| Literature DB >> 26033733 |
Karine Soetaert1, Céline Rens2, Xiao-Ming Wang1, Jacqueline De Bruyn2, Marie-Antoinette Lanéelle3, Françoise Laval3, Anne Lemassu3, Mamadou Daffé3, Pablo Bifani4, Véronique Fontaine2, Philippe Lefèvre5.
Abstract
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is wrapped in complex waxes, impermeable to most antibiotics. Comparing Mycobacterium bovis BCG and M. tuberculosis mutants that lack phthiocerol dimycocerosates (PDIM) and/or phenolic glycolipids with wild-type strains, we observed that glycopeptides strongly inhibited PDIM-deprived mycobacteria. Vancomycin together with a drug targeting lipid synthesis inhibited multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) clinical isolates. Our study puts glycopeptides in the pipeline of potential antituberculosis (TB) agents and might provide a new antimycobacterial drug-screening strategy.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26033733 PMCID: PMC4505240 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.04856-14
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191