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Imran M, Singh S, Ahmad MN, Malik P, Mukhopadhyay A, Yadav KS, Gupta UD, Mugale MN, Mitra K, Srivastava KK, Chopra S, Mignani S, Apartsin E, Majoral JP, Dasgupta A. Polycationic phosphorous dendrimer potentiates multiple antibiotics against drug-resistant mycobacterial pathogens. Biomed Pharmacother 2024; 173:116289. [PMID: 38452653 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2024.116289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2023] [Revised: 02/02/2024] [Accepted: 02/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), causative agent of tuberculosis (TB) and non-tubercular mycobacterial (NTM) pathogens such as Mycobacterium abscessus are one of the most critical concerns worldwide due to increased drug-resistance resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. Therefore, focusing on developing novel therapeutics to minimize the treatment period and reducing the burden of drug-resistant Mtb and NTM infections are an urgent and pressing need. In our previous study, we identified anti-mycobacterial activity of orally bioavailable, non-cytotoxic, polycationic phosphorus dendrimer 2G0 against Mtb. In this study, we report ability of 2G0 to potentiate activity of multiple classes of antibiotics against drug-resistant mycobacterial strains. The observed synergy was confirmed using time-kill kinetics and revealed significantly potent activity of the combinations as compared to individual drugs alone. More importantly, no re-growth was observed in any tested combination. The identified combinations were further confirmed in intra-cellular killing assay as well as murine model of NTM infection, where 2G0 potentiated the activity of all tested antibiotics significantly better than individual drugs. Taken together, this nanoparticle with intrinsic antimycobacterial properties has the potential to represents an alternate drug candidate and/or a novel delivery agent for antibiotics of choice for enhancing the treatment of drug-resistant mycobacterial pathogens.
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- Mohmmad Imran
- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Toxicology & Experimental Medicine, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra 282001, India
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- Division of Toxicology & Experimental Medicine, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Electron Microscopy Unit, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Lucknow, 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Medicament de Normandie (CERMN), Université de Caen Normandie, Caen 14032, France; Centro de Quimica da Madeira, MMRG, Campus da Penteada, Universidade da Madeira, Funchal 9020-105 19, Portugal.
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- Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, Pessac F-33600, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination du CNRS, 205 Route de Narbonne, BP 44099, 31077 Toulouse Cedex 4, France; LCC-CNRS, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse 31400, France.
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- Division of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sitapur Road, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
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Mishra AK, Thakare RP, Santani BG, Yabaji SM, Dixit SK, Srivastava KK. Unlocking the enigma of phenotypic drug tolerance: Mechanisms and emerging therapeutic strategies. Biochimie 2023; 220:67-83. [PMID: 38168626 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2023.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Revised: 12/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
Abstract
In the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance, phenotypic drug tolerance poses a formidable challenge. This adaptive ability of microorganisms to withstand drug pressure without genetic alterations further complicating global healthcare challenges. Microbial populations employ an array of persistence mechanisms, including dormancy, biofilm formation, adaptation to intracellular environments, and the adoption of L-forms, to develop drug tolerance. Moreover, molecular mechanisms like toxin-antitoxin modules, oxidative stress responses, energy metabolism, and (p)ppGpp signaling contribute to this phenomenon. Understanding these persistence mechanisms is crucial for predicting drug efficacy, developing strategies for chronic bacterial infections, and exploring innovative therapies for refractory infections. In this comprehensive review, we dissect the intricacies of drug tolerance and persister formation, explore their role in acquired drug resistance, and highlight emerging therapeutic approaches to combat phenotypic drug tolerance. Furthermore, we outline the future landscape of interventions for persistent bacterial infections.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alok K Mishra
- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, India; Department of Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA.
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, India; Department of Molecular Cell and Cancer Biology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, 01605, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University (SGBAU), Amravati, Maharashtra, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, India; National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Medicine ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, 243122, India.
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, India.
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Fatma F, Tripathi DK, Srivastava M, Srivastava KK, Arora A. Immunological characterization of chimeras of high specificity antigens from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2021; 127:102054. [PMID: 33550109 DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2021.102054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Revised: 12/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/21/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Abstract
Tuberculosis remains a serious global health problem. BCG is the only prophylactic TB vaccine and it shows variable protective efficacy. Chimeric protein subunit vaccines hold great potential as stand-alone vaccines or heterologous BCG prime boosters. We have designed a protein chimera, PP31, by combining Mtb ESAT-6 family antigen Rv1198 and MoCo biosynthesis family antigen Rv3111. Further, PP31 was extended by addition of latency antigen Rv1813c to yield PP43. Immunization of BALB/c mice with PP31 or PP43 with FIA adjuvant elicited strong humoral immune response. Restimulation of splenocytes of the immunized mice lead to significant proliferation of lymphocytes, secretion of cytokines IFN-γ, TNF, IL-2 of the Th1 class, IL-17A of the Th17 class, and IL-6. PP31 and PP43 also induced intracellular cytokine expression (IFN-γ, TNF, and IL-2) from both CD4+-CD44high and CD8+-CD44high T-cells. Antigen-specific IFN-γ+/IL-2+ double positive CD4+ T-cells were significantly higher in case of PP43 than PP31-immunized mice and control group. PP43 showed protection equivalent to heat-inactivated BCG in response to challenge of the immunized mice with Mtb H37Ra. Based on its immunogenicity and protective efficacy, PP43 appears to be a potential candidate for further development as a subunit vaccine against TB.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/administration & dosage
- Animals
- Antibodies, Bacterial/blood
- Antigens, Bacterial/administration & dosage
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Bacterial Proteins/administration & dosage
- Bacterial Proteins/immunology
- Cell Proliferation/drug effects
- Cells, Cultured
- Cytokines/metabolism
- Epitopes
- Female
- Humans
- Immunity, Cellular/drug effects
- Immunity, Humoral/drug effects
- Immunization
- Immunogenicity, Vaccine
- Lymphocyte Activation/drug effects
- Lymphocyte Subsets/drug effects
- Lymphocyte Subsets/immunology
- Lymphocyte Subsets/metabolism
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/immunology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/administration & dosage
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/immunology
- Tuberculosis/blood
- Tuberculosis/immunology
- Tuberculosis/microbiology
- Tuberculosis/prevention & control
- Tuberculosis Vaccines/administration & dosage
- Tuberculosis Vaccines/immunology
- Vaccines, Subunit/administration & dosage
- Vaccines, Subunit/immunology
- Mice
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- Farheen Fatma
- Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Microbiology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; Molecular Parasitology and Immunology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India; Microbiology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India.
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- Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India.
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Dubey RK, Dhamija E, Kumar Mishra A, Soam D, Mohanrao Yabaji S, Srivastava K, Srivastava KK. Mycobacterial origin protein Rv0674 localizes into mitochondria, interacts with D-loop and regulates OXPHOS for intracellular persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mitochondrion 2020; 57:241-256. [PMID: 33279599 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2020.11.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/23/2020] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) employs diverse strategies to survive inside the host macrophages. In this study, we have identified a conserved hypothetical protein of Mtb; Rv0674, which is present in the mitochondria of the host cell. The genetic knock-out of rv0674 (Mtb-KO) showed increased growth of Mtb. The intracellular infection with recombinant Mycobacterium smegmatis (MSMEG) expressing Rv0674 (MS_Rv0674), established that the protein is involved in promoting the apoptotic cell death of the macrophage. To investigate the mechanism incurred in mitochondria, we observed that the protein physically interacts with the control region (D-loop) of the mitochondrial DNA (LSP and HSP promoters of the loop) of the macrophages and facilitates the increased expression of mRNA in all the complexes of mitochondrial encoded OXPHOS subunits. The changes in OXPHOS levels corroborated with the ATP synthesis, mitochondrial membrane potential and superoxide production. The infection with MS_Rv0674 confirmed the role of this protein in effecting the intracellular infection. The fluorescent and confocal microscopy confirmed that the protein is localized in the mitochondria of infected macrophages and in the cells of BAL of TB patients. Together these findings indicate towards the novel function of the protein which is unlike to the earlier established mechanisms of mycobacterial physiology.
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- Rikesh Kumar Dubey
- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India; Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India; Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India.
