Mycobacterium tuberculosis - wikipedia Mycobacterium tuberculosis This article is about the bacterium. For the infection, see tuberculosis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis M. tuberculosis bacterial colonies Scientific classification Domain : Bacteria Phylum : Actinobacteria Class : Actinobacteria Order : Actinomycetales Family : Mycobacteriaceae Genus : Mycobacterium Species : M. tuberculosis Binomial name Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zopf 1883 Synonyms Tubercle bacillus Koch 1882 Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an obligate pathogenic bacterial species in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, M. tuberculosis has an unusual, waxy coating on its cell surface primarily due to the presence of mycolic acid. This coating makes the cells impervious to Gram staining, and as a result, M. tuberculosis can appear either Gram - negative or Gram - positive. Acid - fast stains such as Ziehl - Neelsen, or fluorescent stains such as auramine are used instead to identify M. tuberculosis with a microscope. The physiology of M. tuberculosis is highly aerobic and requires high levels of oxygen. Primarily a pathogen of the mammalian respiratory system, it infects the lungs. The most frequently used diagnostic methods for tuberculosis are the tuberculin skin test, acid - fast stain, culture, and polymerase chain reaction. The M. tuberculosis genome was sequenced in 1998. Contents 1 Microbiology 1.1 Microscopy 1.2 Culture 2 Pathophysiology 2.1 Strain variation 3 Genome 4 Evolution 4.1 Co-evolution with modern humans 5 Host genetics 6 DNA repair 7 History 8 Vaccine 9 See also 10 References 11 External links Microbiology M. tuberculosis is part of a complex that has at least 9 species : M. tuberculosis sensu stricto, M. africanum, M. canetti, M. bovis, M. caprae, M. microti, M. pinnipedii, M. mungi, and M. orygis. It requires oxygen to grow, does not produce spores, and is non motile. M. tuberculosis divides every 15 -- 20 hours. This is extremely slow compared with other bacteria, which tend to have division times measured in minutes ( Escherichia coli can divide roughly every 20 minutes ). It is a small bacillus that can withstand weak disinfectants and can survive in a dry state for weeks. Its unusual cell wall is rich in lipids such as mycolic acid and is likely responsible for its resistance to desiccation and is a key virulence factor. Microscopy Other bacteria are commonly identified with a microscope by staining them with Gram stain. However, the mycolic acid in the cell wall of M. tuberculosis does not absorb the stain. Instead, acid - fast stains such as Ziehl - Neelsen stain, or fluorescent stains such as auramine are used. Cells are curved rod - shaped and are often seen wrapped together, due to the presence of fatty acids in the cell wall that stick together. This appearance is referred to as cording, like strands of cord that make up a rope. M. tuberculosis is characterized in tissue by caseating granulomas containing Langhans giant cells, which have a `` horseshoe '' pattern of nuclei. Culture M. tuberculosis can be grown in the laboratory. Compared to other commonly studied bacteria, M. tuberculosis has a remarkably slow growth rate, doubling roughly once per day. Commonly used media include liquids such as Middlebrook 7H9 or 7H12, egg - based solid media such as Lowenstein - Jensen, and solid agar - based such as Middlebrook 7H11 or 7H10. Visible colonies require several weeks to grow on agar plates. It is distinguished from other mycobacteria by its production of catalase and niacin. Other tests to confirm its identity include gene probes and MALDI - TOF. Pathophysiology Humans are the only known reservoirs of M. tuberculosis. A misconception is that M. tuberculosis can be spread by shaking hands, making contact with toilet seats, sharing food or drink, sharing toothbrushes, or kissing. It can only be spread through air droplets originating from a person who has the disease either coughing, sneezing, speaking, or singing. When in the lungs, M. tuberculosis is phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages, but they are unable to kill and digest the bacterium. Its cell wall prevents the fusion of the phagosome with the lysosome, which contains a host of antibacterial factors. Specifically, M. tuberculosis blocks the bridging molecule, early endosomal autoantigen 1 ( EEA1 ) ; however, this blockade does not prevent fusion of vesicles filled with nutrients. Consequently, the bacteria multiply unchecked within the macrophage. The bacteria also carry the UreC gene, which prevents acidification of the phagosome. In addition, production of the diterpene isotuberculosinol prevents maturation of the phagosome. The bacteria also evade macrophage - killing by neutralizing reactive nitrogen intermediates. Protective granulomas are formed due to the production of cytokines and upregulation of proteins involved in recruitment. Granulotomatous lesions are important in both regulating the immune response and minimizing tissue damage. Moreover, T cells help maintain Mycobacterium within the granulomas. The ability to construct M. tuberculosis mutants and test individual gene products for specific functions has significantly advanced the understanding of its pathogenesis and virulence factors. Many secreted and exported proteins are known to be important in pathogenesis. Aerolysin is a virulence factor of the pathogenic bacterium Aeromonas hydrophila. Resistant strains of M. tuberculosis have developed resistance to more than one TB drug, due to mutations in their genes. Strain variation Typing of strains is useful in the investigation of tuberculosis outbreaks, because it gives the investigator evidence for or against transmission from person to person. Consider the situation where person A has tuberculosis and believes