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Maridomycin, a new macrolide antibiotic. In vitro antibacterial activity of 9-propionylmaridomycin.

9-Propionylmaridomycin shows in vitro antibacterial activity against gram-positive bacteria and has some action on Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Vibrio cholerae, but is generally inactive against many gram-negative rods. This antibiotic exhibits strong activity against clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus which are highly resistant to erythromycin or oleandomycin, or both, but which are sensitive to josamycin and kitasamycin. Strains resistant to josamycin and kitasamycin were also found to be resistant to this antibiotic. A significant feature of 9-propionylmaridomycin is a lack in its ability to induce resistance induction in resistance-inducible strains of staphylococci to erythromycin. Several antibacterial features of 9-propionylmaridomycin such as the influence of medium pH, inoculum size, effect of addition of horse serum, development of resistance, cross resistance, and bacteriostatic activity were shown to be almost identical to those of josamycin and kitasamycin. The antibacterial activity of 9-propionylmaridomycin was stable in solutions at pH levels of 4, 7, and 9.

Aminoglycosides↗

Direct evidence for antipseudomonal activity of macrolides: exposure-dependent bactericidal activity and inhibition of protein synthesis by erythromycin, clarithromycin, and azithromycin.

Several previous investigators have reported that long-term administration of certain macrolides is efficacious in patients with persistent pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, even though the clinically achievable concentrations of these medications are far below their MICs. In the present study, we examined how sub-MICs of macrolide antibiotics affect the viability of and protein synthesis in several strains of P. aeruginosa. We report that 48 h, but not 12 or 24 h, of growth on agar containing a clinically achievable concentration of azithromycin (0.5 microgram/ml, 1/128 the MIC) significantly reduces the viability of strain PAO-1. Similar effects were seen with erythromycin and clarithromycin at 2 micrograms/ml (1/128 and 1/64 the respective MICs), whereas josamycin, oleandomycin, ceftazidime, tobramycin, minocycline, and ofloxacin had no effect on viability, even following 48 h of incubation with concentrations representing relatively high fractions of their MICs. The bactericidal activity of azithromycin seen following 48 h of incubation was not limited to strain PAO-1 but was also seen against 13 of 14 clinical isolates, including both mucoid and nonmucoid strains. Although viability was not decreased prior to 48 h, we found that 4 micrograms of azithromycin per ml inhibits protein synthesis after as little as 12 h and that protein synthesis continues to decrease in a time-dependent manner. We likewise found that P. aeruginosa accumulates azithromycin intracellulary over the period from 12 to 36 h. These results suggested that sub-MICs of certain macrolides are bactericidal to P. aeruginosa when the bacteria are exposed to these antibiotics for longer periods. Exposure-dependent intracellular accumulation of the antibiotic and inhibition of protein synthesis may partially account for the antipseudomonal activity of macrolides over relatively prolonged incubation periods.

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Antibiotics as probes of ribosome structure: binding of chloramphenicol and erythromycin to polyribosomes; effect of other antibiotics.

Antibiotics were used as probes of ribosome topology and function. Studies of [(14)C]chloramphenicol and [(14)C]erythromycin binding to ribosomes and polyribosomes revealed the following features. The requirement of high K(+) concentration (150 mM) for [(14)C]chloramphenicol binding to NH(4)Cl-washed ribosomes resulted from the washing procedure. Neither native 70S ribosomes nor polyribosomes require K(+) greater than 30 mM for [(14)C]chloramphenicol binding. Whereas [(14)C]chloramphenicol binds to both ribosomes and polyribosomes, [(14)C]erythromycin binds essentially only to ribosomes. After removal of peptidyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) from polyribosomes, [(14)C]erythromycin could then be bound. The effects of a number of antibiotics on [(14)C]chloramphenicol binding to ribosomes and polyribosomes was assessed. It was found that most of the macrolides (erythromycin, carbomycin, spiramycin III, niddamycin, oleandomycin, and tylosin) and streptogramins A and B (vernamycin A, PA114A, vernamycin Balpha, and PA114B) inhibited chloramphenicol binding to NH(4)Cl-washed and native 70S ribosomes, but not to polyribosomes. After removal of peptidyl-tRNA from polyribosomes, [(14)C]chloramphenicol binding was then inhibited. In contrast, sparsomycin and althiomycin inhibited chloram-phenicol binding to polyribosomes, but not to ribosomes. After removal of peptidyl-tRNA from polyribosomes, sparsomycin and althiomycin were then ineffective. The presence of peptidyl-tRNA on polyribosomes apparently is required for binding of sparsomycin and althiomycin, but prevents binding of most macrolides and streptogramins. The lincosaminides (lincomycin and celesticetin) and methymycin (a small macrolide) inhibited [(14)C]chloramphenicol binding to NH(4)Cl-washed and native 70S ribosomes best, but also inhibited the binding to polyribosomes. The amino nucleosides and other antibiotics tested do not seem to interact strongly with the major chloramphenicol-binding site. These results provide knowledge of the interrelationships between antibiotic and substrate ribosome binding sites which should eventually contribute to a map of ribosomal topology.

