Antibiotic Interactions with models of the Gram negative bacterial outer membrane : Physiological Temperature Polymyxin B Titration

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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. These have been supported by in vivo data on live bacteria. We need to measure how strongly the PMB binds the OM at physiological temperature compared to the lower temperatures already measured. This titration experiment using increasing PMB concentrations at 37C will provide critical final data and allow us to publish in a high impact journal.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.86391604
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/86391604
Provenance
Creator Dr Christy Kinane; Dr Nico Paracini; Dr Luke Clifton; Professor Jeremy Lakey; Dr Maxmilian Skoda
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
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 2017-05-04T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-05-26T08:18:04Z