he acquired it from person B. If the bacteria isolated from each person belong to different types, then transmission from B to A is definitively disproved ; however, if the bacteria are the same strain, then this supports ( but does not definitively prove ) the hypothesis that B infected A. Until the early 2000s, M. tuberculosis strains were typed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis ( PFGE ). This has now been superseded by variable numbers of tandem repeats ( VNTR ), which is technically easier to perform and allows better discrimination between strains. This method makes use of the presence of repeated DNA sequences within the M. tuberculosis genome. Three generations of VNTR typing for M. tuberculosis are noted. The first scheme, called exact tandem repeat, used only five loci, but the resolution afforded by these five loci was not as good as PFGE. The second scheme, called mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit, had discrimination as good as PFGE. The third generation ( mycobacterial interspersed repetitive unit -- 2 ) added a further nine loci to bring the total to 24. This provides a degree of resolution greater than PFGE and is currently the standard for typing M. tuberculosis. However, with regard to archaeological remains, additional evidence may be required because of possible contamination from related soil bacteria. Antibiotic resistance in M. tuberculosis typically occurs due to either the accumulation of mutations in the genes targeted by the antibiotic or a change in titration of the drug. M. tuberculosis is considered to be multidrug - resistant ( MDR TB ) if it has developed drug resistance to both rifampicin and isoniazid, which are the most important antibiotics used in treatment. Additionally, extensively drug - resistant M. tuberculosis ( XDR TB ) is characterized by resistance to both isoniazid and rifampin, plus any fluoroquinolone and at least one of three injectable second - line drugs ( i.e., amikacin, kanamycin, or capreomycin ). M. tuberculosis ( stained red ) in tissue ( blue ) Cording M. tuberculosis ( H37Rv strain ) culture on the luminescent microscopy Genome The genome of the H37Rv strain was published in 1998. Its size is 4 million base pairs, with 3,959 genes ; 40 % of these genes have had their function characterised, with possible function postulated for another 44 %. Within the genome are also six pseudogenes. The genome contains 250 genes involved in fatty acid metabolism, with 39 of these involved in the polyketide metabolism generating the waxy coat. Such large numbers of conserved genes show the evolutionary importance of the waxy coat to pathogen survival. Furthermore, experimental studies have since validated the importance of a lipid metabolism for M. tuberculosis, consisting entirely of host - derived lipids such as fats and cholesterol. Bacteria isolated from the lungs of infected mice were shown to preferentially use fatty acids over carbohydrate substrates. M. tuberculosis can also grow on the lipid cholesterol as a sole source of carbon, and genes involved in the cholesterol use pathway ( s ) have been validated as important during various stages of the infection lifecycle of M. tuberculosis, especially during the chronic phase of infection when other nutrients are likely not available. About 10 % of the coding capacity is taken up by the PE / PPE gene families that encode acidic, glycine - rich proteins. These proteins have a conserved N - terminal motif, deletion of which impairs growth in macrophages and granulomas. Nine noncoding sRNAs have been characterised in M. tuberculosis, with a further 56 predicted in a bioinformatics screen. In 2013, a study on the genome of several sensitive, ultraresistant, and multiresistant M. tuberculosis strains was made to study antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Results reveal new relationships and drug resistance genes not previously associated and suggest some genes and intergenic regions associated with drug resistance may be involved in the resistance to more than one drug. Noteworthy is the role of the intergenic regions in the development of this resistance, and most of the genes proposed in this study to be responsible for drug resistance have an essential role in the development of M. tuberculosis. Evolution The M. tuberculosis complex evolved in Africa and most probably in the Horn of Africa. The M. tuberculosis group has a number of members that include M. africanum, M. bovis ( Dassie 's bacillus ), M. caprae, M. microti, M. mungi, M. orygis, and M. pinnipedii. This group may also include the M. canettii clade. The M. canettii clade -- which includes M. prototuberculosis -- is a group of smooth - colony Mycobacterium species. Unlike the established members of the M. tuberculosis group, they undergo recombination with other species. The majority of the known strains of this group have been isolated from the Horn of Africa. The ancestor of M. tuberculosis appears to be M. canettii, first described in 1969. The established members of the M. tuberculosis complex are all clonal in their spread. The main human - infecting species have been classified into seven spoligotypes : type 1 contains the East African - Indian ( EAI ), the Manila family of strains and some Manu ( Indian ) strains ; type 2 is the Beijing group ; type 3 consists of the Central Asian ( CAS ) strains ; type 4 of the Ghana and Haarlem ( H / T ), Latin America - Mediterranean ( LAM ) and X strains ; types 5 and 6 correspond to M. africanum and are observed predominantly and at very high frequency in West Africa. A seventh type has been isolated from the Horn of Africa. The other species of this complex belong to a number of spoligotypes and do not normally infect humans. Types 2 and 3 are more closely related to each other than to the other types. Types 5 and 6 are most