Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 21, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms21145103
Keywords
adjuvant; C; acnes; clindamycin; PEG-8 Laurate; S; epidermidis
Funding
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) [108-2622-B-008-001-CC1, 108-2314-B-008-003-MY3, 107-2923-B-008-001-MY3]
- Landseed Hospital-NCU joint grants [106/107/108]
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The probiotic activity of skinStaphylococcus epidermidis(S. epidermidis) bacteria can elicit diverse biological functions via the fermentation of various carbon sources. Here, we found that polyethylene glycol (PEG)-8 Laurate, a carbon-rich molecule, can selectively induce the fermentation ofS. epidermidis, notCutibacterium acnes(C. acnes), a bacterium associated with acne vulgaris. The PEG-8 Laurate fermentation ofS. epidermidisremarkably diminished the growth ofC. acnesand theC. acnes-induced production of pro-inflammatory macrophage-inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2) cytokines in mice. Fermentation media enhanced the anti-C. acnesactivity of a low dose (0.1%) clindamycin, a prescription antibiotic commonly used to treat acne vulgaris, in terms of the suppression ofC. acnescolonization and MIP-2 production. Furthermore, PEG-8 Laurate fermentation ofS. epidermidisboosted the activity of 0.1% clindamycin to reduce the sizes ofC. acnescolonies. Our results demonstrated, for the first time, that the PEG-8 Laurate fermentation ofS. epidermidisdisplayed the adjuvant effect on promoting the efficacy of low-dose clindamycin againstC. acnes. TargetingC. acnesby lowering the required doses of antibiotics may avoid the risk of creating drug-resistantC. acnesand maintain the bacterial homeostasis in the skin microbiome, leading to a novel modality for the antibiotic treatment of acne vulgaris.
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