期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 15, 期 11, 页码 2216-2228出版社
AMER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1166/jbn.2019.2858
关键词
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); Silver Nanoparticle; Silver Resistance; P-Type Efflux Pumps; Chlorpromazine; Co-Delivery; Antimicrobial Activity
资金
- MOE-TIF [MOE2015-TIF-1-G-037]
- MOE-TIF (NYP-CDP grant)
- NSERC [RGPIN-2017-04727, CRC-248475]
While the wide-spectrum antimicrobial properties and stability of silver nanomaterials have been copiously utilized in many medical and consumer products, we found that Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is less susceptible to silver in comparison to Methicillin Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Pre-exposure of MRSA to sub-lethal concentrations of AgNO3 caused 2.5-fold increase in LD50 of silver suggesting an inducible resistance mechanism. Studies involving gene expression profiling and efflux pump blockers showed the induction of P-type efflux pumps (Cop A, Cop Z and Nor B) as the principle mechanism conferring silver resistance in MRSA. Chlorpromazine-an efflux pump blocker increased sensitivity of MRSA to silver. Leveraging on these observations, silver resistance in MRSA was circumvented by enhancing the bioavailability of silver by cationic functioning of silver nanoparticles or by co-delivering silver together with chlorpromazine. Atomic Force Microscopy showed that poly-ethylene imine (PEI) functionalized silver nanoparticles adhere to bacterial cells which was found to increase the bioavailability, membrane rupture and cell death. The strategy of co-delivery of AgNO3 and chlorpromazine using chitosan-functionalized wormhole silica nanoparticles caused 12 log reduction in bacterial count which was 1000 times higher than bacterial reduction by AgNO3 alone. In short, these studies showed that circumventing antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic bacteria is possible by designed silver nanotechnology.
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