Conjugation inhibitors compete with palmitic acid for binding to the conjugative traffic ATPase TrwD, providing a mechanism to inhibit bacterial conjugation

This work was supported by Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) Grants BFU2016-78521-R (to E. C. and I. A.) and BFU2014-55534 (to F. d. l. C.) and by Grant P20GM103475-16 from the National Center for Research Resources and NIGMS, National Institutes of Health (to D. S. R.). The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest withthe contents of this article. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.