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. 2020 Sep 9;11:4522. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18301-2

Fig. 6. Synergistic inhibition of A. baumannii by pairing Rod-system-targeting and Divisome-targeting antibiotics.

Fig. 6

a Diagrams showing the two modes of cell wall growth in rod-shaped bacteria which are governed by distinct biosynthesis systems (Rod-system vs. divisome). Listed next to each diagram is the subset of antibiotics that preferentially target the respective PG synthesis system. b Heat map shows average Log2FIC scores resulting from pairwise interactions among seven antibiotics via the diagonal sampling method from n = 2 independent determinations. Blue indicates synergistic pairs, white indicates additive pairs, and red indicates antagonistic pairs. *Average Log2FIC was significantly different from 0 in one-sample t test (two-tailed p < 0.05; exact p values shown in Supplementary Table 3). c Validation of drug–drug interactions via checkerboard assay. Heat map shows bacterial growth in microplate wells containing no drug (lower left wells) or increasing amounts of each drug alone or in pairwise combinations. Drug concentrations increase linearly from left to right along x-axis, and bottom to top along y-axis. “Div” refers to Divisome, “Rod” refers to Rod-system. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.