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Integration of molecular modelling and in vitro studies to inhibit LexA proteolysis.
Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology - 1 Jan 2023
Schuurs Zachariah P, McDonald John P, Croft Laura V, Richard Derek J, Woodgate Roger, Gandhi Neha S
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Introduction: As antibiotic resistance has become more prevalent, the social and economic impacts are increasingly pressing. Indeed, bacteria have developed the SOS response which facilitates the evolution of resistance under genotoxic stress. The transcriptional repressor, LexA, plays a key role in this response. Mutation of LexA to a non-cleavable form that prevents the induction of the SOS response sensitizes...
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