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Biotechnol+Bioeng
2016 ; 113
(12
): 2568-2576
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Newly identified bacteriolytic enzymes that target a wide range of clinical
isolates of Clostridium difficile
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Mehta KK
; Paskaleva EE
; Wu X
; Grover N
; Mundra RV
; Chen K
; Zhang Y
; Yang Z
; Feng H
; Dordick JS
; Kane RS
Biotechnol Bioeng
2016[Dec]; 113
(12
): 2568-2576
PMID27260850
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Clostridium difficile has emerged as a major cause of infectious diarrhea in
hospitalized patients, with increasing mortality rate and annual healthcare costs
exceeding $3 billion. Since C. difficile infections are associated with the use
of antibiotics, there is an urgent need to develop treatments that can inactivate
the bacterium selectively without affecting commensal microflora. Lytic enzymes
from bacteria and bacteriophages show promise as highly selective and effective
antimicrobial agents. These enzymes often have a modular structure, consisting of
a catalytic domain and a binding domain. In the current work, using consensus
catalytic domain and cell-wall binding domain sequences as probes, we analyzed in
silico the genome of C. difficile, as well as phages infecting C. difficile. We
identified two genes encoding cell lytic enzymes with possible activity against
C. difficile. We cloned the genes in a suitable expression vector, expressed and
purified the protein products, and tested enzyme activity in vitro. These newly
identified enzymes were found to be active against C. difficile cells in a
dose-dependent manner. We achieved a more than 4-log reduction in the number of
viable bacteria within 5?h of application. Moreover, we found that the enzymes
were active against a wide range of C. difficile clinical isolates. We also
characterized the biocatalytic mechanism by identifying the specific bonds
cleaved by these enzymes within the cell wall peptidoglycan. These results
suggest a new approach to combating the growing healthcare problem associated
with C. difficile infections. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2016;113: 2568-2576. © 2016
Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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