webtool analysis on the basis of SOD sequence and structure homologies predicted the SOD as a tetrameric Mn-SOD, suggesting that the protein is a dimeric Mn-SOD having tetramer-specific sequence and structure characteristics.
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Amr El-Sayed , Abdulwahed Ahmed Hassan , Saleh Natour , Amir Abdulmawjood , Michael Bulte , Wilfried Wolter , Michael Zschock
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The aim of the present study is to evaluate the efficiency of three methods to determine the molecular diversity of 34 Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) strains isolated from 17 cattle herds. The applied methods included the analysis of sequence polymorphism of the mononucleotide (G1 and G2) and trinucleotide sequences (GGT) of the Short Sequence Repeats (SSR) and the determination of size polymorphism of 9 different Mycobacterial Interspersed Repetitive Units (MIRU) and 6 Variable Number Tandem Repeats (VNTR). Sequence analysis of SSR of 34 isolates showed 4, 6, and 2 alleles of G1, G2, and GGT repeats, respectively. The amplification of the investigated 9 MIRU units revealed only two discriminatory genotyping systems (MIRU2 and MIRU3). Out of 6 VNTR PCR differentiation methods, only one method could be recommended for genotyping purposes. The profile 7g-12g-4ggt-II-b-2 of the combination systems G1-G2-GGT-MIRU2-MIRU3-VNTR1658 dominates among the examined isolates and was
detected in 14.7% of the isolates. The use of certain repetitive loci of SSR, MIRU, and VNTR techniques in this study showed greater potential than others for the characterization of MAP isolates. The recommended loci can be used for the epidemiological tracing of MAP field strains and to determine the relationships
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