Rapid Antibacterial Activity Assessment of Chimeric Lysins

Park, Jin-Mi and Kim, Jun-Hyun and Kim, Gun and Sim, Hun-Ju and Ahn, Sun-Min and Choi, Kang-Seuk and Kwon, Hyuk-Joon (2024) Rapid Antibacterial Activity Assessment of Chimeric Lysins. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 25 (4). p. 2430. ISSN 1422-0067

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Abstract

Various chimeric lysins have been developed as efficacious antibiotics against multidrug-resistant bacteria, but direct comparisons of their antibacterial activities have been difficult due to the preparation of multiple recombinant chimeric lysins. Previously, we reported an Escherichia coli cell-free expression method to better screen chimeric lysins against Staphylococcus aureus, but we still needed to increase the amounts of expressed proteins enough to be able to detect them non-isotopically for quantity comparisons. In this study, we improved the previous cell-free expression system by adding a previously reported artificial T7 terminator and reversing the different nucleotides between the T7 promoter and start codon to those of the T7 phage. The new method increased the expressed amount of chimeric lysins enough for us to detect them using Western blotting. Therefore, the qualitative comparison of activity between different chimeric lysins has become possible via the adjustment of the number of variables between samples without protein purification. We applied this method to select more active chimeric lysins derived from our previously reported chimeric lysin (ALS2). Finally, we compared the antibacterial activities of our selected chimeric lysins with reported chimeric lysins (ClyC and ClyO) and lysostaphin and determined the rank orders of antibacterial activities on different Staphylococcus aureus strains in our experimental conditions.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: EP Archives > Multidisciplinary
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2024 04:48
Last Modified: 20 Feb 2024 04:48
URI: http://research.send4journal.com/id/eprint/3757

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