Targeting mycobacterium protein tyrosine phosphatase B for antituberculosis agents

…, Y He, X Zhang, J Xu, Y Luo, Y Wang…

Index: Zhou, Bo; He, Yantao; Zhang, Xian; Xu, Jie; Luo, Yong; Wang, Yuehong; Franzblau, Scott G.; Yang, Zhenyun; Chan, Rebecca J.; Liu, Yan; Zheng, Jianyu; Zhang, Zhong-Yin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010 , vol. 107, # 10 p. 4573 - 4578

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Abstract

Abstract Protein tyrosine phosphatases are often exploited and subverted by pathogenic bacteria to cause human diseases. The tyrosine phosphatase mPTPB from Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an essential virulence factor that is secreted by the bacterium into the cytoplasm of macrophages, where it mediates mycobacterial survival in the host. Consequently, there is considerable interest in understanding the mechanism by which ...