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Yabaji SM, Dhamija E, Mishra AK, Srivastava KK. ESAT-6 regulates autophagous response through SOD-2 and as a result induces intracellular survival of Mycobacterium bovis BCG. Biochim Biophys Acta Proteins Proteom 2020; 1868:140470. [PMID: 32535275 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2020.140470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2019] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
Abstract
Mycobacterium is known for subverting the host defense machinery, and one such mechanism is the inhibition of autophagy. Here, we have demonstrated that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) secretes a virulence factor; an early secretory antigenic target protein (ESAT-6) into the phagosome, which induces the expression and activity of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (SOD-2) of macrophages. Using a series of experiments, and Mycobacterium bovis BCG as a model strain (where ESAT-6 protein is not expressed), we have delineated that the protein regulates SOD-2 of macrophages. The expression and augmentation of SOD-2 activity were confirmed by either incubating the macrophages with ESAT-6 protein, transfection of macrophage by esat6 gene using a eukaryotic promoter vector, or by infection with different mycobacterial strains. The induction of acidification of phagosomal compartment containing bacteria was observed in cells that express low levels of SOD-2. This was further confirmed by observing a significant decrease in the M. bovis BCG intracellular load in the sod-2 knocked-down macrophages.
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- Shivraj M Yabaji
- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Central, Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Central, Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Central, Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, CSIR-Central, Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226031, India.
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Singh K, Sinha M, Kuletha S, Kaur B, Kaur A, Tripathi DK, Srivastava KK, Murugesan V, Srikala R, Chaudhary AK. Synthesis, Antitubercular Activity, Molecular Modeling and Docking Studies of Novel Thiazolidin-4-One Linked Dinitrobenzamide Derivatives. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020. [DOI: 10.2174/1573407214666180720150009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
Abstract
Background:
Tuberculosis is a catastrophe sprawled across the world. The World Health
Organization Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 inferred that there were an estimated 10.4 million people
suffered from tuberculosis including 490000 Multidrug-Resistant TB (MDR-TB) cases. Several new
lead molecules like dinitrobenzamide derivatives were found to be highly active against multidrugresistant
strains of M. tuberculosis. To further explore the pharmacophoric space around the
dinitobenzamide moiety, a series of compounds have been synthesized by linking it with the thiazolidin-
4-one. The presented work is an effort to study the biological effect of thiazolidin-4-one scaffold on
dinitrobenzamide derivatives as antitubercular agents. A molecular modeling study was also performed
on the synthesized molecules to reveal the requirements for further lead optimization.
Methods:
The thiazolidin-4-one linked 3,5-dinitrobenzamide derivatives have been synthesized by onepot
three-component condensation reaction of an amine, substituted aldehydes and thioglycolic acid in
presence of N, N'-Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCC). These compounds were evaluated against Mycobacterium
tuberculosis H37Ra. A pharmacophore modeling approach has been used in order to explore
the collection of possible pharmacophore queries of thiazolidin-4-one linked 3, 5-dinitrobenzamide
derivatives against M. tuberculosis. The synthesized compounds were docked on to the M. tuberculosis
DprE1 enzyme to identify the structural features requirement of these analogs against this potential target
of M. tuberculosis.
Results:
The synthesized compounds showed the antitubercular activity in the range of 6.25-50 μg/ml.
The pharmacophore modeling suggests that the presence of aromatic moiety, thiazolidin-4-one ring and one of
the nitro groups are significant for inhibiting the enzymatic activity. While docking studies showed that hydrophobic
and hydrogen bond interactions of the aromatic moiety and nitro group crucial to inactivate the
DprE1 enzyme.
Conclusion:
The study showed that the linking of thiazolidin-4-one with dinitrobenzamide leads to
compounds active against M. tuberculosis. These findings also suggested that further lead optimization
would be carried out by focusing on the aromatic system along with electron-rich substituents placed on
the thiazolidin-4-one for making better hydrophobic and hydrogen bond interactions with the DprE1
target.
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- Karanveer Singh
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ASBASJSM college of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar, Punjab 140111, India
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- Laureate Institute of Pharmacy, Kathog, Kangra. Himachal Pradesh, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ASBASJSM college of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar, Punjab 140111, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ASBASJSM college of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar, Punjab 140111, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, ASBASJSM college of Pharmacy, Bela, Ropar, Punjab 140111, India
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- Department of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Sree Sainath Nagar, Tirupati, A. Rangampet, Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Sree Sainath Nagar, Tirupati, A. Rangampet, Andhra Pradesh, India
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Dhamija E, Yabaji S, Chatterjee A, Mishra A, K.Dubey R, Narain A, K. Srivastava K. Elucidation of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-B for its role in intracellular survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2019. [DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2019.pa4592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Dubey RK, Dhamija E, Mishra AK, Soam D, Yabaji SM, Srivastava K, Srivastava KK. A mycobacterial encoded hypothetical protein is localized in mitochondria and regulates oxidative phosphorylation of infected macrophage. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2019. [DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2019.pa2961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Chatterjee A, Pandey S, Dhamija E, Jaiswal S, Yabaji SM, Srivastava KK. ATP synthase, an essential enzyme in growth and multiplication is modulated by protein tyrosine phosphatase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra. Biochimie 2019; 165:156-160. [PMID: 31377193 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2019.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 07/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) protein tyrosine phosphatase (PtpA) has so far been known to control intracellular survival of mycobacteria; whereas the ATP synthase which is essential for mycobacterial growth has recently been contemplated in developing a breakthrough anti-TB drug, diarylquinoline. Since both of these enzymes have been established as validated drug targets; we report a robust and functional relationship between these two enzymes through a series of experiments using Mtb H37Ra. In the present study we report that the mycobacterial ATP synthase alpha subunit is regulated by PtpA. We generated gene knock-out for the enzyme PtpA and subjected to determine the mycobacterial replication and the proteome profile of wild type, mutant (ΔptpA) and complemented (ΔptpA:ptpA) strains of Mtb H37Ra. A substantial amount of decrease in the protein level of ATP synthase alpha subunit (AtpA) in case of mutant H37Ra was observed, while the levels of the enzyme were either increased or remained unchanged, in wild type and in the complemented strains.
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- Aditi Chatterjee
- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research(+), CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226031, India.
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Singh S, Yabaji SM, Ali R, Srivastava KK, Haq W. Synthesis and biological activity of Ub2 derived peptides as potential host-directed antitubercular therapy. Chem Biol Drug Des 2019; 94:1330-1338. [PMID: 30805971 DOI: 10.1111/cbdd.13508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2018] [Revised: 01/24/2019] [Accepted: 02/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
The correlation of mycobactericidal property of macrophages with its potential to deliver bacteria to hydrolytic lysosomes, augmented with ubiquitin-derived peptides (Ub2), activates the process of autophagy. This leads to the formation of phagolysosomes supported by factor involving increased cationic charges which regulate the acidic pH causing elimination of Mycobacterium. To better understand this interaction of cationic-rich ubiquitin-derived peptides with mycobacteria and to identify putative mycobacterial intrinsic resistance mechanisms for phagolysosome formation, we have synthesized a new series of Ub2 peptides, wherein the Gly residues are replaced with azaGly with the aim to improve metabolic stability. In addition to that a new methodology is reported for the synthesis of heteroaryl tethered peptides using azaGly as a linker. We have demonstrated that positive puncta (directly proportional to the acidification of lysosome) in cytosol was significantly increased after 6 hours on the treatment of macrophage with Ub2 peptide derivatives (1, 6, 10, and 11) causing the higher intensity of lysosome observed through LysoTracker Red Dye. The circular dichroism spectral studies are carried out in water and water:TFE mixture and demonstrated that the Ub2 peptides have helix-forming tendency in the presence of TFE. The recognizable intracellular killing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Ub2 peptides provides a new approach for host-directed therapy.
