FFC#11/2020

Disrupting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing signalling in Cystic Fibrosis patients as a new frontier for antibacterial therapy

AREA 3 Bronchopulmonary infection

FFC#11/2020

Disrupting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing signalling in Cystic Fibrosis patients as a new frontier for antibacterial therapy
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pRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Paola Brun (Università degli Studi di Padova, Dip. di Medicina Molecolare)

Partner

Giovanni Marzaro (Università degli Studi di Padova, Dip. di Scienze Farmaceutiche e Farmacologiche)

Researchers

10

Category

AREA 3 Bronchopulmonary infection

Duration

1 year

Goal

€ 50.000

Funds raised

€ 50.000

Objectives

The main problem with any antibiotic therapies in cystic fibrosis is resistant bacteria’s infection, which makes many treatments ineffective. Therefore, the interest of researchers is moving to a new approach, no longer based on the killing of microbes through antibiotics, but rather aimed at disarming their pathogenicity, which is mediated by some chemical signals they produce. These chemical signals (i.e. Quorum Sensing) represent the language the bacterial species use to communicate, thus regulating the production of virulence factors. The project aims at developing new molecules capable of interfering with the Quorum Sensing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) and other bacteria. Molecules’ testing will be at first performed in vitro; the most promising molecules will then be tested in P. aeruginosa strains isolated from CF patients. This is a new strategy with no immediate clinical impact, however very promising for future developments.

who adopted the project

Delegazione FFC di Como Dongo

€ 50.000

Delegazione FFC di Prato

€ 16.000

Gruppo di sostegno FFC di Campiglione Fenile

€ 12.000

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