2025 Fall
International Convention of PSK

D+7
October 22-24, 2025

Abstracts

P6-2

A new multitarget inhibitor potentiates the antimicrobial activity of aztreonam against carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  • Jihyeok Kang1, Dahee Lee1, Mi kyoung Kim1, Junoh Jang1, Junhwi KIM1, Ki-ho Park2, Youhoon Chong*1
  • 1Department of Integrative Bioscience and Biotechnology, Bio/Molecular Informatics Center, Konkuk University
  • 2Department of Infectious Disease, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine

Previously, we have shown that 3’,4’-difluoroquercetin (di-F-Q) serve as dual inhibitors against broad-spectrum β-lactamases as well as the efflux pumps. The dual inhibitors effectively potentiated aztreonam (ATM) against various clinical strains of carbapenemase-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA). While most antimicrobial agents active against Gram negatives tend to show high polarity and charges, the di-F-Q derivatives are nonpolar. Therefore, we reasoned that their ATM-potentiating activity could be enhanced through introduction of a polar substituent. In this study, we prepared a series of the di-F-Q derivatives substituted with easily ionizable polar moieties at the 7-O positions. The newly synthesized compounds were then screened for their inhibitory activity against various β-lactamases and efflux pumps. Two compounds with inhibitory activity against ATM-hydrolyzing β-lactamases (NDM-1 and OXA-10) and efflux pumps were chosen, and in vitro and in vivo evaluation of their ATM-potentiating activity was performed, which led to identification of a new ATM-potentiating agent against various clinical CRPAs.


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