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In vitro development of resistance to erythromycin, other macrolide antibiotics, and lincomycin in Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae was made highly resistant to erythromycin in vitro by serial subculture in broth media containing erythromycin. The resistance developed to erythromycin was 200 mug/ml with the Mac strain, a prototype of M. pneumoniae, and 10 mug/ml with the Fukumura strain, an isolate. The erythromycin resistance was accompanied by cross resistance to other macrolide antibiotics (leucomycin, josamycin, spiramycin, and oleandomycin) and to lincomycin, but there was no resistance to vernamycin B. Resistance to the antibiotics developed in vitro or in vivo was stable after the microorganisms were repeatedly transferred in antibiotic-free media.

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Susceptibility of fecal streptococci of poultry origin to nine growth-promoting agents.

The minimal inhibitory concentrations of nine growth-promoting agents were determined by an agar-dilution method against 66 bile-tolerant streptococcal (8 Streptococcus faecalis, 23 Streptococcus faecalis subsp. liquefaciens, 15 Streptococcus faecium, and 20 carboxyphilic streptococci) strains isolated from the ceca of 52 chickens on 19 farms. Avoparcin was equally active on all groups. The natural susceptibilities against the other substances differed among the groups studied. Bacitracin and virginiamycin were more active on S. faecium and S. faecalis than on S. faecalis subsp. liquefaciens; lincomycin and the macrolide antibiotics were more active on S. faecium than on the other groups; and flavomycin was active on all groups except S. faecium. High percentages of acquired resistance were noted in all groups against bacitracin, lincomycin, and the macrolide antibiotics, oleandomycin, spiramycin, and tylosin. Resistance to nitrovin was found only among the S. faecalis and S. faecium groups.

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Antibiotic susceptibility of anaerobic ruminal bacteria.

This study demonstrated that 15 species of ruminal bacteria with no previous history of contact with antibiotics are susceptible to bacitracin, chloramphenicol, chlortetracycline, erythromycin, novobiocin, oleandomycin, oxytetracycline, penicillin, tetracycline, tylosin, and vancomycin. A number of the species were not inhibited by kanamycin, neomycin, polymyxin, and streptomycin. The data suggest that antibiotic-resistant cells occur within susceptible cultures of these species. Streptococcus bovis FD-10 and a nonruminal anaerobe, Bacteroides melaninogenicus BE-1, showed similar antibiotic susceptibilities.

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Enumeration of food-borne Clostridium perfringens in egg yolk-free tryptose-sulfite-cycloserine agar.

The SFP (Shahidi-Ferguson perfringens), TSC (tryptose-sulfite-cycloserine), EY (egg yolk)-free TSC, and OPSP (oleandomycin-polymyxin-sulfadiazine perfringens) agars have been tested for their suitability to enumerate Clostridium perfringens in naturally contaminated foods. Complete recoveries of C. perfringens were obtained in each of the four media, but only the TSC and EY-free TSC agars were sufficiently selective to ensure subsequent confirmatory tests without interference from facultative anaerobes. Because of some disadvantages associated with the use of egg yolk, EY-free TSC agar is recommended for enumeration of C. perfringens in foods. Several conditions for convenient shipment of foods and C. perfringens isolates with minimum loss of viability have been tested. The highest viable counts were preserved when foods were mixed 1:1 (wt/vol) with 20% glycerol and kept in a container with dry ice. Isolated C. perfringens strains remained viable for at least 2 weeks at ambient temperatures on blood agar slopes with a 2% agar overlay in screw-cap culture tubes.

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Evidence on possible Mycoplasma etiology of aster yellows disease I. Suppression of symptom development in plants by antibiotics.

