Cephalosporin resistance, tolerance, and approaches to improve their activities.


Journal

The Journal of antibiotics
ISSN: 1881-1469
Titre abrégé: J Antibiot (Tokyo)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0151115

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
19 Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 11 07 2023
accepted: 05 11 2023
revised: 23 10 2023
medline: 20 12 2023
pubmed: 20 12 2023
entrez: 19 12 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Cephalosporins comprise a β-lactam antibiotic class whose first members were discovered in 1945 from the fungus Cephalosporium acremonium. Their clinical use for Gram-negative bacterial infections is widespread due to their ability to traverse outer membranes through porins to gain access to the periplasm and disrupt peptidoglycan synthesis. More recent members of the cephalosporin class are administered as last resort treatments for complicated urinary tract infections, MRSA, and other multi-drug resistant pathogens, such as Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Unfortunately, there has been a global increase in cephalosporin-resistant strains, heteroresistance to this drug class has been a topic of increasing concern, and tolerance and persistence are recognized as potential causes of cephalosporin treatment failure. In this review, we summarize the cephalosporin antibiotic class from discovery to their mechanisms of action, and discuss the causes of cephalosporin treatment failure, which include resistance, tolerance, and phenomena when those qualities are exhibited by only small subpopulations of bacterial cultures (heteroresistance and persistence). Further, we discuss how recent efforts with cephalosporin conjugates and combination treatments aim to reinvigorate this antibiotic class.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38114565
doi: 10.1038/s41429-023-00687-y
pii: 10.1038/s41429-023-00687-y
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Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the Japan Antibiotics Research Association.

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Auteurs

Alison H Araten (AH)

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Rachel S Brooks (RS)

Department of English, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Sarah D W Choi (SDW)

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Laura L Esguerra (LL)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Diana Savchyn (D)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Emily J Wu (EJ)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Gabrielle Leon (G)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Katherine J Sniezek (KJ)

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Mark P Brynildsen (MP)

Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. mbrynild@princeton.edu.
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. mbrynild@princeton.edu.

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