The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Periplasm: Unexpected Molecular Interactions of Antibiotics Revealed by Considering Crowding Effects in E. coli
Pedebos, C.; Smith, I.; Boags, A.; Khalid, S.
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The periplasm of Gram-negative bacteria is a highly crowded environment comprised of many different molecular species. Antibacterial agents that causes lysis of Gram-negative bacteria by their action against the inner membrane must cross the periplasm to arrive at their target membrane. Very little is currently known about their route through the periplasm, and the interactions they experience. To this end, here atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the path taken by the antibiotic polymyxin B1 through a number of models of the periplasm which are crowded with proteins and osmolytes to different extents. The simulations reveal that PMB1 forms transient and long-lived interactions with proteins and osmolytes that are free in solution as well as lipoproteins anchored to the outer membrane and bound to the cell wall. We show that PMB1 may be able to hitchhike within the periplasm by binding to lipoprotein carriers. Overall our results show that PMB1 is rarely uncomplexed within the periplasm; an important consideration for interpretations of its therapeutic mechanism of action. It is likely that this observation can be extended to other antibiotics that rely on diffusion to cross the periplasm.
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