Metabolic and transcriptional activities underlie stationary-phase Pseudomonas aeruginosa sensitivity to Levofloxacin.

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The bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is responsible for a variety of chronic human infections. Even in the absence of identifiable resistance mutations, this pathogen can tolerate lethal antibiotic doses through phenotypic strategies like biofilm formation and metabolic quiescence. In this study, we determined that P. aeruginosa maintains greater metabolic activity in the stationary phase compared to the model organism, Escherichia coli, which has traditionally been used to study fluoroquinolone antibiotic tolerance. We demonstrate that hallmarks of E. coli fluoroquinolone tolerance are not conserved in P. aeruginosa, including the timing of cell death and necessity of the SOS DNA damage response for survival. The heightened se

SUBMITTER: Hare PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10896071 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature