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Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are becoming increasingly common worldwide and there is an urgent need for new antibiotics that can overcome existing resistance mechanisms. One potential antibiotic target is bacterial single-stranded DNA binding proteins (SSBS), which can act as hubs for DNA repair, recombination, and replication. The eight highly conserved residues at the C-terminal of SSB can recruit more than a dozen important genome maintenance proteins to single-stranded DNA through direct protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Mutations of PPIs with C-terminal tails of SSBS are lethal, so small-molecule inhibitors of these key SSB PPIs may be effective antimicrobials.