Amir Hossein Miri1,2
Mojtaba Kamankesh3
Antoni Llopis-Lorente4Chenguang Liu5
Matthias G. Wacker6Ismaeil Haririan1Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei7
Michael R. Hamblin8*
Abbas Yadegar2*
Mazda Rad-Malekshahi1*Mohammad Reza Zali9*- 1Department of Pharmaceutical Biomaterials and Medical Biomaterials Research Center, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 2Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 3Polymer Chemistry Department, School of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- 4Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 5College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- 6Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- 7Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- 8Laser Research Centre, Faculty of Health Science, University of Johannesburg, Doornfontein, South Africa
- 9Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a notorious, recalcitrant and silent germ, which can cause a variety of debilitating stomach diseases, including gastric and duodenal ulcers and gastric cancer. This microbe predominantly colonizes the mucosal layer of the human stomach and survives in the inhospitable gastric microenvironment, by adapting to this hostile milieu. In this review, we first discuss H. pylori colonization and invasion. Thereafter, we provide a survey of current curative options based on polypharmacy, looking at pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmaceutical microbiology concepts, in the battle against H. pylori infection.
GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT
Introduction
The Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology 2005 was jointly awarded to the Australian-born scientists, Robin Warren and Barry J. Marshall, for the discovery of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), as a fastidious Gram-negative microaerophilic spiral bacterium (Warren and Marshall, 1983; Arora et al., 2012). This germ is 2.5–5 μm long and 0.5–1.0 μm wide, with six unipolar sheathed flagella visible under electron microscopy (Goodwin and Armstrong, 1990; Geis et al., 1993; Zhao et al., 2014). In 1994, the international agency for research on cancer (IARC) classified H. pylori as a type І carcinogen and also declared that there was a strong relation between gastric cancer and this potentially deadly pathogen (Li et al., 2019). Over the years, H. pylori has been discovered to cause a variety of gastric diseases such as peptic ulcer, gastric ulcer and gastric cancer (Figure 1) (Hunt, 1996; Umamaheshwari and Jain, 2003; Hussein et al., 2008; Garza-González et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2021).
FIGURE 1. Representation of healthy stomach compartments, and different gastric disorders induced by H. pylori. (a) normal body. (b) normal antrum. (c) normal duodenum. (d) antral gastritis. (e) duodenal ulcer. (f) gastric ulcer. (g) gastric cancer. (h) esophagitis. (i) polypoid lesion in the antrum.
Moreover, H. pylori can be associated with some non-gastric diseases, such as cardiovascular, respiratory, neurologic, hematologic, dermatologic and allergic disorders (Gravina et al., 2018; Attaran et al., 2021). As one example, it was discovered that there was a correlation between H. pylori infection and problems in the digestive tract, such as abdominal pain and diarrhea in Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) patients (Balamtekin et al., 2021). As time goes on, despite valuable experience in predicting the best treatment protocols for elimination of this pathogen from the human stomach, until now the treatment of H. pylori infection remains a major challenge for clinicians (Zhao et al., 2014). It has been reported that this bacterial pathogen has contributed to almost 75% of the gastric cancer burden worldwide (Amieva and Peek, 2016). Incredibly, in the United States the rate of infection remained consistent during the years 2000–2010, while the rate of eradication dramatically decreased (Thung et al., 2016; Gong and Yuan, 2018). Also the rate of incidence in developing and developed countries was 50.8% and 34.7%, respectively (Peng et al., 2018; Zamani et al., 2018). This incidence is maximum during childhood (11–16 years old), under poor socioeconomic conditions, and also with poor overall hygiene (Mishra et al., 2008; Arora et al., 2012; Mahmoudi et al., 2017). Regarding this bacterium, one of the key principles to take into account is its transmission