Antibiotic action revealed by real-time imaging of the mycobacterial membrane
Wuo, M. G.; Dulberger, C. L.; Brown, R. A.; Sturm, A.; Ultee, E.; Bloom-Ackermann, Z.; Choi, C.; Garner, E. C.; Briegel, A.; Hung, D. T.; Rubin, E. J.; Kiessling, L. L.
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The current understanding of mycobacterial cell envelope remodeling in response to antibiotics is limited. Chemical tools that report on phenotypic changes with minimal cell wall perturbation are critical to understanding such time-dependent processes. We employed a fluorogenic chemical probe to image how antibiotics perturb mycobacterial cell envelope assembly in real-time. Time-lapse microscopy revealed that differential antibiotic treatment elicited unique cellular phenotypes, providing a platform for simultaneously monitoring cell envelope construction and remodeling responses. Our data show that rifampicin, which does not directly inhibit cell wall biosynthesis, affords a readily detected mycomembrane phenotype. The fluorogenic probe revealed the production of extracellular vesicles in response to antibiotics, and analyses of these vesicles indicate that antibiotic treatment elicits the release of agents that attenuate macrophage activation.
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