Bengaluru: Researchers from the Molecular Biophysics Unit Institute of Indian Science (IISC) (MBU) have found new ways to block bacteria so as not to blush antibiotics that help them get drug resistance.
These new findings have the potential to make existing drugs more effective against drug resistant bacteria or superbug.
What basically they do is use certain antibodies found in the Indian camel (at the National Research Center at the Camel, Bikaner) to block transporter that helps bacteria release drugs.
At present, the team, led by Aravind Penacema, assistant professor in MBU, has shown findings in laboratory conditions.
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Bacteria are generally killed by the use of antibiotics.
One of the mechanisms they use to obtain resistance is called Efflux – the process in which bacterial transportation compounds such as drugs outside the cell – and transporters play an important role in enabling pathogens to do this.
The carrier is one of the main components in the multidrug detention weaple warehouse, understanding the molecular architecture of machines embedded with cell membranes paved the way to design inhibitors against them, so it helps in the treatment of diseases caused by these bacteria.
And, according to IISC, in a new study, the researchers “have solved the structure of atomic resolution of one transporter, NORC, complex with Indian Camelid antibodies (ICAB).”
Although transporters are molecular machines that need to transfer their conformation (form / structure) to transport substrates, the team found that Icab binding to NORC locked it into one conformation.
Transporter is not only locked in one country, but ICAB effectively plugging in transporter such as “bottles”, making it unable to interact with antibacterial compounds (drugs), the researchers said.
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The Efflux process is very important for bacteria and one of the main strategies that have not been explored as the therapeutic mechanism is to develop a molecule that can block efflux.
If we can block transporter that helps certain antibiotic efflux, the drugs will produce efficacy.
In some Things, we can increase the efficacy of antibiotics available if we have an EFLUX blocker and that’s the potential medical benefit of what we find, “Penmatis told Toi.
NORC is a transporter found in Staphylococcus aureus – a kind of bacteria that are often found on the skin and in the respiratory tract of humans – which help provide resistance to broad spectrum antibiotics such as norfloxacin and moxifloxacin.
“This insight will significantly help form a strategy to fight antibiotic resistance mediated by transporter in pathogenic bacteria, using tools such as Camelid antibodies.
The structure of the NORC and conformation that has been resolved is also the first, providing a model to study the efflux transporter of a similar drug From other pathogenic bacteria, “added IISC.
This research was mainly funded by the DBT-Wellcome Trust India alliance and the biotechnology department.