Antibiotics suppressed development of aster yellows (AY) disease symptoms in plants of china aster [Callistephus chinensis (L.) Nees.] and annual chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum carinatum, Schousb.). When inoculated chrysanthemum plants were treated by any of several techniques with tetracycline antibiotics or chloramphenicol, symptoms failed to appear during treatment but appeared 1 to 4 weeks after treatments were terminated. Under continuous administration of chlortetracycline, aster plants with AY symptoms developed symptomless axillary growth, including flowers. Streptomycin, oleandomycin, kanamycin, tylosin, carbomycin, polymyxin, bacitracin, neomycin, sulfanilamide, penicillin, vancomycin, or cycloserine had no discernible effect on development of AY symptoms. Treatment of plants with tetracycline antibiotics before exposure to inoculative (pathogen-transmitting) vectors delayed the appearance of symptoms or prevented AY infection. Remission of AY symptoms in inoculated plants treated with chlortetracycline was correlated with an inhibition of multiplication of AY agent, as measured by bioassay of extracts. The data give additional support to the hypothesis that aster yellows disease is caused by a mycoplasma-like microorganism.

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Genetic analysis of antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes.

The genetics of antibiotic resistance in mutant strains of Streptococcus pyrogenes was studied. Utilizing a type 6 strain (9440) primarily resistant to strepttomycin (Strr), classes of mutant strains were isolated that were resistant to one of the following antibiotics: rifampin (Rifr), erythromycin (Eryr), thiostrepton (Tstr), spiramycin (Sprr), fusidic acid (Fusr), gramicidin (Grcr), ethidium bromide (Ebrr), kanamycin (Kanr), neomycin (Neor), oleandomycin (Oler), gentamicin (Genr), and novobiocin (Novr). Transduction experiments separated antibiotic resistance markers into two distinct groups: transducible markers, including Fusr, Bacr, Ksg+, Spcr, Eryr, Sprr, Rifr, Stlr, and Tstr (Bacr, Ksgr, Spcr, and Stlr refer to resistance to bacitracin, kasugamycin, spectinomycin, and streptolydigan, respectively), and nontransducible markers, including Grcr, Ebrr, Kanr, Neor, Oler, Genr, and Novr. By means of two- and three-point crosses, transducible markers (excluding tst) were located in three separate linkage groups. spr was found to be linked with ery and spc in the order spc-ery-spr, whereas in a separate linkage group the order was determined to be str-fus-bac-ksg. The third linkage group contained the rif and stl markers.

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A silent ABC transporter isolated from Streptomyces rochei F20 induces multidrug resistance.

In the search for heterologous activators for actinorhodin production in Streptomyces lividans, 3.4 kb of DNA from Streptomyces rochei F20 (a streptothricin producer) were characterized. Subcloning experiments showed that the minimal DNA fragment required for activation was 0.4 kb in size. The activation is mediated by increasing the levels of transcription of the actII-ORF4 gene. Sequencing of the minimal activating fragment did not reveal any clues about its mechanism; nevertheless, it was shown to overlap the 3' end of two convergent genes, one of whose translated products (ORF2) strongly resembles that of other genes belonging to the ABC transporter superfamily. Computer-assisted analysis of the 3.4-kb DNA sequence showed the 3' terminus of an open reading frame (ORF), i.e., ORFA, and three complete ORFs (ORF1, ORF2, and ORFB). Searches in the databases with their respective gene products revealed similarities for ORF1 and ORF2 with ATP-binding proteins and transmembrane proteins, respectively, which are found in members of the ABC transporter superfamily. No similarities for ORFA and ORFB were found in the databases. Insertional inactivation of ORF1 and ORF2, their transcription analysis, and their cloning in heterologous hosts suggested that these genes were not expressed under our experimental conditions; however, cloning of ORF1 and ORF2 together (but not separately) under the control of an expressing promoter induced resistance to several chemically different drugs: oleandomycin, erythromycin, spiramycin, doxorubicin, and tetracycline. Thus, this genetic system, named msr, is a new bacterial multidrug ABC transporter.

ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters↗

New selective agar medium for isolation of virulent Yersinia enterocolitica.

