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- Title
Overexpressed recombinant quorum quenching lactonase reduces the virulence, motility and biofilm formation of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates.
- Authors
Sakr, Masarra M.; Aboshanab, Khaled M.; Elkhatib, Walid F.; Yassien, Mahmoud A.; Hassouna, Nadia A.
- Abstract
The increasing occurrence of resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates necessitates finding alternatives to antibiotics for controlling the infection of such pathogenic bacteria. In this study, lactonase gene ahl-1 from Bacillus weihenstephanensis isolate-P65 was successfully cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 (DE3) under the control of T7 promoter for utilizing its quorum quenching activity against three multidrug-resistant (MDR) P. aeruginosa clinical isolates. The biological activity of the overexpressed lactonase enzyme (Ahl-1), tested using a synthetic signal and Chromobacterium violaceum CV026 as a biosensor, displayed good catalytic activity using hexanoyl homoserine lactone (HHL) as a substrate and Chromobacterium violaceum (CV026) as a biosensor (77.2 and 133 nm min−1 for the crude and the purified Ahl-lactonase enzymes, respectively). Upon challenging its ability to inhibit the virulence of three MDR P. aeruginosa clinical isolates, recombinant Ahl-1 successfully prevented the accumulation of acylhomoserine lactone signals resulting in a significant reduction in the investigated virulence determinants; protease (from 40 up to 75.5%), pyocyanin (48-75.9%), and rhamnolipids (52.7-63.4%) (P value < 0.05). Ahl-1 also displayed significant inhibitory activities on the swarming motility and biofilm formation of the three tested MDR P. aeruginosa clinical isolates (P value < 0.05). Consequently, Ahl-1 lactonase enzyme in this study is considered a promising therapeutic agent to inhibit P. aeruginosa pathogenicity with no fear of emergence of resistance.
- Subjects
LACTONASE; PSEUDOMONAS aeruginosa; MULTIDRUG resistance in bacteria; BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA coli; CHROMOBACTERIUM violaceum
- Publication
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2018, Vol 102, Issue 24, p10613
- ISSN
0175-7598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00253-018-9418-2