Curing bacteria of antibiotic resistance: reverse antibiotics, a novel class of antibiotics in nature
- Hiramatsu, Keiichi
- Igarashi, Masayuki
- Morimoto, Yuh
- Baba, Tadashi
- Umekita, Maya
- Akamatsu, Yuzuru
DOIAbstract
AbstractBy screening cultures of soil bacteria, we re-discovered an old antibiotic (nybomycin) as an antibiotic with a novel feature. Nybomycin is active against quinolone-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains with mutated gyrA genes but not against those with intact gyrA genes against which quinolone antibiotics are effective. Nybomycin-resistant mutant strains were generated from a quinolone-resistant, nybomycin-susceptible, vancomycin-intermediate S. aureus (VISA) strain Mu50. The mutants, occurring at an extremely low rate (<1×10−11/generation), were found to have their gyrA genes back-mutated and to have lost quinolone resistance. Here we describe nybomycin as the first member of a novel class of antibiotics designated ‘reverse antib...
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