{"title":"Resistance to linezolid in Staphylococcus aureus by mutation, modification, and acquisition of genes.","authors":"Wenjing Yang, Taoran Chen, Qi Zhou, Jiancheng Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00778-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41429-024-00778-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Linezolid binds to the 50S subunit of the bacterial ribosome, inhibiting bacterial protein synthesis by preventing the formation of the initiation complex. Oxazolidinone antimicrobial drugs represent the last line of defense in treating Staphylococcus aureus infections; thus, resistance to linezolid in S. aureus warrants high priority. This article examines the major mechanisms of resistance to linezolid in S. aureus, which include: mutations in the domain V of 23S rRNA (primarily G2576); chromosomal mutations in the rplC, rplD, and rplV genes (encoding the ribosomal uL3, uL4, and uL22 proteins, respectively); the exogenous acquisition of the methylase encoded by the chloramphenicol-florfenicol resistance (cfr) gene; the endogenous methylation or demethylation of 23S rRNA; the acquisition of optrA and poxtA resistance genes; and the existence of the LmrS multidrug efflux pump. In conclusion, these mechanisms mediate resistance through mutations or modifications to the bacterial target, thereby reducing the affinity of linezolid for the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) binding site or by preventing the binding of linezolid to the PTC through a ribosomal protective effect. The existence of additional, unexplained resistance mechanisms requires further investigation and verification.</p>","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexander D H Kingdon, Holly V Adcock, Eleni-Marina Kasimati, Philip Craven, Willem van Schaik, Liam R Cox, Gurdyal S Besra
{"title":"Exploration of vanoxerine analogues as antibacterial agents.","authors":"Alexander D H Kingdon, Holly V Adcock, Eleni-Marina Kasimati, Philip Craven, Willem van Schaik, Liam R Cox, Gurdyal S Besra","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00781-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41429-024-00781-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a bacterial pathogen, responsible for approximately 1.3 million deaths in 2022 through tuberculosis infections. The complex treatment regimen required to treat tuberculosis and growing rates of drug resistance, necessitates the development of new anti-mycobacterial agents. One approach is to repurpose drugs from other clinical applications. Vanoxerine (GBR 12909) was previously shown to have anti-mycobacterial activity, through dissipating the membrane electric potential and hence, cellular energetics. Several vanoxerine analogues were synthesised in this study, which exhibited a range of activities against mycobacteria and enterococcus. All active analogues had similar impacts on the membrane electric potential and inhibition of ethidium bromide efflux. The most active compound displayed reduced inhibitory activity against the known human target of vanoxerine, the dopamine transporter. This work has identified a promising analogue, which could provide a starting point for further medicinal chemistry and drug development efforts to target mycobacteria.</p>","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142481208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suresh Dharuman, Gregory A Phelps, Christine M Dunn, Laura A Wilt, Patricia A Murphy, Robin B Lee, Hannah E Snoke, Petra Selchow, Klara Haldimann, Erik C Böttger, Sven N Hobbie, Peter Sander, Richard E Lee
{"title":"Correction: Synthesis and antibacterial action of 3',6'-disubstituted spectinomycins.","authors":"Suresh Dharuman, Gregory A Phelps, Christine M Dunn, Laura A Wilt, Patricia A Murphy, Robin B Lee, Hannah E Snoke, Petra Selchow, Klara Haldimann, Erik C Böttger, Sven N Hobbie, Peter Sander, Richard E Lee","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00777-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41429-024-00777-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142407187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drimane sesquiterpene esters produced by Aspergillus insuetus BF-1613 as inhibitors of sterol O-acyltransferase","authors":"Elyza Aiman Azizah Nur, Keisuke Kobayashi, Rio Tejima, Yosuke Katada, Hiroshi Tomoda, Taichi Ohshiro","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00774-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00774-8","url":null,"abstract":"A new drimane sesquiterpene ester, designated insuetusolate (1), and four reported ones (2–5) were isolated from a culture broth of Aspergillus insuetus BF-1613. The chemical structure of 1 was elucidated by extensive spectroscopic analyses, including MS and NMR. Compound 1 has a drimane-type sesquiterpene core with a 2’E,4’E,6’E-octatrienoate side chain. All these drimane sesquiterpene esters inhibited both sterol O-acyl transferase 1 (SOAT1) and 2 (SOAT2), but exhibited slightly potent inhibition against SOAT1 than SOAT2 with selectivity index (SI) [log (IC50 for SOAT1/ IC50 for SOAT2)] values ranging from −0.24 to −0.94.","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 12","pages":"837-841"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-024-00774-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pei-Lan Long, Jia-Xing Liu, Yan Xiao, Ping Mo, Jian Gao
{"title":"Streptomyces albidocamelliae sp. nov., an endophytic actinomycete isolated from the leaves of Camellia oleifera","authors":"Pei-Lan Long, Jia-Xing Liu, Yan Xiao, Ping Mo, Jian Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00776-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00776-6","url":null,"abstract":"A novel actinobacterium strain, HUAS 14-6T, was isolated from the healthy leaves of Camellia oleifera collected from Changde City, Hunan Province, China. Strain HUAS 14-6T produced tight spiral spore chains consisting of oval or spherical spores with a smooth surface. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain HUAS 14-6T belonged to the genus Streptomyces and shared highest similarity to Streptomyces bungoensis DSM 41781T (99.72%). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated strain HUAS 14-6T was in a clade with S. bungoensis DSM 41781T. However, the ANIm and dDDH between strain HUAS 14-6T and S. bungoensis DSM 41781T were 88.16% and 31.2%, respectively, far less than the species-level thresholds. Phylogenetic trees based on the five housekeeping genes (atpD, gyrB, recA, rpoB and trpB) showed that strain HUAS 14-6T formed a separate branch, indicating that this strain could belong to a potential new species. Pairwise MLSA distances between strain HUAS 14-6T and all type strains exhibiting 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of ≥98.7% to it were much higher than the maximum range of 0.014 recommended for delineating a new Streptomyces species. Based on polyphasic taxonomic study, HUAS 14-6T represents a novel species within the genus Streptomyces for which the name Streptomyces albidocamelliae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HUAS 14-6T (=MCCC 1K08365T=JCM 35920T).","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 12","pages":"786-793"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-024-00776-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winners of the 2022 JA Ōmura Awards for excellence","authors":"Richard E. Lee, Minoru Yoshida","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00767-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00767-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 11","pages":"711-712"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-024-00767-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xi Luo, Miaomiao Zhang, Yiquan Zhang, Xue Li, Renfei Lu
