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. 2024 Nov 20;13:RP96695. doi: 10.7554/eLife.96695

Table 1. Summary of the applied drug treatments and their phenotypic consequences.

Treatment Liquid culture experiments Agar plate experiments
Category Long name Abbreviation Mechanism of action Subinhinitory concentration CFU compared to control Cell length [μm] Cell width [μm] Subinhinitory concentration CFU compared to control
First line antibiotics Isoniazid INH Cell wall synthesis inhibitor 150 μg/ml 80% 1.8±0.5 0.41±0.07 2 μg/ml 2.2 %
Ethambutol EMB 100 μg/ml 70% 2.0±0.8 0.55±0.17 0.2 μg/ml 10.5 %
Rifampicin RIF RNA synthesis inhibitor 3 μg/ml 60% 6.6±2.4 0.68±0.09 25 μg/ml 0.00052 %
Combination treatment COMBO WHO first line therapy 10 μg/ml PZA, 15 μg/mL INH, 10 μg/ml EMB, 0.3 μg/mL RIF 6% 2.8±0.7 0.47±005 1 μg/ml PZA, 0.2 μg/mL INH, 0.02 μg/ml EMB, 2.5 μg/mL RIF 0.39 %
Second line antibiotics Ciprofloxacin CIP Gyrase inhibitor 0.3 μg/ml 20% 11.1±4.0 0.59±0.1 0.3 μg/ml 0.00018 %
DNA damage controls Mitomycin-C MMC DNA alkylation 0.01 μg/ml 20% 9.8±4.6 0.68±0.11 0.0005 μg/ml 0.96 %
Ultraviolet radiation UV Pyr dimers, DSBs ND ND ND ND 150 J/m2 11 %
N/A Non-treated Mock N/A N/A 100% 2.8±0.9 0.44±0.08 N/A 100 %