Targeting the messengers: Serine/threonine protein kinases as potential targets for antimycobacterial drug development

The emergence of increasingly drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains has become a crucial public health concern. In order to effectively treat tuberculosis, it is imperative to find newer drug targets, which are important for the in vivo bacterial survival and persistence. Phosphorylation based signaling cascades modulated by eukaryotic‐like serine/threonine protein kinases and phosphatase in M. tuberculosis, transduce extracellular...