Rethinking Dormancy: Antibiotic Persisters are Metabolically Active, Non-Growing Cells
K. M. T. Rahman, R. Amaratunga, X. Y. Butzin, A. Singh, T. Hossain, N. C. Butzin
This study challenges the idea that antibiotic persisters are metabolically dormant by showing that Escherichia coli persisters remain metabolically active and exhibit dynamic gene expression changes.
bioRxiv · Dec 9, 2023 · PreprintMicrobiology