routes. Despite some discrepancies in the exact mode of transmission (Ng et al., 2017), person-to-person is the major route of transmission (Jabbari Moghaddam et al., 2009; Eusebi et al., 2014). However, environmental transmission, such as consumption of polluted water, vegetables, animal products such as milk and meat contaminated with feces can transmit H. pylori into the human body (Vale and Vítor, 2010; Ghanbari et al., 2020). Unfortunately, this pathogen can survive in contaminated water and food products for long periods of time (Quaglia and Dambrosio, 2018; Ghanbari et al., 2020). In order to understand the emerging foodborne and waterborne diseases associated with H. pylori, Monno et al. (2019) investigated the relation between dietary habits and H. pylori infection status in Apulia (Southern of Italy). The authors reported that there was a significant relationship between H. pylori positivity and consumption of some foods, such as raw mussels and other molluscs, which had been extensively consumed by local people of that area. Despite older studies, which could not culture H. pylori from polluted water or food products, several pioneering microbiological studies confirmed that H. pylori could indeed be isolated and cultured from contaminated water and food (Hemmatinezhad et al., 2016; Ranjbar et al., 2016b; Ranjbar et al., 2016a). The current literature shows that there is a difference in the % prevalence of H. pylori infection in the world population, due to variations in socioeconomic and hygiene conditions (Hu et al., 2017; Saxena et al., 2020). Moreover, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), stomach cancer associated with H. pylori caused up to 0.5 million deaths in the world population (Arora et al., 2012). There are several comprehensive reviews which have discussed the pathogenesis and pharmacotherapy of H. pylori infection (Georgopoulos and Papastergiou, 2020; Alexander et al., 2021; Tshibangu-Kabamba and Yamaoka, 2021; Ansari and Yamaoka, 2022; Sousa et al., 2022). To our knowledge, there has been little attention paid to the potential use of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents in terms of the biopharmaceutical implications. In this review, we first discuss H. pylori colonization and invasion in an easy-to-understand manner. Thereafter, we provide a survey of current curative options based on polypharmacy, looking at pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmaceutical microbiology concepts, in the battle against H. pylori infection.
H. pylori Colonization and Invasiveness
Generally H. pylori resides deeply in the antrum area of the human stomach where the viscous mucus layer protects the bacteria from the effects of the lower pH (Kusters et al., 2006; Zhao et al., 2014; Worku et al., 2015). Generally speaking, the steps of the H. pylori-invasion pathway can be categorized as four consecutive processes: 1) survival; 2) swimming; 3) adherence; 4) tissue destruction (Walton, 2016). The steps of H. pylori invasion are depicted in Figure 2.
FIGURE 2. Sketch illustrating H. pylori invasion and colonization.
Upon bacterial entry into the stomach, the obstacles standing in the way of H. pylori include, gastric acidity, motility, peristaltic movement of the stomach, and mucosal materials secreted by the glands of the epithelial cells. All these factors intrinsically operate against the pathogen to retard its colonization (Arora et al., 2012). However, it is also known that H. pylori is an adaptable germ and can escape from host defense mechanisms (Karkhah et al., 2019; Mao et al., 2021). Colonization of the gastric mucosa is made possible by exploiting a unique arsenal of weapons, including production of a potent urease enzyme, possessing rapid motility, and expressing a number of adherence molecules on its cell membrane (Arora et al., 2012). It should be pointed out that non-motile flagellated or non-flagellated H. pylori bacteria are less able (or even unable) to initiate cellular infection (Skene et al., 2007). In general, H. pylori colonization occurs in the gastric mucus layer close to the epithelial cells of the stomach, but the bacteria usually do not directly colonize the epithelial cells themselves (Arora et al., 2012; Zhao et al., 2014). However, it has been proposed that H. pylori bacteria can be localized within the intracellular or intercellular space of gastric epithelial cells (Necchi et al., 2007; Chu et al., 2010; Arora et al., 