Project description:Analysis of Helicobacter pylori strain 26695 after 20 minutes of 0.25μg/ml Clarithromycin. Results provide insight into the mechanisms employed by the bacterium that help it adapt to Clarithromycin stress In the study presented here, we compared the gene expression profile between H.pylori without CLA treatment and H.pylori treated with 0.25μg/ml Clarithromycin.
Project description:Analysis of Helicobacter pylori strain 26695 after 20 minutes of 0.25μg/ml Clarithromycin. Results provide insight into the mechanisms employed by the bacterium that help it adapt to Clarithromycin stress
Project description:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is currently recognized as the primary carcinogenic pathogen associated with gastric tumorigenesis, and its high prevalence and resistance make it difficult to tackle. A graph neural network-based deep learning model, employing different training sets of 13,638 molecules for pre-training and fine-tuning through rigorous iterative learning processes, was aided in predicting and exploring novel molecules against H. pylori. A positively predicted novel berberine (BBR) derivative 8 with 3,13-disubstituted alkene exhibited a potency against all tested drug-susceptible and resistant H. pylori strains with minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of 0.25–0.5 μg/mL. Strikingly, pharmacokinetic studies demonstrated an ideal gastric retention of 8, with the stomach concentration significantly higher than its MIC value at 24 h post dose. Oral administration of 8 and proton pump inhibitor omeprazole (OPZ) showed a 2.2-log reduction in the gastric bacterial burden compared with the control group, which is comparable to the triple-therapy, namely OPZ + amoxicillin (AMX) + clarithromycin (CLA), and partially restored the diversity of the intestinal flora as well as the abundance of probiotics. A combination of OPZ + AMX + CLA + 8 could further decrease the bacteria load (2.8-log reduction). More importantly, the mono-therapy of 8 showed comparable eradicative efficacies compared with both triple-therapy (OPZ + AMX + CLA) and the quadruple-therapy (OPZ + AMX + CLA + bismuth citrate) groups. SecA and BamD, playing a major role in outer membrane protein (OMP) transport and assembling, were identified and verified as the direct targets of 8 by employing the chemoproteomics technique. The treatment of 8 induced the death of H. pylori caused by OMP deficiency, and the subsequent reduced adhesion to gastric epithelial cells. In summary, by targeting the relatively conserved OMPs transport and assembling system, 8 has the potential to be developed as a novel anti-H. pylori candidate, especially for the eradication of drug-resistant strains. The deep learning model established in this study might provide a reliable prediction tool for future anti-H. pylori candidate discovery.
Project description:Helicobacter pylori, a pathogenic member of phylum Campylobacterota (formerly Epsilonproteobacteria), is recognized as the leading cause of several human gastric pathologies, including acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric adenocarcinoma, and gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. In the last two decades, the alarming increase of the antibiotic resistance levels to first-line and even “rescue” antibiotics, especially clarithromycin, metronidazole and levofloxacin, has led to a marked decrease of the eradication rates of traditional therapies. In previous works, we have validated the essential protein HsrA as an effective therapeutic target for H. pylori infection. HsrA is an OmpR/PhoB-type orphan response regulator, unique and highly conserved in members of phylum Campylobacterota, which appears involved in a variety of crucial physiological processes. In the present work, we carried out a transcriptomic analysis in order to discern the global effects of lethal concentrations of a bactericidal HsrA inhibitor on the H. pylori physiology. Treatment with the bactericidal HsrA inhibitor significantly changed the transcript levels of 367 open reading frames (ORF), of which 212 genes appeared upregulated and 155 genes resulted in downregulation, as compared with control samples. Thus, in vivo HsrA inhibition influenced, directly or indirectly, the expression of 23% of ORFs encoded by the H. pylori 26696 genome. Among the 268 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) with defined functions, two functional categories were highly enriched with downregulated genes involved in essential physiological processes: (1) ribosome biogenesis, and (2) electron transfer and oxidative phosphorylation.
Project description:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a human pathogen that infects almost half of the world’s population. Infection with H. pylori is frequently associated with chronic gastritis and can even lead to gastric and duodenal ulcers and gastric cancer. Although the persistent colonization of H. pylori and the development of H. pylori-associated gastritis remain poorly understood, it is believed that, in gastric mucosa, the modulated gastric epithelial cells (GECs) by H. pylori are key contributors. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression in Helicobacter pylori infected-gastric epithelial cell line AGS cells and identified up-regulated genes induced by Helicobacter pylori infection.