Bibliographic citations
Mamani, F., (2022). Búsqueda de genes implicados a la alta resistencia a pirazinamida basado en el análisis transcriptómico de Mycobacterium tuberculosis [Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11433
Mamani, F., Búsqueda de genes implicados a la alta resistencia a pirazinamida basado en el análisis transcriptómico de Mycobacterium tuberculosis []. PE: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/11433
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title = "Búsqueda de genes implicados a la alta resistencia a pirazinamida basado en el análisis transcriptómico de Mycobacterium tuberculosis",
author = "Mamani Sanca, Fernando Moises",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia",
year = "2022"
}
Tuberculosis (TB), a disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is treated by a set of first-line drugs including pyrazinamide (PZA). PZA is highly specific and kills mycobacteria in their semi-dormant state; however, the mechanism of action is still unknown. PZA-resistant mycobacteria usually have mutations in the pncA gene that encodes the protein pyrazinamidase (Pzase), which transforms PZA into its active state, pyrazinoic acid (POA), but it has been possible to identify resistant strains with Pzases active with the absence of mutations in pncA or with mutations that do not affect important regions of the enzyme, suggesting the presence of other mechanisms. The objective in this work was to identify genes involved in resistance to PZA by means of transcriptomic analysis of the M. tuberculosis strain H37Rv cultivated under different stress states (pH 6.3 and 7.0 and 0 and 50 μg/mL of PZA). The cDNA libraries generated from the RNA were sequenced in paired-end pairs. Sequences were aligned to the reference genome and abundances were quantified using Salmon. Differential expression analysis was performed with the edgeR package, while gene enrichment analysis was performed with GOseq. Differentially expressed (DE) genes were identified with logFC ≥ 2 and ≤ -2, and p-value <0.05 threshold. From a total of 3979 genes analyzed, 13 ED genes were found, which are involved in porin-like activity, wide pore channels, passive transmembrane transporter and antioxidant action. The Rv0387c gene of the PE/PPE family of proteins, with a probable porin or molecular transporter function, could be underexpressed in the presence of PZA, inhibiting its entry or exit from the POA, increasing resistance to PZA in M. tuberculosis.
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