Journal articleAuthors : Gupta, Pooja (2021)
The L-arginine biosynthesis pathway consists of eight enzymes that catalyse the conversion of L- glutamate to L-arginine, appears to be attractive target for anti-Tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery. Starvation of M. tuberculosis deleted for either argB or argF genes led to rapid sterilization of these strains in mice while Chemical inhibition of ArgJ with Pranlukast was also found to clear chronic M. tuberculosis infection in animal models. In this wo...