NIH R01 · 2025
PROTEASOMAL REGULATION AND PROTEIN QUALITY CONTROL IN M. TUBERCULOSIS
Tuberculosis kills nearly 2 million people globally every year. Over the years, we have determined that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) proteasome is essential to allow the tubercle bacilli to persist in animals. Proteasomes are multi-subunit, barrel shaped proteases that degrade proteins in a highly regulated manner. We are currently examining how proteolysis is regulated, from how proteins are tagged with the only known bacterial protein-on-protein post-translational modification to how those tagged proteins are then delivered into the proteasome core protease. Secondly, this proposal will seek to understand the functions of an essential protein quality control system that is…
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