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- Shalini Singh
- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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- Microbiology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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- Microbiology Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, India
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- Medicinal and Process Chemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, New Delhi, India
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Narain A, Dhamija E, Srivastava K, Srivastava KK, Kant S. Construing the role of Proteasome Accessory Factor-C in fluoroquinolone resistance in pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2018. [DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2018.pa4754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Jaiswal S, Chatterjee A, Pandey S, Lata K, Gadi RK, Manda R, Kumar S, Reddy MS, Ramachandran R, Srivastava KK. Mycobacterial protein tyrosine kinase, PtkA phosphorylates PtpA at tyrosine residues and the mechanism is stalled by the novel series of inhibitors. J Drug Target 2018; 27:51-59. [PMID: 29724125 DOI: 10.1080/1061186x.2018.1473407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are the key mechanisms for mycobacterial physiology and play critical roles in mycobacterial survival and in its pathogenesis. Mycobacteria evade host immune mechanism by inhibiting phagosome - lysosome fusion in which mycobacterial protein tyrosine phosphatase A (PtpA;TP) plays an indispensable role. Tyrosine kinase (PtkA;TK) activated by autophosphorylation; phosphorylates TP, which subsequently leads to increase in its phosphatase activity. The phosphorylated TP is secreted in phagosome of macrophage. In the present study, we have shown that the phosphorylation at two sites of TP; Y128 and Y129 are critical for TK-mediated phosphatase activity. The disruption of this interaction between TK and TP inhibits activation of later which further leads to the decrease in intracellular survival of mycobacteria. Furthermore, the proof of concept has been established using benzylbenzofurans and benzofuranamides, which inhibit the growth and intracellular survival of mycobacteria, associate with the functional sites of TP and contend with the TK. This binding was further restated by looking at the anchorage of protein-protein and the protein-inhibitor complexes in the homology-based structure models and by surface plasmon resonance analysis.
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- Swati Jaiswal
- a Division of Microbiology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- a Division of Microbiology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- a Division of Microbiology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Division of Molecular Structural Biology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- c Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- c Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Division of Molecular Structural Biology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- c Division of Medicinal and Process Chemistry , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- b Division of Molecular Structural Biology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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- a Division of Microbiology , CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute , Lucknow , India
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Jaiswal S, Srivastava KK. Protein tyrosine kinase A modulates intracellular survival of mycobacteria through Galectin 3. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2018; 498:884-890. [PMID: 29545176 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2018.03.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Accepted: 03/09/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is a successful pathogen which increases persistence inside the host macrophage by subverting its defence mechanism. Mycobacteria regulate the pathogenesis and intracellular survival by controlling its interaction with host protein(s). Galectin 3 is a member of the β-galactoside binding gene family which is involved in several biological functions. In the present study, we have expressed the mycobacterial protein tyrosine kinase (PtkA) in the cytosol of host macrophages through a eukaryotic promoter vector and found that it down-regulates Galectin 3. Infection by ptkA knocked-out (KO) mycobacterial strain shows increased level of Galectin 3 in the cytosol of macrophages. PtkA regulates Galectin 3 level and stimulates host macrophage through MEK-JNK-cJUN pathway and initiates early apoptosis in H37Ra infected macrophage. The ptkA KO strain showed decreased progression of apoptosis confirming Galectin 3 as anti-apoptotic molecule. The intracellular survival was also found to be impaired in the mice infected with ptkA KO mycobacteria. The hypothesis was also confirmed by looking at the intracellular survival of mycobacteria in Galectin 3 silenced macrophages. The overall findings suggest the significance of Galectin 3 and PtkA interaction in intracellular persistence of mycobacteria.
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- Swati Jaiswal
- Division of Microbiology and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, India
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Yabaji SM, Mishra AK, Chatterjee A, Dubey RK, Srivastava K, Srivastava KK. Peroxiredoxin-1 of macrophage is critical for mycobacterial infection and is controlled by early secretory antigenic target protein through the activation of p38 MAPK. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 494:433-439. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.10.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Pandey H, Tripathi S, Srivastava K, Tripathi DK, Srivastava M, Kant S, Srivastava KK, Arora A. Characterization of culture filtrate proteins Rv1197 and Rv1198 of ESAT-6 family from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2017; 1861:396-408. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2016.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2016] [Revised: 10/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/13/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Singh N, Tiwari S, Srivastava KK, Siddiqi MI. Identification of Novel Inhibitors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknG Using Pharmacophore Based Virtual Screening, Docking, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, and Their Biological Evaluation. J Chem Inf Model 2015; 55:1120-9. [PMID: 25965448 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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PknG is a Ser/thr protein kinase that plays a crucial role in regulatory processes within the mycobacterial cell and signaling cascade of the infected host cell. The essentiality of PknG in mycobacterial virulence by blocking phagosome-lysosome fusion as well as its role in intrinsic antibiotic resistance makes it an attractive drug target. However, only very few compounds have been reported as Mycobacterium tuberculosis PknG (MtPknG) inhibitors so far. Therefore, in an effort to find potential inhibitors against MtPknG, we report here a sequential pharmacophore-based virtual screening workflow, 3-fold docking with different search algorithms, and molecular dynamic simulations for better insight into the predicted binding mode of identified hits. After detailed analysis of the results, six ligands were selected for in vitro analysis. Three of these molecules showed significant inhibitory activity against MtPknG. In addition, inhibitory studies of mycobacterial growth in infected THP-1 macrophages demonstrated considerable growth inhibition of M. bovis BCG induced through compound NRB04248 without any cytotoxic effect against host macrophages. Our results suggest that the compound NRB04248 can be explored for further design and optimization of MtPknG inhibitors.
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Chatterjee A, Pandey S, Singh PK, Pathak NP, Rai N, Ramachandran R, Tripathi RP, Srivastava KK. Biochemical and functional characterizations of tyrosine phosphatases from pathogenic and nonpathogenic mycobacteria: indication of phenyl cyclopropyl methyl-/phenyl butenyl azoles as tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:7539-48. [PMID: 25750048 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6502-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2015] [Revised: 02/04/2015] [Accepted: 02/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Tyrosine phosphorylation is one of the most common means of posttranslational modifications which can generate novel recognition motifs for protein interactions and thereafter affecting cellular localization, protein stability, and enzyme activity. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) possesses a wide range of signal transduction systems, including two protein tyrosine phosphatases (PtpA and PtpB). Since functional diversities between protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) are illustrated by regulatory domains and subunits, we have characterized the nature of tyrosine phosphatases from slow-grower pathogenic species Mtb and from fast-grower nonpathogenic species Mycobacterium smegmatis (MS). The findings delineate that the enzymes present in MS have significantly lesser phosphatase activity than PTPases of Mtb as evidenced by low K cat/K m of recombinantly expressed proteins. The K cat/K m for Mtb PtpA was 500-1000-fold higher than MS PTPases. We have designed and synthesized phenyl cyclopropyl methyl-/phenyl butenyl azoles which inhibit growth of mycobacteria, in culture and in macrophages. The mechanism of efficacy of these compounds against mycobacteria was identified and suggested that the inhibition may possibly be mediated via the targeting of Mtb tyrosine phosphatase. The results further added that these compounds exclusively inhibit PtpA of Mtb.
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- Aditi Chatterjee
- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226 031, India
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Pathak V, Ahmad I, Kahlon AK, Hasanain M, Sharma S, Srivastava KK, Sarkar J, Shankar K, Sharma A, Gupta A. Syntheses of 2-methoxyestradiol and eugenol template based diarylpropenes as non-steroidal anticancer agents. RSC Adv 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra03823a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Pathak V, Maurya HK, Sharma S, Srivastava KK, Gupta A. Synthesis and biological evaluation of substituted 4,6-diarylpyrimidines and 3,5-diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazoles as anti-tubercular agents. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2014; 24:2892-6. [PMID: 24835631 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2014.04.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2014] [Revised: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 04/23/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Various substituted 4,6-diarylpyrimidin-2-amine (4), 4,6-diaryl-2-(heteroaryl)pyrimidine (6) and 1-(3,5-diaryl-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)ethanone (7) derivatives were synthesized in good yields using simple methodology. The synthesized compounds (4-7) were evaluated for their in vitro anti-tubercular activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv strain. Compounds 4a, 6b, 7b, and 7c exhibited significant anti-tubercular activity at MIC values 25, 25, 12.5 and 12.5 μM concentration. In vitro cytotoxicity data using non cancerous hepatic monocytes (THP-1) cells indicated that most active compounds 7b and 7c were safe as their MIC values were much lower than their cytotoxic values.
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- Vinay Pathak
- Medicinal Chemistry Department, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, P.O. CIMAP, Kukrail Road, Lucknow 226015, India
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, P.O. CIMAP, Kukrail Road, Lucknow 226015, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sector-10, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Division of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Sector-10, Jankipuram Extension, Lucknow 226031, India
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, CSIR-Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, P.O. CIMAP, Kukrail Road, Lucknow 226015, India.
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Anand N, Ramakrishna KKG, Gupt MP, Chaturvedi V, Singh S, Srivastava KK, Sharma P, Rai N, Ramachandran R, Dwivedi AK, Gupta V, Kumar B, Pandey S, Shukla PK, Pandey SK, Lal J, Tripathi RP. Identification of 1-[4-Benzyloxyphenyl)-but-3-enyl]-1H-azoles as New Class of Antitubercular and Antimicrobial Agents. ACS Med Chem Lett 2013; 4:958-63. [PMID: 24900592 DOI: 10.1021/ml4002248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2013] [Accepted: 08/26/2013] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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A series of 1-[(4-benzyloxyphenyl)-but-3-enyl]-1H-azoles has been identified as potent antitubercular agents against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Synthesis of compounds involved acid catalyzed ring-opening of cyclopropyl ring of phenyl cyclopropyl methanols followed by nucleophilic attack of the azoles on the carbocation intermediates. Several of the compounds 26, 34, and 36 exhibited significant antitubercular activities with MIC value as low as 1.56, 1.56, and 0.61 μg/mL, respectively, comparable to many standard drugs. These compounds were also screened against other strains of bacteria and fungi, and few of them showed good antifungal activity against A. fumigatus, responsible for lung infection.
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- Namrata Anand
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Academy of Scientific and Innovative and Research, ‡Division of Medicinal & Process Chemistry, §Drug Target Discovery and Development, ∥Microbiology, ⊥Molecular and Structural Biology, #Pharmaceutics, ∇Sophisticated Analytical Instrumentation Facility,○Fermentation Technology, ◆Pharmacokinetics & Metabolism, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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Kahlon AK, Negi AS, Kumari R, Srivastava KK, Kumar S, Darokar MP, Sharma A. Identification of 1-chloro-2-formyl indenes and tetralenes as novel antistaphylococcal agents exhibiting sortase A inhibition. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2013; 98:2041-51. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-5036-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Revised: 06/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/04/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Singh SK, Kumari R, Singh DK, Tiwari S, Singh PK, Sharma S, Srivastava KK. Putative roles of a proline–glutamic acid-rich protein (PE3) in intracellular survival and as a candidate for subunit vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Med Microbiol Immunol 2013; 202:365-77. [DOI: 10.1007/s00430-013-0299-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2013] [Accepted: 05/10/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The mycobacterial FASII multi-enzyme complex has been identified to be a target of Ser/Thr protein kinases (STPKs) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), with substrates, including the malonyl-CoA:ACP transacylase (FabD) and the β-ketoacyl-ACP synthases KasA and KasB. These proteins are phosphorylated by various kinases in vitro. The present study links the correlation of FASII pathway with serine threonine protein kinase of MTB. In the preliminary finding, we have shown that mycobacterial protein Rv3080c (PknK) phosphorylates FabD and the knockdown of PknK protein in mycobacteria down regulates FabD expression. This event leads to the differential inhibition of mycobacteria in the presence of isoniazid (INH), as the inhibition of growth of mycobacteria in the presence of INH is enhanced in PknK deficient mycobacteria.
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- Ruma Kumari
- Department of Microbiology, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226001, India
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Kaur P, Mathur S, Sharma M, Tiwari M, Srivastava KK, Chandra R. A biologically active constituent of withania somnifera (ashwagandha) with antistress activity. Indian J Clin Biochem 2012; 16:195-8. [PMID: 23105317 DOI: 10.1007/bf02864860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In Ayurvedic medicine,Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) is well known for its anti-stress activity. A passive rat experimental model, where the animals are subjected to multiple stress of cold, hypoxia, restraint (C-H-R) has been developed to evaluate adaptogenic properties of various fractions of W. somnifera root extracts. We have carried out extraction of roots of W. somnifera with water and further isolated one of the active constituents called compound X and also tested its anti-stress activity in C-H-R model. The effect of administration of W. somnifera water suspension (360 mg/Kg bw) and compound X (20mg/Kg bw) on the fall and recovery of colonic temperature was noted. There was an increase of ≈38% and ≈54% in the time taken to attain T(rec) 23°C by rats given a single dose of fresh aqueous suspension and biologically active constituent (Compound X) respectively, where as decrease in the recovery time to attain T(rec) 37°C is ≈13% and ≈33% respectively, as compared to control group. It is clear that rats treated with the fresh aqueous suspension and compound X ofWithania somnifera, could withstand the multiple stress of C-H-R better than control group.
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- P Kaur
- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, 110007 Delhi
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Singh SK, Tripathi DK, Singh PK, Sharma S, Srivastava KK. Protective and survival efficacies of Rv0160c protein in murine model of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2012; 97:5825-37. [PMID: 23104642 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-012-4493-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Revised: 10/01/2012] [Accepted: 10/02/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The proline-glutamic acid (PE) and proline-proline-glutamic acid (PPE) multi-gene families code for approximately 10% of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) genome. These proteins are thought to be virulence factors that participate in impounding the host immune responses. While some members have been studied, the functions of most PE/PPE proteins are yet to be explored. The studies presented here have specifically characterized the roles of one of the PE proteins of Mtb, Rv0160c (PE4), in mycobacterial persistence and in prophylactic efficacy. We have expressed Rv0160c in a non-pathogenic fast-growing Mycobacterium smegmatis strain and demonstrated that the protein improves the survival of mycobacteria in macrophages and in mice. The protein has also shown its effect under physiological stress of bacteria, as evidenced by elevated expression in acidic and in hypoxic conditions. In mice, the level of Rv0160c was noticeably high during the chronic stage of tuberculosis. The seroreactivity of the protein against different categories of tuberculosis patients revealed a strong B-cell humoral response in freshly infected pulmonary tuberculosis patients. In mice, it exhibited increased IL-2, TNF, and IL-6 production. The antigenic properties of the protein directed towards the protective efficacy against the Mtb challenge. All together, our findings have identified Rv0160c as an in vivo expressed immunodominant antigen which plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of mycobacterial disease and could prove to be a good preventive antigen for tuberculosis.
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- Susmita K Singh
- Division of Microbiology, CSIR--Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India
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Pridgeon JW, Yildirim-Aksoy M, Klesius PH, Srivastava KK, Reddy PG. Attenuation of a virulent Aeromonas hydrophila with novobiocin and pathogenic characterization of the novobiocin-resistant strain. J Appl Microbiol 2012; 113:1319-28. [PMID: 22897434 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2012.05430.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2012] [Revised: 07/24/2012] [Accepted: 07/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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AIM To determine whether novobiocin resistance strategy could be used to attenuate a virulent Aeromonas hydrophila AH11P strain and to characterize the growth and pathogenic differences between the novobiocin-resistant strain and its virulent parent strain AH11P. METHODS AND RESULTS A novobiocin-resistant strain AH11NOVO was obtained from a virulent Aer. hydrophila strain AH11P through selection of resistance to novobiocin. AH11NOVO was found to be avirulent to channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), whereas AH11P was virulent. When AH11NOVO vaccinated channel catfish were challenged with AH11P at 14 days postvaccination, relative per cent of survival of vaccinated fish was 100%. The cell proliferation rate of AH11NOVO was found to be significantly (P < 0.05) less than that of AH11P. In vitro motility assay revealed that AH11NOVO was nonmotile, whereas AH11P was motile. AH11NOVO had significantly (P < 0.05) lower in vitro chemotactic response to catfish mucus than that of AH11P. Although the ability of AH11NOVO to attach catfish gill cells was similar to that of AH11P, the ability of AH11NOVO to invade catfish gill cells was significantly (P < 0.05) lower than that of AH11P. CONCLUSIONS The novobiocin-resistant AH11NOVO is attenuated and different from its parent AH11P in pathogenicity. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The significantly lower chemotactic response and invasion ability of AH11NOVO compared with that of its virulent parent strain AH11P might shed light on the pathogenesis of Aer. hydrophila.
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- J W Pridgeon
- Aquatic Animal Health Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Auburn, AL 36832, USA.
