4F-Indole Enhances the Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics. 2023

Qin Dou, and Yuxiang Zhu, and Chunhui Li, and Zeran Bian, and Huihui Song, and Ruizhen Zhang, and Yingsong Wang, and Xile Zhang, and Yan Wang
College of Marine Life Sciences, and Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are becoming increasingly serious. The aminoglycoside antibiotics have been widely used to treat severe Gram-negative bacterial infections. Here, we reported that a class of small molecules, namely, halogenated indoles, can resensitize Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to aminoglycoside antibiotics such as gentamicin, kanamycin, tobramycin, amikacin, neomycin, ribosomalin sulfate, and cisomicin. We selected 4F-indole as a representative of halogenated indoles to investigate its mechanism and found that the two-component system (TCS) PmrA/PmrB inhibited the expression of multidrug efflux pump MexXY-OprM, allowing kanamycin to act intracellularly. Moreover, 4F-indole inhibited the biosynthesis of several virulence factors, such as pyocyanin, type III secretion system (T3SS), and type VI secretion system (T6SS) exported effectors, and reduced the swimming and twitching motility by suppressing the expression of flagella and type IV pili. This study suggests that the combination of 4F-indole and kanamycin can be more effective against P. aeruginosa PAO1 and affect its multiple physiological activities, providing a novel insight into the reactivation of aminoglycoside antibiotics. IMPORTANCE Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa have become a major public health crisis. Its resistance to existing antibiotics causes clinical infections that are hard to cure. In this study, we found that halogenated indoles in combination with aminoglycoside antibiotics could be more effective than antibiotics alone against P. aeruginosa PAO1 and preliminarily revealed the mechanism of the 4F-indole-induced regulatory effect. Moreover, the regulatory effect of 4F-indole on different physiological behaviors of P. aeruginosa PAO1 was analyzed by combined transcriptomics and metabolomics. We explain that 4F-indole has potential as a novel antibiotic adjuvant, thus slowing down the further development of bacterial resistance.

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