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SUBMITTER: Aedo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3811449 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aedo Sandra S Tse-Dinh Yuk-Ching YC
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20130805 10
Quinolones trap the covalent gyrase-DNA complex in Escherichia coli, leading to cell death. Processing activities for trapped covalent complex have not been characterized. A mutant strain lacking SbcCD nuclease activity was examined for both accumulation of gyrase-DNA complex and viability after quinolone treatment. Higher complex levels were found in ΔsbcCD cells than in wild-type cells after incubation with nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. However, SbcCD activity protected cells against the b ...[more]