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SUBMITTER: Dong TG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4343105 | biostudies-other | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dong Tao G TG Dong Shiqi S Catalano Christy C Moore Richard R Liang Xiaoye X Mekalanos John J JJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150202 7
Whether antibiotics induce the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that contribute to cell death is an important yet controversial topic. Here, we report that lethal attacks from bacterial and viral species also result in ROS production in target cells. Using soxS as an ROS reporter, we found soxS was highly induced in Escherichia coli exposed to various forms of attacks mediated by the type VI secretion system (T6SS), P1vir phage, and polymyxin B. Using a fluorescence ROS probe, we foun ...[more]