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SUBMITTER: Portelli S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7581776 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Portelli Stephanie S Myung Yoochan Y Furnham Nicholas N Vedithi Sundeep Chaitanya SC Pires Douglas E V DEV Ascher David B DB
Scientific reports 20201022 1
Rifampicin resistance is a major therapeutic challenge, particularly in tuberculosis, leprosy, P. aeruginosa and S. aureus infections, where it develops via missense mutations in gene rpoB. Previously we have highlighted that these mutations reduce protein affinities within the RNA polymerase complex, subsequently reducing nucleic acid affinity. Here, we have used these insights to develop a computational rifampicin resistance predictor capable of identifying resistant mutations even outside the ...[more]