Abstract

In this issue of Cell Chemical Biology, Ruecker etal. (2017) show that fumarase depletion in Mycobacterium tuberculosis leads to fumarate, a TCA cycle intermediate, accumulation, causing succination of a range of thiol-containing metabolites and proteins. Fumarate is bactericidal to the pathogen, and its accumulation may enhance the bactericidal effector mechanisms of other TCA cycle intermediates that accumulate due to activation of infected macrophages.

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