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Pachla J, Kopiasz RJ, Marek G, Tomaszewski W, Głogowska A, Drężek K, Kowalczyk S, Podgórski R, Butruk-Raszeja B, Ciach T, Mierzejewska J, Plichta A, Augustynowicz-Kopeć E, Jańczewski D. Polytrimethylenimines: Highly Potent Antibacterial Agents with Activity and Toxicity Modulated by the Polymer Molecular Weight. Biomacromolecules 2023; 24:2237-2249. [PMID: 37093622 PMCID: PMC10170506 DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023]
Abstract
Cationic polymers have been extensively investigated as a potential replacement for traditional antibiotics. Here, we examined the effect of molecular weight (MW) on the antimicrobial, cytotoxic, and hemolytic activity of linear polytrimethylenimine (L-PTMI). The results indicate that the biological activity of the polymer sharply increases as MW increases. Thanks to a different position of the antibacterial activity and toxicity thresholds, tuning the MW of PTMI allows one to achieve a therapeutic window between antimicrobial activity and toxicity concentrations. L-PTMI presents significantly higher antimicrobial activity against model microorganisms than linear polyethylenimine (L-PEI) when polymers with a similar number of repeating units are compared. For the derivatives of L-PTMI and L-PEI, obtained through N-monomethylation and partial N,N-dimethylation of linear polyamines, the antimicrobial activity and toxicity were both reduced; however, resulting selectivity indices were higher. Selected materials were tested against clinical isolates of pathogens from the ESKAPE group and Mycobacteria, revealing good antibacterial properties of L-PTMI against antibiotic-resistant strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria but limited antibacterial properties against Mycobacteria.
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- Julita Pachla
- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Płocka 26, 01-138 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Waryńskiego 1, 00-645 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Waryńskiego 1, 00-645 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Waryńskiego 1, 00-645 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Płocka 26, 01-138 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland
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Krysenko S, Wohlleben W. Polyamine and Ethanolamine Metabolism in Bacteria as an Important Component of Nitrogen Assimilation for Survival and Pathogenicity. Med Sci (Basel) 2022; 10:40. [PMID: 35997332 PMCID: PMC9397018 DOI: 10.3390/medsci10030040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Revised: 07/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Nitrogen is an essential element required for bacterial growth. It serves as a building block for the biosynthesis of macromolecules and provides precursors for secondary metabolites. Bacteria have developed the ability to use various nitrogen sources and possess two enzyme systems for nitrogen assimilation involving glutamine synthetase/glutamate synthase and glutamate dehydrogenase. Microorganisms living in habitats with changeable availability of nutrients have developed strategies to survive under nitrogen limitation. One adaptation is the ability to acquire nitrogen from alternative sources including the polyamines putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine and spermine, as well as the monoamine ethanolamine. Bacterial polyamine and monoamine metabolism is not only important under low nitrogen availability, but it is also required to survive under high concentrations of these compounds. Such conditions can occur in diverse habitats such as soil, plant tissues and human cells. Strategies of pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria to survive in the presence of poly- and monoamines offer the possibility to combat pathogens by using their capability to metabolize polyamines as an antibiotic drug target. This work aims to summarize the knowledge on poly- and monoamine metabolism in bacteria and its role in nitrogen metabolism.
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- Sergii Krysenko
- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT), Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
- Cluster of Excellence ‘Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections’, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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- Interfaculty Institute of Microbiology and Infection Medicine Tübingen (IMIT), Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 28, 72076 Tübingen, Germany;
- Cluster of Excellence ‘Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections’, University of Tübingen, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
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Kumar V, Mishra RK, Ghose D, Kalita A, Dhiman P, Prakash A, Thakur N, Mitra G, Chaudhari VD, Arora A, Dutta D. Free spermidine evokes superoxide radicals that manifest toxicity. eLife 2022; 11:77704. [PMID: 35416771 PMCID: PMC9038194 DOI: 10.7554/elife.77704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Spermidine and other polyamines alleviate oxidative stress, yet excess spermidine seems toxic to Escherichia coli unless it is neutralized by SpeG, an enzyme for the spermidine N-acetyl transferase function. Thus, wild-type E. coli can tolerate applied exogenous spermidine stress, but ΔspeG strain of E. coli fails to do that. Here, using different reactive oxygen species (ROS) probes and performing electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, we provide evidence that although spermidine mitigates oxidative stress by lowering overall ROS levels, excess of it simultaneously triggers the production of superoxide radicals, thereby causing toxicity in the ΔspeG strain. Furthermore, performing microarray experiment and other biochemical assays, we show that the spermidine-induced superoxide anions affected redox balance and iron homeostasis. Finally, we demonstrate that while RNA-bound spermidine inhibits iron oxidation, free spermidine interacts and oxidizes the iron to evoke superoxide radicals directly. Therefore, we propose that the spermidine-induced superoxide generation is one of the major causes of spermidine toxicity in E. coli.