A selective agar medium for isolation of virulent Yersinia enterocolitica (VYE agar) was developed for the rapid and accurate isolation of virulent Y. enterocolitica from environmental samples highly contaminated with environmental Yersinia organisms, as well as for isolation from clinical specimens. VYE agar provided a quantitative recovery of 51 different strains of virulent Y. enterocolitica at 32 degrees C after incubation for 24 h. The cefsulodin, irgasan, josamycin, and oleandomycin content of the medium resulted in a high selectivity, and the mannitol and esculin content provided some differentiation. The greatest advantage of VYE agar is that virulent Y. enterocolitica, which forms red colonies, is easily differentiated from most environmental Yersinia organisms and other gram-negative bacteria, which form dark colonies with a dark peripheral zone as a result of esculin hydrolysis. Use of VYE agar led to a high recovery of Y. enterocolitica biotype 3B serotype O:3 strains from experimentally inoculated meat samples, compared with use of CIN agar. Biotype 2 serotypes O:5,27 and O:9 and biotype 1 esculin-negative serotypes O:4,32, O:8, O:13a,13b, O:18, O:20, and O:21 (American types) were readily differentiated from other environmental organisms able to grow on VYE agar. Epidemiological studies on Y. enterocolitica should be greatly facilitated by the use of this selective agar medium.

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Isolation and characterization of hemin-permeable, envelope-defective mutants of Salmonella typhimurium.

From Salmonella typhimurium LT2 hemA (delta-aminolevulinic acid requiring) 15 mutants were isolated which grew on the hydrophobic compound hemin. All had increased sensitivity to antibiotics such as vancomycin, bacitracin, novobiocin, erythromycin, rifampin, and oleandomycin, and were considered to be envelope mutants (Env-). Half the mutants were rough , based on altered bacteriophage sensitivity and deoxycholate sensitivity, whereas the remainder were smooth; three of the smooth mutants were studied in detail. They gave increased uptake of gentian violet but no increase in leakage of a periplasmic protein, RNase I. The total membranes and fractions from sucrose gradient centrifugations representing inner and outer membranes of the wild type and three mutants were examined by sodium dodecyl sulfate - polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and isoelectric focussing - PAGE (IEF-PAGE). The major outer membrane proteins (molecular weights (MW)33 000, 34 000, 35 000, and 36 000) showed no or very little alterations in the Env- mutants. In SA1926 (env-52) one protein spot at MW 48 000, proven to be an outer membrane protein, was missing, whereas a new spot appeared nearby, and other proteins in this area of the gel were reduced. An Env+ transductant selected from this strain had the wild-type protein pattern restored. The two other Env- mutants had similar but not identical changes in protein composition.

Aminolevulinic Acid↗

An increase of 63 kDa-protein present in the cell membranes of Staphylococcus aureus that bears a plasmid mediating inducible resistance to partial macrolide and streptogramin B antibiotics.

A plasmid, pEP2104 (23.9 kilobase pairs), from Staphylococcus aureus carries a gene that specifies inducible resistance to 14-membered (erythromycin, EM, and oleandomycin, OL) and 16-membered macrolide (mycinamicin I and II), but not to all of the latter, and to streptogramin type B antibiotics (partial macrolide- and streptogramin-B-antibiotic resistance: PMS-resistance) (L. Jánosi, E. Bán, Acta Microbiol. Acad. Sci. Hung., 29, 187 (1982) and Y. Nakajima et al., J. Pharmacobio-Dyn., 15, 319 (1992)). The induced cells of strain 8325(pEP2104) did not inactivate EM, OL, josamycin, rokitamycin or mikamycin B (MKM-B), and the cell-free extract of the strain did not inactivate EM or MKM-B, either. Ribosomes from the cells whose PMS-resistance was induced by EM were sensitive not only to EM or spiramycin, but also to MKM-B. A 63000-dalton protein increased to a great extent only in the cell membrane fractions of induced 8325(pEP2104), and may be involved in PMS-resistance.

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Labile 50S ribosome from partial macrolide-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Staphylococcus aureus S704 and 8325MMT7 show constitutive resistance to macrolide antibiotics such as erythromycin (EM), oleandomycin, spiramycin, rosamicin and josamycin, except for tylosin, rokitamycin (RKM), and mycinamicin as well as lincosamide and streptogramin type B antibiotics (PM-resistance). Whenever 70S ribosomes from either of them were dissociated into 30S and 50S subunits in a 10-28%(W/W) linear sucrose gradient, the latter subunit was further cleaved into two small apparently equal particles (about 40S). RKM could no longer bind to either of the small particles. A prior exposure of 8325MMT7's 50S subunit to RKM (except EM) did not cause cleavage in any small particles. The largest component (M.W. 33.0kDa) of 50S ribosomal proteins was absent in at least the small particles. The first finding suggests that the lability of the 50S ribosome may be responsible for PM-resistance.

