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ArticlemSphere2022

Loss of β-Ketoacyl Acyl Carrier Protein Synthase III Activity Restores Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli Sensitivity to Previously Ineffective Antibiotics.

Yaoqin Hong, Jilong Qin, Anthony D Verderosa, Sophia Hawas, Bing Zhang, Mark A T Blaskovich, John E Cronan, Makrina Totsika

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Article in mSphere, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. FabH (β-Ketoacyl-ACP Synthase III) -- Promising Novel Antibacterial Target and Its Inhibitors.Medicinal chemistry research : an international journal for rapid communications on design and mechanisms of action of biologically active agents · 2026
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  8. A conditional nature for the synthetical lethality between defects in lipid and peptidoglycan biosynthesis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  10. Antibacterial Potency of an Active Compound fromMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Yaoqin HongCentre of Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-4408-2648
Jilong QinCentre of Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5867-6332
Anthony D VerderosaCentre of Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-0549-6565
Sophia HawasCentre of Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Bing ZhangCentre for Superbug Solutions, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8405-9242
Mark A T BlaskovichCentre for Superbug Solutions, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9447-2292
John E CronanDepartment of Microbiology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7064-312X
Makrina TotsikaCentre of Immunology and Infection Control, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-2468-0293
Queensland University of Technology · AUThe University of Queensland · AUUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most prominent threats to modern medicine. In the latest World Health Organization list of bacterial pathogens that urgently require new antibiotics, 9 out of 12 are Gram-negative, with four being of "critical priority." One crucial barrier restricting antibiotic efficacy against Gram-negative bacteria is their unique cell envelope. While fatty acids are a shared constituent of all structural membrane lipids, their biosynthesis pathway in bacteria is distinct from eukaryotes, making it an attractive target for new antibiotic development that remains less explored. Here, we interrogated the redundant components of the bacterial type II

Indexed as

Anti-Bacterial AgentsEscherichia coliBacteriaFatty AcidsGram-Negative BacteriaHumansMembrane LipidsTransferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups)Anti-Bacterial AgentsFatty Acidsholo-(acyl-carrier-protein) synthaseMembrane LipidsTransferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups)antibiotic potentiationfatty acid biosynthesismultidrug resistanceouter membrane permeability

Identifiers

PMID35574679
PMCPMC9241538
OpenAlexW4280627694

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