Abstract: The invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and to their medical use. Exemplary medical uses are the prevention and treatment of a bacterial infection, for example, a mycobacterial infection, such as a Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, e.g., in a respiratory system and/or extrapulmonic. The invention further relates to a use of such compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or prodrugs of the compounds as chemotherapeutic agents. Also, the invention relates to a use of such compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or prodrugs of the compounds for inhibiting mycobacterial type VII secretion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan cap-specific mannosyl transferases and nucleic acid encoding such transferases. The invention further relates to Mycobacteria in which the lipoarabinomannan cap-specific mannosyl transferases have been inactivated and that therefore express mannose cap-deficient lipoarabinomannan. Such Mycobacteria with mannose cap-deficient lipoarabinomannan may be used as more effective vaccines against mycobacterial diseases as they lack the immunosuppressive action of the mannose cap.