Effects of Lysozyme on the Activity of Ionic of Fluoroquinolone Species.

Hugo Perez,María Taranto,Ana Bustos,Ana Ledesma,María Frías

doi:10.3390/molecules23040741

Abstract

Fluoroquinolones (FQs) constitute an important class of biologically active broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs that are which are in contact with many biological fluids under different acidity conditions. We studied the reactivity of ciprofloxacin (Cpx) and levofloxacin (Lev) and their interaction with lysozyme (Lyz) at different pH values, using UV-visible absorption, fluorescence, infrared spectroscopies supported by DFT calculation and docking. In addition, by antimicrobial assays, the biological consequences of the interaction were evaluated. DFT calculation predicted that the FQ cationic species present at acid pH have lower stabilization energies, with an electric charge rearrangement because of their interactions with solvent molecules. NBO and frontier orbital calculations evidenced the role of two charged centers, NH2+ and COO−, for interactions by electronic delocalization effects. Both FQs bind to Lyz via a static quenching with a higher interaction in neutral medium. The interaction induces a structural rearrangement in β-sheet content while in basic pH a protective effect against the denaturation of Lyz was inferred. The analysis of thermodynamic parameters and docking showed that hydrophobic, electrostatic forces and hydrogen bond are the responsible of Cpx-Lyz and Lev-Lyz associations. Antimicrobial assays evidenced an antagonist effect of Lyz in acid medium while in neutral medium the FQs’ activities were not modified by Lyz.

Highlights

Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are synthetic antibiotics with a broad antimicrobial spectrum that includesGram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria [1,2]
Fluoroquinolones (FQs) constitute an important class of biologically active broad-spectrum antibacterial drugs that are which are in contact with many biological fluids under different acidity conditions
We studied the reactivity of ciprofloxacin (Cpx) and levofloxacin (Lev) and their interaction with lysozyme (Lyz) at different pH values, using UV-visible absorption, fluorescence, infrared spectroscopies supported by DFT calculation and docking

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Introduction

Fluoroquinolones (FQs) are synthetic antibiotics with a broad antimicrobial spectrum that includesGram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria [1,2]. The pharmacological activity of these compounds is due to the fact that they can act at the level of bacterial DNA replication by inhibiting the enzyme topoisomerase IV or DNA gyrase [3,4,5,6] These compounds result from the addition of a fluorine atom at the 6-position and a piperazine ring at carbon 7 to their predecessor, nalidixic acid [7]. These substituents give rise to new structures such as ciprofloxacin (Cpx) and levofloxacin (Lev), which show improvements in both biological activity and pharmacokinetic properties [8,9,10,11] (Figure 1).

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