A Novel Small-Molecule Inhibitor of the
<i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>
Demethylmenaquinone Methyltransferase MenG Is Bactericidal to Both Growing and Nutritionally Deprived Persister Cells
作者:Paridhi Sukheja、Pradeep Kumar、Nisha Mittal、Shao-Gang Li、Eric Singleton、Riccardo Russo、Alexander L. Perryman、Riju Shrestha、Divya Awasthi、Seema Husain、Patricia Soteropoulos、Roman Brukh、Nancy Connell、Joel S. Freundlich、David Alland
DOI:10.1128/mbio.02022-16
日期:2017.3.8
Active tuberculosis (TB) and latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection both require lengthy treatments to achieve durable cures. This problem has partly been attributable to the existence of nonreplicating M. tuberculosis "persisters" that are difficult to kill using conventional anti-TB treatments. Compounds that target the respiratory pathway have the potential to kill both replicating and persistent