Selective silencing of antibiotic-tethered ribosomes as a resistance mechanism against aminoglycosides
Nilanjan Ghosh Dastidar, Nicola S. Freyer, Valentyn Petrychenko…·Ingo Wohlgemuth
The paper identifies a novel antibiotic resistance mechanism where fusA mutations slow ribosome movement when aminoglycosides are bound, preventing error cluster formation and maintaining bacterial growth.