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Manrique PD, Leus IV, López CA, Mehla J, Malloci G, Gervasoni S, Vargiu AV, Kinthada RK, Herndon L, Hengartner NW, Walker JK, Rybenkov VV, Ruggerone P, Zgurskaya HI, Gnanakaran S. Predicting permeation of compounds across the outer membrane of P. aeruginosa using molecular descriptors. Commun Chem 2024; 7:84. [PMID: 38609430 PMCID: PMC11015012 DOI: 10.1038/s42004-024-01161-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024] Open
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The ability Gram-negative pathogens have at adapting and protecting themselves against antibiotics has increasingly become a public health threat. Data-driven models identifying molecular properties that correlate with outer membrane (OM) permeation and growth inhibition while avoiding efflux could guide the discovery of novel classes of antibiotics. Here we evaluate 174 molecular descriptors in 1260 antimicrobial compounds and study their correlations with antibacterial activity in Gram-negative Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The descriptors are derived from traditional approaches quantifying the compounds' intrinsic physicochemical properties, together with, bacterium-specific from ensemble docking of compounds targeting specific MexB binding pockets, and all-atom molecular dynamics simulations in different subregions of the OM model. Using these descriptors and the measured inhibitory concentrations, we design a statistical protocol to identify predictors of OM permeation/inhibition. We find consistent rules across most of our data highlighting the role of the interaction between the compounds and the OM. An implementation of the rules uncovered in our study is shown, and it demonstrates the accuracy of our approach in a set of previously unseen compounds. Our analysis sheds new light on the key properties drug candidates need to effectively permeate/inhibit P. aeruginosa, and opens the gate to similar data-driven studies in other Gram-negative pathogens.
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- Pedro D Manrique
- Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, 20052, DC, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, OK, USA
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, NM, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, OK, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, 20052, CA, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, 20052, CA, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, 20052, CA, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, 63103, MO, USA
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, NM, USA
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, NM, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, 63103, MO, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, OK, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, 20052, CA, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, OK, USA
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 87545, NM, USA.
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Hwang J, Barman S, Gao R, Yang X, O'Malley A, Nagarkatti P, Nagarkatti M, Chruszcz M, Tang C. Membrane-Active Metallopolymers: Repurposing and Rehabilitating Antibiotics to Gram-Negative Superbugs. Adv Healthc Mater 2023; 12:e2301764. [PMID: 37565371 PMCID: PMC10842942 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202301764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2023] [Revised: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/12/2023]
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Among multiple approaches to combating antimicrobial resistance, a combination therapy of existing antibiotics with bacterial membrane-perturbing agents is promising. A viable platform of metallopolymers as adjuvants in combination with traditional antibiotics is reported in this work to combat both planktonic and stationary cells of Gram-negative superbugs and their biofilms. Antibacterial efficacy, toxicity, antibiofilm activity, bacterial resistance propensity, and mechanisms of action of metallopolymer-antibiotic combinations are investigated. These metallopolymers exhibit 4-16-fold potentiation of antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria with negligible toxicity toward mammalian cells. More importantly, the lead combinations (polymer-ceftazidime and polymer-rifampicin) eradicate preformed biofilms of MDR E. coli and P. aeruginosa, respectively. Further, β-lactamase inhibition, outer membrane permeabilization, and membrane depolarization demonstrate synergy of these adjuvants with different antibiotics. Moreover, the membrane-active metallopolymers enable the antibiotics to circumvent bacterial resistance development. Altogether, the results indicate that such non-antibiotic adjuvants bear the promise to revitalize the efficacy of existing antibiotics to tackle Gram-negative bacterial infections.
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- JiHyeon Hwang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, 29209, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, 29209, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, 29209, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29208, USA
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Li B, Zhang J, Li X. A comprehensive description of the TolC effect on the antimicrobial susceptibility profile in Enterobacter bugandensis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2022; 12:1036933. [PMID: 36569193 PMCID: PMC9780596 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2022.1036933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Enterobacter bugandensis is an emerging human pathogen in which multidrug resistant strains have been continuously isolated from various environments. Thus, this organism possesses the potential to pose challenges in human healthcare. However, the mechanisms, especially the efflux pumps, responsible for the multidrug resistance in E. bugandensis remain to be well elucidated. Methods The Enterobacter strain CMCC(B) 45301 was specifically identified using whole genome sequencing. The specific CMCC(B) 45301 homologues of the TolC dependent efflux-pump genes characterized in Escherichia coli were identified. The tolC deletion mutant in CMCC(B) 45301 was constructed and subjected to susceptibility tests using 26 different antimicrobial agents, along with the wild type strain. The synergistic effects combining the Bacillus crude extract (BCE) and several other TolC-affected compounds against CMCC(B) 45301 were assayed. Results We reclassified the Enterobacter CMCC(B) 45301 strain from species cloacae to bugandensis, on the basis of its whole genome sequence. We found that the CMCC(B) 45301 TolC, AcrAB, AcrD, AcrEF, MdtABC, EmrAB, and MacAB exhibit high similarity with their respective homologues in E. coli and Enterobacter cloacae. Our results for the susceptibility tests revealed that lacking tolC causes 4- to 256-fold decrease in the minimal inhibitory concentrations of piperacillin, gentamicin, kanamycin, tetracycline, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin against CMCC(B) 45301. In addition, the inhibition zones formed by cefuroxime, cefoperazone, amikacin, streptomycin, minocycline, doxycycline, levofloxacin, florfenicol, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, azithromycin, lincomycin, and clindamycin for the tolC mutant were larger or more obvious than that for the parent. Our data suggested the important role played by TolC in CMCC(B) 45301 susceptibility to common antibiotic families covering ß-lactam, aminoglycoside, tetracycline, fluoroquinolone, phenicol, folate pathway antagonist, macrolide, and lincosamide. Deletion for tolC also increased the susceptibility of CMCC(B) 45301 to berberine hydrochloride and BCE, two natural product-based agents. Finally, we found that erythromycin, norfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin can potentiate the antibacterial activity of BCE against CMCC(B) 45301. Discussion The present study elaborated the comprehensive TolC effect on the antimicrobial susceptibility profile in E. bugandensis, which might contribute to the development of more therapeutic options against this nosocomial pathogen.
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- Bingyu Li
- Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China,*Correspondence: Bingyu Li, ; Xiaodong Li,
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- Key Laboratory of Livestock Infectious Diseases in Northeast China, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China
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- Key Laboratory of Livestock Infectious Diseases in Northeast China, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China,Research and Development Center, Panjin Guanghe Crab Industry Co., Ltd., Panjin, China,*Correspondence: Bingyu Li, ; Xiaodong Li,
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A series of new trifluoromethyl-substituted quinolones and hydantoin hybrids has been synthesized and evaluated against Gram-positive bacterium (Staphylococcus aureus MTCC 96) and Gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa MTCC 441, Klebsiella pneumonia MTCC 109, and Escherichia coli MTCC 442). Compound 19c, having the 6-propene group on the quinolone ring, showed similar activity to a standard drug (chloramphenicol) by exhibiting MIC values of 50 µg/mL against S. aureus and P. aeruginosa. Physicochemical properties of compound 19c were also determined, which were in line with Lipinski’s rule of five, suggesting the suitability of compound 19c in biological systems. Various types of binding interactions of 19c within the active site of DNA gyrase of S. aureus were also streamlined by molecular docking studies, suggesting its capability to block the catalytic process of the DNA gyrase, which could be the possible reason for its antibacterial potential.
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Abd El-Aleam RH, George RF, Georgey HH, Abdel-Rahman HM. Bacterial virulence factors: a target for heterocyclic compounds to combat bacterial resistance. RSC Adv 2021; 11:36459-36482. [PMID: 35494393 PMCID: PMC9043591 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra06238g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Antibiotic resistance is one of the most important challenges of the 21st century. However, the growing understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and cell-to-cell communication has revealed many potential strategies for the discovery of drugs that can be used for the treatment of bacterial infections. Interfering with bacterial virulence and/or quorum sensing could be a particularly interesting approach, because it is believed to exert less selective pressure on the bacterial resistance than with traditional strategies, geared toward killing bacteria or preventing their growth. Here, we discuss the mechanism of bacterial virulence, presenting promising strategies and recently synthesized heterocyclic compounds to combat future bacterial infections.
