Visualizing zinc-starved slow-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis in neutrophil-rich lung lesions
Jamie H. Corro, Jordan Holl, Varsha Patil, Poornima Sankar, Yunlong Li, A. M. Saleh, Amy Wu, Richard W. Cole, Kyu Rhee, Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra, Anil Kumar Ojha
The paper visualizes zinc-starved, slow-replicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis using a fluorescent reporter and shows increased expression in neutrophil-rich lung lesions during infection.
bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology