DNA-damaging combination treatments impose genotype-specific constraints on hypermutator evolvability
Adam J. Mulkern, Stefan Oliver Bassler, William Matlock, Athanasios Typas, R. Craig MacLean
This study shows that combining DNA-damaging agents with antibiotics can reduce resistance evolution in specific hypermutator bacterial genotypes but not others.
bioRxiv · Feb 20, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology