Antibiotic paths through the bacterial outer membrane: The strange case of vancomycin

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Gram-negative bacteria, which cause a variety of diseases including meningitis, plague, sepsis and food poisoning, are becoming increasingly antibiotic resistant. One reason is their robust outer membrane (OM) which can resist antibiotic penetration. We have been combining our recently developed OM model with neutron science to measure the penetration of an important antibiotic, polymyxin (PMB), into the OM. These have shown the importance of the critical melting of the OM at body temperature in allowing PMB to work. Vancomycin is an important antibiotic which however does not act on Gram negative bacteria, Recently it was shown that it does work on these cells but at 15oC. It is also more effective on cells with complex polysaccharides on their surface, again opposite to PMB. Thus we wish to test the effect of Vancomycin on our models at different temperatures and lipid complexities.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90681189
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90681189
Provenance
Creator Dr Luke Clifton; Dr Nico Paracini; Professor Jeremy Lakey; Dr Jos Cooper
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Biology; Biomaterials; Engineering Sciences; Life Sciences; Materials Science; Materials Science and Engineering; Medicine
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-07-05T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-07-08T07:00:00Z