Mycobacterium tuberculosis genetic diversity
and host-pathogen interactions
Recent publications
Dos Vultos T, Mestre O, Rauzier J, Golec M, Rastogi N, Rasolofo V, Tonjum T, Sola C, Matic I, Gicquel B. 2008 Evolution and diversity of clonal bacteria: the paradigm of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS ONE 3(2):e1538
Tailleux L, Waddell SJ, Pellizola M, Mortellaro A, Withers M, Tanne A, Ricciardi Castagnoli P, Gicquel B, Stoker NG, Butcher PD, Foti M & Neyrolles O. 2008 Probing host pathogen cross-talk by transcriptional profiling of both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and infected human dendritic cells and macrophages. PLoS ONE 3:e1403
Becq J, Gutierrez MC, Rosas-Magallanes V, Rauzier J, Gicquel B, Neyrolles O & Deschavanne P. 2007 Contribution of horizontally acquired genomic islands to the evolution of the tubercle bacilli. Mol Biol Evol 24:1861-71
Tailleux L, Pham-Thi N, Bergeron-Lafaurie A, Herrmann JL, Charles P, Schwartz O, Scheinmann P, Lagrange PH, de Blic J, Tazi A, Gicquel B & Neyrolles O. 2005 DC-SIGN induction in alveolar macrophages defines a privileged target host cell population for mycobacteria in patients with tuberculosis. PLoS Med 2:e381
Tailleux L, Schwartz O, Herrmann JL, Pivert E, Jackson M, Amara A, Legres L, Dreher D, Nicod LP, Gluckman JC, Lagrange PH, Gicquel B & Neyrolles O. 2003 DC-SIGN is the major Mycobacterium tuberculosis receptor on human dendritic cells. J Exp Med 197: 121-7