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- Rehab H Abd El-Aleam
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Modern University for Technology and Information MTI Cairo 11571 Egypt
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University Cairo 11562 Egypt
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- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University Cairo 11562 Egypt
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy and Drug Technology, Egyptian Chinese University Cairo 11786 Egypt
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- Medicinal Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University Assiut 71526 Egypt
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University Beni Suef Egypt
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Thiouracil SecA inhibitors: bypassing the effects of efflux pumps and attenuating virulence factor secretion in MRSA and Bacillus anthracis. Med Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00044-021-02750-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Rybenkov VV, Zgurskaya HI, Ganguly C, Leus IV, Zhang Z, Moniruzzaman M. The Whole Is Bigger than the Sum of Its Parts: Drug Transport in the Context of Two Membranes with Active Efflux. Chem Rev 2021; 121:5597-5631. [PMID: 33596653 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c01137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Cell envelope plays a dual role in the life of bacteria by simultaneously protecting it from a hostile environment and facilitating access to beneficial molecules. At the heart of this ability lie the restrictive properties of the cellular membrane augmented by efflux transporters, which preclude intracellular penetration of most molecules except with the help of specialized uptake mediators. Recently, kinetic properties of the cell envelope came into focus driven on one hand by the urgent need in new antibiotics and, on the other hand, by experimental and theoretical advances in studies of transmembrane transport. A notable result from these studies is the development of a kinetic formalism that integrates the Michaelis-Menten behavior of individual transporters with transmembrane diffusion and offers a quantitative basis for the analysis of intracellular penetration of bioactive compounds. This review surveys key experimental and computational approaches to the investigation of transport by individual translocators and in whole cells, summarizes key findings from these studies and outlines implications for antibiotic discovery. Special emphasis is placed on Gram-negative bacteria, whose envelope contains two separate membranes. This feature sets these organisms apart from Gram-positive bacteria and eukaryotic cells by providing them with full benefits of the synergy between slow transmembrane diffusion and active efflux.
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- Valentin V Rybenkov
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria rapidly spread in clinical and natural environments and challenge our modern lifestyle. A major component of defense against antibiotics in Gram-negative bacteria is a drug permeation barrier created by active efflux across the outer membrane. We identified molecular determinants defining the propensity of small peptidomimetic molecules to avoid and inhibit efflux pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a human pathogen notorious for its antibiotic resistance. Combining experimental and computational protocols, we mapped the fate of the compounds from structure-activity relationships through their dynamic behavior in solution, permeation across both the inner and outer membranes, and interaction with MexB, the major efflux transporter of P. aeruginosa We identified predictors of efflux avoidance and inhibition and demonstrated their power by using a library of traditional antibiotics and compound series and by generating new inhibitors of MexB. The identified predictors will enable the discovery and optimization of antibacterial agents suitable for treatment of P. aeruginosa infections.IMPORTANCE Efflux pump avoidance and inhibition are desired properties for the optimization of antibacterial activities against Gram-negative bacteria. However, molecular and physicochemical interactions defining the interface between compounds and efflux pumps remain poorly understood. We identified properties that correlate with efflux avoidance and inhibition, are predictive of similar features in structurally diverse compounds, and allow researchers to distinguish between efflux substrates, inhibitors, and avoiders in P. aeruginosa The developed predictive models are based on the descriptors representative of different clusters comprising a physically intuitive combination of properties. Molecular shape (represented by acylindricity), amphiphilicity (anisotropic polarizability), aromaticity (number of aromatic rings), and the partition coefficient (LogD) are physicochemical predictors of efflux inhibitors, whereas interactions with Pro668 and Leu674 residues of MexB distinguish between inhibitors/substrates and efflux avoiders. The predictive models and efflux rules are applicable to compounds with unrelated chemical scaffolds and pave the way for development of compounds with the desired efflux interface properties.
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Saha P, Sikdar S, Krishnamoorthy G, Zgurskaya HI, Rybenkov VV. Drug Permeation against Efflux by Two Transporters. ACS Infect Dis 2020; 6:747-758. [PMID: 32039579 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.9b00510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The development of new antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria is hampered by the powerful protective properties of their cell envelope. This envelope consists of two membranes augmented by efflux transporters, which act in synergy to restrict cellular access to a broad range of chemical compounds. Recently, a kinetic model of this system has been constructed. The model revealed a complex, nonlinear behavior of the system, complete with a bifurcation, and matched very well to experimental uptake data. Here, we expand the model to include multiple transporters and apply it to an experimental analysis of antibiotic accumulation in wild-type and efflux-deficient Escherichia coli. We show that transporters acting across the inner and outer membranes have synergistic effects with each other. In contrast, transporters acting across the same membrane are additive as a rule but can be synergistic under special circumstances owing to a bifurcation controlled by the barrier constant. With respect to ethidium bromide, the inner membrane transporter MdfA was synergistic to the TolC-dependent efflux across the outer membrane. The agreement between the model and drug accumulation was very good across a range of tested drug concentrations and strains. However, antibiotic susceptibilities related only qualitatively to the accumulation of the drugs or predictions of the model and could be fit to the model only if additional assumptions were made about the physiological consequences of prolonged cell exposure to the drugs. Thus, the constructed model correctly predicts transmembrane permeation of various compounds and potentially their intracellular activity.
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- Paramita Saha
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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Zgurskaya HI, Rybenkov VV. Permeability barriers of Gram-negative pathogens. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2020; 1459:5-18. [PMID: 31165502 PMCID: PMC6940542 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2019] [Revised: 05/06/2019] [Accepted: 05/13/2019] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Most clinical antibiotics do not have efficacy against Gram-negative pathogens, mainly because these cells are protected by the permeability barrier comprising the two membranes with active efflux. The emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative strains threatens the utility even of last resort therapeutic treatments. Significant efforts at different levels of resolution are currently focused on finding a solution to this nonpermeation problem and developing new approaches to the optimization of drug activities against multidrug-resistant pathogens. The exceptional efficiency of the Gram-negative permeability barrier is the result of a complex interplay between the two opposing fluxes of drugs across the two membranes. In this review, we describe the current state of understanding of the problem and the recent advances in theoretical and empirical approaches to characterization of drug permeation and active efflux in Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Helen I Zgurskaya
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
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Annunziato G. Strategies to Overcome Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Making Use of Non-Essential Target Inhibitors: A Review. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E5844. [PMID: 31766441 PMCID: PMC6928725 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20235844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/20/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Antibiotics have always been considered as one of the most relevant discoveries of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, the dawn of the antibiotic era has sadly corresponded to the rise of the phenomenon of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is a natural process whereby microbes evolve in such a way to withstand the action of drugs. In this context, the identification of new potential antimicrobial targets and/or the identification of new chemical entities as antimicrobial drugs are in great demand. To date, among the many possible approaches used to deal with antibiotic resistance is the use of antibiotic adjuvants that hit bacterial non-essential targets. In this review, the author focuses on the discovery of antibiotic adjuvants and on new tools to study and reduce the prevalence of resistant bacterial infections.
