NIH R01 · 2024
M. tuberculosis carbon metabolism during infection
The development of TB drugs benefits greatly from validation of novel drug targets in predictive animal models. M. tuberculosis (Mtb) enzymes in central carbon metabolism are emerging as promising targets for drug development but have not been validated in animal models that recapitulate the diverse and heterogeneous environments Mtb encounters in humans. We propose to test the hypothesis that these heterogeneous environments result in airway, lung and granuloma-dependent nutritional restrictions that, at times, make Mtb dependent on both glycolysis and gluconeogenesis to establish and maintain infection in nonhuman primates and/or during paucibacillary infection in mice. We will infect…
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