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. 2019 Sep 9;50(5):530-532.
doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2019.08.009.

Un-phased: Lipid Droplets Modulate the Bioavailability of Antibiotics

Tobias C Walther  1 , Robert V Farese Jr  2
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Un-phased: Lipid Droplets Modulate the Bioavailability of Antibiotics

Tobias C Walther et al. Dev Cell. .

Abstract

In a paper recently published in Science (Greenwood et al., 2019), Greenwood and colleagues now describe a fascinating example of how partitioning of a small lipophilic molecule into a phase-separated cellular constituent, the lipid droplet (LD), contributes to its antibacterial action against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

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