2012; Kao et al., 2016; Sit et al., 2020). The epithelial cells are shielded by a thick layer of mucus as a barrier against foreign invasion, therefore H. pylori has to employ its flagellae to penetrate towards the underlying epithelial cells (Walton, 2016; Charitos et al., 2021). In addition, a variety of outer membrane proteins are expressed by H. pylori strains, such as H. pylori-outer membrane protein (Hop) and Hop-related proteins (Hor) (Feige et al., 2018). The Hop protein category act as virulence factors, including blood-group antigen binding adhesion (BabA), sialic acid-binding adhesion (SabA), H. pylori-outer membrane protein Q (HopQ), adherence-associated lipoproteins A and B (AlpA and AlpB) which are responsible for adhesion to the gastric mucosal layer (Oleastro and Ménard, 2013; Salama et al., 2013; Feige et al., 2018). Indeed, these factors permit the bacteria to gain a foothold in mucosal niches (Couturier, 2013). During adhesion to the gastric mucosa, the urease enzyme metabolizes urea to ammonia and bicarbonate, elevating the pH towards neutral (Arora et al., 2012; Piscione et al., 2021; Serrano et al., 2021). Hence, H. pylori provides the appropriate conditions in the gastric mucus to survive, and develop gastric disease and malignancies (Arora et al., 2012; Piscione et al., 2021). Given this situation, some advanced investigations have focused on the bioinorganic mechanism of urease as a nickel-containing metalloenzyme (Dixon et al., 1980; Jabri et al., 1995; Karplus et al., 1997; Pearson et al., 1997). As a matter of fact, Ni is considered to be an essential co-factor for urease activity (Maier and Benoit, 2019; Mazzei et al., 2020; Maroney and Ciurli, 2021). One bioinorganic mechanism was proposed by Dixon et al. (1980). At the first step, water and hydroxyl-containing molecules are coordinated by one of the two active sites of Ni (І) or Ni (ІІ) ions (coordination involves binding of ligands to a central metal atom). At the beginning of this process, the water molecule is replaced with urea. At the second step, a nucleophilic attack occurs on the carbonyl C atom by Ni (ІІ) to produce a tetrahedral intermediate. At the third step, this intermediate becomes unstable at basic pH and is easily disintegrated. Next, a carbamate ester and ammonium cation are generated. Following this reaction, water molecules can easily cause the release of the carbamate ester, and finally all of the mentioned cycles are repeated again. Figure 3 illustrates the proposed mechanism.
FIGURE 3. The proposed bioinorganic mechanism of urease enzyme activity.
In order to facilitate the adhesion process, some components of the bacterial type IV secretion system (T4SS) apparatus, such as CagI, CagL, CagY and CagA (Cag: Cytotoxin-associated gene) are able to interact with integrin β1 (Kwok et al., 2007; Backert et al., 2011; Salama et al., 2013). For more information on the T4SS system, interested readers are referred to the following review (Costa et al., 2021). The role of adhesion factors is apparent in the elegant work by Jan et al. (2020). In brief, the major concept involves the activity of the pathogenicity island 6′-O-acyl-α-D-glucopyranoside (CAG) in the bacteria, through hijacking of cholesterol from human gastric epithelial cells thereby forming a lipid-raft cluster, and promoting bacterial attachment to human gastric cells (Figure 4A). During the acquisition of cholesterol, the Glucosyltransferase (CGT) enzyme catalyzes the conversion of cholesterol to Cholesteryl α-D-glucopyranoside (CG). Afterward, further functionalization on the O6′ group of glucose of CG occurs by the action of the Cholesteryl α-D-glucopyranoside 6′-acyltransferase (CGAT) enzyme. CGAT can produce human lipid-containing CAGs with different fatty acid acyl side chains, including myristic acid (14:0), palmitic acid (16:0), stearic acid (18:0) or oleic acid (18:1), as shown in Figure 4B. Confocal microscopy has been used to visualize CAGs with different acyl side chains Figure 4C. Upon treatment with CG or CAG for 1 h, lipid rafts in AGS cells were labeled with AlexaFluor 594-conjugated cholera toxin subunit b (red fluorescence). The imaging revealed that the amount of bacterial adhesion was directly related to the presence of different acyl side chains on CAG (Figures 4D,E). This study showed that lipid-raft clustering with an increase in the length of the acyl-side chains of CAG, increased the delivery of CagA into gastric host cells.
