Abstract
We developed a competition-based screening strategy to identify compounds that invert the selective advantage of antibiotic resistance. Using our assay, we screened over 19,000 compounds for the ability to select against the TetA tetracycline-resistance efflux pump in Escherichia coli and identified two hits, β-thujaplicin and disulfiram. Treating a tetracycline-resistant population with β-thujaplicin selects for loss of the resistance gene, enabling an effective second-phase treatment with doxycycline.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 902-904 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Nature Chemical Biology |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Nov 2016 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology