Sophie Wang

Abolition of Individual Antioxidant Enzymes Did Not Affect Antibiotic-mediated Killing of Escherichia coli

Three classes of bactericidal antibiotics induce oxidative damages in addition to their interactions with specific intracellular targets. By utilizing knockout strains of Escherichia coli that lack antioxidant enzymes, we investigated whether deficiencies in the oxidant scavengin...