Abstract：
:Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an intracellular pathogen that infects 10 million people worldwide and kills 2 million people every year. The uptake and utilization of nutrients by Mtb within the host cell is still poorly understood, although lipids play an important role in Mtb persistence. The recent identification of a large regulon of cholesterol catabolic genes suggests that Mtb can use host sterol for infection and persistence. In this review, we report on recent progress in elucidation of the Mtb cholesterol catabolic reactions and their potential utility as targets for tuberculosis therapeutic agents.
journal_name
Trends Microbioljournal_title
Trends in microbiologyauthors
Ouellet H,Johnston JB,de Montellano PRdoi
10.1016/j.tim.2011.07.009subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-11-01 00:00:00pages
530-9issue
11eissn
0966-842Xissn
1878-4380pii
S0966-842X(11)00146-6journal_volume
19pub_type
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