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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Superoxide dismutase activity confers (p)ppGpp-mediated antibiotic tolerance to stationary-phase

Dorival Martins, Geoffrey McKay, Gowthami Sampathkumar, Malika Khakimova, Ann M English, Dao Nguyen

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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71citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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71 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Dorival MartinsDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OG4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9367-2751
Geoffrey McKayMeakins-Christie Laboratories, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC H4A 3J1, Canada.
Gowthami SampathkumarDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OG4, Canada.
Malika KhakimovaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OG4, Canada.
Ann M EnglishDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3696-7710
Dao NguyenDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A OG4, Canada; dao.nguyen@mcgill.ca.
McGill University Health Centre · CAMcGill University · CAConcordia University · CA

Funding

CIHR MOP102727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metabolically quiescent bacteria represent a large proportion of those in natural and host environments, and they are often refractory to antibiotic treatment. Such drug tolerance is also observed in the laboratory during stationary phase, when bacteria face stress and starvation-induced growth arrest. Tolerance requires (p)ppGpp signaling, which mediates the stress and starvation stringent response (SR), but the downstream effectors that confer tolerance are unclear. We previously demonstrated that the SR is linked to increased antioxidant defenses in

Indexed as

Drug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsDose-Response Relationship, DrugGentamicinsLigasesMeropenemMicrobial Sensitivity TestsOfloxacinPseudomonas aeruginosaSignal TransductionSuperoxide DismutaseThienamycinsAnti-Bacterial AgentsGentamicinsguanosine 3',5'-polyphosphate synthetasesLigasesMeropenemOfloxacinSuperoxide DismutaseThienamycinsantibiotic tolerance(p)ppGpp stringent responsePseudomonas aeruginosastationary phasesuperoxide dismutase

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PMID30201715
PMCPMC6166797
OpenAlexW2890458481

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