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Carbapenem was the ultimate expectation for the treatment of such infections in clinical practice. However, since the discovery of plasmid-mediated New Delhi metallo-\u03b2-lactamase-1 (NDM-1), the efficient therapeutic effects of carbapenems have been increasingly restricted. Here, we identified isoliquiritin, a novel specific inhibitor of the NDM-1 enzyme that restored the activity of carbapenem against NDM-1-producing E. coli isolates and K. pneumoniae isolates without affecting the growth of bacteria. A checkerboard test, growth curve assays and time-kill assays confirmed the significant synergistic effect of isoliquiritin combined with meropenem in vitro. It is worth noting that isoliquiritin only inhibited the activity of NDM-1 and had no obvious inhibitory effect on other class B metallo-\u03b2-lactamases (VIM-1) or NDM-1 mutants (NDM-5). The FIC indices of meropenem with isoliquiritin on NDM-1-positive E. coli and K. pneumoniae were all less than 0.5. Isoliquiritin had no influences on the expression of NDM-1-positive strains at concentrations below 64 \u00b5g\/mL. Collectively, our results show that isoliquiritin is a potential adjuvant therapy drug that could enhance the antibacterial effect of carbapenems, such as meropenem, on NDM-1-positive Enterobacteria and lay the foundation for subsequent clinical trials.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph17062162","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,24]],"date-time":"2020-03-24T13:04:04Z","timestamp":1585055044000},"page":"2162","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Specific NDM-1 Inhibitor of Isoliquiritin Enhances the Activity of Meropenem against NDM-1-positive Enterobacteriaceae in vitro"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Yanling","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"},{"name":"Qingdao Vland biological Limited co., LTD., Qingdao 266000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiaodi","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fanrong","family":"Kong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lining","family":"Xia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Veterinary Medicine, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urmuqi 830052, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xuming","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dacheng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Animal Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8311-0894","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jianfeng","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Zoonosis Research, Ministry of Education, Institute of Zoonosis, College of Veterinary Medicine, Jilin University, Changchun 130062, Jilin, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"463","DOI":"10.1038\/s41581-019-0150-7","article-title":"Antimicrobial resistance in nephrology","volume":"15","author":"Wang","year":"2019","journal-title":"Nat. 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