Project description:<p><em>Streptococcus pneumoniae</em> is the primary cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia with rates of penicillin and multi-drug resistance exceeding 80% and 40%, respectively. The innate immune response generates a variety of antimicrobial agents to control infection including zinc stress. Here, we characterized the impact of zinc intoxication on <em>S. pneumoniae</em>, revealing disruptions in central carbon metabolism, lipid biogenesis and peptidoglycan biosynthesis. Characterization of the pivotal peptidoglycan biosynthetic enzyme GlmU revealed an exquisite sensitivity to zinc inhibition. Disruption of the sole zinc efflux pathway, czcD, rendered <em>S. pneumonia</em>e highly susceptible to β-lactam antibiotics. To dysregulate zinc homeostasis in the wild-type strain, we investigated the safe-for-human use ionophore PBT2. PBT2 rendered wild-type <em>S. pneumoniae</em> strains sensitive to a range of antibiotics. Using an invasive ampicillin-resistant strain, we demonstrate in a murine pneumonia infection model the efficacy of PBT2+ampicillin treatment. These findings present a therapeutic modality to break resistance of drug-resistant <em>S. pneumoniae</em>.</p>
Project description:This study reports on the co-administration of a zinc ionophore (PBT-2) and ampicillin to break antibiotic resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a murine pneumonia model. The molecular mechanism for this heightened antimicrobial activity was identified through transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of a wild type strain and a zinc efflux mutant to identify cellular targets of zinc intoxication. This revealed that zinc intoxication induces numerous cellular disruptions, which when combined with frontline antibiotics, can break antibiotic resistance and potentially preclude further resistance from emerging.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of P. putida KT2440 cells comparing untreated cells with 1 mM indole or 50 μg/ml ampicillin or 1 mM indole plus 50 μg/ml ampicillin treated cells
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Project description:Transcriptional profiling of A. oleivorans DR1 treated Ampicillin 100 M-BM-5g/ml for 15min . To identify effect of ampicillin in A. oleivornas DR1, the cells were grown to exponential phase (OD600 ~0.4) and treated ampicillin 100 M-BM-5g/ml for 15 min.
Project description:The goals of this study are to compare NGS-derived transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of Oryzias latifes (Korea native ricefish) upon treatment of mock, ampicillin and erythromycin