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Permissive Fatty Acid Incorporation Promotes Staphylococcal Adaptation to FASII Antibiotics in Host Environments
1 Dec 2019
Abstract excerpt
The essentiality of fatty acid synthesis (FASII) products in the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is the underlying rationale for FASII-targeted antimicrobial drug design. Reports of anti-FASII efficacy in animals support this choice. However, restricted test conditions used previously led us to investigate this postulate in a broader, host-relevant context. We report that S. aureus rapidly adapts to FASII...
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