Kim Young-Min, Son Hyosuk, Park Seong-Cheol, Lee Jong-Kook, Jang Mi-Kyeong, Lee Jung Ro
Department of Chemical Engineering, Sunchon National University, Suncheon 57922, Republic of Korea.
Department of Exhibition and Education, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon 33662, Republic of Korea.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2023 Feb 8;12(2):349. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12020349.
Biofilms are resistant to antibiotics and are a major source of persistent and recurring infections by clinically important pathogens. Drugs used for biofilm-associated infections are limited because biofilm-embedded or biofilm-matrix bacteria are difficult to kill or eradiate. Therefore, many researchers are developing new and effective antibiofilm agents. Among them, antimicrobial peptides have an attractive interest in the development of antibiofilm agents. The present study evaluated the effects of 10 synthetic peptides on growth inhibition, inhibition of biofilm formation, and biofilm elimination in drug-resistant . The planktonic cell growth and biofilm formation were dose-dependently inhibited by most of the peptides. WIK-14 eliminated preformed biofilm masses by removing carbohydrates, extracellular nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids constituting extracellular polymeric substances. The results demonstrated that WIK-14 and WIKE-14 peptides might provide novel therapeutic drugs to overcome multidrug resistance in biofilm-associated infections.
生物膜对抗生素具有抗性,是临床上重要病原体导致持续性和复发性感染的主要来源。用于治疗生物膜相关感染的药物有限,因为嵌入生物膜或存在于生物膜基质中的细菌难以被杀死或根除。因此,许多研究人员正在开发新型有效的抗生物膜药物。其中,抗菌肽在抗生物膜药物的开发中具有吸引力。本研究评估了10种合成肽对耐药菌生长抑制、生物膜形成抑制及生物膜清除的影响。大多数肽对浮游细胞生长和生物膜形成呈剂量依赖性抑制。WIK - 14通过去除构成细胞外聚合物的碳水化合物、细胞外核酸、蛋白质和脂质来清除预先形成的生物膜团块。结果表明,WIK - 14和WIKE - 14肽可能为克服生物膜相关感染中的多药耐药性提供新型治疗药物。