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Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF
The pandemic of antibiotic resistance represents a major human health threat demanding new antimicrobial strategies. Multiple peptide resistance factor (MprF) is the synthase and flippase of the phospholipid lysyl-phosphatidylglycerol that increases virulence and resistance of methicillin-resistant...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35044295 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66376 |
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author | Slavetinsky, Christoph J Hauser, Janna N Gekeler, Cordula Slavetinsky, Jessica Geyer, André Kraus, Alexandra Heilingbrunner, Doris Wagner, Samuel Tesar, Michael Krismer, Bernhard Kuhn, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph M Peschel, Andreas |
author_facet | Slavetinsky, Christoph J Hauser, Janna N Gekeler, Cordula Slavetinsky, Jessica Geyer, André Kraus, Alexandra Heilingbrunner, Doris Wagner, Samuel Tesar, Michael Krismer, Bernhard Kuhn, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph M Peschel, Andreas |
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description | The pandemic of antibiotic resistance represents a major human health threat demanding new antimicrobial strategies. Multiple peptide resistance factor (MprF) is the synthase and flippase of the phospholipid lysyl-phosphatidylglycerol that increases virulence and resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other pathogens to cationic host defense peptides and antibiotics. With the aim to design MprF inhibitors that could sensitize MRSA to antimicrobial agents and support the clearance of staphylococcal infections with minimal selection pressure, we developed MprF-targeting monoclonal antibodies, which bound and blocked the MprF flippase subunit. Antibody M-C7.1 targeted a specific loop in the flippase domain that proved to be exposed at both sides of the bacterial membrane, thereby enhancing the mechanistic understanding of bacterial lipid translocation. M-C7.1 rendered MRSA susceptible to host antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics such as daptomycin, and it impaired MRSA survival in human phagocytes. Thus, MprF inhibitors are recommended for new antivirulence approaches against MRSA and other bacterial pathogens. |
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spelling | pubmed-88061902022-02-02 Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF Slavetinsky, Christoph J Hauser, Janna N Gekeler, Cordula Slavetinsky, Jessica Geyer, André Kraus, Alexandra Heilingbrunner, Doris Wagner, Samuel Tesar, Michael Krismer, Bernhard Kuhn, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph M Peschel, Andreas eLife Microbiology and Infectious Disease The pandemic of antibiotic resistance represents a major human health threat demanding new antimicrobial strategies. Multiple peptide resistance factor (MprF) is the synthase and flippase of the phospholipid lysyl-phosphatidylglycerol that increases virulence and resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other pathogens to cationic host defense peptides and antibiotics. With the aim to design MprF inhibitors that could sensitize MRSA to antimicrobial agents and support the clearance of staphylococcal infections with minimal selection pressure, we developed MprF-targeting monoclonal antibodies, which bound and blocked the MprF flippase subunit. Antibody M-C7.1 targeted a specific loop in the flippase domain that proved to be exposed at both sides of the bacterial membrane, thereby enhancing the mechanistic understanding of bacterial lipid translocation. M-C7.1 rendered MRSA susceptible to host antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics such as daptomycin, and it impaired MRSA survival in human phagocytes. Thus, MprF inhibitors are recommended for new antivirulence approaches against MRSA and other bacterial pathogens. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8806190/ /pubmed/35044295 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66376 Text en © 2022, Slavetinsky et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology and Infectious Disease Slavetinsky, Christoph J Hauser, Janna N Gekeler, Cordula Slavetinsky, Jessica Geyer, André Kraus, Alexandra Heilingbrunner, Doris Wagner, Samuel Tesar, Michael Krismer, Bernhard Kuhn, Sebastian Ernst, Christoph M Peschel, Andreas Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title | Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title_full | Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title_fullStr | Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title_full_unstemmed | Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title_short | Sensitizing Staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase MprF |
title_sort | sensitizing staphylococcus aureus to antibacterial agents by decoding and blocking the lipid flippase mprf |
topic | Microbiology and Infectious Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8806190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35044295 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.66376 |
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