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CELL
Volume 135, Issue 4, Pages 679-690Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.09.038
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
- NIH HHS [DP1 OD003644, DP1 OD003644-02] Funding Source: Medline
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as gentamicin and kanamycin, directly target the ribosome, yet the mechanisms by which these bactericidal drugs induce cell death are not fully understood. Recently, oxidative stress has been implicated as one of the mechanisms whereby bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria. Here, we use systems-level approaches and phenotypic analyses to provide insight into the pathway whereby aminoglycosides ultimately trigger hydroxyl radical formation. We show, by disabling systems that facilitate membrane protein traffic, that mistranslation and misfolding of membrane proteins are central to aminoglycoside-induced oxidative stress and cell death. Signaling through the envelope stress-response two-component system is found to be a key player in this process, and the redox-responsive two-component system is shown to have an associated role. Additionally, we show that these two-component systems play a general role in bactericidal antibiotic-mediated oxidative stress and cell death, expanding our understanding of the common mechanism of killing induced by bactericidal antibiotics.
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