Construction of a New Class of Tetracycline Lead Structures with Potent Antibacterial Activity through Biosynthetic Engineering

Antimicrobial resistance and the shortage of novel antibiotics have led to an urgent need for new antibacterial drug leads. Several existing natural product scaffolds (including chelocardins) have not been developed because their suboptimal pharmacological properties could not be addressed at the time. It is demonstrated here that reviving such compounds through the application of biosynthetic engineering can deliver novel drug candidates. Through a rational approach, the carboxamido moiety of tetracyclines (an important structural feature for their bioactivity) was introduced into the chelocardins, which are atypical tetracyclines with an unknown mode of action. A broad‐spectrum antibiotic lead was generated with significantly improved activity, including against all Gram‐negative pathogens of the ESKAPE panel. Since the lead structure is also amenable to further chemical modification, it is a platform for further development through medicinal chemistry and genetic engineering.     

高效液相色谱法测定水产品中四环素类抗生素残留

建立了一种高效液相色谱法测定水产品中土霉素、四环素、去甲基金霉素、金霉素、脱氧土霉素的分析方法。样品用5.0%高氯酸溶液提取,上清液用OasisHLB固相萃取柱净化,用紫外检测器于355nm测定。土霉素、四环素、去甲基金霉素检测限为0.01mg/kg,金霉素、脱氧土霉素检出限为0.02mg/kg。5种药物的回收率在74.8%~89.3%之间,相对标准偏差为3.95%~9.95%。方法适用于水产品中四环素类抗生素残留的检测。     

Determination of Tetracyclines in Honey Using Liquid Chromatography with Ultraviolet Absorbance Detection and Residue Confirmation by Mass Spectrometry

A determination method has been optimized and validated for the simultaneous analysis of tetracycline （TC）, oxytetracycline （OTC）, chlortetracycline （CTC） and doxycycline （DC） in honey. Tetracyclines （TCs） were removed from honey samples by chelation with metal ions bound to small Chelating Sepharose Fast Flow columns and eluted with Na2EDTA-Mcllvaine pH 4.0 buffers. Extracts were further cleaned up by Oasis HLB solid-phase extraction （SPE）, while other solid-phase extraction cartridges were compared. Chromatographic separation was achieved using a polar end-capped C 18 column with an isocratic mobile phase consisting of oxalic acid, acetonitrile and methanol. LC with ultraviolet absorbance at 355 nm resulted in the quantitation of all four tetracycline residues from honey samples fortified at 15, 50, and 100 ng/g, with liner ranges for tetracyclines of 0.05 to 2 μg/mL. Mean recoveries for tetracyclines were greater than 50% with R.S.D. values less than 10% （n= 18）. Detection limits of 5, 5, 10, 10 ng/g for oxytetracycline, tetracycline, chlortetracycline and doxycycline, respectively and quantitation limits of 15 ng/g for all the four tetracyclines were determined. Direct confirmation of the four residues in honey （2-50 ng/g） was realized by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry （LC/MS/MS）. The linear ranges of tetracyclines determined by LC/MS/MS were between 5 to 300 ng/mL, with the linear correlation coefficient r〉 0.995. The limits of detection of 1 to 2 ng/g were obtained for the analysis of the TCs in honey.     

RP-HPLC法测定水体表层沉积物中的磺胺类与四环素类抗生素

建立了超声提取-固相萃取/反相高效液相色谱检测水体表层沉积物中磺胺类和四环素类抗生素含量的方法。沉积物样品经冷冻干燥后用甲醇-EDTA/Mc Ilvaine缓冲液(1∶1)超声萃取,于40℃下氮气吹除提取液中有机溶剂后,过Poly-Sery HLB固相萃取小柱净化萃取,以ODS-P C_(18)反相色谱柱、紫外检测器进行色谱分析。结果表明:7种磺胺类抗生素在0.025~0.5 mg/L浓度范围内线性关系良好,相关系数(r2)均大于0.999,3个加标水平下的回收率为71.4%~107.6%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=3)为1.4%~5.2%,方法检出限(MDL)为0.07~0.29 ng/g;3种四环素类抗生素在0.05~1 mg/L浓度范围内线性关系良好,r~2均大于0.999,3个加标水平下的回收率为62.2%~87.9%,RSD(n=3)为1.1%~4.6%,MDL为0.45~0.58ng/g。应用此方法对某城市湖泊及其引水河道表层沉积物进行检测,10种目标抗生素均被检出。该方法简单快速、精确可靠,适用于水体沉积物中磺胺类和四环素类抗生素的检测。     

Determination of Tetracyclines in Milk with a Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Based Microtiter Chemiluminescence Sensor

A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) capable of recognizing five tetracyclines using minocycline as the template was synthesized for the first time. The MIP was employed as the recognition reagent to prepare a chemiluminescence sensor on a conventional microtiter plate. The light signal was initiated using the highly efficient bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate-hydrogen peroxide-imidazole chemiluminescence system. After optimization of several appropriate factors, the sensor was employed to determine five tetracyclines in milk. The developed assay contained only one sample-loading step, so each measurement was completed within 12?min. The limits of detection for these analytes were in the range from 0.5 to 2.0?pg/mL, while the recoveries from the fortified milk samples were between 78.1 and 105%. In addition, the sensor was shown to be reusable for up to four measurements. Hence, this sensor has been demonstrated to be a simple, rapid, sensitive, and durable tool for the determination of tetracyclines in animal-derived food.     