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- Giannamaria Annunziato
- Probes for Targets Group (P4T group), Department of food and Drug, University of Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy
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Gómez-Tangarife VJ, Gómez-Restrepo AJ, Robledo-Restrepo J, Hernández-Sarmiento JM. [Drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: contribution of constituent and acquired mechanisms]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2019; 20:491-497. [PMID: 30843986 DOI: 10.15446/rsap.v20n4.50575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Due to the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR-MTB) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR-MTB) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates, the failure rates of standard treatment regimens are high, thus becoming a major public health challenge worldwide. Resistance to anti-tuberculous (anti-TB) drugs is attributed mainly to specific mutations in target genes; however, a proportion of drug-resistant MTB isolates do not have mutations in these genes, which suggests the involvement of other mechanisms, such as the low permeability of the mycobacterial cell wall, enzymatic modification and/or efflux pumps. Clinical drug resistance to anti-TB drugs occurs largely as a result of the selection of resistant mutants caused by poor patient adherence to treatment, inappropriate follow-ups and prescriptions, suboptimal doses of drugs and poor access to health services and treatment. Major advances in molecular biology tools and the availability of the complete genome sequences of MTB have contributed to improve understanding of the mechanisms of resistance to the main anti-TB drugs. Better knowledge of the drug-resistance of MTB will contribute to the identification of new therapeutic targets to design new drugs, develop new diagnostic tests and/or improve methods currently available for the rapid detection of drug-resistant TB. This article presents an updated review of the mechanisms and molecular basis of drug resistance in MTB.
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- Verónica J Gómez-Tangarife
- VG: Bacterióloga y Laboratorista. Clínico. M. Sc. Ciencias Médicas -Microbiología Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas. Medellín, Colombia.
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- AG: Bibliotecólogo. M. Sc. Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información, Medellín, Colombia. Institución: Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas.
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- JR: MD. Ph. D. Ciencias Médicas. - Microbiología, Institución: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana y Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas. Medellín, Colombia.
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- JH: MD. M. Sc.; Ph. D. Ciencias Médicas - Microbiología., Institución: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Medellín, Colombia.
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Douafer H, Andrieu V, Phanstiel O, Brunel JM. Antibiotic Adjuvants: Make Antibiotics Great Again! J Med Chem 2019; 62:8665-8681. [PMID: 31063379 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Multiple approaches have been developed to combat bacterial resistance. However, the combination of antibiotic resistance mechanisms by bacteria and the limited number of effective antibiotics available decreases the effective interventions for the treatment of current bacterial infections. This review covers the many ways that bacteria resist antibiotics including antibiotic target modification, the use of efflux pumps, and antibiotic inactivation. As a pertinent example, the use of beta lactamase inhibitors in combination with β-lactam containing antibiotics is discussed in detail. The solution to emerging antibiotic resistance may involve combination therapies of existing antibiotics and potentiating adjuvants, which re-empower the antibiotic agent to become efficacious against the resistant strain of interest. We report herein that a reasoned adjuvant design permits one to perform polypharmacy on bacteria by not only providing greater internal access to the codosed antibiotics but also by de-energizing the efflux pumps used by the bacteria to escape antibiotic action.
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- Hana Douafer
- Aix Marseille University , INSERM, SSA, MCT , 13385 Marseille , France
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- Aix Marseille University , IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie , 13385 Marseille , France
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- 12722 Research Parkway, College of Medicine , University of Central Florida , Orlando , Florida 32826 , United States
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Sequence and structural analysis of OmpW protein of Pasteurella multocida strains reveal evolutionary conservation among members of Pasteurellaceae along with its homologues. GENE REPORTS 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.genrep.2018.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Trans-envelope multidrug efflux pumps of Gram-negative bacteria and their synergism with the outer membrane barrier. Res Microbiol 2018; 169:351-356. [PMID: 29454787 DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2018.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 02/05/2018] [Accepted: 02/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. Significant efforts are currently directed toward containment of the spread of resistance, finding new therapeutic options concerning resistant human and animal pathogens, and addressing the gaps in the fundamental understanding of mechanisms of resistance. Experimental data and kinetic modeling revealed a major factor in resistance, the synergy between active efflux and the low permeability barrier of the outer membrane, which dramatically reduces the intracellular accumulation of many antibiotics. The structural and mechanistic particularities of trans-envelope efflux pumps amplify the effectiveness of cell envelopes as permeability barriers. An important feature of this synergism is that efflux pumps and the outer membrane barriers are mechanistically independent and select antibiotics based on different physicochemical properties. The synergism amplifies even weak polyspecificity of multidrug efflux pumps and creates a major hurdle in the discovery and development of new therapeutics against Gram-negative pathogens.
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Monapathi ME, Bezuidenhout CC, Rhode OHJ. Efflux pumps genes of clinical origin are related to those from fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans isolates from environmental water. WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION ON WATER POLLUTION RESEARCH 2018; 77:899-908. [PMID: 29488953 DOI: 10.2166/wst.2017.607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Efflux pumps coded for by CDR1, CDR2, FLU1 and MDR1 genes could be responsible for the observed resistant phenotypes in azole-resistant Candida albicans from environmental water. This was demonstrated for clinical isolates. The aim of this study was to determine the presence and genetic similarity between efflux pump genes from clinical and environmental C. albicans isolates. Yeasts were isolated and identified using 26S rRNA gene sequencing. Disk diffusion tests were conducted. PCR was used to detect the presence of efflux genes. The fragments were sequenced and subjected to BLAST and subsequent phylogenetic analysis. Thirty seven C. albicans were identified from five selected rivers; Mooi River (19 isolates), Harts River (9 isolates), Marico River (5 isolates), Crocodile River (3 isolates) and Schoonspruit River (1 isolate). All the isolates were completely resistant to azoles. Efflux pump genes were detected in most (≥60%) of the isolates. Phylogenetic analysis showed high sequence similarity between sequences from environmental isolates and clinical isolates. Resistance to the azoles and the detection of efflux pump genes renders these antifungal agents ineffective. This is a major problem, particularly for the immune-compromised sector of the community of the North West Province and warrants further investigation.
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- M E Monapathi
- Unit for Environmental Science and Management - Microbiology, North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa E-mail:
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- Unit for Environmental Science and Management - Microbiology, North-West University: Potchefstroom Campus, Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa E-mail:
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- Agricultural Research Council-Grain Crops, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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López CA, Travers T, Pos KM, Zgurskaya HI, Gnanakaran S. Dynamics of Intact MexAB-OprM Efflux Pump: Focusing on the MexA-OprM Interface. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16521. [PMID: 29184094 PMCID: PMC5705723 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16497-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Antibiotic efflux is one of the most critical mechanisms leading to bacterial multidrug resistance. Antibiotics are effluxed out of the bacterial cell by a tripartite efflux pump, a complex machinery comprised of outer membrane, periplasmic adaptor, and inner membrane protein components. Understanding the mechanism of efflux pump assembly and its dynamics could facilitate discovery of novel approaches to counteract antibiotic resistance in bacteria. We built here an intact atomistic model of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa MexAB-OprM pump in a Gram-negative membrane model that contained both inner and outer membranes separated by a periplasmic space. All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations confirm that the fully assembled pump is stable in the microsecond timescale. Using a combination of all-atom and coarse-grained MD simulations and sequence covariation analysis, we characterized the interface between MexA and OprM in the context of the entire efflux pump. These analyses suggest a plausible mechanism by which OprM is activated via opening of its periplasmic aperture through a concerted interaction with MexA.
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- Cesar A López
- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, United States.,Center for Nonlinear Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, United States
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Cluster of Excellence Frankfurt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, United States
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, United States.
