Persister eradication: Lessons from the world of natural products

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 517, Issue , 2012, Pages 387-406

  Keren, Iris ^a   Mulcahy, Lawrence R ^a   Lewis, Kim ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic tolerance; Antibiotics; Biofilms; Persister cell eradication; Persisters; Waksman

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANION CHANNEL; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENDOTOXIN; ETHAMBUTOL PLUS ISONIAZID PLUS PYRAZINAMIDE PLUS RIFAMPICIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MITOMYCIN; NATURAL PRODUCT; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL KILLING; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA ADDUCT; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ERADICATION THERAPY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PERSISTER CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON MOTIVE FORCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECA GENE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSPOSON; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84867637283     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: 15577988     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404634-4.00019-X     Document Type: Chapter

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