Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Concept

Mycolic acid

Related publications (8)

FasR Regulates Fatty Acid Biosynthesis and Is Essential for Virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the etiologic agent of human tuberculosis, is the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease. One of the main features of this pathogen is the complex and dynamic lipid composition of the cell envelope, which adap ...

Frontiers Media SA2020

Essentiality of mmpL3 and impact of its silencing on Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene expression

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak

MmpL3 is an inner membrane transporter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis responsible for the export of trehalose momomycolate, a precursor of the mycobacterial outer membrane component trehalose dimycolate (TDM), as well as mycolic acids bound to arabinogalact ...

Nature Research2017

Whole cell screen based identification of spiropiperidines with potent antitubercular properties

Stewart Cole, Ruben Hartkoorn

Whole cell based screens to identify hits against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), carried out under replicating and non-replicating (NRP) conditions, resulted in the identification of multiple, novel but structurally related spiropiperidines with potent ...

Elsevier2015

Discovery of benzothiazoles as antimycobacterial agents: Synthesis, structure-activity relationships and binding studies with Mycobacterium tuberculosis decaprenylphosphoryl-beta-D-ribose 2 '-oxidase

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Anirban Ghosh

We report the discovery of benzothiazoles, a novel anti-mycobacterial series, identified from a whole cell based screening campaign. Benzothiazoles exert their bactericidal activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) through potent inhibition of deca ...

Elsevier2015

Genetic analysis of the decaprenyl-phospho-D-arabinofuranose pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Gaëlle Séraphine Kolly

The tuberculosis (TB) epidemic still represents a major global health problem as it kills more than one million people every year. Africa and Asia are arguably the most affected regions due to the dramatic increase of TB cases in HIV-positive patients and ...

EPFL2014

Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae

Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh

Leprosy was endemic in Europe until the Middle Ages. Using DNA array capture, we have obtained genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae from skeletons of five medieval leprosy cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark. In one case, the DNA was so ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2013

Transcriptional regulation of lipid homeostasis in mycobacteria

Stewart Cole, Claudia Sala

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

A Simple Model for Testing Drugs against Non-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Stewart Cole, Neeraj Dhar, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Ming Zhang

Non-replicating or dormant cells of Mycobacterium tuberculosis constitute a challenge to tuberculosis (TB) therapy because of their tolerance or phenotypic resistance to most drugs. Here, we propose a simple model for testing drugs against non-growing cell ...

2010