ArticleScience advances2022
Growth productivity as a determinant of the inoculum effect for bactericidal antibiotics.
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- Purine and pyrimidine synthesis differently affect the strength of the inoculum effect for aminoglycoside and β-lactam antibiotics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Bacteria exposed to antiviral drugs develop antibiotic cross-resistance and unique resistance profiles.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Inoculum-dependent bactericidal activity of aMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Understanding the mechanisms by which populations of bacteria resist antibiotics has implications in evolution, microbial ecology, and public health. The inoculum effect (IE), where antibiotic efficacy declines as the density of a bacterial population increases, has been observed for multiple bacterial species and antibiotics. Several mechanisms to account for IE have been proposed, but most lack experimental evidence or cannot explain IE for multiple antibiotics. We show that growth productivity, the combined effect of growth and metabolism, can account for IE for multiple bactericidal antibiotics and bacterial species. Guided by flux balance analysis and whole-genome modeling, we show that the carbon source supplied in the growth medium determines growth productivity. If growth productivity is sufficiently high, IE is eliminated. Our results may lead to approaches to reduce IE in the clinic, help standardize the analysis of antibiotics, and further our understanding of how bacteria evolve resistance.
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