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- Vineet Kumar
- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- Division of Molecular Medicine, St John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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- CSIR Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India
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A Second Gamma-Glutamylpolyamine Synthetase, GlnA2, Is Involved in Polyamine Catabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23073752. [PMID: 35409114 PMCID: PMC8998196 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2022] [Revised: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Streptomyces coelicolor is a soil bacterium living in a habitat with very changeable nutrient availability. This organism possesses a complex nitrogen metabolism and is able to utilize the polyamines putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine, and spermine and the monoamine ethanolamine. We demonstrated that GlnA2 (SCO2241) facilitates S. coelicolor to survive under high toxic polyamine concentrations. GlnA2 is a gamma-glutamylpolyamine synthetase, an enzyme catalyzing the first step in polyamine catabolism. The role of GlnA2 was confirmed in phenotypical studies with a glnA2 deletion mutant as well as in transcriptional and biochemical analyses. Among all GS-like enzymes in S. coelicolor, GlnA2 possesses the highest specificity towards short-chain polyamines (putrescine and cadaverine), while its functional homolog GlnA3 (SCO6962) prefers long-chain polyamines (spermidine and spermine) and GlnA4 (SCO1613) accepts only monoamines. The genome-wide RNAseq analysis in the presence of the polyamines putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine, or spermine revealed indication of the occurrence of different routes for polyamine catabolism in S. coelicolor involving GlnA2 and GlnA3. Furthermore, GlnA2 and GlnA3 are differently regulated. From our results, we can propose a complemented model of polyamine catabolism in S. coelicolor, which involves the gamma-glutamylation pathway as well as other alternative utilization pathways.
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Briaud P, Camus L, Bastien S, Doléans-Jordheim A, Vandenesch F, Moreau K. Coexistence with Pseudomonas aeruginosa alters Staphylococcus aureus transcriptome, antibiotic resistance and internalization into epithelial cells. Sci Rep 2019; 9:16564. [PMID: 31719577 PMCID: PMC6851120 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52975-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2019] [Accepted: 10/26/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common life-threatening genetic disease among Caucasians. CF patients suffer from chronic lung infections due to the presence of thick mucus, caused by cftr gene dysfunction. The two most commonly found bacteria in the mucus of CF patients are Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It is well known that early-infecting P. aeruginosa strains produce anti-staphylococcal compounds and inhibit S. aureus growth. More recently, it has been shown that late-infecting P. aeruginosa strains develop commensal-like/coexistence interaction with S. aureus. The aim of this study was to decipher the impact of P. aeruginosa strains on S. aureus. RNA sequencing analysis showed 77 genes were specifically dysregulated in the context of competition and 140 genes in the context of coexistence in the presence of P. aeruginosa. In coexistence, genes encoding virulence factors and proteins involved in carbohydrates, lipids, nucleotides and amino acids metabolism were downregulated. On the contrary, several transporter family encoding genes were upregulated. In particular, several antibiotic pumps belonging to the Nor family were upregulated: tet38, norA and norC, leading to an increase in antibiotic resistance of S. aureus when exposed to tetracycline and ciprofloxacin and an enhanced internalization rate within epithelial pulmonary cells. This study shows that coexistence with P. aeruginosa affects the S. aureus transcriptome and virulence.