{"title":"Phenotypic changes and gene expression profiles of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in response to low concentrations of ampicillin","authors":"Xi Luo, Miaomiao Zhang, Yiquan Zhang, Xue Li, Renfei Lu","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00772-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00772-w","url":null,"abstract":"Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a leading cause of seafood-associated gastroenteritis and possesses intrinsic resistance to ampicillin. While ampicillin can trigger transcriptional responses of global genes, the behavioral and molecular changes that occur in V. parahaemolyticus when exposed to ampicillin are not fully understood. In this work, we investigated the effects of low concentrations of ampicillin on the physiology and gene expression of V. parahaemolyticus by combining phenotypic assays and RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis. Our results showed that the growth of V. parahaemolyticus were notably delayed, and both motility and c-di-GMP production were significantly inhibited in the response to low concentrations of ampicillin stress. In contrast, biofilm formation by V. parahaemolyticus was enhanced by exposure to low concentrations of ampicillin. However, low concentrations of ampicillin had no effect on the cytotoxicity or adherence activity of V. parahaemolyticus. The RNA-seq data revealed that a low concentration of ampicillin significantly affected the expression levels of 676 genes, including those involved in antibiotic resistance, virulence, biofilm formation, and regulation. This work contributes to our understanding of how V. parahaemolyticus alters its behavior and gene expression in response to ampicillin exposure.","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 12","pages":"823-836"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-024-00772-w.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keke Luo, Qin Yang, Yuyu Liu, Chenghang Sun, Shaowei Liu
{"title":"Aldgamycins Q1 and Q2, two novel 16-membered macrolides from the rare actinomycete Saccharothrix sp. 16Sb2-4","authors":"Keke Luo, Qin Yang, Yuyu Liu, Chenghang Sun, Shaowei Liu","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00775-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00775-7","url":null,"abstract":"Two novel 16-membered macrolides, named aldgamycin Q1 (1) and Q2 (2), were isolated from the culture broth of the rare actinomycete Saccharothrix sp. 16Sb2-4. The structures of 1 and 2 were elucidated as new aldgamycin analogs with a demethylated mycinose residue by spectroscopic analyses and comparison with data of aldgamycin K. Compounds 1 and 2 showed moderate to weak antibacterial activities against Enterococcus faecalis, Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii, with MIC values ranging from 16 to 64 μg mL−1.","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 12","pages":"842-846"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142332572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ekaterina A. Chingizova, Artur R. Chingizov, Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya, Evgeny A. Pislyagin, Aleksandra S. Kuzmich, Elena V. Leshchenko, Gleb V. Borkunov, Irina V. Guzhova, Dmitry L. Aminin, Ekaterina A. Yurchenko
{"title":"The influence of marine fungal meroterpenoid meroantarctine A toward HaCaT keratinocytes infected with Staphylococcus aureus","authors":"Ekaterina A. Chingizova, Artur R. Chingizov, Ekaterina S. Menchinskaya, Evgeny A. Pislyagin, Aleksandra S. Kuzmich, Elena V. Leshchenko, Gleb V. Borkunov, Irina V. Guzhova, Dmitry L. Aminin, Ekaterina A. Yurchenko","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00771-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00771-x","url":null,"abstract":"A new biological activity was discovered for marine fungal meroterpenoid meroantarctine A with unique 6/5/6/6 polycyclic system. It was found that meroantarctine A can significantly reduce biofilm formation by Staphylococcus aureus with an IC50 of 9.2 µM via inhibition of sortase A activity. Co-cultivation of HaCaT keratinocytes with a S. aureus suspension was used as an in vitro model of skin infection. Treatment of S. aureus-infected HaCaT cells with meroantarctine A at 10 µM caused a reduction in the production of TNF-α, IL-18, NO, and ROS, as well as LDH release and caspase 1 activation in these cells and, finally, recovered the proliferation and migration of HaCaT cells in an in vitro wound healing assay up to the control level. Thus, meroantarctine A is a new promising antibiofilm compound which can effective against S. aureus caused skin infection.","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 12","pages":"812-822"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cytosporones Y and Z, new antifungal polyketides produced by the fungal strain Trichoderma sp. FKI-6626","authors":"Haruki Azami, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Hiroki Kojima, Yurika Yoshida, Sayaka Ban, Kenichi Nonaka, Takashi Yaguchi, Masato Iwatsuki","doi":"10.1038/s41429-024-00765-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41429-024-00765-9","url":null,"abstract":"Two new antifungal polyketides, named cytosporones Y (1) and Z (2), were discovered from the cultured broth of Trichoderma sp. FKI-6626. Their structures were elucidated by MS and NMR analysis. Both compounds exhibited antifungal activity against five Aspergillus species, the causative agents of aspergillosis.","PeriodicalId":54884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Antibiotics","volume":"77 11","pages":"721-726"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41429-024-00765-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142146900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}