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US 20100322903A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2010/0322903A1 Collins et al. (43) Pub. Date: Dec. 23, 2010 (54) ENGINEERED BACTERIOPHAGES AS Related U.S. Application Data ADUVANTS FOR ANTIMICROBAL AGENTS AND COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF (60) Provisional application No. 61/020,197, filed on Jan. USE THEREOF 10, 2008. Publication Classification (75) Inventors: James J Collins, Newton, MA (US); Timothy Kuan-Ta Lu, (51) Int. Cl. Boston, MA (US) A6II 35/76 (2006.01) CI2N 7/01 (2006.01) Correspondence Address: A6IP3L/04 (2006.01) RONALDI. EISENSTEIN (52) U.S. Cl. ..................................... 424/93.2:435/235.1 100 SUMMER STREET, NIXON PEABODY LLP (57) ABSTRACT BOSTON, MA 02110 (US) The present invention relates to the treatment and prevention (73) Assignees: TRUSTEES OF BOSTON of bacteria and bacterial infections. In particular, the present UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA (US); invention relates to engineered bacteriophages used in com MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE bination with antimicrobial agents to potentiate the antimi OF TECHNOLOGY, Cambridge, crobial effect and bacterial killing by the antimicrobial agent. MA (US) The present invention generally relates to methods and com positions comprising engineered bacteriophages and antimi (21) Appl. No.: 12/812,212 crobial agents for the treatment of bacteria, and more particu larly to bacteriophages comprising agents that inhibit (22) PCT Filed: Jan. 12, 2009 antibiotic resistance genes and/or cell Survival genes, and/or bacteriophages comprising repressors of SOS response genes (86). 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Drugs such as ciprofloxacin that induce the SOS USE THEREOF response can even promote the horizontal dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes by mobilizing genetic elements' CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED 16. For example, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria APPLICATIONS gonorrhoeae have also obtained resistance to antibiotics 0001. This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. (Morens, et al., (2004) Nature 430: 242-249). Sub-inhibitory 119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. concentrations or incomplete treatment courses can present 61/020,197 filed 10 Jan. 2008, the contents of which are evolutionary pressures for the development of antibiotic incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. resistance'7. Use of antibiotics outside of clinical settings, for example in livestockfor the agricultural industry, has contrib GOVERNMENT SUPPORT uted to the emergence of resistant organisms such as methi 0002 This invention was made with the Government Sup cillin-resistant staphylococci and is unlikely to abate due to port under Contract No. EF-0425719 awarded by the economic reasons and modern farming practices''. Resis National Science Foundation (NSF) and Contract No. tance genes that develop in non-clinical settings may be Sub OD003644 awarded by the National Institutes of Health sequently transmitted to bacterial populations which infect (NIH). The Government has certain rights in the invention. humans, worsening the antibiotic resistance problem'. 0007. In addition to acquiring antibiotic-resistance genes, FIELD OF THE INVENTION a small Subpopulation of cells known as persisters can Survive 0003. The present invention relates to the field of treat antibiotic treatment by entering a metabolically-dormant ment and prevention of bacteria and bacterial infections. In state'''. Persister cells do not typically carry genetic muta particular, the present invention relates to engineered bacte tions but rather exhibit phenotypic resistance to antibiotics'. riophages used in combination with antimicrobial agents to In Escherichia coli, the fraction of a population which repre potentiate the antimicrobial effect and bacterial killing of the sents persister cells increases dramatically in late-exponential antimicrobial agent. and stationary phases. Chromosomally-encoded toxins may be important contributors to the persister phenotype but the BACKGROUND underlying mechanisms that control the stochastic persis 0004 Bacteria rapidly develop resistance to antibiotic tence phenomena are not well understood’. Persisters drugs within years of first clinical use". Antibiotic resistance constitute a reservoir of latent cells that can begin to regrow can be acquired by horizontal gene transfer or result from once antibiotic treatment ceases and may be responsible for persistence, in which a small fraction of cells in a population the increased antibiotic tolerance observed in bacterial bio exhibits a non-inherited tolerance to antimicrobials. Since films'. By surviving treatment, persisters may play an antimicrobial drug discovery is increasingly lagging behind important role in the development of mutations or acquisition the evolution of antibiotic resistance, there is a pressing need of genes that confer antibiotic resistance. for new antibacterial therapies. 0008. Several strategies have been proposed for control 0005 Bacterial infections are responsible for significant ling antibiotic resistant infections. New classes of antibiotics morbidity and mortality in clinical settings. Though the would improve the arsenal of drugs available to fight antibi advent of antibiotics has reduced the impact of bacterial dis otic-resistant bacteria but few are in pharmaceutical pipe eases on human health, the constant evolution of antibiotic lines. Surveillance and containment measures have been resistance poses a serious challenge to the usefulness of instituted in government and hospitals so that problematic today’s antibiotic drugs'. Infections that would have been infections are rapidly detected and isolated but do not address easily cured by antibiotics in the past are now able to survive the fundamental evolution of resistance'.