Depleting Cationic Lipids Involved in Antimicrobial Resistance Drives Adaptive Lipid Remodeling in Enterococcus faecalis

Author:

Rashid Rafi12,Nair Zeus Jaren234,Chia Dominic Ming Hao24,Chong Kelvin Kian Long24,Cazenave Gassiot Amaury56,Morley Stewart A.78,Allen Doug K.78,Chen Swaine L.910ORCID,Chng Shu Sin211ORCID,Wenk Markus R.56,Kline Kimberly A.2412ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Integrative Sciences & Engineering Programme, National University of Singapore, Singapore

2. Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

3. Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

4. School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

5. Singapore Lipidomics Incubator (SLING), Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

6. Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

7. Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

8. USDA-ARS, Plant Genetics Research Institute, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

9. GERMS and Infectious Disease Group, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

10. Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

11. Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore

12. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

The cell membrane plays a pivotal role in protecting bacteria against external threats, such as antibiotics. Cationic phospholipids such as lysyl-phosphatidyglycerol (L-PG) resist the action of cationic antimicrobial peptides through electrostatic repulsion.

Funder

Agency for Science, Technology and Research

MOH | National Medical Research Council

Ministry of Education - Singapore

Ministry of Health - Singapore

National Research Foundation Singapore

National Science Foundation

USDA | Agricultural Research Service

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Virology,Microbiology

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