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Antibiotic resistance via bacterial cell shape-shifting

Ojkic, N.; Serbanescu, D.; Banerjee, S.

2021-10-16 microbiology
10.1101/2021.10.16.464635 bioRxiv
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Bacteria have evolved to develop multiple strategies for antibiotic resistance by effectively reducing intra-cellular antibiotic concentrations or antibiotic binding affinities, but the role of cell morphology on antibiotic resistance remains poorly characterized. By analyzing cell morphological data of different bacterial species under antibiotic stress, we find that bacterial cells robustly reduce surface-to-volume ratio in response to most types of antibiotics. Using quantitative modelling we show that by reducing surface-to-volume ratio, bacteria can effectively reduce intracellular antibiotic concentration by decreasing antibiotic influx. The model predicts that bacteria can increase surface-to-volume ratio to promote antibiotic dilution if efflux pump activity is reduced, in agreement with data on membrane-transport inhibitors. Using the particular example of ribosome-targeting antibiotics, we present a systems-level model for the regulation of cell shape under antibiotic stress, and discuss feedback mechanisms that bacteria can harness to increase their fitness in the presence of antibiotics.

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