FIGURE 4. H. pylori attachment in the stomach. (A) The major steps of H. pylori attachment. (a) The secretion of OMV (outer membrane vesicle) to deliver CGAT (cholesteryl-D-glucopyranoside acyltransferase) and CGT (cholesterol α-glucosyltransferase) enzymes to human gastric cells. (b) The formation of lipid-raft clustering to facilitate bacterial adhesion. (c) Localization of integrin and Lewis antigens at the site of adhesion, leading to bacterial adhesion. (B) The scheme for production of CAG (6′-O-acyl-α-D-glucopyranoside). (C) Confocal images of CAG with different acyl side chains. (D) and (E) Effect of different acyl-side chains of CAG on the amount of H. pylori adherence to gastric epithelial cells. Reproduced from (Jan et al., 2020). Copyright 2020 with permission from “Springer Nature”.
The flagellar sheath of H. pylori acts as a shelter to protect against acidic stress conditions (Geis et al., 1993; Sit et al., 2020). Other hallmarks of H. pylori infection involve the expression of two heat-hock proteins (Hsps), GroES-like HspA (Hsp10) and GroEL-like HspB (Hsp60). The Hsps help to protect against the harsh gastric milieu (Roncarati and Scarlato, 2018; Sit et al., 2020). After adhering to the gastric mucosa, H. pylori begins to release additional virulence factors, which can damage host cells either directly or by inducing inflammatory responses (Couturier, 2013). The neutrophil activating protein (NAP) in H. pylori can attract neutrophils, monocytes and dendritic cells into the infected area (Couturier, 2013; Peng et al., 2018). Afterwards, the cytokine IL-10 secreted from dendritic cells can induce Treg cells, which can promote persistent colonization by suppressing inflammatory responses induced by IL-17 (Kabir, 2011; Narayana et al., 2015). Also, the secretion of IL-8 can be triggered by the high level secretion of IL-17, and IL-8 recruits neutrophils into infected regions, reinforcing the stimulation of inflammation induced by H. pylori (Kabir, 2011; Narayana et al., 2015). During inflammation, pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, TNF-α, IL-8, IL-6 and IL-17 are upregulated (Kabir, 2011). Interestingly, H. pylori demonstrates resistance against attack by these immune cells even if it is recognized by them (Zhao et al., 2014). Finally, several protein/toxin co-factors such as CagA and vacuolating cytotoxin A (VacA) can act as hijackers by disturbing vital cell processes (cell cycle progression, cell junction integrity, cell polarity, cytoskeletal structure, and mitogenic gene regulation) (Lima et al., 2011; Couturier, 2013). In addition, other virulence factors such as duodenal ulcer promoting A (DupA) and outer inflammatory protein A (OipA) are involved in pathogenesis, as inducers of inflammatory response during the colonization process (Baker, 2020; El-Sayed et al., 2020). Moreover, it is possible that the morphology of the bacterium can affect its motility, which is known to be an important factor in the virulence of H. pylori (Ansari and Yamaoka, 2019). It appears that helical-shaped H. pylori bacteria have faster motility than those with precoccoidal or coccoidal morphology, therefore, bacteria with a helical shape can better prepare themselves to colonize the gastric mucosa, and those bacteria with precoccoidal or coccoidal structures are more easily cleared from the gastric mucosa (Worku et al., 2015; Salama, 2020).
