Pascaline Bories, Julie Rima, Samuel Tranier, Julien Marcoux, Yasmina Grimoire, Mathilde Tomaszczyk, Anne Launay, Karine Fata, Hedia Marrakchi, Odile Burlet-Schiltz, Lionel Mourey, Manuelle Ducoux-Petit, Fabienne Bardou, Cécile Bon, Annaïk Quémard
Worldwide, tuberculosis is the second leading infectious killer and multidrug resistance severely hampers disease control. Mycolic acids are a unique category of lipids that are essential for viability, virulence, and persistence of the causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Therefore, enzymes involved in mycolic acid biosynthesis represent an important class of drug targets. We previously showed that the (3R)-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratase (HAD) protein HadD is dedicated mainly to the production of ketomycolic acids and plays a determinant role in Mtb biofilm formation and virulence...
April 2024: Protein Science