PMID:21844313
| Citation |
Mensa, B, Kim, YH, Choi, S, Scott, R, Caputo, GA and DeGrado, WF (2011) Antibacterial mechanism of action of arylamide foldamers. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 55:5043-53 |
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| Abstract |
Small arylamide foldamers designed to mimic the amphiphilic nature of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have shown potent bactericidal activity against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive strains without many of the drawbacks of natural AMPs. These foldamers were shown to cause large changes in the permeability of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. They cause more limited permeabilization of the inner membrane which reaches critical levels corresponding with the time required to bring about bacterial cell death. Transcriptional profiling of E. coli treated with sublethal concentrations of the arylamides showed induction of genes related to membrane and oxidative stresses, with some overlap with the effects observed for polymyxin B. Protein secretion into the periplasm and the outer membrane is also compromised, possibly contributing to the lethality of the arylamide compounds. The induction of membrane stress response regulons such as rcs coupled with morphological changes at the membrane observed by electron microscopy suggests that the activity of the arylamides at the membrane represents a significant contribution to their mechanism of action. |
| Links |
PubMed PMC3195038 Online version:10.1128/AAC.05009-11 |
| Keywords |
Amides/pharmacology; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology; Escherichia coli/drug effects; Microbial Sensitivity Tests; Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction |
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