1. Fosfomycin and Staphylococcus aureus: transcriptomic approach to assess effect on biofilm, and fate of unattached cells
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Claire Marquès, Christiane Forestier, Valérie Collin, Sonia Chatellier, Nicolas Charbonnel, Christine Franceschi, R&D Microbiologie, bioMerieux SA, BIOMERIEUX, Laboratoire Microorganismes : Génome et Environnement (LMGE), and Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] (UCA [2017-2020])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0301 basic medicine ,Staphylococcus aureus ,Carbohydrate transport ,030106 microbiology ,Fosfomycin ,medicine.disease_cause ,01 natural sciences ,Microbiology ,Cell wall ,Transcriptome ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,[SDV.SP.MED]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Pharmaceutical sciences/Medication ,Biosynthesis ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Pharmacology ,010405 organic chemistry ,Chemistry ,Biofilm ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,[SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology ,0104 chemical sciences ,Bacterial adhesin ,medicine.drug - Abstract
International audience; Interest has been rekindled in the old antibiotic fosfomycin, partly because of its ability to penetrate biofilm. Using a transcriptomic approach, we investigated the modifications induced by fosfomycin in sessile cells of a clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a device-associated infection. Cells still able to form biofilm after 4 h of incubation in the presence of subinhibitory concentrations of fosfomycin and cells from 24-h-old biofilm later submitted to fosfomycin had 6.77% and 9.41%, respectively, of differentially expressed genes compared with their antibiotic-free control. Fosfomycin induced mostly downregulation of genes assigned to nucleotide, amino acid and carbohydrate transport, and metabolism. Adhesins and capsular biosynthesis proteins encoding genes were downregulated in fosfomycin-grown biofilm, whereas the murein hydrolase regulator lgrA and a D-lactate dehydrogenase-encoding gene were upregulated. In fosfomycin-treated biofilm, the expression of genes encoding adhesins, the cell wall biosynthesis protein ScdA, and to a lesser extent the fosfomycin target MurA was also decreased. Unattached cells surrounding fosfomycin-grown biofilm showed greater ability to form aggregates than their counterparts obtained without fosfomycin. Reducing their global metabolism and lowering cell wall turnover would allow some S. aureus cells to grow in biofilm despite fosfomycin stress while promoting hyperadherent phenotype in the vicinity of the fosfomycin-treated biofilm.
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- 2019
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