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Antibiotic-Loaded Polymersomes for Clearance of Intracellular Burkholderia thailandensis.

ABSTRACT: Melioidosis caused by the facultative intracellular pathogen Burkholderia pseudomallei is difficult to treat due to poor intracellular bioavailability of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. In the absence of novel compounds, polymersome (PM) encapsulation may increase the efficacy of existing antibiotics and reduce antibiotic resistance by promoting targeted, infection-specific intracellular uptake. In this study, we developed PMs composed of widely available poly(ethylene oxide)-polycaprolactone block copolymers and demonstrated their delivery to intracellular B. thailandensis infection using multispectral imaging flow cytometry (IFC) and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. Antibiotics were tightly sequestered in PMs and did not inhibit the growth of free-living B. thailandensis. However, on uptake of antibiotic-loaded PMs by infected macrophages, IFC demonstrated PM colocalization with intracellular B. thailandensis and a significant inhibition of their growth. We conclude that PMs are a viable approach for the targeted antibiotic treatment of persistent intracellular Burkholderia infection.

SUBMITTER: Porges E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612142 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Antibiotic-Loaded Polymersomes for Clearance of Intracellular <i>Burkholderia thailandensis</i>.

Porges Eleanor E Jenner Dominic D Taylor Adam W AW Harrison James S P JSP De Grazia Antonio A Hailes Alethia R AR Wright Kimberley M KM Whelan Adam O AO Norville Isobel H IH Prior Joann L JL Mahajan Sumeet S Rowland Caroline A CA Newman Tracey A TA Evans Nicholas D ND

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Melioidosis caused by the facultative intracellular pathogen <i>Burkholderia pseudomallei</i> is difficult to treat due to poor intracellular bioavailability of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. In the absence of novel compounds, polymersome (PM) encapsulation may increase the efficacy of existing antibiotics and reduce antibiotic resistance by promoting targeted, infection-specific intracellular uptake. In this study, we developed PMs composed of widely available poly(ethylene oxide)-polyc ...[more]

PMID: 34739227

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Antibiotic-Loaded Polymersomes for Clearance of Intracellular Burkholderia thailandensis.

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Antibiotic-Loaded Polymersomes for Clearance of Intracellular <i>Burkholderia thailandensis</i>.

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