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ArticleAMB Express2023

Interception of Epoxide ring to quorum sensing system in Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus.

Mohammed Y Refai, Ahmed M Elazzazy, Said E Desouky, Mohammed Abu-Elghait, Eman A Fayed, Sulaiman M Alajel, Abdullah A Alajlan, Mona O Albureikan, Jiro Nakayama

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Article in AMB Express, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Mohammed Y RefaiDepartment of Biological Science, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Ahmed M ElazzazyDepartment of Biological Science, College of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Said E DesoukyLaboratory of Microbial Technology, Division of Systems Bioengineering, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan.
Mohammed Abu-ElghaitDepartment of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 11884, Cairo, Egypt. dr_abuelghait@azhar.edu.eg.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9007-1029
Eman A FayedDepartment of Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Al-Azhar University, 11754, Cairo, Egypt.
Sulaiman M AlajelReference Laboratory for Microbiology, Executive Department of Reference Laboratories, Research and Laboratories Sector, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah A AlajlanMicrobial Identification Division, Reference Laboratory for Microbiology, Executive Department of Reference Laboratories, Research and Laboratories Sector, Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mona O AlbureikanDepartment of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Jiro NakayamaLaboratory of Microbial Technology, Division of Systems Bioengineering, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School, Kyushu University, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan.
Al-Azhar University · EGKyushu University · JPSaudi Arabian Monetary Authority · SAUniversity of Jeddah · SAKing Abdulaziz University · SA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quorum sensing inhibitor (QSI) has been attracting attention as anti-virulence agent which disarms pathogens of their virulence rather than killing them. QSI marking cyclic peptide-mediated QS in Gram-positive bacteria is an effective tool to overcome the crisis of antibiotic-dependent chemotherapy due to the emergence of drug resistance strain, e.g., methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin resistant Enterococci (VRE). From a semi-large-scale screening thus far carried out, two Epoxide compounds, Ambuic acid and Synerazol, have been found to efficiently block agr and fsr QS systems, suggesting that the Epoxide group is involved in the mode of action of these QSIs. To address this notion, known natural Epoxide compounds, Cerulenin and Fosfomycin were examined for QSI activity for the agr and fsr systems in addition to in silico and SAR studies. As a result, most of investigated Epoxide containing antibiotics correlatively interfere with QSI activity for the agr and fsr systems under sublethal concentrations.

Indexed as

agr, fsr, Epoxide ring ADMET and Docking Studies.Enterococcus faecalisQuorum sensingStaphylococcus aureus

Identifiers

PMID37946062
PMCPMC10636001
OpenAlexW4388540716

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