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SUBMITTER: Viswanathan G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5487644 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Viswanathan Gopinath G Yadav Sangya S Raghunand Tirumalai R TR
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20170627 7
In a <i>Mycobacterium smegmatis</i> mutant library screen, transposon mutants with insertions in <i>fhaA</i>, <i>dprE2</i>, <i>rpsT</i>, and <i>parA</i> displayed hypersusceptibility to antibiotics, including the β-lactams meropenem, ampicillin, amoxicillin, and cefotaxime. Sub-MIC levels of octoclothepin, a psychotic drug inhibiting ParA, phenocopied the <i>parA</i> insertion and enhanced the bactericidal activity of meropenem against <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> in combination with clavul ...[more]