Publication: Effects of psychotropic drugs as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors on quorum sensing regulated behaviors
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Date
2014-08-22
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Aybey, Aynur
Usta, Alev
Demirkan, Elif
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Slovak Univ Agriculture Nitra
Abstract
Psychotropic drugs are known to have antimicrobial activity against several groups of microorganisms. The antidepressant agents such as duloxetine, paroxetine, hydroxyzine and venlafaxine are shown to act as efflux pump inhibitors in bacterial cells. In order to the investigation of the effects of psychotropic drugs were determined for clinically significant pathogens by using standart broth microdillusion method. The anti-quorum sensing (anti-QS) activity of psychotropic drugs was tested against four test pathogens using the agar well diffusion method. All drugs showed strong inhibitory effect on the growth of S. typhimurium. Additionally, quorum sensing-regulated behaviors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, including swarming, swimming and twitching motility and alkaline protease production were investigated. Most effective drugs on swarming, swimming and twitching motility and alkaline protease production, respectively, were paroxetine and duloxetine; duloxetine; hydroxyzine and venlafaxine; paroxetine and venlafaxine; venlafaxine. Accordingly, psychotropic drugs were shown strongly anti-QS activity by acting as bacterial efflux pump inhibitors and effection on motility and alkaline protease production of P. aeruginosa.
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Pseudomonas-aeruginosa, Swarming motility, Antimicrobial activity, Iv pili, Resistance, Proteases, Modulate, System, Anti-quorum sensing activity, Efflux pump, Motility, Psychotropic drugs, P. aeruginosa, Food science & technology