Balancing mcr-1 expression and bacterial survival is a delicate equilibrium between essential cellular defence mechanisms

Balancing mcr-1 expression and bacterial survival is a delicate equilibrium between essential cellular defence mechanisms

The plasmid-encoded MCR-1 enzyme modifies bacterial lipid A, thus conferring resistance to the antibiotic colistin. Here, Yang et al. show that MCR-1 expression can decrease in vitro growth rate, fitness and immune stimulation, and can reduce virulence in a Galleria mellonella infection model.

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Main Authors: Qiue Yang, Mei Li, Owen B. Spiller, Diego O. Andrey, Philip Hinchliffe, Hui Li, Craig MacLean, Pannika Niumsup, Lydia Powell, Manon Pritchard, Andrei Papkou, Yingbo Shen, Edward Portal, Kirsty Sands, James Spencer, Uttapoln Tansawai, David Thomas, Shaolin Wang, Yang Wang, Jianzhong Shen, Timothy Walsh
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a6d761a9e3b7476da168dbb04950f58a
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