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Drug detoxification dynamics explain the postantibiotic effect.


ABSTRACT: The postantibiotic effect (PAE) refers to the temporary suppression of bacterial growth following transient antibiotic treatment. This effect has been observed for decades for a wide variety of antibiotics and microbial species. However, despite empirical observations, a mechanistic understanding of this phenomenon is lacking. Using a combination of modeling and quantitative experiments, we show that the PAE can be explained by the temporal dynamics of drug detoxification in individual cells after an antibiotic is removed from the extracellular environment. These dynamics are dictated by both the export of the antibiotic and the intracellular titration of the antibiotic by its target. This mechanism is generally applicable for antibiotics with different modes of action. We further show that efflux inhibition is effective against certain antibiotic motifs, which may help explain mixed cotreatment success.

SUBMITTER: Srimani JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5658699 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Drug detoxification dynamics explain the postantibiotic effect.

Srimani Jaydeep K JK   Huang Shuqiang S   Lopatkin Allison J AJ   You Lingchong L  

Molecular systems biology 20171023 10


The postantibiotic effect (PAE) refers to the temporary suppression of bacterial growth following transient antibiotic treatment. This effect has been observed for decades for a wide variety of antibiotics and microbial species. However, despite empirical observations, a mechanistic understanding of this phenomenon is lacking. Using a combination of modeling and quantitative experiments, we show that the PAE can be explained by the temporal dynamics of drug detoxification in individual cells aft  ...[more]

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