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Synergy between Active Efflux and Outer Membrane Diffusion Defines Rules of Antibiotic Permeation into Gram-Negative Bacteria. mBio 2017; 8:mBio.01172-17. [PMID: 29089426 PMCID: PMC5666154 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01172-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Gram-negative bacteria are notoriously resistant to antibiotics, but the extent of the resistance varies broadly between species. We report that in significant human pathogens Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Burkholderia spp., the differences in antibiotic resistance are largely defined by their penetration into the cell. For all tested antibiotics, the intracellular penetration was determined by a synergistic relationship between active efflux and the permeability barrier. We found that the outer membrane (OM) and efflux pumps select compounds on the basis of distinct properties and together universally protect bacteria from structurally diverse antibiotics. On the basis of their interactions with the permeability barriers, antibiotics can be divided into four clusters that occupy defined physicochemical spaces. Our results suggest that rules of intracellular penetration are intrinsic to these clusters. The identified specificities in the permeability barriers should help in the designing of successful therapeutic strategies against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.IMPORTANCE Multidrug-resistant strains of Gram-negative pathogens rapidly spread in clinics. Significant efforts worldwide are currently directed to finding the rules of permeation of antibiotics across two membrane envelopes of these bacteria. This study created the tools for analysis of and identified the major differences in antibacterial activities that distinguish the permeability barriers of P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii, Burkholderia thailandensis, and B. cepacia We conclude that synergy between active efflux and the outer membrane barrier universally protects Gram-negative bacteria from antibiotics. We also found that the diversity of antibiotics affected by active efflux and outer membrane barriers is broader than previously thought and that antibiotics cluster according to specific biological determinants such as the requirement of specific porins in the OM, targeting of the OM, or specific recognition by efflux pumps. No universal rules of antibiotic permeation into Gram-negative bacteria apparently exist. Our results suggest that antibiotic clusters are defined by specific rules of permeation and that further studies could lead to their discovery.
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Jin J, Hsieh YH, Cui J, Damera K, Dai C, Chaudhary AS, Zhang H, Yang H, Cao N, Jiang C, Vaara M, Wang B, Tai PC. Using Chemical Probes to Assess the Feasibility of Targeting SecA for Developing Antimicrobial Agents against Gram-Negative Bacteria. ChemMedChem 2016; 11:2511-2521. [PMID: 27753464 PMCID: PMC5189635 DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201600421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2016] [Revised: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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With the widespread emergence of drug resistance, there is an urgent need to search for new antimicrobials, especially those against Gram-negative bacteria. Along this line, the identification of viable targets is a critical first step. The protein translocase SecA is commonly believed to be an excellent target for the development of broad-spectrum antimicrobials. In recent years, we developed three structural classes of SecA inhibitors that have proven to be very effective against Gram-positive bacteria. However, we have not achieved the same level of success against Gram-negative bacteria, despite the potent inhibition of SecA in enzyme assays by the same inhibitors. In this study, we use representative inhibitors as chemical probes to gain an understanding as to why these inhibitors were not effective against Gram-negative bacteria. The results validate our initial postulation that the major difference in effectiveness against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria is in the additional permeability barrier posed by the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. We also found that the expression of efflux pumps, which are responsible for multidrug resistance (MDR), have no effect on the effectiveness of these SecA inhibitors. Identification of an inhibitor-resistant mutant and complementation tests of the plasmids containing secA in a secAts mutant showed that a single secA-azi-9 mutation increased the resistance, providing genetic evidence that SecA is indeed the target of these inhibitors in bacteria. Such results strongly suggest SecA as an excellent target for developing effective antimicrobials against Gram-negative bacteria with the intrinsic ability to overcome MDR. A key future research direction should be the optimization of membrane permeability.
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- Jinshan Jin
- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Division of Clinical Microbiology, Helsinki University Hospital, FI-00029 HUSLAB, Helsinki, Finland, and Northern Antibiotics Ltd, FI-00720, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
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Opening the Channel: the Two Functional Interfaces of Pseudomonas aeruginosa OpmH with the Triclosan Efflux Pump TriABC. J Bacteriol 2016; 198:3176-3185. [PMID: 27645384 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00535-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2016] [Accepted: 09/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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TriABC-OpmH is an efflux pump from Pseudomonas aeruginosa with an unusual substrate specificity and protein composition. When overexpressed, this pump confers a high level of resistance to the biocide triclosan and the detergent SDS, which are commonly used in combinations for antimicrobial treatments. This activity requires an RND transporter (TriC), an outer membrane channel (OpmH), and two periplasmic membrane fusion proteins (TriA and TriB) with nonequivalent functions. In the active complex, TriA is responsible for the recruitment of OpmH, while TriB is responsible for stimulation of the transporter TriC. Here, we used the functional and structural differences between the two membrane fusion proteins to link their functional roles to specific interactions with OpmH. Our results provide evidence that the TriB-dependent stimulation of the TriC transporter is coupled to opening of the OpmH aperture through binding to the interprotomer groove of OpmH. IMPORTANCE Multidrug efflux transporters are important contributors to intrinsic and acquired antibiotic resistance in clinics. In Gram-negative bacteria, these transporters have a characteristic tripartite architecture spanning the entire two-membrane cell envelope. How such complexes are assembled and how the reactions separated in two different membranes are coupled to provide efficient efflux of various compounds across the cell envelope remain unclear. This study addressed these questions, and the results suggest a mechanism for functional integration of drug efflux by the inner membrane transporter and opening of the channel for transport across the outer membrane.
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There is a consensus in the medical profession of the pressing need for novel antimicrobial agents due to issues related to drug resistance. In practice, solutions to this problem to a large degree lie with the identification of new and vital targets in bacteria and subsequently designing their inhibitors. We consider SecA a very promising antimicrobial target. In this review, we compile and analyze information available on SecA to show that inhibition of SecA has a multitude of consequences. Furthermore, we discuss issues critical to the design and evaluation of SecA inhibitors.
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Jin J, Cui J, Chaudhary AS, Hsieh YH, Damera K, Zhang H, Yang H, Wang B, Tai PC. Evaluation of small molecule SecA inhibitors against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Bioorg Med Chem 2015; 23:7061-8. [PMID: 26432604 PMCID: PMC4661110 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2015.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2015] [Revised: 09/09/2015] [Accepted: 09/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Due to the emergence and rapid spread of drug resistance in bacteria, there is an urgent need for the development of novel antimicrobials. SecA, a key component of the general bacterial secretion system required for viability and virulence, is an attractive antimicrobial target. Earlier we reported that systematical dissection of a SecA inhibitor, Rose Bengal (RB), led to the development of novel small molecule SecA inhibitors active against Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. In this study, two potent RB analogs were further evaluated for activities against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains and for their mechanism of actions. These analogs showed inhibition on the ATPase activities of S. aureus SecA1 (SaSecA1) and SecA2 (SaSecA2), and inhibition of SaSecA1-dependent protein-conducting channel. Moreover, these inhibitors reduce the secretion of three toxins from S. aureus and exert potent bacteriostatic effects against three MRSA strains. Our best inhibitor SCA-50 showed potent concentration-dependent bactericidal activity against MRSA Mu50 strain and very importantly, 2-60 fold more potent inhibitory effect on MRSA Mu50 than all the commonly used antibiotics including vancomycin, which is considered the last resort option in treating MRSA-related infections. Protein pull down experiments further confirmed SaSecA1 as a target. Deletion or overexpression of NorA and MepA efflux pumps had minimal effect on the antimicrobial activities against S. aureus, indicating that the effects of SecA inhibitors were not affected by the presence of these efflux pumps. Our studies show that these small molecule analogs target SecA functions, have potent antimicrobial activities, reduce the secretion of toxins, and have the ability to overcome the effect efflux pumps, which are responsible for multi-drug resistance. Thus, targeting SecA is an attractive antimicrobial strategy against MRSA.
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- Jinshan Jin
- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA.
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Zgurskaya HI, López CA, Gnanakaran S. Permeability Barrier of Gram-Negative Cell Envelopes and Approaches To Bypass It. ACS Infect Dis 2015; 1:512-522. [PMID: 26925460 DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.5b00097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 369] [Impact Index Per Article: 41.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Gram-negative bacteria are intrinsically resistant to many antibiotics. Species that have acquired multidrug resistance and cause infections that are effectively untreatable present a serious threat to public health. The problem is broadly recognized and tackled at both the fundamental and applied levels. This paper summarizes current advances in understanding the molecular bases of the low permeability barrier of Gram-negative pathogens, which is the major obstacle in discovery and development of antibiotics effective against such pathogens. Gaps in knowledge and specific strategies to break this barrier and to achieve potent activities against difficult Gram-negative bacteria are also discussed.
