Zhang Yu, Bhasme Pramod, Reddy Dinesh S, Liu Dejian, Yu Zhaoxiao, Zhao Tianhu, Zheng Yaqian, Kumar Amit, Yu Haiying, Ma Luyan Z
State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
mLife. 2023 Sep 24;2(3):283-294. doi: 10.1002/mlf2.12087. eCollection 2023 Sep.
Antibiotic resistance or tolerance of pathogens is one of the most serious global public health threats. Bacteria in biofilms show extreme tolerance to almost all antibiotic classes. Thus, use of antibiofilm drugs without bacterial-killing effects is one of the strategies to combat antibiotic tolerance. In this study, we discovered a coumarin-chalcone conjugate C9, which can inhibit the biofilm formation of three common pathogens that cause nosocomial infections, namely, , , and , with the best antibiofilm activity against . Further investigations indicate that C9 decreases the synthesis of the key biofilm matrix exopolysaccharide Psl and bacterial second messenger cyclic-di-GMP. Meanwhile, C9 can interfere with the regulation of the quorum sensing (QS) system to reduce the virulence of . C9 treatment enhances the sensitivity of biofilm to several antibiotics and reduces the survival rate of under starvation or oxidative stress conditions, indicating its excellent potential for use as an antibiofilm-forming and anti-QS drug.
病原体的抗生素耐药性或耐受性是最严重的全球公共卫生威胁之一。生物膜中的细菌对几乎所有抗生素类别都表现出极强的耐受性。因此,使用无杀菌作用的抗生物膜药物是对抗抗生素耐受性的策略之一。在本研究中,我们发现了一种香豆素 - 查耳酮共轭物C9,它可以抑制三种引起医院感染的常见病原体(即 、 和 )的生物膜形成,其中对 的抗生物膜活性最佳。进一步研究表明,C9可减少关键生物膜基质胞外多糖Psl和细菌第二信使环二鸟苷酸的合成。同时,C9可干扰群体感应(QS)系统的调节,以降低 的毒力。C9处理可增强生物膜对几种抗生素的敏感性,并降低 在饥饿或氧化应激条件下的存活率,表明其作为抗生物膜形成和抗QS药物具有优异的应用潜力。