Antibiotic-Based Treatment of H. pylori Infection
Current Clinical Treatment Based on Polypharmacy
The Scottish-born scientist, Sir Alexander Fleming is credited for the discovery of “penicillin” as the first antibiotic in 1923, and along with Howard Florey has been called the “father of the antibiotic era” (Gaynes, 2017; Liu et al., 2019). Nowadays, antibiotics are extensively used by clinicians throughout the world to treat bacterial infections (Xiong et al., 2014). Currently, the conventional antibiotics generally utilized in the treatment of H. pylori infection include, clarithromycin, metronidazole, amoxicillin, levofloxacin, tetracycline and rifampicin (Arora et al., 2012; Katzung, 2012; Xiong et al., 2014; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2017). A simple glance at the current treatment recommendations shows that mono-antibiotic therapy to fight H. pylori infection is not recommended by gastroenterologists, due to instability in the gastric environment, low bioavailability, and the short half-life of these drugs (Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Xiong et al., 2014; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2017). To improve therapeutic efficacy, antibiotics can be combined with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to reduce acid secretion during first-line triple and second-line quadruple antibiotic regimens (Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Fallone et al., 2019). Some well-known PPIs are, omeprazole, rabeprazole and lansoprazole (Arora et al., 2012). The beneficial effects of these drugs is ascribed to increasing the pH of the stomach to protect the antibiotic structure within the acidic environment, which leads to increased stability, better tissue penetration, and absorption of the antibiotics (Arora et al., 2012). Although many investigations have tended to use conventional PPIs for H. pylori eradication (Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Oppong et al., 2015), the unwanted condition of atrophic gastritis can emerge after long-term consumption of PPIs (Hagiwara et al., 2015). In a very recent review study, Talebi Bezmin Abadi and Ierardi evaluated the literature before February 2019 concerning the application of vonoprazan as a novel acid-blocker, which could be a suitable alternative to conventional PPIs (Abadi and Ierardi, 2019). The authors confirmed that vonoprazan could potentiate the onset of action of antibiotics, while showing, safety, tolerability, and effective inhibition of gastric acid secretion without any undesirable side effects. The authors suggested that new standard antibiotic regimens containing vonoprazan could be used for future treatment of H. pylori infection.
Conventionally, the term “polypharmacy” refers to concurrent use of five (or more than five) separate drugs in adults, which can often produce unfavorable drug-drug interactions (Frahm et al., 2019; Payne, 2020; Sugioka et al., 2020; Turnbull et al., 2020; Weng et al., 2020). In 2018, Bakaki et al. (2018) suggested that this term could also be defined as the prescription of two (or more than two) drugs to pediatric patients. Over recent decades, data obtained from clinical studies has proved that polypharmacy based on triple combination therapy is a suitable regimen for H. pylori eradication. It consists of a PPI (standard dose), clarithromycin (500 mg), and amoxicillin (1 g) over 10–14 days treatment course (Katzung, 2006; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2016). Since the first isolation of H. pylori from human gastric tissue, the overall cure rate using this regimen has consistently decreased. Therefore, clinicians have used a quadruple therapy regiment for the same 14 days as a treatment course. Quadruple therapy consists of standard dose of PPI twice a day, metronidazole 500 mg three times daily, bismuth subsalicylate 525 mg, and tetracycline 250–500 mg four times daily (Katzung, 2012). Saracino’s group suggested that 10 days of bismuth-based quadruple therapy under the name of “Pylera®” which contains in one capsule, 140 mg bismuth subcitrate, 125 mg metronidazole, 125 mg tetracycline, prescribed as three tablets four times a day, along with esomeprazole 20 mg twice day could be useful for eradication of H. pylori. In this study, the Pylera® regimen was administered to 153 patients with an overall cure rate of 88.3% (Saracino et al., 2020).
Additionally, it has been proposed that polypharmacy based on a non-bismuth quadruple regimen could be also used when bismuth is not available, which was called concomitant therapy (Gisbert and Calvet, 2011; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Wang et al., 2017). This regimen includes PPI (standard dose), amoxicillin (1 g), metronidazole (500 mg), and clarithromycin (500 mg) (Gisbert and Calvet, 2011; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Wang et al., 2017). Indeed, triple therapy becomes concomitant therapy when 500 mg of metronidazole or tinidazole is added twice daily to improve therapeutic efficacy (Gisbert and Calvet, 2011; Molina-Infante and Gisbert, 2014; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Wang et al., 2017). Recent innovations led to development of polypharmacy based on sequential therapy (as an alternative to triple therapy) which includes PPI (standard dose) and amoxicillin (1 g) for first 5 days of therapy, and then PPI (standard dose), clarithromycin (500 mg) and metronidazole (500 mg) for the remaining 5 days (Gisbert and Calvet, 2011; Talebi Bezmin Abadi, 2014; Roszczenko-Jasińska et al., 2020).
