PMID:23471410

Citation	Keren, I, Wu, Y, Inocencio, J, Mulcahy, LR and Lewis, K (2013) Killing by bactericidal antibiotics does not depend on reactive oxygen species. Science 339:1213-6
Abstract	Bactericidal antibiotics kill by modulating their respective targets. This traditional view has been challenged by studies that propose an alternative, unified mechanism of killing, whereby toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) are produced in the presence of antibiotics. We found no correlation between an individual cell's probability of survival in the presence of antibiotic and its level of ROS. An ROS quencher, thiourea, protected cells from antibiotics present at low concentrations, but the effect was observed under anaerobic conditions as well. There was essentially no difference in survival of bacteria treated with various antibiotics under aerobic or anaerobic conditions. This suggests that ROS do not play a role in killing of bacterial pathogens by antibiotics.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1126/science.1232688
Keywords	Anaerobiosis; Anti-Bacterial Agents/antagonists & inhibitors; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology; Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Escherichia coli/drug effects; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Fluoroquinolones/antagonists & inhibitors; Fluoroquinolones/pharmacology; Norfloxacin/antagonists & inhibitors; Norfloxacin/pharmacology; Oxidative Stress; Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism; Thiourea/pharmacology
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