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J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 1473-1480; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.2008/001545-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 0022-2615

Differentially expressed genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv under mild acidic and hypoxic conditions

Su-Young Kim1,2, Byung-Soo Lee1, Sung Jae Shin1,2, Hwa-Jung Kim1 and Jeong-Kyu Park1,3

1 Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

2 Infectious Signaling Network Research Center, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

3 Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 301-747, Republic of Korea

Correspondence
Jeong-Kyu Park
jekpark{at}cnu.ac.kr
or
Sung Jae Shin
sjshin{at}cnu.ac.kr

Received February 27, 2008
Accepted August 21, 2008

The survival mechanism of dormant tubercle bacilli is unknown; however, accumulating evidence indicates that Mycobacterium tuberculosis can survive and persist in hypoxic and mildly acidic microenvironments. Such conditions are found in the acidic vacuoles of macrophages, which M. tuberculosis is known to target. We used DECAL (differential expression using customized amplification library) to identify the genes expressed under acidic and hypoxic conditions, following the cultivation of M. tuberculosis H37Rv at an acidic pH and/or under hypoxic or anoxic conditions in vitro. Of 960 clones analysed, 144 genes, consisting of 71 induced and 8 repressed genes, were identified by sequencing and divided into functional categories to characterize their cellular roles. In general, the genes induced under acidic and hypoxic conditions were involved in the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites (e.g. pks4), lipid metabolism, energy production (e.g. pckA) and cell wall biogenesis (e.g. Rv0696 and plcB). The combination of genes identified may explain the energy processing and energy storage of M. tuberculosis during latent infection. These findings not only enhance our understanding of the mechanism of dormancy, but they also may be useful in the design of therapeutic tools and vaccines for latent tuberculosis.

Abbreviations: CAL, customized amplification library; DECAL, differential expression using customized amplification library; TB, tuberculosis.

Tables of primer sequences and expression data are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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