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Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism
Helicobacter pylori, a WHO class I carcinogen, is one of the most successful human pathogens colonizing the stomach of over 4.4 billion of the world’s population. Antibiotic therapy represents the best solution but poor response rates have hampered the elimination of H. pylori. A growing body of evi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599828 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9060355 |
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author | Hathroubi, Skander Zerebinski, Julia Clarke, Aaron Ottemann, Karen M. |
author_facet | Hathroubi, Skander Zerebinski, Julia Clarke, Aaron Ottemann, Karen M. |
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description | Helicobacter pylori, a WHO class I carcinogen, is one of the most successful human pathogens colonizing the stomach of over 4.4 billion of the world’s population. Antibiotic therapy represents the best solution but poor response rates have hampered the elimination of H. pylori. A growing body of evidence suggests that H. pylori forms biofilms, but the role of this growth mode in infection remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that H. pylori cells within a biofilm are tolerant to multiple antibiotics in a manner that depends partially on extracellular proteins. Biofilm-forming cells were tolerant to multiple antibiotics that target distinct pathways, including amoxicillin, clarithromycin, and tetracycline. Furthermore, this tolerance was significantly dampened following proteinase K treatment. These data suggest that H. pylori adapts its phenotype during biofilm growth resulting in decreased antibiotic susceptibility but this tolerance can be partially ameliorated by extracellular protease treatment. |
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spelling | pubmed-73451962020-07-09 Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism Hathroubi, Skander Zerebinski, Julia Clarke, Aaron Ottemann, Karen M. Antibiotics (Basel) Communication Helicobacter pylori, a WHO class I carcinogen, is one of the most successful human pathogens colonizing the stomach of over 4.4 billion of the world’s population. Antibiotic therapy represents the best solution but poor response rates have hampered the elimination of H. pylori. A growing body of evidence suggests that H. pylori forms biofilms, but the role of this growth mode in infection remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that H. pylori cells within a biofilm are tolerant to multiple antibiotics in a manner that depends partially on extracellular proteins. Biofilm-forming cells were tolerant to multiple antibiotics that target distinct pathways, including amoxicillin, clarithromycin, and tetracycline. Furthermore, this tolerance was significantly dampened following proteinase K treatment. These data suggest that H. pylori adapts its phenotype during biofilm growth resulting in decreased antibiotic susceptibility but this tolerance can be partially ameliorated by extracellular protease treatment. MDPI 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7345196/ /pubmed/32599828 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9060355 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Hathroubi, Skander Zerebinski, Julia Clarke, Aaron Ottemann, Karen M. Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title | Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title_full | Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title_fullStr | Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title_full_unstemmed | Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title_short | Helicobacter pylori Biofilm Confers Antibiotic Tolerance in Part via A Protein-Dependent Mechanism |
title_sort | helicobacter pylori biofilm confers antibiotic tolerance in part via a protein-dependent mechanism |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345196/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599828 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics9060355 |
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