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  • Reliable antimicrobial susceptibility testing is crucial for effective antibiotic treatment and the development of new drugs; using mammalian cell culture media may mimic infection conditions better than bacteriological media.
  • The study employs NMR metabolomics and electron microscopy to examine how different growth media influence bacterial metabolism, cell wall composition, and susceptibility to antibiotics like colistin and tobramycin.
  • Findings indicate that while glucose-rich media affect response to osmotic stress and colistin tolerance, the overall metabolic strategy changes in mammalian media, highlighting how organic acids can enhance the effectiveness of certain antibiotics.

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Reliable antimicrobial susceptibility testing is essential in informing both clinical antibiotic therapy decisions and the development of new antibiotics. Mammalian cell culture media have been proposed as an alternative to bacteriological media, potentially representing some critical aspects of the infection environment more accurately. Here, we use a combination of NMR metabolomics and electron microscopy to investigate the response of and to growth in differing rich media to determine whether and how this determines metabolic strategies, the composition of the cell wall, and consequently susceptibility to membrane active antimicrobials including colistin and tobramycin. The NMR metabolomic approach is first validated by characterizing the expected acid stress response to fermentation and the accompanying changes in the cell wall composition, when cultured in glucose rich mammalian cell culture media. Glucose is not a major carbon source for but is associated with a response to osmotic stress and a modest increase in colistin tolerance. Growth of in a range of bacteriological media is supported by consumption of formate, an important electron donor in anaerobic respiration. In mammalian cell culture media, however, the overall metabolic strategy of is instead dependent on consumption of glutamine and lactate. Formate doping of mammalian cell culture media does not alter the overall metabolic strategy but is associated with polyamine catabolism, remodelling of both inner and outer membranes, and a modest sensitization of PAO1 to colistin. Further, in a panel of isolates an increase between 2- and 3-fold in sensitivity to tobramycin is achieved through doping with other organic acids, notably propionate which also similarly enhances the activity of colistin. Organic acids are therefore capable of nonspecifically influencing the potency of membrane active antimicrobials.

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