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- Helen I. Zgurskaya
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, 101 Stephenson Parkway, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, United States
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, United States
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Role of the Tet38 Efflux Pump in Staphylococcus aureus Internalization and Survival in Epithelial Cells. Infect Immun 2015; 83:4362-72. [PMID: 26324534 DOI: 10.1128/iai.00723-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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We previously identified the protein Tet38 as a chromosomally encoded efflux pump of Staphylococcus aureus that confers resistance to tetracycline and certain unsaturated fatty acids. Tet38 also contributes to mouse skin colonization. In this study, we discovered a novel regulator of tet38, named tetracycline regulator 21 (TetR21), that bound specifically to the tet38 promoter and repressed pump expression. A ΔtetR21 mutant showed a 5-fold increase in tet38 transcripts and an 8-fold increase in resistance to tetracycline and fatty acids. The global regulator MgrA bound to the tetR21 promoter and indirectly repressed the expression of tet38. To further assess the full role of Tet38 in S. aureus adaptability, we tested its effect on host cell invasion using A549 (lung) and HMEC-1 (heart) cell lines. We used S. aureus RN6390, its Δtet38, ΔtetR21, and ΔmgrA mutants, and a Δtet38 ΔtetR21 double mutant. After 2 h of contact, the Δtet38 mutant was internalized in 6-fold-lower numbers than RN6390 in A549 and HMEC-1 cells, and the ΔtetR21 mutant was internalized in 2-fold-higher numbers than RN6390. A slight increase of 1.5-fold in internalization was found for the ΔmgrA mutant. The growth patterns of RN6390 and the ΔmgrA and ΔtetR21 mutants within A549 cells were similar, while no growth was observed for the Δtet38 mutant. These data indicate that the Tet38 efflux pump is regulated by TetR21 and contributes to the ability of S. aureus to internalize and replicate within epithelial cells.
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Weeks JW, Nickels LM, Ntreh AT, Zgurskaya HI. Non-equivalent roles of two periplasmic subunits in the function and assembly of triclosan pump TriABC from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol 2015; 98:343-56. [PMID: 26193906 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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In Gram-negative bacteria, multidrug efflux transporters function in complexes with periplasmic membrane fusion proteins (MFPs) that enable antibiotic efflux across the outer membrane. In this study, we analyzed the function, composition and assembly of the triclosan efflux transporter TriABC-OpmH from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We report that this transporter possesses a surprising substrate specificity that encompasses not only triclosan but the detergent SDS, which are often used together in antibacterial soaps. These two compounds interact antagonistically in a TriABC-dependent manner and negate antibacterial properties of each other. Unlike other efflux pumps that rely on a single MFP for their activities, two different MFPs, TriA and TriB, are required for triclosan/SDS resistance mediated by TriABC-OpmH. We found that analogous mutations in the α-helical hairpin and membrane proximal domains of TriA and TriB differentially affect triclosan efflux and assembly of the complex. Furthermore, our results show that TriA and TriB function as a dimer, in which TriA is primarily responsible for stabilizing interactions with the outer membrane channel, whereas TriB is important for the stimulation of the transporter. We conclude that MFPs are engaged into complexes as asymmetric dimers, in which each protomer plays a specific role.
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- Jon W Weeks
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, USA
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Hexadentate 3-hydroxypyridin-4-ones with high iron(III) affinity: design, synthesis and inhibition on methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas strains. Eur J Med Chem 2015; 94:8-21. [PMID: 25747496 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2015.02.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2014] [Revised: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 02/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A range of hexadentate 3-hydroxypyridin-4-ones have been synthesized. These compounds were found to possess a high affinity for iron(III), with logK1 values of about 34 and pFe values over 30. Antimicrobial assays indicated that they can inhibit the growth of three clinical isolates of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and three clinical isolates of Pseudomonas, suggesting that hexadentate 3-hydroxypyridin-4-ones have potential application in the treatment of wound infections.
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Kim JS, Jeong H, Song S, Kim HY, Lee K, Hyun J, Ha NC. Structure of the tripartite multidrug efflux pump AcrAB-TolC suggests an alternative assembly mode. Mol Cells 2015; 38:180-6. [PMID: 26013259 PMCID: PMC4332038 DOI: 10.14348/molcells.2015.2277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2014] [Revised: 11/17/2014] [Accepted: 11/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli AcrAB-TolC is a multidrug efflux pump that expels a wide range of toxic substrates. The dynamic nature of the binding or low affinity between the components has impeded elucidation of how the three components assemble in the functional state. Here, we created fusion proteins composed of AcrB, a transmembrane linker, and two copies of AcrA. The fusion protein exhibited acridine pumping activity, suggesting that the protein reflects the functional structure in vivo. To discern the assembling mode with TolC, the AcrBA fusion protein was incubated with TolC or a chimeric protein containing the TolC aperture tip region. Three-dimensional structures of the complex proteins were determined through transmission electron microscopy. The overall structure exemplifies the adaptor bridging model, wherein the funnel-like AcrA hexamer forms an intermeshing cogwheel interaction with the α-barrel tip region of TolC, and a direct interaction between AcrB and TolC is not allowed. These observations provide a structural blueprint for understanding multidrug resistance in pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Jin-Sik Kim
- Department of Manufacturing Pharmacy, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
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- Division of Electron Microscopic Research, Korea Basic Science Institute, Dajeon 169-148, Korea
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- Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea
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- Division of Magnetic Resonance, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chungbuk 363-883, Korea
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- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea
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- Division of Electron Microscopic Research, Korea Basic Science Institute, Dajeon 169-148, Korea
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- Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Center for Food and Bioconvergence, Research Institute for Agricultural and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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Zhou YJ, Kong XL, Li JP, Ma YM, Hider RC, Zhou T. Novel 3-hydroxypyridin-4-one hexadentate ligand-based polymeric iron chelator: synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial evaluation. MEDCHEMCOMM 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5md00264h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel 3-hydroxypyridin-4-one hexadentate-based copolymeric iron chelator was prepared. The polymer was found to possess high iron affinity and appreciable inhibitory activity against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.
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- Ying-Jun Zhou
- School of Food Science and Biotechnology
- Zhejiang Gongshang University
- Hangzhou
- PR China
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Science
- King's College London
- London
- UK
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Science
- King's College London
- London
- UK
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- College of Pharmaceutical Science
- Zhejiang Chinese Medical University
- Hangzhou
- PR China
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Science
- King's College London
- London
- UK
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- School of Food Science and Biotechnology
- Zhejiang Gongshang University
- Hangzhou
- PR China
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Devarajan PV, Jain S, Dutta R. Infectious Diseases: Need for Targeted Drug Delivery. TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY : CONCEPTS AND DESIGN 2014. [PMCID: PMC7122176 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11355-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Infectious diseases are a leading cause of death worldwide, with the constant fear of global epidemics. It is indeed an irony that the reticuloendothelial system (RES), the body’s major defence system, is the primary site for intracellular infections which are more difficult to treat. Pro-inflammatory M1 macrophages play an important role in defence. However, ingenious pathogen survival mechanisms including phagolysosome destruction enable their persistence. Microbial biofilms present additional challenges. Low intracellular drug concentrations, drug efflux by efflux pumps and/or enzymatic degradation, emergence of multi-drug resistance (MDR), are serious limitations of conventional therapy. Targeted delivery using nanocarriers, and passive and active targeting strategies could provide quantum increase in intracellular drug concentration. Receptor mediated endocytosis using appropriate ligands is a viable approach. Liposomes and polymeric/lipidic nanoparticles, dendrimers micelles and micro/nanoemulsions could all be relied upon. Specialised targeting approaches are demonstrated for important diseases like tuberculosis, HIV and Malaria. Application of targeted delivery in the treatment of veterinary infections is exemplified and future possibilities indicated. The chapter thus provides an overview on important aspects of infectious diseases and the challenges therein, while stressing on the promise of targeted drug delivery in augmenting therapy of infectious diseases.
