Faculty of Medicine, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 3;15(1):8572. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52595-w.
Spread of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains threatens to render currently available antibiotics obsolete, with limited prospects for the development of new antibiotics. Lytic bacteriophages, the viruses of bacteria, represent a path to combat this threat. In vitro-directed evolution is traditionally applied to expand the bacteriophage host range or increase bacterial suppression in planktonic cultures. However, while up to 80% of human microbial infections are biofilm-associated, research towards targeted improvement of bacteriophages' ability to combat biofilms remains scarce. This study aims at an in vitro biofilm evolution assay to improve multiple bacteriophage parameters in parallel and the optimisation of bacteriophage cocktail design by exploiting a bacterial bacteriophage resistance trade-off. The evolved bacteriophages show an expanded host spectrum, improved antimicrobial efficacy and enhanced antibiofilm performance, as assessed by isothermal microcalorimetry and quantitative polymerase chain reaction, respectively. Our two-phage cocktail reveals further improved antimicrobial efficacy without incurring dual-bacteriophage-resistance in treated bacteria. We anticipate this assay will allow a better understanding of phenotypic-genomic relationships in bacteriophages and enable the training of bacteriophages against other desired pathogens. This, in turn, will strengthen bacteriophage therapy as a treatment adjunct to improve clinical outcomes of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.
多重耐药铜绿假单胞菌菌株的传播有可能使目前可用的抗生素失效,而新抗生素的开发前景有限。裂解噬菌体,即细菌的病毒,代表着对抗这一威胁的途径。体外定向进化传统上用于扩大噬菌体的宿主范围或增加浮游培养物中细菌的抑制作用。然而,尽管高达 80%的人类微生物感染与生物膜相关,但针对噬菌体对抗生物膜能力的靶向改进的研究仍然很少。本研究旨在通过利用细菌噬菌体抗性权衡进行体外生物膜进化测定,以平行改善多种噬菌体参数,并优化噬菌体鸡尾酒设计。通过等温微量热法和定量聚合酶链反应分别评估,进化后的噬菌体显示出扩展的宿主范围、提高的抗菌功效和增强的抗生物膜性能。我们的两噬菌体鸡尾酒显示出进一步提高的抗菌功效,而在处理的细菌中没有产生双重噬菌体抗性。我们预计该测定将使人们更好地了解噬菌体的表型-基因组关系,并能够训练噬菌体对抗其他所需病原体。这反过来又将加强噬菌体治疗作为一种治疗辅助手段,以改善多重耐药细菌感染的临床结果。
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