Ionic binding of 3H-gentamicin and short-time bactericidal activity of gentamicin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates with different lipopolysaccharide structures.
The clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa can be roughly classified into long- and short-LPS strains and LPS-deficient strains. Ionic binding of 3H-gentamicin was the highest in the long-LPS strains followed in descending order by short-LPS and LPS-deficient strains. However, PAC605 strain, completely lacking in the repeated units of O-polysaccharide and also lacking in some of the neutral sugar residues of the core oligosaccharide region, highly bound to 3H-gentamicin and it is suggested that the negatively charged sites on the deep-core oligosaccharide region and/or on lipid A participated in the binding to 3H-gentamicin. This manner of binding may be also applied to P. aeruginosa No. 45 (LPS-deficient), a clinical isolate.
Chemotherapy Division, Mitsubishi Kagaku Bio-Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan. mbc-ka@sa2.so-net.ne.jp
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D005839:Gentamicins / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007477:Ions; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000737:chemistry*; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D009154:Mutation; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014316:Tritium
D005839:Gentamicins; D007477:Ions; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D014316:Tritium