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A Microtitre Plate Dilution Method for Minimum Killing Concentration Is Developed to Evaluate Metabolites-Enabled Killing of Bacteria by β-lactam Antibiotics

Journal

FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.878651

Keywords

antibiotic resistance; minimum killing concentration; microtitre plate dilution method; metabolite; reprogramming metabolomics; inosine; bacteria

Funding

  1. International cooperation and exchanges NSFC [32061133007]
  2. Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) [311021006]
  3. Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2021A1515010133, 2019A1515011441]

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A modified microtitre plate dilution method, called the minimum killing concentration (MKC) test, was developed to evaluate the bactericidal efficacy of metabolites. The MKC test was suitable for different metabolites and clinically multidrug-resistant pathogens, and results correlated with the plate-counting test.
Because, as of yet, there are few new antibiotics active against multidrug-resistant bacteria are being explored, compounds including metabolites that might help us tide over this crisis are greatly expected. A recently adopted method to evaluate the potentiation of metabolites is the plate-counting test. However, the method is time-consuming, strenuous, and unfeasible for a large scale of screening. A minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test by using a microtitre plate dilution method is convenient and economic for a large scale of identification, but it cannot be used to detect the potentiation. Here, the microtitre plate dilution method was modified to develop a novel test for evaluating metabolites that enable the killing of bacterial pathogens by antibiotics, designed as minimum killing concentration (MKC). To do this, bacterial number, incubation time, ionic strength of M9 medium, and inosine concentration are optimized using Escherichia coli. Different from the MIC test, which uses 5 x 10(4) CFU cells and performed in LB medium, the MKC test needed 1 x 10(7) CFU - 2 x 10(7) CFU cells and was carried out in M9 medium. Moreover, MKC test was suitable for bactericidal antibiotics such as cephalosporins, penicillins and carbapenems and was proportional to the plate-counting test. The developed MKC test was feasible for different metabolites and clinically multidrug-resistant pathogens, and measurement of minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC). Therefore, the MKC test was developed to accelerate the identification of compounds that promote antibiotic-mediated killing efficacy.

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