Ammonium Chloride↗

Characteristics and localization of a determinant conferring partial macrolide resistance in Staphylococcus aureus carrying plasmid.

Staphylococcus aureus TPR-27, a clinically isolated strain, showed constitutive resistance to some macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin, oleandomycin, spiramycin, and josamycin), but susceptibility to the other macrolide (tylosin, rokitamycin, and mycinamicin), lincosamide, and streptogramin type B antibiotics (PM-resistance). The PM-resistant strain TPR-27 has carried for visible plasmids. Attempts to eliminate the resistant determinant in terms of ethidium bromide (about 3 micrograms/ml) did not succeed, and every trial to transduce the PM-resistant determinant into rec- mutant ISP105 using phage 80L2 propagated on strain TPR-27 also failed at the frequency of less than 1.1 x 10(-10) transductants per plaque-forming unit. These results suggest that the PM-resistance determinant is localized in chromosomal DNA.

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A mechanism of resistance to partial macrolide and streptogramin B antibiotics in Staphylococcus aureus clinically isolated in Hungary.

A plasmid pEP2104 originated from Staphylococcus aureus was clinically isolated in Hungary during 1977. The plasmid mediates inducible resistance to PMS-antibiotics; partial macrolide [the 14-membered macrolides, erythromycin (EM) and oleandomycin and the 16-membered macrolides mycinamicin I (MCM I) and mycinamicin II (MCM II)and type B streptogramin (MKM-B) antibiotics. The sequence of 31 amino acid residues obtained by N-terminal analysis of the 63kDa protein (MsrSA) present in the membrane from 8325(pEP2104) cells whose PMS-resistance was induced by a concentration of 1.35 micrograms EM/ml [EM-induced 8325(pEP2104)], was identical to the corresponding sequence in a membrane protein MsrA related to promoting efflux of [14C]EM [Ross J.I., et al., Mol. Microbiol., 4, 1207 (1990)]. A constitutive PMS-resistant strain 8325(pMC38) was obtained from the 8325( pEP2104) strain in the presence of 1 microgram MCMI/ml. No inactivation of EM in EM-induced 8325(pEP2104) was observed. Moreover, poly (A)-directed polylysine synthesis by a cell-free system containing ribosomes from EM-induced 8325 (pEP2104) cells and S100 from Escherichia coli was inhibited by not only EM but spiramycin and MKM-B [Matsuoka M., et al., Biol. Pharm. Bull., 16, 1288 (1993)]. In addition, ribosomes from both EM-induced 8325 (pEP2104) and 8325(pMC38) strains showed about the same affinity as those from the host stain. NCTC8325. These results suggest, that like MsrA protein, active drug-efflux due to MsrSA protein may be responsible for PMS-resistance. How can the 8325 (pMC38) strain discriminate PMS-antibiotics from most of 16-membered macrolides and lincosamides? A possible explanation is discussed in terms of the pKa-value related to the physicochemical nature of the antibiotics.

Amino Acid Sequence↗

[Inducible resistance to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin type B antibiotics in Bacillus licheniformis: common structures of macrolide antibiotics capable of inducing the resistance].

Whether or not resistance to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin type B antibiotics (MLS) can be induced by many macrolide antibiotics (Mac), was inquired in Bacillus licheniformis EMR. Resistance to MLS in the strain was induced by erythromycin, oleandomycin, clarithromycin, roxithromycin, narbomycin, picromycin, kujimycin A or B, mycinamicin I, or rosamicin. On the contrary, josamycin, spiramycin, tylosin, rokitamycin, midecamycin, and miokamycin as well as lincosamide and streptogramin type B antibiotics could not induce MLS-resistance. The results suggest that two common chemical residues of the inducer Mac, that is, 1) a single monosaccharide at C5 in the 14- and 16-membered lactone rings, and 2) one polar group such as dimethylamino or methoxyl at C3' in the sugar, are likely to be responsible for showing the activity of MLS-resistance inducer in Bacillus licheniformis EMR.

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