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Anand N, Singh P, Sharma A, Tiwari S, Singh V, Singh DK, Srivastava KK, Singh BN, Tripathi RP. Synthesis and evaluation of small libraries of triazolylmethoxy chalcones, flavanones and 2-aminopyrimidines as inhibitors of mycobacterial FAS-II and PknG. Bioorg Med Chem 2012; 20:5150-63. [PMID: 22854194 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2012] [Revised: 07/02/2012] [Accepted: 07/03/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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A synthetic strategy to access small libraries of triazolylmethoxy chalcones 4{1-20}, triazolylmethoxy flavanones 5{1-10} and triazolylmethoxy aminopyrimidines 6{1-17} from a common substrate 4-propargyloxy-2-hydroxy acetophenone using a set of different reactions has been developed. The chalcones and flavanones were screened against mycobacterial FAS-II pathway using a recombinant mycobacterial strain, against which the most potent compound showed ∼88% inhibition in bacterial growth and substantially induction of reporter gene activity at 100 μM concentration. The triazolylmethoxy aminopyrimdines were screened against PknG of Mycobaceterium tuberculosis displaying moderate to good activity (23-53% inhibition at 100 μM), comparable to the action of a standard inhibitor.
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- Namrata Anand
- Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, PO Box 173, Chattar Manzil, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lucknow 226001, India
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Chaurasiya SK, Srivastava KK. Downregulation of protein kinase C-alpha enhances intracellular survival of Mycobacteria: role of PknG. BMC Microbiol 2009; 9:271. [PMID: 20030858 PMCID: PMC2816201 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-9-271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2009] [Accepted: 12/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Intracellular trafficking of mycobacteria is comprehensively dependent on the unusual regulation of host proteins. Recently, we have reported that infection of macrophages by Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv (Rv) selectively downregulates the expression of PKCα while infection by Mycobacterium smegmatis (MS) does not. Results Based on our earlier study, we have extrapolated for the first time that knockdown of PKCα, impairs phagocytosis of mycobacteria by macrophages while their intracellular survival is drastically increased. Mycobacterium bovis BCG (BCG) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra (Ra) have also been shown to downregulate the expression of PKCα during the infection. Since PknG is uniquely expressed in BCG, Ra, Rv but not in MS and has been reported to promote intracellular survival of mycobacteria, led us to believe that PknG may be involved in such downregulation of PKCα. THP-1 cells infected with recombinant MS expressing PknG (MS-G), showed significant reduction in PKCα expression. In normal THP-1 cells survival of MS-G was enhanced as compared to MS, while their behavior in PKCα deficient cells could not be distinguished. The results strongly demonstrate that pathogenic mycobacteria recognize and then inhibit PKCα to circumvent phagocytosis and the hostile environment of macrophages. We emphasize that, this inhibition is controlled by PknG. Conclusions All together, our data reveal a mechanism that shows substantial interdependence of PKCα with PknG, in sustaining mycobacterial infection.
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Parti RPS, Srivastava S, Gachhui R, Srivastava KK, Srivastava R. Murine infection model for Mycobacterium fortuitum. Microbes Infect 2005; 7:349-55. [PMID: 15777648 DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2004.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2004] [Revised: 09/25/2004] [Accepted: 11/08/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Mycobacterium fortuitum is an atypical, non-tubercular, pathogenic, rapidly growing mycobacteria. As very little is known about its virulence determinants, the absence of an animal infection model was always sorely felt. A reliable and reproducible murine infection model has been developed in which non-replicating persistence of 10(5) CFU/g tissue in kidney was observed when a standardised dosage inoculum of 5x10(7) CFU was injected intravenously. The tissue bacillary load was determined at regular intervals (10, 25, 45 and 60 days post-inoculation) in different organs, viz., kidney, spleen, lung and liver. Histopathology of kidney revealed tissue damage and granuloma-like formations which appear to be part of the host's effort to combat the infection. As IFN-gamma is known to trigger antimycobacterial effects of murine macrophages, IFN-gamma was assayed to determine the correlation between host protective measures and bacillary load in kidney. Fifteen days after infection, the level of IFN-gamma secreted by CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes was high, concomitant with high tissue bacillary load, while the level sharply declined as the number of bacilli in kidney decreased 45 days post-inoculation. The invasion and proliferation of M. fortuitum ATCC 6841, when incubated with non-phagocytic (recombination activating genes (RAG) murine kidney) and phagocytic (murine peritoneal macrophages) cell lines, was assessed. M. fortuitum did not invade RAG murine kidney cell line, while the bacilli infected and proliferated freely inside murine macrophages. In conclusion, we present a reproducible murine infection model that sustains a persistent infection, the progression of which correlates meaningfully with host protective response.
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- Rajinder P S Parti
- Division of Microbiology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226001, India
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Srivastava KK, Batra S, Sassano A, Li Y, Majchrzak B, Kiyokawa H, Altman A, Fish EN, Platanias LC. Engagement of Protein Kinase C-θ in Interferon Signaling in T-cells. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:29911-20. [PMID: 15150272 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m401997200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Protein kinase C-theta (PKC-theta) plays important roles in the activation and survival of lymphocytes and is the predominant PKC isoform expressed in T-cells. Interferons regulate T-cell function and activation, but the precise signaling mechanisms by which they mediate such effects have not been elucidated. We determined whether PKC-theta is engaged in interferon (INF) signaling in T-cells. Both Type I (alpha, beta) and Type II (gamma) IFNs induced phosphorylation of PKC-theta in human T-cell lines and primary human T-lymphocytes. Such phosphorylation of PKC-theta resulted in activation of its kinase domain, suggesting that this kinase plays a functional role in interferon signaling. Consistent with this, inhibition of PKC-theta protein expression using small interfering RNAs (siRNA) abrogated IFN-alpha- and IFN-gamma-dependent gene transcription via GAS elements. Similarly, blocking of PKC-theta kinase activity by overexpression of a dominant-negative PKC-theta mutant also blocked GAS-driven transcription, further demonstrating a requirement for PKC-theta in IFN-dependent transcriptional activation. The effects of PKC-theta on IFN-dependent gene transcription were not mediated by regulation of the IFN-activated STAT pathway, as siRNA-mediated PKC-theta knockdown had no effects on STAT1 phosphorylation and binding of STAT1-containing complexes to SIE/GAS elements. On the other hand, siRNA-mediated PKC-theta inhibition blocked phosphorylation/activation of MKK4, suggesting that interferon-dependent PKC-theta activation regulates downstream engagement of MAP kinase pathways. Altogether, these findings demonstrate that PKC-theta is an interferon-inducible kinase and strongly suggest that it plays an important role in the generation of interferon-responses in T-cells.
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- Kishore K Srivastava
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Division of Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University Medical School and Lakeside Veterans Administration Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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Li Y, Srivastava KK, Platanias LC. Mechanisms of type I interferon signaling in normal and malignant cells. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz) 2004; 52:156-63. [PMID: 15247882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2003] [Accepted: 02/25/2004] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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Type I interferons (IFNs) are cytokines that induce multiple biological effects on target cells, including antiviral, antiproliferative, and immunomodulatory activities. Consistent with the pleiotropic nature of these cytokines, multiple signaling pathways are activated during binding of IFNs to the type I IFN receptor. An important signaling cascade activated by type I IFNs is the Jak-Stat pathway. Activation of the Tyk-2 and Jak-1 kinases, and downstream formation of various Stat complexes, mediates IFN-dependent gene transcription for IFN-stimulated genes. In addition to the classic Jak-Stat pathway, type I IFNs activate multiple other pathways, including the insulin receptor substrate-phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase cascade, the CBL-CrkL pathway, and mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways. There is accumulating evidence that non-Stat IFN-regulated signaling pathways play important roles in the generation of the antiproliferative effects of type I IFNs. In this review, the regulation of various signaling cascades by the type I IFN receptor is summarized and an update on recent advances in the field is provided.
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- Yongzhong Li
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center and Division of Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University Medical School and Lakeside Veterans, Administration Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Goyal HO, Braden TD, Williams CS, Dalvi P, Williams JW, Srivastava KK. Exposure of neonatal male rats to estrogen induces abnormal morphology of the penis and loss of fertility. Reprod Toxicol 2004; 18:265-74. [PMID: 15019723 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2003.12.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2003] [Revised: 09/10/2003] [Accepted: 10/30/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The research objectives are to determine whether estrogen-induced infertility is associated with abnormal morphology of the penis and if morphological alterations can be reversed by testosterone (T). Male pups received diethylstilbestrol (DES) on alternate days from postnatal days 2 to 12. They received T or empty implants at 180 days, were tested for fertility at 188 days, and terminated at 200 days. While 5/7 control males sired pups, only 1/6 did in the DES group, and 0/8 in the DES plus T group. In addition to reductions in penile length and weight, the novel structural change induced by DES, and not reversed by T, was a replacement of cavernous spaces by fat cells in the penis body. Hence, T substitution for 8 days at adulthood did not reverse infertility in rats treated neonatally with DES and provided evidence that infertility probably resulted from absence of cavernous spaces and/or accumulation of fat cells in the penis body.
