L-form switching confers antibiotic, phage and stress tolerance in pathogenic Escherichia coli
Petrovic Fabijan, A.; Kamruzzaman, M.; Martinez Martin, D.; Venturini, C.; Mickiewicz, K.; Flores Rodriguez, N.; Errington, J.; Iredell, J. R.
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The bacterial L-form is induced by exposure to cell wall targeting antibiotics or innate immune effectors such as lysozyme and is likely to be important in many human infections. Here, we demonstrate that the osmotically fragile L-form is a distinct physiological state in Escherichia coli that is highly tolerant of oxidative stress and resistant to powerful antibiotics and common therapeutic bacteriophages. L-forms quickly revert (<20h) to their cell-walled state after antibiotic withdrawal, with apparently normal physiology and with few or no changes in DNA sequence. T4-like phages that are obligately lytic in cell-walled E. coli preferentially pseudolysogenise their L-forms providing them with transient superinfection immunity. Our data indicate that L-form switching is a common response of pathogenic E. coli strains to cell wall-targeting antibiotics and that the most commonly used lytic bacteriophages are ineffective against them in this state.
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