锰掺杂硫化锌量子点磷光探针对蜂蜜中四环素类抗生素残留的高灵敏检测

通过水合法合成了L-半胱氨酸修饰的锰掺杂硫化锌量子点(Mn∶ZnS QDs)。利用四环素类抗生素(Tetracyclines,TCs)对锰掺杂硫化锌量子点磷光激发光的內滤效应建立蜂蜜中TCs残留的快速、高灵敏检测方法。TCs在Mn∶ZnS QDs磷光最佳激发波长289 nm处有较强的紫外吸收,当Mn∶ZnS QDs体系中存在TCs时,激发光一定程度地被TCs吸收,磷光信号减弱。本研究以强力霉素(Doxycycline,DTC)为代表,建立Mn∶ZnS QDs磷光信号与DTC浓度的线性关系,进而实现对DTC的定量检测。结果表明,在优化条件下,Mn∶ZnS QDs磷光信号减小值的自然对数与DTC浓度在0.05~150μmol·L-1范围内呈良好的线性关系,线性方程为ln P 0/P=0.01758 C(DTC)+0.01351(R 2=0.999),检出限为0.0097μmol·L-1。同时,对实际样品蜂蜜做了加标回收率实验,回收率为92.4%~110%。本研究建立的Mn∶ZnS QDs磷光探针用于TCs残留检测具有良好重复性和稳定性,可用于蜂蜜中TCs残留的快速、高灵敏检测。     

超高效液相色谱-串联质谱法同时测定牛奶中38种抗生素残留

建立了超高效液相色谱-串联质谱(UPLC-MS/MS)同时测定牛奶中5类(磺胺类、喹诺酮类、四环素类、氯霉素类和大环内酯类)38种抗生素的分析方法。牛奶样品以0.5%(体积分数)甲酸乙腈提取,利用Oasis PRiME HLB固相萃取小柱进行净化,经Acquity UPLC HSS T3柱(100 mm×2.1 mm i.d.,1.8μm)分离,采用电喷雾离子源,多反应监测模式(MRM)进行定性定量分析。结果表明,38种抗生素在各自线性范围内呈良好的线性关系,相关系数(r~2)均大于0.99,定量下限为0.10～1.0μg/kg;在1.0、5.0、10.0μg/kg加标水平下,平均回收率为70.7%～94.9%,相对标准偏差(RSD,n=6)为4.0%～9.4%。该方法操作简单、灵敏度高、重现性好,适用于牛奶中多种抗生素残留的监测要求。     

Hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent as a green extractant for high‐performance liquid chromatographic determination of tetracyclines in water samples

A green extractant, hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent was first introduced for extraction of tetracycline, oxytetracycline, and chlortetracycline from environmental water samples prior to high‐performance liquid chromatography determination. Deep eutectic solvents consist of methyltrioctylammonium chloride and various medium‐chain alcohols/acids, and are easy in preparation, low cost and toxicity, desirably biodegradable, and biocompatible. The overall time required for sample preparation was 6 min and the volume of organic solvent used for extraction was only 400 µL. Under the optimized extraction condition, the present method yielded low limit of detection (0.5–2.0 ng/mL), acceptable precision (relative standard deviations < 9.7%), good linearity from 2.0 to 500 ng/mL (r² ≥ 0.9991). This optimized procedure was applied for determination of tetracyclines in different water samples with desirable spiked recovery ranged from 77.5 to 87.6%. There is, therefore, a great potential to further expand application of the method for investigation of other ultra‐trace analyte(s) in environmental matrixes.     

改良的QuEChERS样本前处理/高效液相色谱-串联质谱法检测猪肉中四环素类兽药的残留

采用Agilent公司的增强型脂质去除产品Bond Elut EMR-Lipid,建立了针对猪肉中四环素类药物残留的更快更高效的Qu ECh ERS样品前处理方法。样品经酸化乙腈提取,Bond Elut EMR-Lipid Qu ECh ERS净化后,采用HPLC-MS/MS检测,方法检出限可达5.0μg/kg;四环素、金霉素和强力霉素的回收率为75.6%~89.4%,土霉素的回收率为53.4%~61.0%,相对标准偏差均不大于7.7%。     

Kalman filtering-aided time-resolved solid-surface room temperature phosphorimetry for simultaneous determination of tetracyclines in solution

Tetracycline, chlortetracycline and oxytetracycline react with Eu (III) to form complexes which exhibit analytically useful room temperature phosphorescence (RTP). The RTP features of the three complexes are similar and the RTP spectra completely overlap. However, their three phosphorescence decay rates are quite different. These differences are utilized here to analyze the time-resolved RTP data by Kalman filtering. Simultaneous quantification of all the three complexes is demonstrated and a method is proposed for the simultaneous determination of the three tetracyclines in mixtures by RTP optosensing. Analytical errors observed are within ± 5%.