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- H O Goyal
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088, USA.
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The immunomodulatory properties of amla (Emblica officinalis) and shankhpushpi (Evolvulus alsinoides) were evaluated in adjuvant induced arthritic (AIA) rat model. Injecting Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) in right hind paw of the animals induced inflammation. The crude extracts of both the herbs were administered intraperitonially following a repeated treatment profile. The anti-inflammatory response of both the extracts was determined by lymphocyte proliferation activity and histopathological severity of synovial hyperplasia. Both the extracts showed a marked reduction in inflammation and edema. At cellular level immunosuppression occurred during the early phase of the disease. There was mild synovial hyperplasia and infiltration of few mononuclear cells in amla or shankhpushpi treated animals. The induction of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) was significantly decreased in treated animals as compared to controls. These observations suggest that both the herbal extracts caused immunosuppression in AIA rats, indicating that they may provide an alternative approach to the treatment of arthritis.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/administration & dosage
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/isolation & purification
- Adjuvants, Immunologic/pharmacology
- Animals
- Arthritis, Experimental/drug therapy
- Arthritis, Experimental/immunology
- Arthritis, Experimental/pathology
- Cell Division/drug effects
- Cell Division/immunology
- Convolvulaceae/chemistry
- Female
- Freund's Adjuvant
- Fruit/chemistry
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Knee Joint/drug effects
- Knee Joint/immunology
- Knee Joint/pathology
- Lymphocytes/cytology
- Lymphocytes/drug effects
- Lymphocytes/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/drug effects
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/immunology
- Macrophages, Peritoneal/metabolism
- Male
- Nitric Oxide/biosynthesis
- Nitric Oxide/immunology
- Phyllanthus emblica/chemistry
- Plant Extracts/administration & dosage
- Plant Extracts/pharmacology
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/drug effects
- Spleen/immunology
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- Lilly Ganju
- Immunomodulation Laboratory, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi 110054, India.
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Kumar R, Qadar Pasha MA, Khan AP, Gupta V, Grover SK, Norboo T, Srivastava KK, Selvamurthy W, Brahamchari SK. Association of high-altitude systemic hypertension with the deletion allele-of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene. Int J Biometeorol 2003; 48:10-14. [PMID: 12743791 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-003-0172-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2003] [Revised: 03/03/2003] [Accepted: 03/05/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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People who visit high-altitude areas are exposed to a stressful environment and a good percentage of them suffer from high-altitude-induced diseases, including systemic hypertension. Identification of genetic markers for high-altitude-induced diseases would help to reduce the rate of morbidity/mortality from such diseases. The development of systemic hypertension on exposure to high altitude (3,500 m) for 30 days in otherwise normotensive natives of low-altitudes was investigated. The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) genotypes and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system were simultaneously studied. In the hypertensives during their stay at high altitude, the ACE D allele frequency was significantly higher than in the normotensives (0.67 versus 0.32 chi(2)(1) = 10.6, P < 0.05). In the normotensives during their stay at high altitude, there was no significant increase in plasma aldosterone levels despite increased plasma renin activity. Results of the present study suggest that environmental changes and pre-existing genetic factors, namely the ACE D allele, might be two of the factors predisposing natives of low altitudes to systemic hypertension, a polygenic disease, at high altitude.
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- Ratan Kumar
- Department of Biochemistry, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Lucknow Road, Timarpur, Delhi-110054, India.
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Goyal HO, Robateau A, Braden TD, Williams CS, Srivastava KK, Ali K. Neonatal estrogen exposure of male rats alters reproductive functions at adulthood. Biol Reprod 2003; 68:2081-91. [PMID: 12606459 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.010637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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The effects of neonatal exposure to different doses of diethylstilbestrol (DES) on the reproductive functions of male rats at adulthood were evaluated. Sprague-Dawley rats (5-8/group) received sc injections of 25 microl olive oil containing DES (Sigma Chemical Co., St. Louis, MO) at a dose of 10 microg, 1 microg, 100 ng, 10 ng, or 1 ng per rat on alternate days from Postnatal Days 2-12. Control animals received olive oil only. All animals were allowed to develop until 83-91 days of age; however, when they were 70 to 80 days old, four male rats each from the 10 microg, 1 microg, 100 ng, and control groups were cohabited with untreated 60- to 70-day-old females (1:1) for 12 days. At the end of cohabitation, both mated and unmated male rats were weighed, and blood and tissue samples were collected and processed. Results revealed that although sperm motility patterns and sperm morphology were adversely affected in the 10- microg group, other reproductive parameters, including 1). daily sperm production (DSP)/testis; 2). absolute and relative weights of the testis, epididymis, and seminal vesicle; and 3). sperm numbers in both regions of the epididymis declined significantly in a dose-dependent manner in the 10- and 1- microg groups. Conversely, in the <1- microg groups, none of these parameters (except DSP/testis and weight of the epididymis in the 100-ng group, and sperm numbers in the epididymis of the 100- and 10-ng groups) was different from controls. Generally, plasma testosterone levels decreased in the 10- and 1- microg groups, FSH level increased in the 10-microg group, and prolactin and LH levels were unaltered. In the fertility study, although each male in the 1-microg, 100-ng, and control groups produced a copulatory plug and impregnated a female, none could do so in the 10-microg group. The mean number of pups per litter was reduced to eight in the 1-microg group, in contrast to 15 each in the 100-ng and control groups. In conclusion, exposure of neonatal male rats to DES altered sperm motility patterns, sperm fertility (as evident from the reduced number of pups in the 1-microg group), and sexual behavior (as evident from the absence of copulatory plugs in the 10-microg group) and reduced weights of reproductive organs, DSP/testis, and sperm numbers in the epididymis. Whether these alterations/reductions persist in older rats (6-8 mo of age) is under investigation.
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- H O Goyal
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, USA.
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Deb DK, Dahiya P, Srivastava KK, Srivastava R, Srivastava BS. Selective identification of new therapeutic targets of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by IVIAT approach. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2003; 82:175-82. [PMID: 12464489 DOI: 10.1054/tube.2002.0337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The in vivo induced antigen technology (IVIAT)(1) has been used for the identification of open reading frames (ORFs) which could be possible therapeutic targets. A recombinant lambdagt11:: Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv expression library was screened with pooled TB patient sera preabsorbed with in vitro grown M. tuberculosis H37Rv. Preabsorption of pooled TB patient sera allowed identification of antigens specifically expressed or upregulated during infection and growth in vivo. Six ORFs were identified, of which four (rv0287, rv2402, rv3878 and rv1045) were of hypothetical functions. Rv0287 is a probable regulatory protein. Rv3878 is present uniquely in M. tuberculosis H37Rv and is a part of RDI deletion region of M. bovis BCG, which includes esat 6 region. This could be exploited as a tool for diagnosis. Two ORFs were assigned function solely on the basis of homology, dnaQ (rv3711c) and lpdA (rv3303c). dnaQ codes for the epsilon subunit of DNA polymerase III, which is responsible for the proofreading activity of the complex. lpdA codes for dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase, which is a part of many multienzyme complexes such as pyruvate dehydrogenase, keto-acid dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. These two enzymes appear to be potential targets for drug development.
