Author:
Soetaert Karine,Rens Céline,Wang Xiao-Ming,De Bruyn Jacqueline,Lanéelle Marie-Antoinette,Laval Françoise,Lemassu Anne,Daffé Mamadou,Bifani Pablo,Fontaine Véronique,Lefèvre Philippe
Abstract
ABSTRACTMycobacterium tuberculosisis wrapped in complex waxes, impermeable to most antibiotics. ComparingMycobacterium bovisBCG andM. tuberculosismutants that lack phthiocerol dimycocerosates (PDIM) and/or phenolic glycolipids with wild-type strains, we observed that glycopeptides strongly inhibited PDIM-deprived mycobacteria. Vancomycin together with a drug targeting lipid synthesis inhibited multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) clinical isolates. Our study puts glycopeptides in the pipeline of potential antituberculosis (TB) agents and might provide a new antimycobacterial drug-screening strategy.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
Cited by
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