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Series GSE214305 Query DataSets for GSE214305
Status Public on Feb 01, 2023
Title Deep learning-guided discovery of a narrow-spectrum antibiotic against Acinetobacter baumannii
Organism Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary Acinetobacter baumannii is a nosocomial Gram-negative pathogen that often displays multidrug-resistance due to its robust outer membrane and its ability to acquire and retain extracellular DNA. Moreover, it can survive for prolonged durations on surfaces and is resistant to desiccation. Discovering new antibiotics against A. baumannii has proven challenging through conventional screening approaches. Fortunately, machine learning methods allow for the rapid exploration of chemical space, increasing the probability of discovering new chemical matter with antibacterial activity against this burdensome pathogen. Here, we screened ~7,500 molecules for those that inhibited the growth of A. baumannii in vitro. We trained a deep neural network with this growth inhibition dataset and performed predictions on the Drug Repurposing Hub for structurally novel molecules with activity against A. baumannii. Through this approach, we discovered abaucin, an antibacterial compound with narrow-spectrum activity against A. baumannii, which could overcome intrinsic and acquired resistance mechanisms in clinical isolates. Further investigations revealed that abaucin perturbs lipoprotein trafficking through a mechanism involving LolE, a functionally conserved protein that contributes to shuttling lipoproteins from the inner membrane to the outer membrane. Moreover, abaucin was able to control an A. baumannii infection in a murine wound model. Together, this work highlights the utility of machine learning in discovering new antibiotics and describes a promising lead with narrow-spectrum activity against a challenging Gram-negative pathogen.
 
Overall design Transcriptomic analysis of A. baumannii ATCC 17978 when treated with novel antibiotic compound
 
Contributor(s) Liu G, Catacutan DB, Rathod K, Swanson K, Jin W, Mohamed JC, Chiappino-Pepe A, Syed SA, Fragis M, Rachwalski K, Magolan J, Surette MG, Coombes BK, Jaakkola T, Barzilay R, Collins JJ, Stokes JM
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Submission date Sep 27, 2022
Last update date Feb 03, 2023
Contact name Gary Liu
E-mail(s) [email protected], [email protected]
Organization name McMaster University
Department Institute for Infectious Disease Research
Lab Stokes Lab
Street address 1280 Main Street West
City Hamilton
State/province ON
ZIP/Postal code L8S 4K1
Country Canada
 
Platforms (1)
GPL33052 Illumina HiSeq 3000 (Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 17978)
Samples (7)
GSM6603484 AB Abaucin treated 3h
GSM6603485 AB Abaucin treated 4.5h
GSM6603486 AB Abaucin treated 6h
Relations
BioProject PRJNA884833

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GSE214305_5x-3h_log.csv.gz 129.3 Kb (ftp)(http) CSV
GSE214305_5x-4.5h_log.csv.gz 129.3 Kb (ftp)(http) CSV
GSE214305_5x-6h_log.csv.gz 129.3 Kb (ftp)(http) CSV
GSE214305_RAW.tar 990.0 Kb (http)(custom) TAR (of TSV)
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