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MESH Headings
- Antigens, Bacterial/genetics
- Antigens, Bacterial/immunology
- Blotting, Western
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- DNA, Bacterial/immunology
- DNA, Recombinant/genetics
- DNA, Recombinant/immunology
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/genetics
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial/immunology
- Genomic Library
- Humans
- Mycobacteriophages/genetics
- Mycobacteriophages/immunology
- Mycobacterium bovis/genetics
- Mycobacterium bovis/immunology
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/immunology
- Open Reading Frames/genetics
- Open Reading Frames/immunology
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/drug therapy
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/immunology
- beta-Galactosidase/genetics
- beta-Galactosidase/immunology
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- D K Deb
- Microbiology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 226 001, India
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Pathak R, Pant CS, Shaw AK, Bhaduri AP, Gaikwad AN, Sinha S, Srivastava A, Srivastava KK, Chaturvedi V, Srivastava R, Srivastava BS. Baylis-Hillman reaction: convenient ascending syntheses and biological evaluation of acyclic deoxy monosaccharides as potential antimycobacterial agents. Bioorg Med Chem 2002; 10:3187-96. [PMID: 12150864 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(02)00210-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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A series of acyclic deoxy carbohydrate derivatives from easily available carbohydrate enals 1, 2, 3 or 5 were prepared involving the Baylis-Hillman reaction. These newly formed carbohydrate based Baylis-Hillman adducts and their amino derivatives were evaluated for their antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H(37)R(v). Among the compounds evaluated for their antimycobacterial activity, compound (10) showed the desired activity in the range of 3.125 microg/mL.
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- Rashmi Pathak
- Medicinal Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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Pathak R, Shaw AK, Bhaduri AP, Chandrasekhar KVG, Srivastava A, Srivastava KK, Chaturvedi V, Srivastava R, Srivastava BS, Arora S, Sinha S. Higher acyclic nitrogen containing deoxy sugar derivatives: a new lead in the generation of antimycobacterial chemotherapeutics. Bioorg Med Chem 2002; 10:1695-702. [PMID: 11937328 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(02)00045-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Syntheses of higher acyclic nitrogen containing deoxy sugar derivatives via nitroaldol reaction of different nitroalkanes with 2,3-dideoxy-alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehydo sugars obtained from glycals namely acetylated glucal and galactal and their in vitro antimycobacterial activity are presented.
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- Rashmi Pathak
- Medicinal Chemistry Division, Central Drug Research Institute, -226001, Lucknow, India
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Qadar Pasha MA, Khan AP, Kumar R, Grover SK, Ram RB, Norboo T, Srivastava KK, Selvamurthy W, Brahmachari SK. Angiotensin converting enzyme insertion allele in relation to high altitude adaptation. Ann Hum Genet 2001; 65:531-6. [PMID: 11851983 DOI: 10.1017/s0003480001008879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene I/D polymorphism has been associated with high altitude (HA) disorders as well as physical performance. We, however, envisage that the polymorphism may be associated with adaptation to the hypobaric hypoxia of altitude, thus facilitating physical performance. For this purpose, three unrelated adult male groups, namely (1) the Ladakhis (HLs), who reside at and above a height of 3600 m, (2) lowlanders, who migrated to Ladakh (MLLs), and (3) resident lowlanders (LLs), have been investigated. The HLs had significantly (p & 0.001) greater numbers of the II homozygotes and the ID heterozygotes than the DD homozygotes, the genotype distribution being 0.46, 0.43 and 0.11 for II, ID and DD genotypes respectively. The MLLs comprised 60% II homozygotes, which was higher (p & 0.001) than the HLs (46%). In the LLs, the heterozygotes were greater (p & 0.001) in number than the II and DD homozygotes. The I allele frequency was 0.72 in the MLLs, 0.67 in the HLs and 0.55 in the LLs. Polymorphism study suggested that the II genotype could be associated with altitude adaptation, which might influence physical efficiency.
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- M A Qadar Pasha
- Functional Genomics Unit, Centre for Biochemical Technology, Delhi, India.
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Goyal HO, Braden TD, Mansour M, Williams CS, Kamaleldin A, Srivastava KK. Diethylstilbestrol-treated adult rats with altered epididymal sperm numbers and sperm motility parameters, but without alterations in sperm production and sperm morphology. Biol Reprod 2001; 64:927-34. [PMID: 11207210 DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod64.3.927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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In this study, we characterized estrogenic effects of diethylstilbestrol (DES) on reproductive parameters in male rats to identify a minimal dose level that alters epididymal and sperm functions but has little or no effect on sperm production and/or spermatogenesis. Adult rats (five animals/group) received s.c. injections of 0.2 ml of corn oil containing DES at a rate of 1.0 mg, 200 microg, 40 microg, 8 microg, 1.6 microg, or 320 ng x rat(-1) x day(-1) for 12 days. The control group received corn oil only. DES effects were similar in the 8-microg group and higher dose groups and included significant (P < or = 0.05) reductions in 1) absolute and relative weights of the head and body of the epididymis (EP), tail of the EP, and seminal vesicle, 2) numbers of sperm in both regions of the EP, and 3) motility characteristics in sperm collected from the tail of the EP. Conversely, no significant changes were observed in relative testis weight, daily sperm production, spermatogenesis, seminiferous epithelial height in stage VII, and sperm morphology. All of the above parameters in the 1.6-microg group (except seminal vesicle weight) and 320-ng group were comparable to those of controls. Plasma testosterone (T) level was reduced to an almost undetectable level in the > or = 8-microg groups and to a very low level in the 1.6-microg group (0.35 vs. 2.36 ng/ml in controls or 320-ng group), but LH level was unaltered. In a parallel fertility study, males received DES at a rate of 40, 8, or 1.6 microg x rat(-1) x day(-1) for 12 days prior to and 12 days during cohabitation (1:1) with untreated females. Of the 15 females cohabited with treated males (5 females/dose), none in the 40-microg and 8-microg groups and 1 in the 1.6-microg group formed a copulatory plug and delivered 8 pups, in contrast to 5/5 copulatory plugs and 13-15 pups/litter in the controls. DES at a rate of 8 microg x rat(-1) x day(-1) for 12 days reduced EP weights, sperm numbers in the EP, and sperm motility patterns but caused minimal to no alterations in daily sperm production, spermatogenesis, or sperm morphology. Factors other than T, or in addition to lower T, may be responsible for DES-induced reproductive disorders (despite lower T, sperm contents and sperm motility patterns in the EP were normal in the 1.6-microg group). Deficits in EP sperm functions and/or sexual behavior (as evident from absence of copulatory plugs) probably accounted for reduced fertility in treated males.
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- H O Goyal
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama 36088, USA.
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Srivastava KK, Waldridge BM, Shofner-Stewart D, Reddy PG. What's your diagnosis? Bilateral teat swelling in a female goat. Pseudopregnancy with hydrometra. Lab Anim (NY) 2001; 30:19-20. [PMID: 11385722] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/20/2023]
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- K K Srivastava
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088-1685, USA
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Deb DK, Srivastava KK, Srivastava R, Srivastava BS. Bioluminescent Mycobacterium aurum expressing firefly luciferase for rapid and high throughput screening of antimycobacterial drugs in vitro and in infected macrophages. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 279:457-61. [PMID: 11118308 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.3957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The slow growth and highly infectious nature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a limiting factor in its use as test organism in high throughput screening for inhibitory compounds. To overcome these problems, use of surrogate strains and reporter genes have been considered. In this study, we have investigated the application of a fast growing nonpathogenic M. aurum expressing firefly luciferase in rapid screening of antituberculosis compounds in vitro and in infected macrophages using bioluminescence assay. The assay is based on luminescence determination using luciferin as substrate. Inhibition of bioluminescence was obtained with frontline antimycobacterial drugs like streptomycin, rifampicin, isoniazid, ethambutol, ofloxacin, and sparfloxacin at their reported MICs. Inhibition could be observed as early as 2 h in vitro and within 24 h in infected macrophages. The system can reliably be used in high throughput screening.
