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The discovery of antibiotics has been slowing to a halt. Phenotypic screening is once again at the forefront of antibiotic discovery, yet Mechanism-Of-Action (MOA) identification is still a major bottleneck. As such, methods capable of MOA elucidation coupled with the high-throughput screening of whole cells are required now more than ever, for which Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a promising metabolic fingerprinting technique. A high-throughput whole-cell FTIR spectroscopy-based bioassay was developed to reveal the metabolic fingerprint induced by 15 antibiotics on the Escherichia coli metabolism. Cells were briefly exposed to four times the minimum inhibitory concentration and spectra were quickly acquired in the high-throughput mode. After preprocessing optimization, a partial least squares discriminant analysis and principal component analysis were conducted. The metabolic fingerprints obtained with FTIR spectroscopy were sufficiently specific to allow a clear distinction between different antibiotics, across three independent cultures, with either analysis algorithm. These fingerprints were coherent with the known MOA of all the antibiotics tested, which include examples that target the protein, DNA, RNA, and cell wall biosynthesis. Because FTIR spectroscopy acquires a holistic fingerprint of the effect of antibiotics on the cellular metabolism, it holds great potential to be used for high-throughput screening in antibiotic discovery and possibly towards a better understanding of the MOA of current antibiotics.
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Este trabalho foi financiado pelo Concurso Anual para Projetos de Investigação, Desenvolvimento, Inovação e Criação Artística (IDI&CA) 2017 do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Código de referência IPL/2017/DrugsPlatf/ISEL
Este trabalho foi financiado pelo Concurso Anual para Projetos de Investigação, Desenvolvimento, Inovação e Criação Artística (IDI&CA) 2018 do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Código de referência IPL/2018/RENALPROG_ISEL
Este trabalho foi financiado pelo Concurso Anual para Projetos de Investigação, Desenvolvimento, Inovação e Criação Artística (IDI&CA) 2018 do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. Código de referência IPL/2018/RENALPROG_ISEL
Keywords
Antibiotic discovery Chemometrics Escherichia coli Fourier-Transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy High-throughput screening Mechanism-of-action (MOA) Metabolic fingerprinting Multivariate analysis
Citation
CUNHA, Bernardo Ribeiro da; FONSECA, Luís P.; CALADO, Cecília R. C. – Metabolic fingerprinting with Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy: towards a high-throughput screening assay for antibiotic discovery and mechanism-of-action elucidation. Metabolites. ISSN 2218-1989. Vol. 10, N.º 4 (2020), pp. 1-15
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MDPI