Antibiotic Killing through Incomplete DNA Repair

Authors
Publication date 01-2018
Journal Trends in Microbiology
Volume | Issue number 26 | 1
Pages (from-to) 2-4
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Abstract

Two recent studies show that incomplete repair of DNA damage due to oxidized nucleotides is crucial for reactive oxygen species (ROS)-related antimicrobial lethality. Using widely different experimental approaches they both reach the same conclusions on the role of downstream ROS production in cell killing upon exposure to bactericidal antimicrobials.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2017.11.006
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