Synergistic Effects of Anti-CmeA and Anti-CmeB Peptide Nucleic Acids on Sensitizing Campylobacter jejuni to Antibiotics

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2013-09-01
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Mu, Yang
Shen, Zhangqi
Jeon, Byeonghwa
Dai, Lei
Zhang, Qijing
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Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine
Our faculty promote the understanding of causes of infectious disease in animals and the mechanisms by which diseases develop at the organismal, cellular and molecular levels. Veterinary microbiology also includes research on the interaction of pathogenic and symbiotic microbes with their hosts and the host response to infection.
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The CmeABC efflux pump in Campylobacter jejuni confers resistance to structurally divergent antimicrobials, and inhibition of CmeABC represents a promising strategy to control antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter. Antisense peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) targeting the three components of CmeABC were evaluated for inhibition of CmeABC expression. The result revealed a synergistic effect of the PNAs targeting CmeA and CmeB on sensitizing C. jejuni to antibiotics. This finding further demonstrates the feasibility of using PNAs to potentiate antibiotics against antibiotic-resistant Campylobacter.

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This article is published as Mu, Yang, Zhangqi Shen, Byeonghwa Jeon, Lei Dai, and Qijing Zhang. "Synergistic effects of anti-CmeA and anti-CmeB peptide nucleic acids on sensitizing Campylobacter jejuni to antibiotics." Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 57, no. 9 (2013): 4575-4577. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00605-13. Posted with permission.

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