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Identification and Characterization of a Novel Prophage Lysin against Streptococcus dysgalactiae
by Linan Xu, Xingshuai Li, Xiangpeng Yang, Yuzhong Zhao, Jianrui Niu, Shijin Jiang, Junfei Ma and Xinglin Zhang
Molecules 2024, 29(14), 3411; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29143411 - 20 Jul 2024
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Streptococcus dysgalactiae infection can cause bovine mastitis and lead to huge economic losses for the dairy industry. The abuse of antibiotics has resulted in growing drug resistance of S. dysgalactiae, which causes hard-to-treat infections. Bacteriophage lysin, as a novel antibacterial agent, has great [...] Read more.
Streptococcus dysgalactiae infection can cause bovine mastitis and lead to huge economic losses for the dairy industry. The abuse of antibiotics has resulted in growing drug resistance of S. dysgalactiae, which causes hard-to-treat infections. Bacteriophage lysin, as a novel antibacterial agent, has great potential for application against drug-resistant gram-positive bacteria. However, few studies have been conducted on the prophage lysin of S. dysgalactiae. In this study, we mined a novel prophage lysin, named Lys1644, from a clinical S. dysgalactiae isolate by genome sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. Lys1644 was expressed and purified, and the lytic activity, antibacterial spectrum, optimal pH and temperature, lytic activity in milk in vitro, and synergistic bacteriostasis with antibiotics were assessed. The Lys1644 prophage lysin showed high bacteriolysis activity specifically on S. dysgalactiae, which resulted in CFU 100-fold reduction in milk. Moreover, Lys1644 maintained high activity over a wide pH range (pH 5–10) and a wide temperature range (4–42 °C). Synergistic bacteriostatic experiments showed that the combination of low-dose Lys1644 (50 μg/mL) with a subinhibitory concentration of aminoglycoside antibiotics (kanamycin or spectinomycin) can completely inhibit bacterial growth, suggesting that the combination of Lys1644 and antibiotics could be an effective therapeutic strategy against S. dysgalactiae infection. Full article
(This article belongs to the Topic Enzymes and Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Research)
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