Description
IMP-1700 is an inhibitor of bacterial DNA repair.1It potentiates the activity of the quinolone antibiotic ciprofloxacin against methicillin-resistantS. aureus(MRSA) with a combination index value of 0.7. IMP-1700 inhibits the ciprofloxacin-induced bacterial SOS response, a process that repairs DNA damage, in a reporter assay in a concentration-dependent manner.