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The Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance. 张驰 王昳楠. Have we conquered bacteria yet?. Why the pharmaceutical industry has cut resources devoted to the development of new antibiotics. Lack of financial incentives Short lifetime in the marketplace - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance 张驰
王昳楠
Have we conquered bacteria yet?
Why the pharmaceutical industry has cut resources devoted to the development of new antibiotics Lack of financial incentives
Short lifetime in the marketplace
The most effective antibiotics being held back from widespread use
Enzymes involved in the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall
Penicillin Vancomycin
Components of the system by which bacteria duplicate, transcribe, andtranslate their genetic informationLinezolid Daptomycin
3. Enzymes that catalyze metabolic reactions specifically in bacteria.
Sulfa drugs, are effective antibiotics because they closely resemble the compound p-aminobenzoic acid (PABA)
Take sulfa drugs for example
p-aminobenzoic acid Sulfa
Function of PABA
PABA is an intermediate in the bacterial synthesis of folate(folic acid).
However, humans lack the enzymes to convert PABA to folate,and therefore require a dietary supply of folate anyway,so PABA is considered nonessential and is not recognized as a vitamin for humans.
Thus, bacterial growth is limited through folate deficiency without effect on human cells.
Function of Sulfa drugs
Sulfa drugs are structurally similar to PABA, and their antibacterial activity is due to their ability to interfere with the conversion of PABA to folate by the enzyme dihydropteroate synthetase.
Why bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?
Take Penicillin for example
Penicillin is a β-lactam; that is, it contains a four- membered β-lactam ring (shown in color).
Background By the 1940s, researchers had discovered that certain
bacteria possess an enzyme calledβ-lactamase(or penicillinase).
During World War II, none of the major disease-causing bacteria possessed a gene for β-lactamase.
Today, the production of β–lactamase by wide variety of infectious cells is the primary cause of penicillin resistance.
How didthese species acquire the gene?
—— not only among the cells of a given species, but also between species
Accessions
Conjugation
Transduction
Transformation
Conjugation
DNA is passed from one bacterial cell to another
Transduction
a bacterial gene is carried from cell to cell by a virus
Transformation
a bacterial cell is able to pick up naked DNA from its surrounding medium
Other reasons of bacteria’s resistant
possess modifications in their cell walls that block entry of the antibiotic
selectively export the antibiotic once it has entered the cell
possess modified transpeptidases that fail to bind the antibiotic
Not all penicillin-resistant bacteria have acquired aβ–lactamase gene.
About AIDS
high rate of virus production
reverse transcriptase lead to high rate of mutation
This problem is being combatted by
Taking several different drugs targeted at different viral enzymes
designing drugs that interact with the most highly conserved portions of each targeted enzyme
Antibiotic abuse
Antibiotic resistant bacteria is a growing threat and becoming increasingly common.
Antibiotic abuse also places the patient at unnecessary risk of adverse effects of antibiotics.
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