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Pathogen-driven reactivation of metabolite prodrugs defines nitroxoline's iron-deprivation antibiotic activity
Felix Deschner, Thorsten Kinsinger, Alexander Felix Kiefer…·Rolf Müller
This study identifies nitroxoline's antibacterial mechanism as pathogen-driven reactivation of its metabolites through iron deprivation in uropathogens.