Vipin , Gopinath and Raghunandanan, Sajith and Roshna, Lawrence Gomez and Leny, Jose and Arun , Surendran and Ranjit, Ramachandran and Akhil Raj, Pushparajan and Sathish , Mundayoor and Abdul , Jaleel and R, Ajay Kumar (2015) Profiling the Proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis during Dormancy and Reactivation*. Molecular & cellular proteomics, 14(8). pp. 2160-2176. ISSN 1535-9484

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Abstract

Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, still remains a major global health problem. The main obstacle in eradicating this disease is the ability of this pathogen to remain dormant in macrophages, and then reactivate later under immuno-compromised conditions. The physiology of hypoxic nonreplicating M. tuberculosis is well-studied using many in vitro dormancy models. However, the physiological changes that take place during the shift from dormancy to aerobic growth (reactivation) have rarely been subjected to a detailed investigation. In this study, we developed an in vitro reactivation system by re-aerating the virulent laboratory strain of M. tuberculosis that was made dormant employing Wayne's dormancy model, and compared the proteome profiles of dormant and reactivated bacteria using label-free one-dimensional LC/MS/MS analysis. The proteome of dormant bacteria was analyzed at nonreplicating persistent stage 1 (NRP1) and stage 2 (NRP2), whereas that of reactivated bacteria was analyzed at 6 and 24 h post re-aeration. Proteome of normoxially grown bacteria served as the reference. In total, 1871 proteins comprising 47% of the M. tuberculosis proteome were identified, and many of them were observed to be expressed differentially or uniquely during dormancy and reactivation. The number of proteins detected at different stages of dormancy (764 at NRP1, 691 at NRP2) and reactivation (768 at R6 and 983 at R24) was very low compared with that of the control (1663). The number of unique proteins identified during normoxia, NRP1, NRP2, R6, and R24 were 597, 66, 56, 73, and 94, respectively. We analyzed various biological functions during these conditions. Fluctuation in the relative quantities of proteins involved in energy metabolism during dormancy and reactivation was the most significant observation we made in this study. Proteins that are up-regulated or uniquely expressed during reactivation from dormancy offer to be attractive targets for therapeutic intervention to prevent reactivation of latent tuberculosis.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Tropical Disease Biology
Depositing User:	Central Library RGCB
Date Deposited:	26 Dec 2016 06:36
Last Modified:	27 Dec 2016 06:38
URI:	http://rgcb.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/62

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