Journal
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01439-18
Keywords
Staphylococcus aureus; antibiotics; bacteriophages; membrane vesicles
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- Swiss National Foundation [SNF] [31003A_169307, 31003A_176252]
- JST ERATO grant [PMJER1502]
- Center for Microscopy and Image Analysis, University of Zurich
- JSPS KAKENHI [16H06189]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_176252, 31003A_169307] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H06189] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Bacterial membrane vesicle research has so far focused mainly on Gram-negative bacteria. Only recently have Gram-positive bacteria been demonstrated to produce and release extracellular membrane vesicles (MVs) that contribute to bacterial virulence. Although treatment of bacteria with antibiotics is a wellestablished trigger of bacterial MV formation, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. In this study, we show that antibiotics can induce MVs through different routes in the important human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus. DNA-damaging agents and antibiotics inducing the SOS response triggered vesicle formation in lysogenic strains of S. aureus but not in their phage-devoid counterparts. The beta-lactam antibiotics flucloxacillin and ceftaroline increased vesicle formation in a prophageindependent manner by weakening the peptidoglycan layer. We present evidence that the amount of DNA associated with MVs formed by phage lysis is greater than that for MVs formed by beta-lactam antibiotic-induced blebbing. The purified MVs derived from S. aureus protected the bacteria from challenge with daptomycin, a membrane-targeting antibiotic, both in vitro and ex vivo in whole blood. In addition, the MVs protected S. aureus from killing in whole blood, indicating that antibioticinduced MVs function as a decoy and thereby contribute to the survival of the bacterium.
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