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- Paul Briaud
- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France
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- Institut des agents infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Bactéries Pathogènes Opportunistes et Environnement, UMR CNRS 5557 Ecologie Microbienne, Université Lyon 1 & VetAgro Sup, Villeurbanne, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France
- Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
- Institut des agents infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- CIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR5308, Lyon, France.
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Proctor R. Respiration and Small Colony Variants of Staphylococcus aureus. Microbiol Spectr 2019; 7:10.1128/microbiolspec.gpp3-0069-2019. [PMID: 31198131 PMCID: PMC11257146 DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.gpp3-0069-2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2018] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Respiratory mutants, both naturally occurring and genetically constructed, have taught us about the importance of metabolism in influencing virulence factor production, persistence, and antibiotic resistance. As we learn more about small colony variants, we find that Staphylococcus aureus has many pathways to produce small colony variants, although the respiratory variants are the best described clinically and in the laboratory.
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- Richard Proctor
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Madison, WI 53705
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Pawar S, Yao X, Lu CD. Spermine and oxacillin stress response on the cell wall synthesis and the global gene expression analysis in Methicillin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus. Genes Genomics 2018; 41:43-59. [PMID: 30229508 DOI: 10.1007/s13258-018-0735-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2018] [Accepted: 08/30/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a rapidly emerging bacteria causing infection, which has developed resistance to most of the beta-lactam antibiotics because of newly acquired low-affinity penicillin-binding protein (PBP2a), which can continue to build the cell wall when beta-lactams block other PBPs. Exogenous spermine exerts a dose-dependent inhibition effect on the growth of Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica serovar, and S. aureus. Selection of an MRSA Mu50 derivative which harbors mutation on PBP2 gene (named as MuM) showing spermine resistance and which confers a complete abolishment of spermine-beta-lactam synergy was identified. To further investigate the gene expression changes, a transcriptome profiling of MuM against Mu50 (wild-type) without any treatment, MuM and Mu50 in response to high dose spermine and Mu50 in response to spermine-beta-lactam synergy at 15, 30 and 60 min time points was performed. Functional annotation was further performed to delineate the metabolic pathways associated with the significant genes. A significant down-regulation in the iron regulatory system, potassium channel uptake and polyamine transport system with an up-regulation in general stress response sigB dependent operon in MuM strain at 15, 30 and 60 min time points with spermine treatment compared to Mu50 strain was observed. Analysis of spermine-dependent synergy with beta-lactams on cell wall synthesis revealed that it significantly reduces the degree of cross-linkage on cell wall with no change in trypsin digestion pattern of purified PBPs and without affecting PBPs expression or PBPs acylation by Bocillin. A strong relation between PBP2 protein and general stress sigB response, iron, potassium and polyamine transport systems was observed. SigB regulon should be activated on stress, which was not seen in some of our previous studies where it was down-regulated in wild-type Mu50 strain with spermine stress. Here, an intriguing finding is made where there seems to be a correction of this abnormal response of no SigB induction to a significant induction by PBP2 mutation. In MuM strain, a significant down-regulation of KdpABC operon genes at 15, 30 and 60 min time points on spermine stress is seen, which seems to be absent without spermine treatment. Since KCL has been found to protect the cell against spermine stress in wild-type strain by induction of KdpABC operon, it fails to do so in MuM strain underlying the importance of PBP2 protein in spermine stress. Analysis of spermine-dependent synergy with beta-lactams on cell wall synthesis revealed that it significantly reduces the degree of cross-linkage on cell wall with no change in trypsin digestion patterns of purified PBPs and without affecting PBPs expression or PBPs acylation by Bocillin. Furthermore, spermine does not help in enhancing the binding of beta-lactams to PBPs and binding of spermine to PBPs does not cause conformational changes to PBPs, as tested with trypsin digestion patterns. Future studies on the molecular mechanism of spermine interactions with these systems hold great potential for the development of new therapeutics for MRSA infections.
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- Shrikant Pawar
- Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, 33 Gilmer Street SE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA.,Department of Biology, Georgia State University, 33 Gilmer Street SE, Atlanta, GA, 30303, USA
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- National Institutes of Health, 9000 Center Dr, Bethesda, MD, 20892, USA
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- Department of Clinical Laboratory and Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Weed Hall 320, Lowell, MA, 01854-5125, USA.
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