Repurposing azithromycin and rifampicin against Gram-negative pathogens by combination with peptide potentiators.

Abstract:

:Gram-negative bacterial pathogens are intrinsically resistant to several antibiotics that are not able to penetrate the cell envelope barrier. The aim of this study was to identify peptides that at low concentrations induce susceptibility to these antibiotics in multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial strains of clinical relevance. Pairwise screening of 34 diverse peptides and four antibiotics (erythromycin, linezolid, rifampicin and vancomycin) with primary activity against Gram-positive bacteria identified 4 peptides that at submicromolar concentrations conferred susceptibility to rifampicin or erythromycin in Escherichia coli ATCC 25922. The identified peptides exhibited synergy with azithromycin and potentiated clindamycin in MDR E. coli ST131 and Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258. The low cytotoxicity toward eukaryotic cells (IC50 > 50 µM) observed for two of these peptides (KLWKKWKKWLK-NH2 and GKWKKILGKLIR-NH2) prompted synthesis and evaluation of the corresponding all-d analogues (D1 and D2), which retained similar synergistic antibacterial profiles. Low concentrations of D1 and D2 in combination with azithromycin and rifampicin inhibited growth of most clinical E. coli, K. pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii strains tested. These data demonstrate that combinatorial screening at low peptide concentrations constitutes an efficient approach to identify clinically relevant peptide-antibiotic combinations. In vivo pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic and toxicity studies are needed to further validate the use of the peptides identified in this study for repurposing azithromycin and rifampicin against Gram-negative pathogens.

authors

Baker KR,Jana B,Hansen AM,Vissing KJ,Nielsen HM,Franzyk H,Guardabassi L

doi

10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.10.025

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-06-01 00:00:00

pages

868-872

issue

6

eissn

0924-8579

issn

1872-7913

pii

S0924-8579(18)30317-0

journal_volume

53

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