The fast spread of bacteria that are resistant to many classes of antibiotics (multidrug resistant) is a global threat to human and animal health with a worrisome scenario ahead. Novel therapeutical strategies are of crucial importance to combat this phenomenon. For this purpose, we investigated the antimicrobial properties of the naturally occurring tripeptide Bialaphos and a dipeptide L-leucyl-L-phosphinoithricin, the synthesis and diastereomers separation of which are herein described. We demonstrate that these compounds are effective on clinical isolates of the human pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing hospital-acquired and community-acquired infections. The tested isolates were remarkable for their resistance to more than 20 commercial antibiotics of different classes. Based on previous literature data and our experiments consisting of glutamine supplementation, we suggest that both compounds release phosphinothricin—a well-known nanomolar inhibitor of glutamine synthetase—after their penetration in the bacterial cells; and, in this way, exert their antibacterial effect by negatively affecting nitrogen assimilation in this pathogen.
Antibacterial activity of peptide derivatives of phosphinothricin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae / Demiankova, Marija V.; Giovannercole, Fabio; Khomutov, Maxim A.; Salikhov, Arthur I.; Onillon, Laura; Valuev-Elliston, Vladimir T.; Vasilieva, Byazilya F.; Khurs, Elena N.; Gabrielyan, Nina I.; Kochetkov, Sergey N.; Efremenkova, Olga V.; DE BIASE, Daniela; Khomutov, Alex R.. - In: MOLECULES. - ISSN 1420-3049. - 28:(2023), pp. 1-13. [10.3390/molecules28031234]
Antibacterial activity of peptide derivatives of phosphinothricin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Daniela De Biase
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2023
Abstract
The fast spread of bacteria that are resistant to many classes of antibiotics (multidrug resistant) is a global threat to human and animal health with a worrisome scenario ahead. Novel therapeutical strategies are of crucial importance to combat this phenomenon. For this purpose, we investigated the antimicrobial properties of the naturally occurring tripeptide Bialaphos and a dipeptide L-leucyl-L-phosphinoithricin, the synthesis and diastereomers separation of which are herein described. We demonstrate that these compounds are effective on clinical isolates of the human pathogen Klebsiella pneumoniae, causing hospital-acquired and community-acquired infections. The tested isolates were remarkable for their resistance to more than 20 commercial antibiotics of different classes. Based on previous literature data and our experiments consisting of glutamine supplementation, we suggest that both compounds release phosphinothricin—a well-known nanomolar inhibitor of glutamine synthetase—after their penetration in the bacterial cells; and, in this way, exert their antibacterial effect by negatively affecting nitrogen assimilation in this pathogen.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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