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- Padma V. Devarajan
- grid.44871.3e0000000106680201Institute of Chemical Technology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology, Mumbai, India
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- grid.419631.8000000008877852XNational Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Centre for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, Department of Pharmaceutics, Mohali, Punjab India
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Song S, Hwang S, Lee S, Ha NC, Lee K. Interaction mediated by the putative tip regions of MdsA and MdsC in the formation of a Salmonella-specific tripartite efflux pump. PLoS One 2014; 9:e100881. [PMID: 24960027 PMCID: PMC4069162 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2014] [Accepted: 05/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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To survive in the presence of a wide range of toxic compounds, gram-negative bacteria expel such compounds via tripartite efflux pumps that span both the inner and outer membranes. The Salmonella-specific MdsAB pump consists of MdsB, a resistance-nodulation-division (RND)-type inner membrane transporter (IMT) that requires the membrane fusion protein (MFP) MdsA, and an outer membrane protein (OMP; MdsC or TolC) to form a tripartite efflux complex. In this study, we investigated the role of the putative tip regions of MdsA and its OMPs, MdsC and TolC, in the formation of a functional MdsAB-mediated efflux pump. Comparative analysis indicated that although sequence homologies of MdsA and MdsC with other MFPs and OMPs, respectively, are extremely low, key residues in the putative tip regions of these proteins are well conserved. Mutagenesis studies on these conserved sites demonstrated their importance for the physical and functional interactions required to form an MdsAB-mediated pump. Our studies suggest that, despite differences in the primary amino acid sequences and functions of various OMPs and MFPs, interactions mediated by the conserved tip regions of OMP and MFP are required for the formation of functional tripartite efflux pumps in gram-negative bacteria.
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- Saemee Song
- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Food and Animal Biotechnology, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- * E-mail: (NCH); (KL)
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New trifluoromethyl quinolone derivatives: Synthesis and investigation of antimicrobial properties. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2013; 23:3225-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2013.03.120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2013] [Revised: 03/25/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Jiang W, Li B, Zheng X, Liu X, Pan X, Qing R, Cen Y, Zheng J, Zhou H. Artesunate has its enhancement on antibacterial activity of β-lactams via increasing the antibiotic accumulation within methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2013; 66:339-45. [PMID: 23549351 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2013.22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has now emerged as a predominant and serious pathogen because of its resistance to a large group of antibiotics, leading to high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, to develop new agents against resistance is urgently required. Previously, artesunate (AS) was found to enhance the antibacterial effect of β-lactams against MRSA. In this study, AS was first found to increase the accumulation of antibiotics (daunorubicin and oxacillin) within MRSA by laser confocal microscopy and liquid chromatography-tandem MS method, suggesting the increased antibiotics accumulation might be related to the enhancement of AS on antibiotics. Furthermore, AS was found not to destroy the cell structure of MRSA by transmission electron microscope. AS was found to inhibit gene expressions of important efflux pumps such as NorA, NorB and NorC, but not MepA, SepA and MdeA. In conclusion, our results showed that AS was capable of enhancing the antibacterial activity of β-lactams via increasing antibiotic accumulations within MRSA through inhibiting gene expressions of efflux pumps such as NorA, NorB and NorC, but did not destroy the cell structure of MRSA. AS could be further investigated as a candidate drug for treatment of MRSA infection.
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- Weiwei Jiang
- Department of Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
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Martins A, Hunyadi A, Amaral L. Mechanisms of resistance in bacteria: an evolutionary approach. Open Microbiol J 2013; 7:53-8. [PMID: 23560029 PMCID: PMC3613773 DOI: 10.2174/1874285801307010053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2012] [Revised: 01/22/2013] [Accepted: 01/23/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Acquisition of resistance is one of the major causes of failure in therapy of bacterial infections. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), thousands of deaths caused by Salmonella sp., Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus or Mycobacteria tuberculosis are due to failure in therapy caused by resistance to the chemotherapeutic agents. Understanding the mechanisms of resistance acquisition by the bacterial strains is therefore essential to prevent and overcome resistance. However, it is very difficult to extrapolate from in vitro studies, where the variables are far less and under constant control, as compared to what happens in vivo where the chosen chemotherapeutic, its effective dose, and the patient's immune system are variables that differ substantially case-by-case. The aim of this review is to provide a new perspective on the possible ways by which resistance is acquired by the bacterial strains within the patient, with a special emphasis on the adaptive response of the infecting bacteria to the administered antibiotic.
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- Ana Martins
- Unidade de Parasitologia e Microbiologia Médica, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Rua da Junqueira 100, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal ; Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Dóm Tér 10, 6720 Szeged, Hungary
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Xie YY, Liu MS, Hu PP, Kong XL, Qiu DH, Xu JL, Hider RC, Zhou T. Synthesis, physico-chemical properties, and antimicrobial evaluation of a new series of iron(III) hexadentate chelators. Med Chem Res 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s00044-012-0229-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Esquisabel AC, Rodríguez M, Campo-Sosa A, Rodríguez C, Martínez-Martínez L. Mechanisms of resistance in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa less susceptible to cefepime than to ceftazidime. Clin Microbiol Infect 2011; 17:1817-22. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03530.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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da Silva PEA, Von Groll A, Martin A, Palomino JC. Efflux as a mechanism for drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 63:1-9. [PMID: 21668514 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.2011.00831.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Tuberculosis remains an important global public health problem, with an estimated prevalence of 14 million individuals with tuberculosis worldwide in 2007. Because antibiotic treatment is one of the main tools for tuberculosis control, knowledge of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance is an important component for the disease control strategy. Although several gene mutations in specific loci of the M. tuberculosis genome have been reported as the basis for drug resistance, additional resistance mechanisms are now believed to exist. Efflux is a ubiquitous mechanism responsible for intrinsic and acquired drug resistance in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Mycobacterium tuberculosis presents one of the largest numbers of putative drug efflux pumps compared with its genome size. Bioinformatics as well as direct and indirect evidence have established relationships among drug efflux with intrinsic or acquired resistance in M. tuberculosis. This minireview describes the current knowledge on drug efflux in M. tuberculosis.
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- Pedro Eduardo Almeida da Silva
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, BrazilMycobacteriology Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium
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Xu Y, Lee M, Moeller A, Song S, Yoon BY, Kim HM, Jun SY, Lee K, Ha NC. Funnel-like hexameric assembly of the periplasmic adapter protein in the tripartite multidrug efflux pump in gram-negative bacteria. J Biol Chem 2011; 286:17910-20. [PMID: 21454662 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.238535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Gram-negative bacteria expel diverse toxic chemicals through the tripartite efflux pumps spanning both the inner and outer membranes. The Escherichia coli AcrAB-TolC pump is the principal multidrug exporter that confers intrinsic drug tolerance to the bacteria. The inner membrane transporter AcrB requires the outer membrane factor TolC and the periplasmic adapter protein AcrA. However, it remains ambiguous how the three proteins are assembled. In this study, a hexameric model of the adapter protein was generated based on the propensity for trimerization of a dimeric unit, and this model was further validated by presenting its channel-forming property that determines the substrate specificity. Genetic, in vitro complementation, and electron microscopic studies provided evidence for the binding of the hexameric adapter protein to the outer membrane factor in an intermeshing cogwheel manner. Structural analyses suggested that the adapter covers the periplasmic region of the inner membrane transporter. Taken together, we propose an adapter bridging model for the assembly of the tripartite pump, where the adapter protein provides a bridging channel and induces the channel opening of the outer membrane factor in the intermeshing tip-to-tip manner.
