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Mechanistic origin of drug interactions between translation-inhibiting antibiotics

View ORCID ProfileBor Kavčič, View ORCID ProfileGašper Tkačik, View ORCID ProfileTobias Bollenbach
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/843920
Bor Kavčič
IST Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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Gašper Tkačik
IST Austria, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
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Tobias Bollenbach
Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne, 50937 Cologne, Germany
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Antibiotics that interfere with translation, when combined, interact in diverse and difficult-to-predict ways. Here, we demonstrate that these interactions can be accounted for by “translation bottlenecks”: points in the translation cycle where antibiotics block ribosomal progression. To elucidate the underlying mechanisms of drug interactions between translation inhibitors, we generated translation bottlenecks genetically using inducible control of translation factors that regulate well-defined translation cycle steps. These perturbations accurately mimicked antibiotic action and their interactions, supporting that the interplay of different translation bottlenecks causes these interactions. We further showed that the kinetics of drug uptake and binding together with growth laws allows direct prediction of a large fraction of observed interactions, yet fails for suppression. Simultaneously varying two translation bottlenecks in the same cell revealed how the dense traffic of ribosomes and competition for translation factors results in previously unexplained suppression. This result highlights the importance of “continuous epistasis” in bacterial physiology.

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Bor Kavčič, Gašper Tkačik, Tobias Bollenbach
bioRxiv 843920; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/843920
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Mechanistic origin of drug interactions between translation-inhibiting antibiotics
Bor Kavčič, Gašper Tkačik, Tobias Bollenbach
bioRxiv 843920; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/843920

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