During infections, Mycobacterium tuberculosis has to acquire nutrients and resist host defense. Lipids are important for both: host-derived lipids provide food, whereas pathogen-derived lipids mediate immune suppression.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
Relevant articles
Open Access articles citing this article.
-
Functional characterization of acyl-CoA binding protein in Neospora caninum
Parasites & Vectors Open Access 18 February 2020
Access options
Subscribe to this journal
Receive 12 print issues and online access
$209.00 per year
only $17.42 per issue
Buy this article
- Purchase on Springer Link
- Instant access to full article PDF
Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout
References
Bloch, H. & Segal, W. J. Bacteriol. 72, 132–141 (1956).
McKinney, J.D. et al. Nature 406, 735–738 (2000).
Munoz-Elias, E.J. & McKinney, J.D. Nat. Med. 11, 638–644 (2005).
Gould, T.A., van de Langemheen, H., Munoz-Elias, E.J., McKinney, J.D. & Sacchettini, J.C. Mol. Microbiol. 61, 940–947 (2006).
Munoz-Elias, E.J., Upton, A.M., Cherian, J. & McKinney, J.D. Mol. Microbiol. 60, 1109–1122 (2006).
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 55, 301–305 (2006).
Bifani, P.J., Mathema, B., Kurepina, N.E. & Kreiswirth, B.N. Trends Microbiol. 10, 45–52 (2002).
Manca, C. et al. J. Immunol. 162, 6740–6746 (1999).
Manca, C. et al. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98, 5752–5757 (2001).
Manca, C. et al. Infect. Immun. 72, 5511–5514 (2004).
Reed, M.B. et al. Nature 431, 84–87 (2004).
Constant, P. et al. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 38148–38158 (2002).
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Ehrt, S., Schnappinger, D. Mycobacterium tuberculosis virulence: lipids inside and out. Nat Med 13, 284–285 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0307-284
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0307-284
This article is cited by
-
Functional characterization of acyl-CoA binding protein in Neospora caninum
Parasites & Vectors (2020)
-
Polyphosphate kinases modulateCampylobacter jejuniouter membrane constituents and alter its capacity to invade and survive in intestinal epithelial cellsin vitro
Emerging Microbes & Infections (2015)