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- Yongbin Xu
- Department of Manufacturing Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Research Institute for Drug Development, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Republic of Korea
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Jiménez-Serna A, Hernández-Sánchez H. Effect of Different Antibiotics and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs on the Growth of Lactobacillus casei Shirota. Curr Microbiol 2010; 62:1028-33. [DOI: 10.1007/s00284-010-9819-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2010] [Accepted: 11/05/2010] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Identification of efflux-mediated multi-drug resistance in bacterial clinical isolates by two simple methods. Methods Mol Biol 2010; 642:143-57. [PMID: 20401592 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-279-7_11] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Two simple, instrument-free, user-friendly methods that can readily be implemented by a routine microbiology laboratory are described for the detection of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) isolates that overexpress efflux pump (EP) systems responsible for the MDR phenotype. The first method employs the universal EP substrate ethidium bromide (EB) at varying concentrations in agar-containing plates upon which the contents of an overnight culture are swabbed as spokes of a wheel. In this method, named the EB-agar cartwheel method, it is assumed that the smallest concentration of EB that produces fluorescence of the bacterial mass represents the highest concentration of EB that the bacteria can exclude. Consequently, as the efflux system(s) of a given MDR clinical bacterial isolate is overexpressed relative to that of a reference strain, the minimal concentration of EB producing fluorescence is significantly greater. A simple formula is provided which affords the ranking of MDR clinical isolates with respect to the degree of their efflux capacity. The second method, which can be used after the first one, determines whether the MDR phenotype is based upon an overexpressed efflux system. This method employs a 24-well microplate with separate wells containing or lacking an efflux pump inhibitor (EPI) and Kirby-Bauer discs that correspond to the antibiotics to which the MDR strain is resistant. After the wells are inoculated with the MDR clinical isolate, the plate is incubated overnight and each well is evaluated by eye for evidence of growth. Comparison of growth to the relevant control enables the observer to determine the following outcomes: no growth produced by the EPI-antibiotic combination (i.e., reversal of antibiotic resistance); reduced growth produced by the EPI-antibiotic combination; no difference in growth, i.e., EPI does not affect the resistance to the given antibiotic. If the first method showed that there was a significant difference between the minimum concentrations of EB in agar that produced fluorescence for the clinical isolate and its reference strain, then one can conclude that if the EPI had no effect on reducing antibiotic resistance, the differences in the EB concentrations that produced fluorescence are probably due to differences in the permeability of the strain to EB, reflecting a downregulation of porins if the clinical isolate is a Gram-negative bacterium.
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A balancing act: efflux/influx in mycobacterial drug resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009; 53:3181-9. [PMID: 19451293 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01577-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 172] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Villagra NA, Hidalgo AA, Santiviago CA, Saavedra CP, Mora GC. SmvA, and not AcrB, is the major efflux pump for acriflavine and related compounds in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. J Antimicrob Chemother 2008; 62:1273-6. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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MARTINEZ M, MODRIC S, SHARKEY M, TROUTMAN L, WALKER L, MEALEY K. The pharmacogenomics of P-glycoprotein and its role in veterinary medicine. J Vet Pharmacol Ther 2008; 31:285-300. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2885.2008.00964.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Robertson GT, Doyle TB, Du Q, Duncan L, Mdluli KE, Lynch AS. A Novel indole compound that inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth by targeting MreB is a substrate for MexAB-OprM. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:6870-81. [PMID: 17644596 PMCID: PMC2045200 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00805-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Drug efflux systems contribute to the intrinsic resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to many antibiotics and biocides and hamper research focused on the discovery and development of new antimicrobial agents targeted against this important opportunistic pathogen. Using a P. aeruginosa PAO1 derivative bearing deletions of opmH, encoding an outer membrane channel for efflux substrates, and four efflux pumps belonging to the resistance nodulation/cell division class including mexAB-oprM, we identified a small-molecule indole-class compound (CBR-4830) that is inhibitory to growth of this efflux-compromised strain. Genetic studies established MexAB-OprM as the principal pump for CBR-4830 and revealed MreB, a prokaryotic actin homolog, as the proximal cellular target of CBR-4830. Additional studies establish MreB as an essential protein in P. aeruginosa, and efflux-compromised strains treated with CBR-4830 transition to coccoid shape, consistent with MreB inhibition or depletion. Resistance genetics further suggest that CBR-4830 interacts with the putative ATP-binding pocket in MreB and demonstrate significant cross-resistance with A22, a structurally unrelated compound that has been shown to promote rapid dispersion of MreB filaments in vivo. Interestingly, however, ATP-dependent polymerization of purified recombinant P. aeruginosa MreB is blocked in vitro in a dose-dependent manner by CBR-4830 but not by A22. Neither compound exhibits significant inhibitory activity against mutant forms of MreB protein that bear mutations identified in CBR-4830-resistant strains. Finally, employing the strains and reagents prepared and characterized during the course of these studies, we have begun to investigate the ability of analogues of CBR-4830 to inhibit the growth of both efflux-proficient and efflux-compromised P. aeruginosa through specific inhibition of MreB function.
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- Gregory T Robertson
- Cumbre Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 1502 Viceroy Drive, Dallas, TX 75235-2304, USA
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Pérez A, Canle D, Latasa C, Poza M, Beceiro A, Tomás MDM, Fernández A, Mallo S, Pérez S, Molina F, Villanueva R, Lasa I, Bou G. Cloning, nucleotide sequencing, and analysis of the AcrAB-TolC efflux pump of Enterobacter cloacae and determination of its involvement in antibiotic resistance in a clinical isolate. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007; 51:3247-53. [PMID: 17638702 PMCID: PMC2043211 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00072-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Enterobacter cloacae is an emerging clinical pathogen that may be responsible for nosocomial infections. Management of these infections is often difficult, owing to the high frequency of strains that are resistant to disinfectants and antimicrobial agents in the clinical setting. Multidrug efflux pumps, especially those belonging to the resistance-nodulation-division family, play a major role as a mechanism of antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative pathogens. In the present study, we cloned and sequenced the genes encoding an AcrAcB-TolC-like efflux pump from an E. cloacae clinical isolate (isolate EcDC64) showing a broad antibiotic resistance profile. Sequence analysis showed that the acrR, acrA, acrB, and tolC genes encode proteins that display 79.8%, 84%, 88%, and 82% amino acid identities with the respective homologues of Enterobacter aerogenes and are arranged in a similar pattern. Deletion of the acrA gene to yield an AcrA-deficient EcDC64 mutant (EcDeltaacrA) showed the involvement of AcrAB-TolC in multidrug resistance in E. cloacae. However, experiments with an efflux pump inhibitor suggested that additional efflux systems also play a role in antibiotic resistance. Investigation of several unrelated isolates of E. cloacae by PCR analysis revealed that the AcrAB system is apparently ubiquitous in this species.
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- Astrid Pérez
- Servicio de Microbiología-Unidad de Investigación, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Juan Canalejo, 15006 La Coruña, Spain
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Zhang Y, Eric Ballard C, Zheng SL, Gao X, Ko KC, Yang H, Brandt G, Lou X, Tai PC, Lu CD, Wang B. Design, synthesis, and evaluation of efflux substrate–metal chelator conjugates as potential antimicrobial agents. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2007; 17:707-11. [PMID: 17150357 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.10.094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2006] [Revised: 10/26/2006] [Accepted: 10/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Maintaining a proper balance of metal concentrations is critical to the survival of bacteria. We have designed and synthesized a series of conjugates of metal chelators and efflux transporter substrates aimed at disrupting bacterial metal homeostasis to achieve bacterial killing. Biological studies showed that two of the compounds had very significant antimicrobial effect with an MIC value of 7.8 microg/mL against Gram-positive Bacillus subtilis.
