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SCIENCE
Volume 288, Issue 5470, Pages 1436-1439Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5470.1436
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- NIAID NIH HHS [K08 AI 01400, AI 32396] Funding Source: Medline
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Pathogenic mycobacteria, including the agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, must replicate in macrophages for long-term persistence within their niche during chronic infection: organized collections of macrophages and lymphocytes called granulomas. We identified several genes preferentially expressed when Mycobacterium marinum, the cause of fish and amphibian tuberculosis. resides in host granulomas and/or macrophages. Two were homologs of M. tuberculosis PE/PE-PGRS genes, a family encoding numerous repetitive glycine-rich proteins of unknown function. Mutation of two PE-PGRS genes produced M. marinum strains incapable of replication in macrophages and with decreased persistence in granulomas. Our results establish a direct role in virulence for some PE-PGRS proteins.
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