Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Article Title: Design of New Antibacterial Enhancers Based on AcrB’s Structure and the Evaluation of Their Antibacterial Enhancement Activity
doi: 10.3390/ijms17111934
Figure Lengend Snippet: Molecule docking of DHA27 binding to AcrB. The crystal structure of AcrB (PDB ID, 2DRD) was obtained from Protein Data Bank. The molecular docking results were analyzed and represented in the PyMOL 1.3 visualization software. Proteins are shown in orange. The compound is shown as thick sticks colored according to the atom type (red, oxygen; cyan, carbon; white, hydrogen; dark blue, nitrogen, khaki, sulfur), and residues are shown in bluish violet and marked. ( A ) Longitudinal section of substrate translocation pathway when DHA27 was docked with AcrB when PDB ID 2DRD was used; ( B ) Cartoon view of DHA27 docked with AcrB when PDB ID 2DRD was used; ( C ) Effect of DHA27 on binding polypeptides from AcrB and its mutant peptides. Daunorubicin accumulation within E. coli ATCC 35218 pretreated with DHA27 and polypeptides; 64 mg/L of DHA27 and polypeptide (molar ratio: 1:1) were cultured for 30 min at 37 °C. This mixture was added to the E. coli concentrations of 1.0 × 10 6 cfu/mL and cultured for 6 h at 37 °C in a heated and shaking environmental chamber. The bacterial pellet was resuspended, and the bacterial suspension was adjusted to an OD 600 of 1.0. After co-culture with daunorubicin (40 mg/L) in the dark at 37 °C for 30 min, the bacteria were centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 5 min to harvest the bacterial pellet. After washing with PBS (0.2 mM, pH 7.2) five times, fluorospectrophotometry was used to observe daunorubicin accumulation within E. coli . The emission wavelength was 467 nm, and the excitation wavelength was 588 nm. ** p < 0.01 compared with broth; ## p < 0.01 compared with DHA27.
Article Snippet: The aforementioned results indicated that DHA27 had the antibacterial enhancement activity of AMP against not only E. coli standard strain ATCC 35218 but also most clinical strains.
Techniques: Binding Assay, Software, Translocation Assay, Mutagenesis, Cell Culture, Suspension, Co-Culture Assay, Bacteria