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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2018

Transcript Profiling of MRSA Biofilms Treated with a Halogenated Phenazine Eradicating Agent: A Platform for Defining Cellular Targets and Pathways Critical to Biofilm Survival.

Yasmeen Abouelhassan, Yanping Zhang, Shouguang Jin, Robert W Huigens

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Yasmeen AbouelhassanDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3), College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, 1345 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Yanping ZhangInterdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR), Gene Expression and Genotyping, University of Florida, USA.
Shouguang JinDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, USA.
Robert W HuigensDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, Center for Natural Products, Drug Discovery and Development (CNPD3), College of Pharmacy, University of Florida, 1345 Center Drive, Gainesville, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3811-2721

Funding

Indole Alkaloids and Phenazine Antibiotics: New Platforms for Drug DiscoveryR35GM128621 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI HUIGENS, ROBERT WILLIAM · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128621NIGMS NIH HHS R35GM128621
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacterial biofilms are surface-attached communities of non-replicating bacteria innately tolerant to antibiotics. Biofilms display differential gene expression profiles and physiologies as compared to their planktonic counterparts; however, their biology remains largely unknown. In this study, we used a halogenated phenazine (HP) biofilm eradicator in transcript profiling experiments (RNA-seq) to define cellular targets and pathways critical to biofilm viability. WoPPER analysis with time-course validation (RT-qPCR) revealed that HP-14 induces rapid iron starvation in MRSA biofilms, as evident by the activation of iron-acquisition gene clusters in 1 hour. Serine proteases and oligopeptide transporters were also found to be up-regulated, whereas glycolysis, arginine deiminase, and urease gene clusters were down-regulated. KEGG analysis revealed that HP-14 impacts metabolic and ABC transporter functional pathways. These findings suggest that MRSA biofilm viability relies on iron homeostasis.

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BiofilmsTranscriptomeAnti-Bacterial AgentsHalogenationHumansIronMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusPhenazinesSignal TransductionStaphylococcal InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsIronPhenazinesantibioticsbiofilm eradicationchemical biologyhalogenated phenazineRNA sequencing

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PMID30230671
PMCPMC6407420

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