DNA Alkylation Damage as a Sensor of Nitrosative Stress in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

AUTOR(ES)

Durbach, Steven I.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

One of the cellular consequences of nitrosative stress is alkylation damage to DNA. To assess whether nitrosative stress is registered on the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, mutants lacking an alkylation damage repair and reversal operon were constructed. Although hypersensitive to the genotoxic effects of N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine in vitro, the mutants displayed no phenotype in vivo, suggesting that permeation of nitrosative stress to the level of cytotoxic DNA damage is restricted.

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