“…Recent studies demonstrated the potential antibacterial activity of the novel SUL-DUR (βL-βLI) inhibitor combination which is currently under phase-III clinical trials and might be helpful in treating infections caused by A. baumannii [McLeod et al, 2020;Yahav et al, 2020]. Our research group has worked extensively to understand the protein-ligand interaction and complex AMR mechanisms of pathogenic bacteria through genomic analyses [Jacob et al, 2019;Vasudevan et al, 2020;Vijayakumar et al, 2016Vijayakumar et al, , 2020, in-silico structural [Basu et al, 2020[Basu et al, , 2021Lavanya et al, 2015;Thillainayagam et al, 2020], and systems biology approaches [Debroy et al, 2020;Miryala et al, 2020Miryala et al, , 2021Naha et al, 2020]. The aim of the present study was to decipher the activity of this βL-βLI combination against A. baumannii by characterising the inter-molecular binding profiles of SUL with PBP3 and the potency of DUR to restore the efficacy of SUL by inhibiting the β-lactamases and PBP2 through in-silico and in-vitro analyses.…”