Abstract:
:Mycobacteria are an important group of pathogenic bacteria. We generated a series of DNA repair deficient strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis, a model organism, to understand the importance of various DNA repair proteins (UvrB, Ung, UdgB, MutY and Fpg) in survival of the pathogenic strains. Here, we compared tolerance of the M. smegmatis strains to genotoxic stress (ROS and RNI) under aerobic, hypoxic and recovery conditions of growth by monitoring their survival. We show an increased susceptibility of mycobacteria to genotoxic stress under hypoxia. UvrB deficiency led to high susceptibility of M. smegmatis to the DNA damaging agents. Ung was second in importance in strains with single deficiencies. Interestingly, we observed that while deficiency of UdgB had only a minor impact on the strain's susceptibility, its combination with Ung deficiency resulted in severe consequences on the strain's survival under genotoxic stress suggesting a strong interdependence of different DNA repair pathways in safeguarding genomic integrity. Our observations reinforce the possibility of targeting DNA repair processes in mycobacteria for therapeutic intervention during active growth and latency phase of the pathogen. High susceptibility of the UvrB, or the Ung/UdgB deficient strains to genotoxic stress may be exploited in generation of attenuated strains of mycobacteria.
journal_name
Mech Ageing Devjournal_title
Mechanisms of ageing and developmentauthors
Rex K,Kurthkoti K,Varshney Udoi
10.1016/j.mad.2013.08.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-10-01 00:00:00pages
516-22issue
10eissn
0047-6374issn
1872-6216pii
S0047-6374(13)00097-3journal_volume
134pub_type
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2005-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2006.09.005
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2001-09-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2013.03.002
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(83)90109-4
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2006.12.003
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(82)90002-1
更新日期:1982-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2006.03.004
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2005.06.004
更新日期:2005-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0047-6374(97)00171-1
更新日期:1998-03-16 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(82)90090-2
更新日期:1982-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(81)90051-8
更新日期:1981-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2019.111150
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2018.04.002
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(84)90086-1
更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mad.2006.08.004
更新日期:2006-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Mechanisms of ageing and development
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0047-6374(90)90002-w
更新日期:1990-11-01 00:00:00