Competitive Fitness of Essential Gene Knockdowns Reveals a Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Inhibitor of the Cell Division Protein FtsZ

Andrew M. Hogan, Viola Camilla Scoffone, Vadim Makarov, April S. Gislason, Haben H. Tesfu, María Silvina Stietz, Ann Karen C. Brassinga, Michael Domaratzki, Xuan Li, Alberto Azzalin,

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2018 · 40 citations · 64 references

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To streamline the elucidation of antibacterial compounds’ mechanism of action, comprehensive high-throughput assays interrogating multiple putative targets are necessary. However, current chemogenomic approaches for antibiotic target identification have not fully utilized the multiplexing potential of next-generation sequencing.

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