Temperature-driven regulation system of hypermucoviscosity in carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Multidrug-resistant and hypervirulent K. pneumoniae has been continuously evolving, which causes severe clinical outcome and significantly challenges the available chemotherapeutic treatment for its infections.K. pneumoniae produces several kinds of antimicrobial peptides known as bacteriocins, which have antibacterial activity against closely-related species. Bacteriocins are considered one of K. pneumoniae virulence factors. We identified bacteriocin genes in 180 K. pneumoniae species complex genomes, including 170 hypermucoviscous isolates, and investigated the antibacterial activity against 50 strains, including antimicrobial-resistant organisms, belonging to multiple species. This study has been accepted on April 11th and published on May 8th in Microbiology Spectrum:Le MN, Nguyen TH, Trinh VM, Nguyen TP, Kawada-Matsuo M, Kayama S, Sugai M, Komatsuzawa H. Comprehensive Analysis of Bacteriocins Produced by the Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae Species Complex. Microbiol Spectr. 2023 May 8:e0086323. doi: 10.1128/spectrum.00863-23. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37154746.