A Biochemical Lanthanide-Encoding Approach Enables Quantitative Monitoring of the Bacterial Response to Vancomycin Treatment
A Biochemical Lanthanide-Encoding Approach Enables Quantitative Monitoring of the Bacterial Response to Vancomycin Treatment
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生化镧系元素编码方法能够定量监测细菌对万古霉素治疗的反应
DOI:
10.1021/acs.biochem.0c00614
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Qiuquan Wang
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作者:
Weitong Zhao;Yong Liang;Xiaowen Yan;Limin Yang;Qiuquan Wang
A pathogenic bacterium has its own mechanisms for not only pathogenic attack but also exogenous invasion defense, in which the bacterial cell wall is the front line of attack and defense. We developed a biochemical lanthanide-encoding approach to quantify the uncanonicald-amino acid (d-X) that was edited in a small proportion into the terminal acyl-d-Ala-d-X of nascent peptidoglycan UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptides in the bacterial cell wall. This approach overcomes the difficulties regarding quantification and accuracy issues encountered by the popular optical imaging and traditional high-performance liquid chromatography-based methods. Newly synthesizedazide-d-Leu andketone-d-Met were used together withalkynyl-d-Ala for their metabolic assembly and then bioorthogonally encoded by the correspondingly fabricatedDBCO-DOTA-Gd,H2NO-DOTA-Eu, andazide-DOTA-Sm tags. This approach allows direct quantification of thed-X in situ in the cell wall using158Gd,153Eu, and154Sm species-unspecific isotope dilution inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, avoiding any tedious and complex “cell-broken” pretreatment procedures that might induce racemization of thed-X. The obtained site-specific and accurate in situ information about thed-X enables quantitative monitoring of the bacterial response whenStaphylococcus aureusmeets vancomycin, showing that the amounts ofazide-d-Leu andketone-d-Met assembled are more important after determining the structure- and composition-dependent bacterial antibiotic resistance mechanisms. In addition, we found that the combined use of vancomycin andd-Ala restores the efficacy of vancomycin and might be a wise and simple way to combat vancomycin intermediate-resistantS. aureus.