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Downloaded from http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/ on September 24, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Tetracycline Antibiotics and Resistance Trudy H. Grossman Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472 Correspondence: [email protected] Tetracyclines possess many properties considered ideal for antibiotic drugs, including activ- ity against Gram-positive and -negative pathogens, proven clinical safety, acceptable toler- ability, and the availability of intravenous (IV) and oral formulations for most members of the class. As with all antibiotic classes, the antimicrobial activities of tetracyclines are subject to both class-specific and intrinsic antibiotic-resistance mechanisms. Since the discovery of the first tetracyclines more than 60 years ago, ongoing optimization of the core scaffold has produced tetracyclines in clinical use and development that are capable of thwarting many of these resistance mechanisms. New chemistry approaches have enabled the creation of synthetic derivatives with improved in vitro potency and in vivo efficacy, ensuring that the full potential of the class can be explored for use against current and emerging multidrug- resistant (MDR) pathogens, including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, MDR Aci- netobacter species, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. etracycline antibiotics are well known for rivatives with improved antibacterial potency, Ttheir broad spectrum of activity, spanning a spectrum, resistance coverage, solubility, and/ wide range of Gram-positive and -negative bac- or oral bioavailability (methacycline, rolitetra- teria, spirochetes, obligate intracellular bacteria, cycline, lymecycline, doxycycline, and minocy- as well as protozoan parasites. The first tetracy- cline) (Jarolmen et al. 1970; Cunha et al. 1982; clines were natural products derived from the Nelson and Levy 2011). Several of these “legacy” fermentations of actinomycetes. Chlortetracy- tetracyclines remain in clinical use for the treat- cline, produced by Streptomyces aureofaciens, ment of uncomplicated respiratory, urogenital, and marketed as Aureomycin, was first reported gastrointestinal, and other rare and serious in- www.perspectivesinmedicine.org by Benjamin Duggar at Lederle Laboratories in fections; however, the dissemination of tetracy- 1948 and approved forclinical use that sameyear cline-resistant mechanisms has narrowed their (Duggar 1948). Soon after, Pfizer (New York) utility, limiting use to only infections with con- scientists isolated oxytetracycline, approved by firmed susceptibility (Fig. 1). the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) After a long pause in the advancement of the in 1950 and marketed as Terramycin (Finlayet al. tetracycline class, renewed interest in optimiza- 1950). Other tetracyclines that followed over tion of tetracyclines during the late 1980s led the next two decades were also natural products to the discovery of semisynthetic derivatives produced by streptomycetes (tetracycline, de- with improved potency against difficult-to-treat methylchlortetracycline) or semisynthetic de- emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram- Editors: Lynn L. Silver and Karen Bush Additional Perspectives on Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance available at www.perspectivesinmedicine.org Copyright # 2016 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; all rights reserved; doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a025387 Cite this article as Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2016;6:a025387 1 Downloaded from http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/ on September 24, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press T.H. Grossman H C CH H3C CH H C CH CH 3 3 3 3 3 CI 3 N CH3 OH N CH3 N HO H H HO H H 7 HO H H OH OH 3 OH 8 6 5 4 D C B A 9 NH2 NH2 1 2 NH2 10 11 12 O O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O Chlortetracycline (Aureomycin, 1948) Oxytetracycline (Terramycin, 1951) Tetracycline (Teracyn, 1953) H C CH H C CH CI CH 3 N 3 CH 3 N 3 H HO 3 H H OH H OH H NH2 NN O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O Demethylchlortetracycline (Declomycin, 1957) Rolitetracycline (Reverin, 1958) H C CH H C CH CH 3 N 3 O CI CH 3 N 3 HO 3 H H HO 3 H H OH N H N H OH 2 OH H NH NOH O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O Limecycline (Tetralysal, 1961) Clomocycline (Megaclor, 1963) H H H3C CH H3C CH H C CH H C CH OH N 3 CH OH N 3 3 N 3 3 N 3 H 3 H H H OH H H OH OH NH2 NH2 NH2 O O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O Methacycline (Rondomycin, 1965) Doxycycline (Vibramycin, 1967) Minocycline (Minocin, 1972) H C CH 3 3 H3C CH3 H C CH H C CH N N 3 N 3 3 N 3 H H H H OH OH O CH H H C 3 H H C N NH 3 N 3 N 2 NH2 H3C H3C H O O CH3 OH O HO H O O OH O HO H O O Tigecycline (Tygacil, 2005) Omadacycline (in phase-three trials) H C CH