BETA LACTAMS & CELL WAL SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS Flashcards
definition of terms, penicillins and cephalosporins
antimicrobial drug that can eradicate an infection in the absence of host absence of host defense mechanisms
Bactericidal
Kills bacteria
Bactericidal
Does not kill bacteria
Bacteriostatic
antimicrobial drug that inhibits antimicrobial growth but requires host defense mechanism to eradicate the infection
Bacteriostatic
Slows down the proliferation of bacteria
Bacteriostatic
Lowest concentration of antimicrobial drug capable of inhibiting growth of an organism in a defined growth medium
Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)
Bacterial cytoplasmic membrane proteins that act as the initial receptors for penicillins and other beta-lactam antibiotics
Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs)
More toxic to the invader than to the host; a property
of useful antimicrobial drugs
Selective toxicity
Bacterial enzymes involved in the cross-linking of linear peptidoglycan chains, the final step in cell wall synthesis
Transpeptidases
Drugs with structures containing a beta-lactam ring: includes the penicillins, cephalosporins and carbapenems.
Beta-lactam antibiotics
This ring must be intact for antimicrobial action
Beta-lactam antibiotics
T or F: Beta-lactam are bactericidal drugs?
T
Chains of polysaccharides and polypeptides that are cross-linked to form the bacterial cell wall
Peptidoglycan
Drugs that are not as important as beta-lactam drugs
- Vancomycin
- Fosfomycin
- Bacitracin
(VBF)
Major antibiotics that inhibit cell wall synthesis
- Penicillins
- Cephalosporin
Bacterial enzymes (penicillinases, cephalosporinases) that hydrolyze the beta-lactam ring of certain penicillins and cephalosporins; CONFER RESISTANCE
Beta-lactamases
Potent inhibitors of some bacterial beta-lactamases used in combinations to protect hydrolyzable penicillins from inactivation
Beta-lactam inhibitors
Drugs that inhibit the growth/replication, or kill microorganisms
Antimicrobials
What are the 5 subgroups of Antimicrobials
- Antibacterial (Bacteria)
- Antifungal (Fungi)
- Antiviral (Viruses)
- Anti-protozoal
- Anti-parasitic (Parasite)
T or F:
Beta Lactams are composed of unusual 5-member ring that is common to all members
F, 4-member ring dapat
Production of antibiotic-inactivating enzymes
Microbial Resistance
What are the (3) bacterial cell wall synthesis inhibitors?
- Penicillins (Narrow spectrum, Wider Spectrum)
- Cephalosporins (Narrow spectrum, Wider Spectrum)
- Miscellaneous (Carbapenems, Aztreonam, Vancomycin
T or F:
On Cephalosporins, 2nd to 4th generations are under narrow spectrum.
False, under siya ng WIDER SPECTRUM
T or F:
On Cephalosporins, 1st generation is under narrow spectrum.
True
T or F:
On Penicillins, Penicillinase Susceptible and Penicillinase resistant.
True
Changes in the structure of target receptor is called?
Microbial Resistance
Give the Pros and Cons of Penicillin Narrow Spectrum
Pros: effective only if bacteria is susceptible
Cons: only cover few species of bacteria
Give the Pros and Cons of Penicillin Wider Spectrum
Pros: covers more bacteria agents
Cons: can also kill normal flora which inhibits other
bacteria, has many side effects
Penicillin susceptible or Penicillin resistant?
Q: Can cleave/alter penicillin
Penicillin susceptible
Penicillin susceptible or Penicillin resistant?
Q: Not affected by penicillin
Penicillin resistant?
First to suggest that a Penicillium mold (now known as Penicillium chrysogenum) must secrete an antibacterial substance
Sir Alexander Fleming
First to concentrate the active substance involved, which he named penicillin, in 1928
Sir Alexander Fleming
Derivatives of 6-aminopenicillanic acid
Penicillin
The beta-lactam ring structure of Penicillin is essential for?
Antibacterial activity
The beta-lactam ring structure of Penicillin alters what?
Pharmacokinetics (makes it more lipophilic or hydrophilic)
Penicillin subclasses have additional chemical substitu- ents that confer differences in what?
- Antimicrobial activity
- Susceptibility to acid and enzymatic hydrolysis
- Biodisposition (e.g. urine or bile)
What are the beta-lactam compounds?
- Thiazolidine ring
- β-lactam ring
What beta-lactam compound reacts with receptors?
Thiazolidine ring
What beta-lactam compound that carries a secondary amino
group (RNH–) → alters pharmacokinetics?
β-lactam ring
The pharmacokinetics of Penicillins vary on what?
- Vary in their oral bioavailability (F)
- Vary in resistance to gastric acid
T or F: Penicillins are polar?
T
T or F: Penicillins are metabolized extensively?
F, not metabolized extensively
Penicillins are usually excreted unchanged in urine via?
- Glomerular filtration
- Tubular excretion (inhibited by probenecid)
T or F: Penicillins must be given on an empty stomach?
T
Nafcillin is excreted mainly where?
Bile
T or F: Penicillins cross the blood-brain-barrier only when the meninges are inflammed?
T
T or F: Amoxicillin must be given on an empty stomach
F
Plasma half life of Penicillin vary from?
30 min to 1 hr
What are the forms of Penicillin G?
Procaine and benzathine
(administered itramuscularly)
Procaine and benzathine are administered via?
IM (Intramuscular)
Penicillins inhibit cell wall synthesis by?
- BINDING of the drug to specific enzymes (penicillin-binding proteins [PBPs]) located in the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane
- INHIBITION of the transpeptidation reaction that cross-links the linear peptidoglycan chain constituents of the cell wall
- ACTIVATION of autolytic enzymes that cause lesions in the bacterial cell wall.
Enzymatic hydrolysis of the beta-lactam ring results in the _____ _____ _______?
loss of antibacterial activity
Hydrolysis of the β-lactam ring by bacterial β-lactamases
Resistance
Modification of penicillin-binding proteins [PBPs]
Resistance
Changes in membrane permeability
Resistance
In some gram-_____ _____(eg, Pseudomonas aeruginosa), changes in the porin structures in the outer cell wall membrane may contribute to resistance by impeding access of penicillins to PBPs.
gram-negative rods
Formed by most staphylococci and gram (-) organisms
Beta-lactamases (Penicillinases)
Inhibitors of Beta-lactamases (Penicillinases) are used in combination
with penicillin to prevent their inactivation in the following?
■ Clavulanic acid
■ Sulbactam
■ Tazobactam
Structural changes in target PBPs. Another mechanism of bacterial resistance is responsible for?
- Methicillin resistance (in Staphylococci)
- Penicillin G (in Pneumococci)
What gram-negative rod bacteria changes in the porin structures in the outer cell wall membrane may contribute to resistance by impeding access of penicillins to PBPs.
P. aeruginosa
Narrow spectrum Penicillinase susceptible agents includes?
- Penicillin G
- Penicillin V
Very narrow spectrum Penicillinase resistant agents includes?
- Methicillin (prototype - rarely used due to nephrotoxic potential)
- Nafcillin
- Oxacillin
- Cloxacillin (Dicloxacillin) - newer
Very-narrow-spectrum penicillinase-resistant drugs is primarily used against what bacterial infection?
Staphylococcus aureus