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Effect of efflux pump inhibition on Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome and virulence.


ABSTRACT: Efflux pumps of the resistance-nodulation-cell-division (RND) family increase antibiotic resistance in many bacterial pathogens, representing candidate targets for the development of antibiotic adjuvants. RND pumps have also been proposed to contribute to bacterial infection, implying that efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs) could also act as anti-virulence drugs. Nevertheless, EPIs are usually investigated only for their properties as antibiotic adjuvants, while their potential anti-virulence activity is seldom taken into account. In this study it is shown that RND efflux pumps contribute to Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 pathogenicity in an insect model of infection, and that the well-characterized EPI Phe-Arg-?-naphthylamide (PA?N) is able to reduce in vivo virulence of the P. aeruginosa PAO1 laboratory strain, as well as of clinical isolates. The production of quorum sensing (QS) molecules and of QS-dependent virulence phenotypes is differentially affected by PA?N, depending on the strain. Transcriptomic and phenotypic analyses showed that the protection exerted by PA?N from P. aeruginosa PAO1 infection in vivo correlates with the down-regulation of key virulence genes (e.g. genes involved in iron and phosphate starvation). Since PA?N impacts P. aeruginosa virulence, anti-virulence properties of EPIs are worthy to be explored, taking into account possible strain-specificity of their activity.

SUBMITTER: Rampioni G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5596013 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Effect of efflux pump inhibition on Pseudomonas aeruginosa transcriptome and virulence.

Rampioni Giordano G   Pillai Cejoice Ramachandran CR   Longo Francesca F   Bondì Roslen R   Baldelli Valerio V   Messina Marco M   Imperi Francesco F   Visca Paolo P   Leoni Livia L  

Scientific reports 20170912 1


Efflux pumps of the resistance-nodulation-cell-division (RND) family increase antibiotic resistance in many bacterial pathogens, representing candidate targets for the development of antibiotic adjuvants. RND pumps have also been proposed to contribute to bacterial infection, implying that efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs) could also act as anti-virulence drugs. Nevertheless, EPIs are usually investigated only for their properties as antibiotic adjuvants, while their potential anti-virulence activit  ...[more]

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