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In Search of Alternative Antibiotic Drugs: Quorum-Quenching Activity in Sponges
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Saurav K
; Bar-Shalom R
; Haber M
; Burgsdorf I
; Oliviero G
; Costantino V
; Morgenstern D
; Steindler L
Front Microbiol
2016[]; 7
(ä): 416
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Owing to the extensive development of drug resistance in pathogens against the
available antibiotic arsenal, antimicrobial resistance is now an emerging major
threat to public healthcare. Anti-virulence drugs are a new type of therapeutic
agent aiming at virulence factors rather than killing the pathogen, thus
providing less selective pressure for evolution of resistance. One promising
example of this therapeutic concept targets bacterial quorum sensing (QS),
because QS controls many virulence factors responsible for bacterial infections.
Marine sponges and their associated bacteria are considered a still untapped
source for unique chemical leads with a wide range of biological activities. In
the present study, we screened extracts of 14 sponge species collected from the
Red and Mediterranean Sea for their quorum-quenching (QQ) potential. Half of the
species showed QQ activity in at least 2 out of 3 replicates. Six out of the 14
species were selected for bacteria isolation, to test for QQ activity also in
isolates, which, once cultured, represent an unlimited source of compounds. We
show that ?20% of the isolates showed QQ activity based on a Chromobacterium
violaceum CV026 screen, and that the presence or absence of QQ activity in a
sponge extract did not correlate with the abundance of isolates with the same
activity from the same sponge species. This can be explained by the unknown
source of QQ compounds in sponge-holobionts (host or symbionts), and further by
the possible non-symbiotic nature of bacteria isolated from sponges. The
potential symbiotic nature of the isolates showing QQ activity was tested
according to the distribution and abundance of taxonomically close bacterial
Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in a dataset including 97 sponge species and
178 environmental samples (i.e., seawater, freshwater, and marine sediments).
Most isolates were found not to be enriched in sponges and may simply have been
trapped in the filtration channels of the sponge at the time of collection. Our
results highlight potential for QQ-bioactive lead molecules for anti-virulence
therapy both from sponges and the bacteria isolated thereof, independently on the
symbiotic nature of the latter.