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- Yanling Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098, USA
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Elkins CA, Mullis LB. Substrate competition studies using whole-cell accumulation assays with the major tripartite multidrug efflux pumps of Escherichia coli. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2007; 51:923-9. [PMID: 17210767 PMCID: PMC1803133 DOI: 10.1128/aac.01048-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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AcrAB-TolC is the major, constitutively expressed tripartite multidrug efflux system in Escherichia coli that recognizes various structurally unrelated molecules, including many antibiotics, dyes, and steroids. The AcrB inner membrane pump portion of the efflux system has been shown in recent structural studies to bind substrates at multiple sites, suggesting that particular substrate "sets" may compete for efflux by interfering with a certain binding site(s). However, our data indicate that the general structural class does not appear to dictate a particular substrate binding site that can be competitively inhibited in whole cells. In our study, substrate competition failed to increase cell-associated levels of steroids or dyes to levels characteristic of AcrB- or AcrB/EmrAB-deficient genomic mutants or achieved with the pump inhibitor carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone. In addition, this general observation was sustained even with (i) a cocktail containing seven-pump substrates supplied slightly below their respective wild-type MIC levels, (ii) competing drug substrates of the same structural class (steroids or macrolides), and (iii) hyper-MIC levels of the exogenously supplied agents. Thus, this pump system (and possibly EmrAB-TolC) may have an extraordinary capacity to simultaneously handle multiple-drug substrates that is not necessarily reflected in MIC analyses. In addition, our study has extended the range of substrates recognized by the AcrAB- and EmrAB-TolC systems.
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- Christopher A Elkins
- Division of Microbiology, National Center for Toxicological Research, 3900 NCTR Drive, Jefferson, AR 72079-9502, USA.
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Jefferson EA, Seth PP, Robinson DE, Winter DK, Miyaji A, Risen LM, Osgood SA, Bertrand M, Swayze EE. Optimizing the antibacterial activity of a lead structure discovered by ‘SAR by MS’ technology. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2004; 14:5257-61. [PMID: 15454207 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2004.08.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2004] [Revised: 08/16/2004] [Accepted: 08/16/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We report on lead optimization of a compound that was originally discovered to bind bacterial 23S rRNA near the L11 binding site and inhibit translation in vitro, but lacked detectable antibacterial activity. In this study, we were able to generate compounds with antibacterial activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive pathogens, including a methicillin-resistant S. aureus strain.
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- Elizabeth A Jefferson
- Ibis Therapeutics, A Division of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 2292 Faraday Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92008, USA.
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Ferrara AM, Fietta AM. New Developments in Antibacterial Choice for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Elderly Patients. Drugs Aging 2004; 21:167-86. [PMID: 14979735 DOI: 10.2165/00002512-200421030-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Elderly patients are at increased risk of developing lower respiratory tract infections compared with younger patients. In this population, pneumonia is a serious illness with high rates of hospitalisation and mortality, especially in patients requiring admission to intensive care units (ICUs). A wide range of pathogens may be involved depending on different settings of acquisition and patient's health status. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common bacterial isolate in community-acquired pneumonia, followed by Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and atypical pathogens such as Chlamydia pneumoniae, Legionella pneumophila and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. However, elderly patients with comorbid illness, who have been recently hospitalised or are residing in a nursing home, may develop severe pneumonia caused by multidrug resistant staphylococci or pneumococci, and enteric Gram-negative bacilli, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Moreover, anaerobes may be involved in aspiration pneumonia. Timely and appropriate empiric treatment is required in order to enhance the likelihood of a good clinical outcome, prevent the spread of antibacterial resistance and reduce the economic impact of pneumonia. International guidelines recommend that elderly outpatients and inpatients (not in ICU) should be treated for the most common bacterial pathogens and the possibility of atypical pathogens. The algorithm for therapy is to use either a selected beta-lactam combined with a macrolide (azithromycin or clarithromycin), or to use monotherapy with a new anti-pneumococcal quinolone, such as levofloxacin, gatifloxacin or moxifloxacin. Oral (amoxicillin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid, cefuroxime axetil) and intravenous (sulbactam/ampicillin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime) beta-lactams are agents of choice in outpatients and inpatients, respectively. For patients with severe pneumonia or aspiration pneumonia, the specific algorithm is to use either a macrolide or a quinolone in combination with other agents; the nature and the number of which depends on the presence of risk factors for specific pathogens. Despite these recommendations, clinical resolution of pneumonia in the elderly is often delayed with respect to younger patients, suggesting that optimisation of antibacterial therapy is needed. Recently, some new classes of antibacterials, such as ketolides, oxazolidinones and streptogramins, have been developed for the treatment of multidrug resistant Gram-positive infections. However, the efficacy and safety of these agents in the elderly is yet to be clarified. Treatment guidelines should be modified on the basis of local bacteriology and resistance patterns, while dosage and/or administration route of each antibacterial should be optimised on the basis of new insights on pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters and drug interactions. These strategies should be able to reduce the occurrence of risk factors for a poor clinical outcome, hospitalisation and death.
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- Anna Maria Ferrara
- Department of Haematological, Pneumological, Cardiovascular Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
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Gram-negative bacteria characteristically are surrounded by an additional membrane layer, the outer membrane. Although outer membrane components often play important roles in the interaction of symbiotic or pathogenic bacteria with their host organisms, the major role of this membrane must usually be to serve as a permeability barrier to prevent the entry of noxious compounds and at the same time to allow the influx of nutrient molecules. This review summarizes the development in the field since our previous review (H. Nikaido and M. Vaara, Microbiol. Rev. 49:1-32, 1985) was published. With the discovery of protein channels, structural knowledge enables us to understand in molecular detail how porins, specific channels, TonB-linked receptors, and other proteins function. We are now beginning to see how the export of large proteins occurs across the outer membrane. With our knowledge of the lipopolysaccharide-phospholipid asymmetric bilayer of the outer membrane, we are finally beginning to understand how this bilayer can retard the entry of lipophilic compounds, owing to our increasing knowledge about the chemistry of lipopolysaccharide from diverse organisms and the way in which lipopolysaccharide structure is modified by environmental conditions.
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- Hiroshi Nikaido
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3202, USA.
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Elkins CA, Nikaido H. Substrate specificity of the RND-type multidrug efflux pumps AcrB and AcrD of Escherichia coli is determined predominantly by two large periplasmic loops. J Bacteriol 2002; 184:6490-8. [PMID: 12426336 PMCID: PMC135441 DOI: 10.1128/jb.184.23.6490-6499.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 198] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
AcrAB-TolC is a constitutively expressed, tripartite efflux transporter complex that functions as the primary resistance mechanism to lipophilic drugs, dyes, detergents, and bile acids in Escherichia coli. TolC is an outer membrane channel, and AcrA is an elongated lipoprotein that is hypothesized to span the periplasm and coordinate efflux of such substrates by AcrB and TolC. AcrD is an efflux transporter of E. coli that provides resistance to aminoglycosides as well as to a limited range of amphiphilic agents, such as bile acids, novobiocin, and fusidic acid. AcrB and AcrD belong to the resistance nodulation division superfamily and share a similar topology, which includes a pair of large periplasmic loops containing more than 300 amino acid residues each. We used this knowledge to test several plasmid-encoded chimeric constructs of acrD and acrB for substrate specificity in a marR1 DeltaacrB DeltaacrD host. AcrD chimeras were constructed in which the large, periplasmic loops between transmembrane domains 1 and 2 and 7 and 8 were replaced with the corresponding loops of AcrB. Such constructs provided resistance to AcrB substrates at levels similar to native AcrB. Conversely, AcrB chimeras containing both loops of AcrD conferred resistance only to the typical substrates of AcrD. These results cannot be explained by simply assuming that AcrD, not hitherto known to interact with AcrA, acquired this ability by the introduction of the loop regions of AcrB, because (i) both AcrD and AcrA were found, in this study, to be required for the efflux of amphiphilic substrates, and (ii) chemical cross-linking in intact cells efficiently produced complexes between AcrD and AcrA. Since AcrD can already interact with AcrA, the alterations in substrate range accompanying the exchange of loop regions can only mean that substrate recognition (and presumably binding) is determined largely by the two periplasmic loops.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christopher A Elkins
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-3206, USA
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