A multidisciplinary approach towards identification of novel 1 antibiotic scaffolds for Acinetobacter baumannii 2 3 Satya Prathyusha Bhamidimarri 1 , Michael Zahn 2 , Jigneshkumar Dahyabhai 4 Prajapati 3 , Christian Schleberger 4 , Sandra Söderholm 4 , Jennifer Hoover 5 , Josh 5 West 5 , Ulrich Kleinekathöfer 3 , Dirk Bumann #4 , Mathias Winterhalter #1 , Bert van den 6 Berg #2 7 8 9 1 Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry, Jacobs University Bremen, 28759 10 Bremen, Germany. 11 12 2 Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, The Medical School, Newcastle 13 University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK 14 15 3 Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, 28759 16 Bremen, Germany 17 18 4 Focal Area Infection Biology, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 19 20 5 Antibacterial Discovery Performance Unit, GSK, Collegeville, PA, USA 21 22 23 # Correspondence to: [email protected] 24 [email protected] 25 [email protected] 26 27 28 certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not this version posted April 22, 2018. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/306035 doi: bioRxiv preprint