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The DnaK Chaperone System Buffers the Fitness Cost of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations in Mycobacteria.
mBio - 30 Mar 2021
Fay Allison, Philip John, Saha Priya, Hendrickson Ronald C, Glickman Michael S, Burns-Huang Kristin
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Chaperones aid in protein folding and maintenance of protein integrity. In doing so, they have the unique ability to directly stabilize resistance-conferring amino acid substitutions in drug targets and to counter the stress imparted by these substitutions, thus supporting heritable antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We asked whether chaperones support AMR in Mycobacterium smegmatis, a saprophytic model of...
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