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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
卷 60, 期 8, 页码 859-866出版社
MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETY KOREA
DOI: 10.1007/s12275-022-2107-y
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bacteriophage; endolysin; cell-penetrating peptide; Acinetobacter baumannii; multiple drug-resistant
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- National Research Foundation of Korea - Korean government [2021R1F1A1060072, 2019M3E5D5066666]
- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2019M3E5D5066666, 2021R1F1A1060072] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
The engineered endolysin DS-PA90 was developed to effectively eliminate multiple drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and showed tolerance to NaCl. This modified endolysin demonstrates high antibacterial activity against Gram-negative pathogens.
Antimicrobial agents targeting peptidoglycan have shown successful results in eliminating bacteria with high selective toxicity. Bacteriophage encoded endolysin as an alternative antibiotics is a peptidoglycan degrading enzyme with a low rate of resistance. Here, the engineered endolysin was developed to defeat multiple drug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii. First, putative endolysin PA90 was predicted by genome analysis of isolated Pseudomonas phage PBPA. The His-tagged PA90 was purified from BL21(DE3) pLysS and tested for the enzymatic activity using Gram-negative pathogens known for having a high antibiotic resistance rate including A. baumannii. Since the measured activity of PA90 was low, probably due to the outer membrane, cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) DS4.3 was introduced at the N-terminus of PA90 to aid access to its substrate. This engineered endolysin, DS-PA90, completely killed A. baumannii at 0.25 mu M, at which concentration PA90 could only eliminate less than one log in CFU/ml. Additionally, DS-PA90 has tolerance to NaCl, where the similar to 50% of activity could be maintained in the presence of 150 mM NaCl, and stable activity was also observed with changes in pH or temperature. Even MDR A. baumannii strains were highly susceptible to DS-PA90 treatment: five out of nine strains were entirely killed and four strains were reduced by 3-4 log in CFU/ml. Consequently, DS-PA90 could protect waxworm from A. baumannii-induced death by similar to 70% for ATCC 17978 or similar to 44% for MDR strain 1656-2 infection. Collectively, our data suggest that CPP-fused endolysin can be an effective antibacterial agent against Gram-negative pathogens regardless of antibiotics resistance mechanisms.
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