Costerton Biofilm Center, Department of International Health, Immunology & Microbiology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Future Microbiol. 2013 Jul;8(7):901-21. doi: 10.2217/fmb.13.57.
Bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics combined with an increasing acknowledgement of the role of biofilms in chronic infections has led to a growing interest in new antimicrobial strategies that target the biofilm mode of growth. In the aggregated biofilm mode, cell-to-cell communication systems involved in the process known as quorum sensing regulate coordinated expression of virulence with immune shielding mechanisms and antibiotic resistance. For two decades, the potential of interference with quorum sensing by small chemical compounds has been investigated with the aim of developing alternative antibacterial strategies. Here, we review state of the art research of quorum sensing inhibitors against the opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is found in a number of biofilm-associated infections and identified as the predominant organism infecting the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.
细菌对抗生素的耐药性以及对生物膜在慢性感染中作用的日益认识,促使人们越来越关注针对生物膜生长方式的新抗菌策略。在聚集的生物膜模式中,参与称为群体感应的过程的细胞间通讯系统调节毒力的协调表达与免疫屏蔽机制和抗生素耐药性。二十年来,人们一直在研究通过小分子化合物干扰群体感应的潜力,以期开发替代抗菌策略。在这里,我们综述了针对机会性病原体铜绿假单胞菌的群体感应抑制剂的最新研究进展,铜绿假单胞菌存在于多种与生物膜相关的感染中,并被确定为感染囊性纤维化患者肺部的主要病原体。