Rizvi, A. and Shankar, A. and Chatterjee, A. and More, T.H. and Bose, T. and Dutta, A. and Balakrishnan, K. and Madugulla, L. and Rapole, S. and Mande, S.S. and Banerjee, S. and Mande, S.C. (2019) Rewiring of MetabolicNetwork in Mycobacterium tuberculosis During Adaptation to Different Stresses. Frontiers in Microbiology.

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Abstract

Metabolic adaptation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) to microbicidal intracellular environment of host macrophages is fundamental to its pathogenicity. However, an in-depth understanding of metabolic adjustments through key reaction pathways and networks is limited. To understand how such changes occur, we measured the cellular metabolome of M. tuberculosis subjected to four microbicidal stresses using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometric multiple reactions monitoring (LC-MRM/MS). Overall, 87 metabolites were identified. The metabolites best describing the separation between stresses were identified through multivariate analysis. The coupling of the metabolite measurements with existing genome-scale metabolic model, and using constraint-based simulation led to several new concepts and unreported observations in M. tuberculosis; such as (i) the high levels of released ammonia as an adaptive response to acidic stress was due to increased flux through L-asparaginase rather than urease activity; (ii) nutrient starvation-induced anaplerotic pathway for generation of TCA intermediates from phosphoenolpyruvate using phosphoenolpyruvate kinase; (iii) quenching of protons through GABA shunt pathway or sugar alcohols as possible mechanisms of early adaptation to acidic and oxidative stresses; and (iv) usage of alternate cofactors by the same enzyme as a possible mechanism of rewiring metabolic pathways to overcome stresses. Besides providing new leads and important nodes that can be used for designing intervention strategies, the study advocates the strength of applying flux balance analyses coupled with metabolomics to get a global picture of complex metabolic adjustments.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Mr. Rameshwar Nema
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2020 09:27
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2021 11:06
URI:	http://nccs.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/765

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