F 3 N 3 H H OH www.perspectivesinmedicine.org O N NH N 2 H O OH O HO H O O Eravacycline (in phase-three trials) Figure 1. Chemical structures of clinically used tetracyclines and development candidates. Tetracycline structures are labeled with generic names; trade names and year of discovery are indicated within parentheses. The core structure rings (A–D) and carbons (1–12) are labeled in the chemical structure of tetracycline using the convention for tetracycline carbon numbering and ring letter assignments. negative and -positive pathogens, including bac- 2005 (Sum and Petersen 1999; Zhanel et al. teria with tetracycline-specific resistance mech- 2004). Tigecycline continues to be an important anisms. Tigecycline, a semisynthetic parenteral treatment option for serious infections caused glycylcycline, was discovered in 1993 by scien- by pathogens resistant to other antibiotic class- tists at Lederle (which later became Wyeth, es. In recent years, two new tetracyclines have New York), and introduced into clinical use in entered clinical development: omadacycline, a 2 Cite this article as Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2016;6:a025387 Downloaded from http://perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org/ on September 24, 2021 - Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Tetracyclines and Resistance semisynthetic aminomethylcycline derivative of ribosomal subunit, arresting translation by ste- minocycline discovered at Paratek Pharmaceu- rically interfering with the docking of amino- ticals (Boston, MA) (Draper et al. 2014), and acyl-transfer RNA (tRNA) during elongation eravacycline, a fully synthetic fluorocycline dis- (Maxwell 1967; Brodersen et al. 2000; Pioletti covered at Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals (Water- et al. 2001). Tetracyclines are usually considered town, MA) (Clark et al. 2012; Xiao et al. 2012). bacteriostatic antibiotics; however, organism- In addition to efficacy against MDR infections, and isolate-specific bactericidal activity in vitro an important feature of these two new antibiot- has been described (Norcia et al. 1999; Petersen ics is their oral formulations. This review will et al. 2007; Bantar et al. 2008; Noviello et al. focus on recent developments in the under- 2008), and, recently, the bactericidal activity of standing of tetracycline-resistance mechanisms tigecycline against E. coli and K. pneumoniae in and their potential impact on the clinical utility a mouse model suggests that in vitro bacterici- of tetracycline-class antibiotics. dal assessments may not necessarily predict in vivo outcomes (Tessier and Nicolau 2013). The mechanism of tetracycline uptake has MECHANISM, UPTAKE, AND been reviewed by Nikaido and Thanassi (1993). TETRACYCLINE-SPECIFIC RESISTANCE Briefly, in Gram-negative cells such as E. coli, In recent surveillance studies, the prevalence of tetracycline passively diffuses through the outer tetracycline resistance in selected European membrane porins OmpF and OmpC (Morti- countries was found to be 66.9% and 44.9% mer and Piddock 1993; Thanassi et al. 1995), for extended-spectrum b-lactamase (ESBL)- most likely as a Mg2þ chelate, and this is con- producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella species sistent with the finding that outer membrane (spp.), respectively (Jones et al. 2014), and glob- porin mutants show decreased susceptibility to al tetracycline-resistance percentages were 8.7% tetracyclines (Pugsley and Schnaitman 1978). and 24.3% for methicillin-resistant Staphylo- Accumulation of tetracycline in the periplasm coccus aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pneu- is driven by the Donnan potential across the moniae, respectively (Mendes et al. 2015). outer membrane. The dissociation of tetracy- Resistance to tetracyclines is usually attributed cline from Mg2þ enables the weakly lipophilic, to one or more of the following: the acquisition uncharged form to diffuse through the inner of mobile genetic elements carrying tetracy- membrane to the cytoplasm where it may cline-specific resistance genes, mutations within be complexed with magnesium and reach its the ribosomal binding site, and/orchromosom- ribosomal target. Uptake into the cytoplasm is al mutations leading to increased expression of partially energy dependent, involving passive www.perspectivesinmedicine.org intrinsic resistance mechanisms. Three general diffusion, proton motive force, and phosphate class-specific mechanisms have been well de- bond hydrolysis (McMurry and Levy 1978; scribed: efflux, ribosomal protection, and enzy- Smith and Chopra 1984; Yamaguchi et al. matic inactivation of tetracycline drugs. As there 1991). are several recent reviews on the topics of tetra- cycline-specific resistance determinants and Ribosomal Interactions their prevalence in clinical and environmental settings (Roberts 2005, 2011; Jones et al. 2008; Crystallographic studies with the Thermus ther- Thaker et al. 2010), only a limited