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| العنوان: |
Photoinactivation of Staphylococcus aureus using protoporphyrin IX: the role of haem-regulated transporter HrtA. |
| المؤلفون: |
Nakonieczna, Joanna, Kossakowska-Zwierucho, Monika, Filipiak, Michalina, Hewelt-Belka, Weronika, Grinholc, Mariusz, Bielawski, Krzysztof |
| المصدر: |
Applied Microbiology & Biotechnology; Feb2016, Vol. 100 Issue 3, p1393-1405, 13p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
STAPHYLOCOCCUS aureus, PROTOPORPHYRINS, PHOTOSENSITIZERS, PHOTODYNAMIC therapy, ANTI-infective agents, HEME |
| مستخلص: |
Light- and photosensitiser-based antimicrobial photodynamic therapy is a very promising approach to the control of microbial infections. How the phenotypic features of a microorganism affect its response to photosensitiser-based photokilling represents an area of substantial research interest. To understand the mechanisms governing the phenomenon of a strain-dependent response to photodynamic inactivation (PDI), we analysed the possible role of the membrane-located haem transporter HrtA in Staphylococcus aureus. We used a S. aureus strains with an inactivated component of the haem-regulated transporter, HrtA, along with its wild-type counterpart to determine differences in PDI outcome and photosensitiser uptake between the studied isogenic strains. We observed that a lack of HrtA protein potentiates the phototoxic effect towards S. aureus but only when extracellular protoporphyrin IX is used. The observed effect may depend on the function of the HrtA transporter but is likely to result from changed membrane properties following the absence of the protein in the membrane. This indicates that disturbing the membrane properties is an attractive method for improving the efficacy of the photodynamic inactivation of microorganisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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