Really excited that our group was able to contribute to this work showing that the dormancy regulon of M. tuberculosis experienced reductive evolution as it adapted to human populations. Great work led by Sarah Dunstan and Matt Silcocks!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis owes its success partly to its ability to enter a ‘dormant’, non-replicative state, reactivating years or even decades after initial infection. In this work, authors find th...
