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Structure (Camb). 2003 Mar;11(3):329-38.
Structural basis for the antibiotic activity of ketolides and azalides.
Schlunzen F, Harms JM, Franceschi F, Hansen HA, Bartels H, Zarivach R, Yonath A.
Max-Planck-Research Unit for Ribosomal Structure, 22603, Hamburg, Germany.
The azalide azithromycin and the ketolide ABT-773, which were derived by chemical modifications of erythromycin, exhibit elevated activity against a number of penicillin- and macrolide-resistant pathogenic bacteria. Analysis of the crystal structures of the large ribosomal subunit from Deinococcus radiodurans complexed with azithromycin or ABT-773 indicates that, despite differences in the number and nature of their contacts with the ribosome, both compounds exert their antimicrobial activity by blocking the protein exit tunnel. In contrast to all macrolides studied so far, two molecules of azithromycin bind simultaneously to the tunnel. The additional molecule also interacts with two proteins, L4 and L22, implicated in macrolide resistance. These studies illuminated and rationalized the enhanced activity of the drugs against specific macrolide-resistant bacteria.
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Microb Pathog. 2003 Feb;34(2):57-63.
Infection of human fibroblast-like synovial cells with Chlamydia trachomatis results in persistent infection and interleukin-6 production.
Hanada H, Ikeda-Dantsuji Y, Naito M, Nagayama A.
Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan.
Recent studies have shown that the urogenital pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis to be a major bacterium triggering reactive arthritis (ReA), and is able to induce interleukin-6 (IL-6) production in human fibroblast-like synovial cells (FSC) in vitro. In the present study, we examined the correlation between IL-6 production and multiplication of chlamydia in FSC. All FSC from five patients secreted highly increased quantities of IL-6 in a dose-dependent and time-dependent fashion. Heat and UV inactivated chlamydia failed to enhance production of IL-6. When azithromycin was added to infected cultures of FSC at 0 or 48 h after infection, the level of IL-6 production was very low. Transmission electron microscopy of such infected cultures revealed many abnormal forms of chlamydia within the inclusions in FSC. From one step-growth curve experiments, it was suggested that C. trachomatis hardly multiplied in FSC. In contrast, in C. trachomatis infected HeLa 229 cells, chlamydia multiplied as usual, but little IL-6 production were found. These observations indicated that live chlamydia and the persistence of chlamydia may be essential for stimulating the synthesis of IL-6 in FSC.
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Computer-aided simulations suggest that the doses and schedules of administration of azithromycin proposed in treatment and prophylaxis of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in AIDS patients will result in drug concentrations in serum and extracellular fluids remaining for sustained periods of time in the 0.03-0.1 mg/L range. We exposed cultured rat embryo fibroblasts to these concentrations (and multiples up to 20 mg/L) for up to 16 days. Electron microscopy showed that after 7 days' incubation in 0.03 mg/L azithromycin, there was conspicuous accumulation of osmiophilic, lamellar structures (myeloid bodies) in lysosomes, suggesting the onset of a phospholipidosis. Assay of total cell phospholipids and cholesterol showed significant increases in cells exposed to > or = 1 to 5 mg/L of azithromycin in association with hyperactivity of the lysosomal enzyme cathepsin B. The data suggest that azithromycin, at extracellular concentrations pertinent to its use for MAC treatment, and perhaps also prophylaxis, causes limited morphological alterations of the lysosomes in cultured cells which are of the same nature as those developing rapidly and extensively at higher concentrations.
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