Project description:Sirturo or Bedaquiline has been shown to inhibit the ATP synthase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We used microarrays to investigate compound-induced gene expression changes in general as well as effects on the transcription of the different ATP synthase genes and other metabolic pathways. Log phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis were cultivated in Middlebrook 7H9 broth and treated with 1 M-BM-5M Bedaquiline. We have extracted RNA from five different time-points after treatment: 0 min (T0), 30 min (T30), 60 min (T60), 180 min (T180) and 360 min (T360).
Project description:Bacteria commonly adapt to stresses by altering gene expression. To understand the response of M. tuberculosis (MTB) to bedaquiline, we performed transcriptomics over a time-course on MTB bacilli exposed to the drug.
Project description:Sirturo or Bedaquiline has been shown to inhibit the ATP synthase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We used microarrays to investigate compound-induced gene expression changes in general as well as effects on the transcription of the different ATP synthase genes and other metabolic pathways.
Project description:The ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) to adopt heterogeneous physiological states, underlies it’s success in evading the immune system and tolerating antibiotic killing. Drug tolerant phenotypes are a major reason why the tuberculosis (TB) mortality rate is so high, with over 1.8 million deaths annually. To develop new TB therapeutics that better treat the infection (faster and more completely), a systems-level approach is needed to reveal the complexity of network-based adaptations of Mtb. Here, we report the transcriptional response of Mtb to the drug Bedaquiline. We performed transcriptomic sequencing (RNA-seq) on Mtb bacilli at 4, 24, 72 h following exposure to the drug.
Project description:Tuberculosis, caused by the intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains the world's deadliest infectious disease. Sterilizing chemotherapy requires at least 6 months of multidrug therapy. Difficulty visualizing the subcellular localization of antibiotics in infected host cells means that it is unclear whether antibiotics penetrate all mycobacteria-containing compartments in the cell. Here, we combined correlated light, electron, and ion microscopy to image the distribution of bedaquiline in infected human macrophages at submicrometer resolution. Bedaquiline accumulated primarily in host cell lipid droplets, but heterogeneously in mycobacteria within a variety of intracellular compartments. Furthermore, lipid droplets did not sequester antibiotic but constituted a transferable reservoir that enhanced antibacterial efficacy. Thus, strong lipid binding facilitated drug trafficking by host organelles to an intracellular target during antimicrobial treatment.