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- D K Deb
- Division of Microbiology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, 226001, India
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Kumar R, Shyam R, Divekar HM, Pahwa ML, Srivastava KK. Mechanism of increased tolerance to hypothermia after composite Indian herbal preparation II administration. J Altern Complement Med 2000; 6:509-17. [PMID: 11152055 DOI: 10.1089/acm.2000.6.509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Investigation of the mechanism of increased tolerance to stress induced hypothermia after the administration of composite Indian herbal preparation II (CIHP II), a combination of several plant ingredients and minerals. DESIGN The effect of oral CIHP II administration (1 mg/g of body weight), prior to cold (5 degrees C)-hypoxia (428 mm Hg)-restraint (C-H-R) exposure in rats on cardiac and skeletal muscle oxidation was studied in vitro by estimating conversion of glucose-U-14C and Palmitate-1-(14)C to 14CO2. In vitro adipose tissue lipolysis and incorporation of glucose-U-14C into skeletal muscle glycogen was also studied. RESULTS A single dose of CIHP II-enhanced resistance to hypothermia (rectal temperature [T(rec)] 23 degrees C) during C-H-R exposure as evidenced by increased glucose turnover rate in heart and skeletal muscle tissue. The blood glucose and skeletal muscle glycogen were conserved. Cardiac free fatty acid oxidation was also increased. During recovery from hypothermia (T(rec) 37 degrees C) blood glucose and muscle glycogen levels were conserved. Five doses of CIHP II increased resistance to cold by increased adipose fat mobilization and cardiac oxidation. Glucose oxidation was spared. During recovery from hypothermia, the glucose turnover and oxidation in skeletal muscle was increased as was fat mobilization from adipose tissue and its oxidation by heart muscle. CONCLUSIONS CIHP II intake prior to C-H-R exposure resulted in increased glucose turnover rate and fat utilization. This perhaps helped increase the resistance to C-H-R-induced hypothermia and speeded recovery.
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- R Kumar
- Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Timarpur, Delhi, India
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Gopinathan PM, Grover SK, Gupta AK, Srivastava KK. Effects of a composite Indian herbal preparation on combat effectiveness in low-intensity-conflict operations. Mil Med 1999; 164:814-9. [PMID: 10578595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023] Open
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The efficacy of a composite Indian herbal preparation (CIHP) in sustaining the mental performance of soldiers engaged in prolonged low-intensity-conflict operations has been evaluated. For this purpose, a cohort of 56 soldiers acted as volunteers in combat situations. After recording their initial responses to psychological tests such as the d2 test, the trail-making test, the serial addition test, the short-term memory test, and the Institute for Personality and Ability Testing Anxiety Scale, they were randomly given either CIHP or placebo in a double-blind fashion for 8 days while they performed their usual combat duties. The final 3 days of assignments included physically exhausting and life-threatening events. On day 8, they were withdrawn from combat duties and the psychological tests were readministered immediately. After 7 days of rest, the tests were repeated once again. The results indicate comparatively better performance immediately after the mission by the CIHP group. CIHP was effective at sustaining the mental abilities of soldiers in a low-intensity-conflict environment.
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- P M Gopinathan
- Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Timarpur, Delhi, India
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Kumar R, Grover SK, Shyam R, Divekar HM, Gupta AK, Srivastava KK. Enhanced thermogenesis in rats by a composite Indian herbal preparation-I and its mechanism of action. J Altern Complement Med 1999; 5:245-51. [PMID: 10381248 DOI: 10.1089/acm.1999.5.245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE A composite Indian herbal preparation-I (CIHP-I) containing ingredients derived from 7 different plants and asphalt was tested for its adaptogenic activity and its mechanism of action was investigated. DESIGN CIHP-I was tested using the cold-hypoxia-restraint (C-H-R) animal model in which the restrained rats were exposed to 5 degrees C at 428 mm Hg atmospheric pressure. Rectal temperature (Trec) of the rats was continuously monitored during the exposure and the recovery periods. The time for fall of Trec to 23 degrees C and its recovery to 37 degrees C were used as indices of endurance and the adaptogenic activity. Carbohydrate and lipid parameters were investigated to find out the nature of fuel being used during thermogenesis. RESULTS After 12 weeks of administration of an oral dose of 7.5 mg/kg(-1)/day(-1), CIHP-I was found to possess significant adaptogenic activity. CIHP-I helped improve resistance to C-H-R induced hypothermia (Trec 23 degrees C) in animals by increased mobilization of free fatty acids (FFA) from adipose tissue. Blood glucose and muscle glycogen levels were maintained. CIHP-I treatment restricted the release of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) into the circulation during C-H-R exposure. CONCLUSIONS The results suggested that CIHP-I is a strong adaptogen. It improved cold resistance during C-H-R exposure and enhanced recovery from hypothermia. The energy-dependent cell membrane permeability was maintained. Stored lipids were mobilised and possibly used for thermogenesis in preference to carbohydrates.
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- R Kumar
- Department of Biochemistry, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, Timarpur, New Delhi, India
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Ganju L, Salhan A, Karan D, Chanda S, Srivastava KK. Immunomodulatory effect of laser on whole body exposure. Indian J Exp Biol 1999; 37:444-9. [PMID: 10492615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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All biomedical laser applications are based on the interaction of laser light with biological system. During the past decade considerable evidence has accumulated demonstrating that non-thermal exposure to laser can elicit cellular changes in the immune system. In the present study, we have analyzed the effect of laser on immune response in rats. A group of rats were exposed to 0.225 mu j/cm2 for 90 min for 3 days in specially designed fiberglass chambers. The whole body exposure of rats of He-Ne laser modulated both the humoral and cellular responses to tetanus toxoid stimulation. Plain red light used as a control for red laser light showed an appreciable degree of response as compared to the control groups, but not to the extent of the response to laser. Non-responders turned responders after exposure to laser. There was no response in unimmunized groups when exposed to laser and red light alone. The early and heightened immune response and proliferation of lymphocytes after exposure to laser is suggestive of a complex interaction at the cellular immune response level.
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- L Ganju
- Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences, Timarpur, Delhi, India
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Ganju L, Chanda S, Karan D, Srivastava KK. Induction of stress proteins in response to hypoxia. Indian J Exp Biol 1999; 37:344-9. [PMID: 10641169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Hypoxia is a severe stress factor to which man and most other mammalian species are capable of adapting. However, the cellular mechanism which enable cells to adapt are still unknown. Effect of hypoxia was studied on the synthesis of hypoxia induced proteins in rat kidney and in vero cell line (monkey kidney). These were exposed to hypoxia at 240 mmHg pressure for 1 hr. The induction of stress protein was determined by probing with monoclonal antibodies against 65 kDa heat shock protein (hsp65). The induction of a 65 kDa protein was 3.6 fold higher to the total cellular protein, both in cell lines and kidney of rats. In vivo response was predominantly observed in renal cortical region particularly in glomeruli. The induction of stress proteins during hypoxia suggests their importance in the maintenance of cellular integrity under hypoxia.
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- L Ganju
- Defence Institute of Physiology & Allied Sciences, Delhi, India
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Srivastava R, Deb DK, Srivastava KK, Locht C, Srivastava BS. Green fluorescent protein as a reporter in rapid screening of antituberculosis compounds in vitro and in macrophages. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1998; 253:431-6. [PMID: 9878553 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The development of new drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis is impeded by slow growth and highly infectious nature of the organism that warrants the need to work under highly stringent biosafety conditions. These problems can be overcome by use of reporter genes and surrogate strains. A strain of rapidly growing M. aurum has been recommended as test organism to screen inhibitors of mycobacteria to preselect compounds for progression into testing against M. tuberculosis. We have investigated the application of recombinant M. aurum expressing green fluorescent protein in rapid screening of antituberculosis compounds in vitro and in infected macrophages. Recombinant M. aurum[pGFM-11] expressing green fluorescent protein was constructed. The assay is based on measurement of fluorescent intensity at 509 nm. A good correlation was found between fluorescence and growth. Fluorescence of recombinant M. aurum was inhibited in vitro within 8 to 24 h by frontline antimycobacterial drugs at their reported MICs whereas inhibition in infected macrophages was observed in 72 h. Therefore green fluorescent reporter system provides a convenient screen to test antimycobacterial compounds that are active in vitro and within infected macrophages.
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- R Srivastava
- Division of Microbiology, Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India
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Datta MC, AbdelRahman HG, Srivastava KK, Smith GS. Genetic specificity of stress-induced anemia in rats. Biochem Genet 1997; 35:351-61. [PMID: 9559092 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022277515893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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There is a genetic difference in rat hemoglobin (Hb) beta-chain structure, with alternate alleles, A and B, at a single locus. This study was designed to find out whether marrow sensitivity due to gamma exposure and experimentally induced anemia in age-matched adult rats is entirely strain specific or is a combination of both strain and Hb genotype. Eight strains of inbred and outbred rats comprising AA and BB types were examined. The data indicate that there is a relationship between marrow sensitivity and Hb genotypes in response to erythropoietic stress caused by three techniques.
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- M C Datta
- Department of Chemistry, Tuskegee University, Alabama 36088, USA
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