PMID- 28494870 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180222 LR - 20201209 IS - 2211-1247 (Electronic) VI - 19 IP - 6 DP - 2017 May 9 TI - Nontargeted Metabolomics Reveals the Multilevel Response to Antibiotic Perturbations. PG - 1214-1228 LID - S2211-1247(17)30461-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.002 [doi] AB - Microbes have shown a remarkable ability in evading the killing actions of antimicrobial agents, such that treatment of bacterial infections represents once more an urgent global challenge. Understanding the initial bacterial response to antimicrobials may reveal intrinsic tolerance mechanisms to antibiotics and suggest alternative and less conventional therapeutic strategies. Here, we used mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to monitor the immediate metabolic response of Escherichia coli to a variety of antibiotic perturbations. We show that rapid metabolic changes can reflect drug mechanisms of action and reveal the active role of metabolism in mediating the first stress response to antimicrobials. We uncovered a role for ammonium imbalance in aggravating chloramphenicol toxicity and the essential function of deoxythymidine 5'-diphosphate (dTDP)-rhamnose synthesis for the immediate transcriptional upregulation of GyrA in response to quinolone antibiotics. Our results suggest bacterial metabolism as an attractive target to interfere with the early bacterial response to antibiotic treatments and reduce the probability for survival and eventual evolution of antibiotic resistance. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Zampieri, Mattia AU - Zampieri M AD - Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: zampieri@imsb.biol.ethz.ch. FAU - Zimmermann, Michael AU - Zimmermann M AD - Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Claassen, Manfred AU - Claassen M AD - Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Sauer, Uwe AU - Sauer U AD - Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: sauer@imsb.biol.ethz.ch. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Cell Rep JT - Cell reports JID - 101573691 RN - 0 (Ammonium Compounds) RN - 0 (Anti-Bacterial Agents) RN - 0 (Escherichia coli Proteins) RN - 0 (Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars) RN - 0 (Quinolones) RN - 0 (Thymine Nucleotides) RN - 2147-59-3 (thymidine diphosphate rhamnose) RN - 66974FR9Q1 (Chloramphenicol) RN - EC 5.99.1.3 (DNA Gyrase) SB - IM MH - Ammonium Compounds/metabolism MH - Anti-Bacterial Agents/*pharmacology MH - Chloramphenicol/*pharmacology MH - DNA Gyrase/genetics/metabolism MH - Escherichia coli/drug effects/genetics/metabolism MH - Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics/metabolism MH - Metabolome/*drug effects MH - Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars/metabolism MH - Quinolones/*pharmacology MH - Thymine Nucleotides/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - E. coli OT - ammonium imbalance OT - antibiotic response OT - antibiotic tolerance OT - chloramphenicol OT - dTDP-rhamnose OT - metabolomics OT - quinolones EDAT- 2017/05/13 06:00 MHDA- 2018/02/23 06:00 CRDT- 2017/05/13 06:00 PHST- 2016/06/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/09/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/03/31 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/05/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/05/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/02/23 06:00 [medline] AID - S2211-1247(17)30461-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.002 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Cell Rep. 2017 May 9;19(6):1214-1228. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.04.002.