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Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption
The emergence of antibiotic resistance in opportunistic pathogens represents a huge problem, the solution for which may be a treatment with a combination of multiple antimicrobial agents. Sodium salt of cobalt bis-dicarbollide (COSAN.Na) is one of the very stable, low-toxic, amphiphilic boron-rich s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9147877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35631360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15050534 |
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author | Vaňková, Eva Lokočová, Kristýna Kašparová, Petra Hadravová, Romana Křížová, Ivana Maťátková, Olga Masák, Jan Šícha, Václav |
author_facet | Vaňková, Eva Lokočová, Kristýna Kašparová, Petra Hadravová, Romana Křížová, Ivana Maťátková, Olga Masák, Jan Šícha, Václav |
author_sort | Vaňková, Eva |
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description | The emergence of antibiotic resistance in opportunistic pathogens represents a huge problem, the solution for which may be a treatment with a combination of multiple antimicrobial agents. Sodium salt of cobalt bis-dicarbollide (COSAN.Na) is one of the very stable, low-toxic, amphiphilic boron-rich sandwich complex heteroboranes. This compound has a wide range of potential applications in the biological sciences due to its antitumor, anti-HIV-1, antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity. Our study confirmed the ability of COSAN.Na (in the concentration range 0.2–2.48 µg/mL) to enhance tetracycline, erythromycin, and vancomycin action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis planktonic growth with an additive or synergistic effect (e.g., the combination of 1.24 µg/mL COSAN.Na and 6.5 µg/mL TET). The effective inhibitory concentration of antibiotics was reduced up to tenfold most efficiently in the case of tetracycline (from 65 to 6.5 µg/mL). In addition, strong effect of COSAN.Na on disruption of the cell envelopes was determined using propidium iodide uptake measurement and further confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. The combination of amphiphilic COSAN.Na with antibiotics can therefore be considered a promising way to overcome antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive cocci. |
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spelling | pubmed-91478772022-05-29 Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption Vaňková, Eva Lokočová, Kristýna Kašparová, Petra Hadravová, Romana Křížová, Ivana Maťátková, Olga Masák, Jan Šícha, Václav Pharmaceuticals (Basel) Article The emergence of antibiotic resistance in opportunistic pathogens represents a huge problem, the solution for which may be a treatment with a combination of multiple antimicrobial agents. Sodium salt of cobalt bis-dicarbollide (COSAN.Na) is one of the very stable, low-toxic, amphiphilic boron-rich sandwich complex heteroboranes. This compound has a wide range of potential applications in the biological sciences due to its antitumor, anti-HIV-1, antimicrobial and antibiofilm activity. Our study confirmed the ability of COSAN.Na (in the concentration range 0.2–2.48 µg/mL) to enhance tetracycline, erythromycin, and vancomycin action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis planktonic growth with an additive or synergistic effect (e.g., the combination of 1.24 µg/mL COSAN.Na and 6.5 µg/mL TET). The effective inhibitory concentration of antibiotics was reduced up to tenfold most efficiently in the case of tetracycline (from 65 to 6.5 µg/mL). In addition, strong effect of COSAN.Na on disruption of the cell envelopes was determined using propidium iodide uptake measurement and further confirmed by transmission electron microscopy. The combination of amphiphilic COSAN.Na with antibiotics can therefore be considered a promising way to overcome antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive cocci. MDPI 2022-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9147877/ /pubmed/35631360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15050534 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vaňková, Eva Lokočová, Kristýna Kašparová, Petra Hadravová, Romana Křížová, Ivana Maťátková, Olga Masák, Jan Šícha, Václav Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title | Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title_full | Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title_fullStr | Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title_full_unstemmed | Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title_short | Cobalt Bis-Dicarbollide Enhances Antibiotics Action towards Staphylococcus epidermidis Planktonic Growth Due to Cell Envelopes Disruption |
title_sort | cobalt bis-dicarbollide enhances antibiotics action towards staphylococcus epidermidis planktonic growth due to cell envelopes disruption |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9147877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35631360 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ph15050534 |
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