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. 1995 Sep;39(9):2068–2072. doi: 10.1128/aac.39.9.2068

Identification of daptomycin-binding proteins in the membrane of Enterococcus hirae.

M Boaretti 1, P Canepari 1
PMCID: PMC162882  PMID: 8540717

Abstract

Daptomycin, a lipopeptide antibiotic active against gram-positive bacteria, was preliminarily shown to inhibit lipoteichoic acid (LTA) synthesis as a consequence of membrane binding in the presence of Ca2+ (P. Canepari, M. Boaretti, M. M. Lleó, and G. Satta, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 34:1220-1226, 1990). In the present study, it is shown that, along with binding bacterial-membrane components, daptomycin binds the protein fraction with a noncovalent bond, as suggested by the instability of the bond in the presence of ionic detergents such as sodium dodecyl sulfate. Analysis of membrane proteins by isoelectric focusing electrophoresis reveals that five bands with isoelectric points ranging from 5.9 to 6.2 bind radioactive daptomycin. These proteins are therefore called daptomycin-binding proteins. In an attempt to correlate these proteins to the main inhibition observed during LTA synthesis, two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography of lipids synthesized during daptomycin treatment was performed. A threefold increase in diglucosyl diacylglycerol is demonstrated, while the compounds phosphatidyl-alpha-kojibiosyldiacylglycerol, glycerophospho-phosphatidyl-alpha-kojibiosyldiacylglycerol, and glycerophospho-kojibiosyldiacylglycerol, which follow diglucosyl diacylglycerol in LTA synthesis, decrease progressively with time during the course of daptomycin treatment.

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