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Antimicrobial and Efflux Pump Inhibitory Activity of Caffeoylquinic Acids from Artemisia absinthium against Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria

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dc.contributor Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
dc.contributor Hamblin, Michael R.
dc.contributor Hamblin, Michael R.
dc.creator Fiamegos, Yiannis C.
dc.creator Kastritis, Panagiotis L.
dc.creator Exarchou, Vassiliki
dc.creator Han, Haley
dc.creator Bonvin, Alexandre M. J. J.
dc.creator Vervoort, Jacques
dc.creator Lewis, Kim
dc.creator Hamblin, Michael R.
dc.creator Tegos, George P.
dc.date 2011-09-16T17:53:10Z
dc.date 2011-09-16T17:53:10Z
dc.date 2011-04
dc.date 2010-10
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:05:40Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:05:40Z
dc.identifier 1932-6203
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65871
dc.identifier Fiamegos YC, Kastritis PL, Exarchou V, Han H, Bonvin AMJJ, et al. (2011) Antimicrobial and Efflux Pump Inhibitory Activity of Caffeoylquinic Acids from Artemisia absinthium against Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18127. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018127
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278722
dc.description Background: Traditional antibiotics are increasingly suffering from the emergence of multidrug resistance amongst pathogenic bacteria leading to a range of novel approaches to control microbial infections being investigated as potential alternative treatments. One plausible antimicrobial alternative could be the combination of conventional antimicrobial agents/antibiotics with small molecules which block multidrug efflux systems known as efflux pump inhibitors. Bioassay-driven purification and structural determination of compounds from plant sources have yielded a number of pump inhibitors which acted against gram positive bacteria. Methodology/Principal Findings: In this study we report the identification and characterization of 4′,5′-O-dicaffeoylquinic acid (4′,5′-ODCQA) from Artemisia absinthium as a pump inhibitor with a potential of targeting efflux systems in a wide panel of Gram-positive human pathogenic bacteria. Separation and identification of phenolic compounds (chlorogenic acid, 3′,5′-ODCQA, 4′,5′-ODCQA) was based on hyphenated chromatographic techniques such as liquid chromatography with post column solid-phase extraction coupled with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy. Microbial susceptibility testing and potentiation of well know pump substrates revealed at least two active compounds; chlorogenic acid with weak antimicrobial activity and 4′,5′-ODCQA with pump inhibitory activity whereas 3′,5′-ODCQA was ineffective. These intitial findings were further validated with checkerboard, berberine accumulation efflux assays using efflux-related phenotypes and clinical isolates as well as molecular modeling methodology. Conclusions/Significance: These techniques facilitated the direct analysis of the active components from plant extracts, as well as dramatically reduced the time needed to analyze the compounds, without the need for prior isolation. The calculated energetics of the docking poses supported the biological information for the inhibitory capabilities of 4′,5′-ODCQA and furthermore contributed evidence that CQAs show a preferential binding to Major Facilitator Super family efflux systems, a key multidrug resistance determinant in gram-positive bacteria.
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant R01GM59903)
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant R01AI050875)
dc.description Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (VICI grant 700.56.442)
dc.description Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC)
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (grant 5U54MH084690-02)
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018127
dc.relation PLoS ONE
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
dc.source PLoS
dc.title Antimicrobial and Efflux Pump Inhibitory Activity of Caffeoylquinic Acids from Artemisia absinthium against Gram-Positive Pathogenic Bacteria
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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