Microbiology and Cell Biology (MCB): Recent submissions
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Understanding the Significance of Ydcp, a Putative Peptidase Encoding Gene, in Virulence of Salmonella
Salmonella is a recognised enteric pathogen which infects several mammalian and avian hosts through faeco-oral route and establishes either a localised gastrointestinal inflammation and diarrhoea or a systemic fever, ... -
Investigating the redox signaling mechanisms during HIV-TB co-infection
Oxidative stress has been at the forefront of HIV/AIDS-related pathophysiologies since the early days of its discovery. Overcoming HIV-1 latency, wherein, the virus remains integrated in the host chromatin, undetected and ... -
Proteomics-based Identification of Serum Biomarkers : Role of Secreted MCSF and CRP in Glioma Pathogenesis
Gliomas are the neoplasia of glial cells present in the brain and comprises of more than 70% of all the neoplasms of the central nervous system. They consist of a family of primary brain tumors that are categorized based ... -
Identifying key determinants underlying variable efficacy of BCG substrains against Pulmonary TB.
Protection conferred by BCG vaccine against adult pulmonary TB ranges from 0–80% based on large, well-controlled field trials. This variability is highly significant (P < 0.0001) and is regarded as being indicative of true ... -
The Molecular Basis for the Differential Antibiotic Susceptibility of Mycobacterial Subpopulations
Mycobacterial populations have evolved various strategies to withstand diverse stress conditions in the environment. One among these strategies is maintenance of phenotypic heterogeneity, in terms of cell morphology, ... -
Unraveling the role of cellular phosphatases in lysosome function and storage diseases
Eukaryotic cellular pathways are maintained and coordinated through biomolecule turnover, which includes synthesis, trafficking, degradation of cellular components and their reutilization. The process of biomolecule ... -
Elucidating the mechanism of interaction of Salmonella with plants
Salmonella, is an established pathogen of members of the kingdom Animalia. Its principal species S. enterica serovars Typhi, Paratyphi and Typhimurium can cause various diseases ranging from typhoid fever to gastroenteritis ... -
Division of the Salmonella Containing Vacuole and Other Virulence Strategies Employed by Salmonella
Salmonella comprises a genus of rod-shaped, Gram-negative, non-sporulating and primarily motile enterobacteria. They have remained a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, claiming several hundreds of lives per ... -
Insights into the Regulation of Transcription Initiation of DNA Gyrase and Role of Transcription Factor Gre from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Genus Mycobacterium comprises a large number of species including many pathogens such as Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the last one is the causative agent of the fatal ... -
Understanding the Functions of Nucleoid Associated Proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The prokaryotic genome, though lacks a membrane bound organelle for its housing, is restricted to only about 25% of the cytoplasmic space called the nucleoid. The dramatic compaction required for the genome to fit in is ... -
Response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Hypoxia and its physiological Significance - A Morphological and Molecular Level Study
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has evolved as an important clinical pathogen due to its ability to gain multidrug resistance, to enter into latency to persist there and to get reactivated from the latent infection in ... -
An integrative analysis of Cell Adhesion Molecules (CAMs) in Glioma: The Essential role of PTGFRN and ASTN1 in Glioma and Glioma Stem-like Cells
The central nervous system tissue contains neural stem cells which differentiate and give rise to the neurons and glial cells. The glial cells maintain neurons by providing nutrients, physical support and protection. Unlike ... -
Transcriptional Regulation of Fatty Acid Transport by Sirtuin 2
The heart is a highly dynamic organ and under normal physiological conditions, it is heavily dependent on fatty acid oxidation to meet its energy requirements (Abumrad and Goldberg 2016). Fatty acid transport is a crucial ... -
Mechanistic and Functional Insights into Mycobacterium bovis BCG Triggered PRR Signaling : Implications for Immune Subversion Strategies
Pathogenic mycobacteria are among the most dreadful pathogens known to mankind as one third of the world’s population is latently infected with M. tuberculosis, the causative agent of pulmonary tuberculosis. Host immune ... -
Nucleoid-associated Proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis : Insights into their Functions
Bacteria face the challenging task of compacting their chromosomes to accommodate them in a small cytoplasmic volume and at the same time maintaining the nucleoids in a highly organized and dynamic state for transcription, ... -
Role of SIRT6 in the regulation of mTOR signalling and global protein synthesis
Cells are constantly engaged in the process of making and breaking proteins in a highly organized manner. However, protein synthesis is an energetically expensive process and often competes with other cellular repair and ... -
ROLE OF SIRT6 AND PARP-1 IN MUSCLE HOMEOSTASIS
Sirtuins and PARPs are stress responsive family of proteins regulating genome instability, inflammation, aging-related diseases and energy metabolism. Both sirtuins and PARPs are NAD+ enzymes with deacetylase and ADP-ribose ... -
Malat1 and COP1 mediated host responses orchestrate mycobacterial pathogenesis
Tuberculosis, which is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is viewed to be the predominant cause of death arising due to bacterial infection. Further, the emergence of MDR/XDR strains and co-infections has compounded ... -
Studies on the regulatory roles for Retinoic Acid (RA) during host-microbial interaction : implications for S. aureus and C. albicans infections
Chronic inflammatory disorder is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Association between pathogenic infection and inflammation governs tissue homeostasis, which relies on extensive crosstalk among signaling ... -
Initiation of protein synthesis : Role of the three consecutive GC base pairs in the anticodon stem of initiator tRNAs
The presence of the three consecutive GC base pairs in the anticodon stems of the initiator tRNAs (3GC base pairs) are a highly conserved and a vital feature of the initiator tRNAs in all the domains of life. How this ...