closely aligned with the species that do not normally infect humans. Type 3 has been divided into two clades : CAS - Kili ( found in Tanzania ) and CAS - Delhi ( found in India and Saudi Arabia ). Type 4 is also known as the Euro - American lineage. Subtypes within this type include Latin American Mediterranean, Uganda I, Uganda II, Haarlem, X, and Congo. The most recent common ancestor of the M. tuberculosis complex evolved about 40,000 years ago. The most recent common ancestors of the EAI and LAM strains have been estimated to be 13,700 and 7,000 years ago, respectively. The Beijing - CAS strains diverged about 17,100 years ago. All types of the M. tuberculosis began their current expansion about 5000 years ago -- a period that coincides with the appearance of M. bovis. The Beijing strain appears to have been the most successful with around a 500-fold increase in effective population size ( N ) since its expansion began. The least successful of the main lineages appears to have been those limited to Africa, where they have undergone an N increase of only five-fold. Since its initial evolution, M. bovis has undergone an expansion of N of about 65-fold. Co-evolution with modern humans Much evidence suggests the different strains of the obligate human pathogen M. tuberculosis have co-evolved, migrated, and expanded with their human hosts. This well - supported theory is consistent with the bacterium 's phylogeny and phylogeography. With the global spread of M. tuberculosis, studies have examined whether geographically defined human populations are especially susceptible to the transmission of a particular lineage or strain of M. tuberculosis. They have found that even when transmission of M. tuberculosis occurs in an urban center outside the region of origin, a human host 's region of origin is predictive of which TB strain they carry and that genetically differentiated populations of M. tuberculosis do indeed preserve stable associations with host populations from their geographic region. The fact that all six principle phylogeographic lineages are found in Africa combined with the belief that ancestral mycobacteria may have impacted early hominids in East Africa as early as three million years ago, once again point to the theory of M. tuberculosis originating in Africa and expanding alongside the human migration out of East Africa. The significant correlation of increased frequency of tuberculosis - resistant alleles with the duration of a human population 's urban settlement similarly points to an extensive co-evolutionary relationship. Some of the most compelling data concerning the co-expansion of M. tuberculosis with modern humans come from a study that compared M. tuberculosis phylogeny to human mitochondrial genomes and found impressive similarities in the patterns and geographical locations of branching and divergence events. The match between M. tuberculosis and human mitochondrial phylogenies supports an extended relationship between M. tuberculosis and its host, while the clear expansion of this bacterial pathogen during the Neolithic Demographic Transition ( around 10,000 years ago ) suggests that M. tuberculosis was able to adapt to changing human populations and that the historical success of this pathogen was driven at least in part by dramatic increases in human host population density. Host Genetics The nature of the host - pathogen interaction between humans and M. tuberculosis is considered to have a genetic component. A group of rare disorders called Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseases was observed in a subset of individuals with a genetic defect that results in increased susceptibility to mycobacterial infection. Early case and twin studies have indicated that genetic component are important in host susceptibility to M. tuberculosis. Recent genome - wide association studies ( GWAS ) have identified three genetic risk loci, including at positions 11p13 and 18q11. As is common in GWAS, the variants discovered have moderate effect sizes. DNA repair As an intracellular pathogen, M. tuberculosis is exposed to a variety of DNA - damaging assaults, primarily from host - generated antimicrobial toxic radicals. Exposure to reactive oxygen species and / or reactive nitrogen species causes different types of DNA damage including oxidation, depurination, methylation, and deamination that can give rise to single - and double - strand breaks ( DSBs ). DnaE2 polymerase is upregulated in M. tuberculosis by several DNA - damaging agents, as well as during infection of mice. Loss of this DNA polymerase reduces the virulence of M. tuberculosis in mice. DnaE2 is an error - prone repair DNA repair polymerase that appears to contribute to M. tuberculosis survival during infection. The two major pathways employed in repair of DSBs are homologous recombinational repair ( HR ) and nonhomologous end joining ( NHEJ ). Macrophage - internalized M. tuberculosis is able to persist if either of these pathways is defective, but is attenuated when both pathways are defective. This indicates that intracellular exposure of M. tuberculosis to reactive oxygen and / or reactive nitrogen species results in the formation of DSBs that are repaired by HR or NHEJ. However deficiency of DSB repair does not appear to impair M. tuberculosis virulence in animal models. History Main article : History of tuberculosis M. tuberculosis, then known as the `` tubercle bacillus '', was first described on 24 March 1882 by Robert Koch, who subsequently received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery in 1905 ; the bacterium is also known as `` Koch 's bacillus ''. Tuberculosis has existed throughout history, but the name has changed frequently over time. 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Question: where is mycobacterium tuberculosis found in the body
Answer: the lungs