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Mycobacterium tuberculosis WhiB3 maintains redox homeostasis and survival in response to reactive oxygen and nitrogen species.

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Empirical proof is provided that WhiB3 is required to mitigate redox stress induced by ROS and RNS, which may be important to activate host/bacterial pathways required for the granuloma development and maintenance.
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This article is published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.The article was published on 2019-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reactive nitrogen species & Reactive oxygen species.

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Mesenchymal stem cells offer a drug-tolerant and immune-privileged niche to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

TL;DR: It is shown that mesenchymal stem cells can harbor Mycobacterium tuberculosis providing a niche for evasion of anti-bacterial drugs and cytokines, which can have a major impact on tuberculosis prevention and cure.
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Recent Developments in the Application of Flow Cytometry to Advance our Understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Physiology and Pathogenesis

TL;DR: Current knowledge of flow cytometry applications that have advanced the authors' understanding of the physiology of M. tuberculosis during TB disease are summarized and it is highlighted that flow cytometers offers unprecedented opportunities for insight into bacterial population heterogeneity, which is increasingly appreciated as an important determinant of disease outcome.
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Lack of acidification in Mycobacterium phagosomes produced by exclusion of the vesicular proton-ATPase

TL;DR: Immunoelectron microscopy of infected macrophages and immunoblotting of isolated phagosomes showed that Mycobacterium vacuoles acquire the lysosomal membrane protein LAMP-1, but not the vesicular proton-adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) responsible for phagosomal acidification.
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Nitrosylation. the prototypic redox-based signaling mechanism.

TL;DR: Whereas phosphorylation clearly Spain lies at the heart of many signal transduction pathways, has been expanded re-translational modification of proteins, are conserved cently by the discovery of an enzymatic function for throughout evolution and influence most aspects of cel-hemoglobin.
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Identification of nitric oxide synthase as a protective locus against tuberculosis

TL;DR: NOS2(-/-) mice proved highly susceptible, resembling wild-type littermates immunosuppressed by high-dose glucocorticoids, and allowed Mycobacterium tuberculosis to replicate faster in the lungs than reported for other gene-deficient hosts.
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The role of the granuloma in expansion and dissemination of early tuberculous infection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use quantitative intravital microscopy to reveal distinct steps of granuloma formation and assess their consequence for infection, showing that pathogenic mycobacteria exploit the granulomas during the innate immune phase for local expansion and systemic dissemination.
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