Stewardship and Routes of Antibiotic Administration
The pharmacy literature has shown that specific routes of drug administration, such as oral, nasal, vaginal, pulmonary, ocular, and buccal have all been proposed for individual applications (Bae and Park, 2020). Also, it is known that oral administration of antibiotics can have more long term problems than other routes of administration, such as parenteral and Intravenous (IV) (Kelly et al., 2020). Despite the problems associated with oral administration of antibiotics, oral antibiotic therapy has been traditionally prescribed by clinicians due to the need for good patient compliance, its cost-effectiveness, non-invasiveness, and ease of use (Ahadian et al., 2020; Laffleur and Keckeis, 2020). Moreover, the intraluminal pathway has been used to decrease the duration of treatment as well as boosting the antibiotic activity. Liou et al. (2019) used three types of antibiotics, including a single-dose regimen of amoxicillin (3 g), metronidazole (2 g) and crushed enteric-coated clarithromycin (1 g) which were mixed with a sucralfate suspension for intraluminal administration. They reported that the eradication rate of H. pylori with standard triple therapy plus intraluminal administration of antibiotics was 87%, higher than that for 1-week standard triple therapy which was 81.2%.
Biopharmaceutical Principles of Antibacterial Agents
Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (PK/PD)
Although considerable efforts have been made to discover or design novel candidate antibiotics, most of them are never approved due to poor biopharmaceutical performance. A review by Bae and Park (2020) discussed the biopharmaceutical aspects of biomaterials. They critically asked an important question: “If a capable scientist makes a new polymer that can treat cancer in humans, isn’t it required for the scientist to know the basic pharmacokinetics or how drugs work in humans?” The answer is clearly “yes, it is urgently required for both conventional drugs and new biomaterials”. In 2019, the global antibiotic research and development partnership (GARD) held a workshop to evaluate the role of PK and PD in determining the required dosage regimens to prevent the antibiotic resistance crisis of pathogens (Theuretzbacher et al., 2020). Thus, it is of the utmost importance to understand the general concepts and biopharmaceutical principles of antibacterial agents (Bergman et al., 2007). The term “PK” is defined as the time course of drug movement within the body (Neely and Reed, 2018; Khoruts et al., 2021). The main factors in PK methodology are known as ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion) (Bergman et al., 2007; Asín-Prieto et al., 2015; Yılmaz and Özcengiz, 2017; Neely and Reed, 2018; Udy et al., 2018). The term “PD” is defined as the pharmacological properties of a drug within the body (Bergman et al., 2007; Khoruts et al., 2021). In systemic absorption, in order to reach the bloodstream, the drug must remain intact when it passes through the stomach, resist metabolism, and avoid liver excretion (Bergman et al., 2007; Neely and Reed, 2018). The term “bioavailability” is defined as the amount of drug absorbed into the bloodstream. It is calculated as:
The parameters
The term
IV drug administration does not require drug absorption from the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) to show therapeutic efficacy (Neely and Reed, 2018). Drugs with lower molecular weight have better absorption than drugs with higher molecular weight (Bergman et al., 2007). Also, drugs with higher solubility and permeability will show better systematic absorption (Neely and Reed, 2018). After absorption of the drug in the body, it will distribute to various tissues (Bergman et al., 2007; Neely and Reed, 2018). Biodistribution refers to the drug spreading through the blood circulation into all the accessible anatomic compartments of the body. The best biodistribution occurs for small, non-protein-bound, non-ionized, lipid-soluble drugs (Bergman et al., 2007; Neely and Reed, 2018). Moreover, factors including age, diet, lifestyle, and diseases can influence the biodistribution (Neely and Reed, 2018). The key parameter in biodistribution is the volume of distribution (
Where,
where
FIGURE 5. Plasma drug concentration against time for oral and IV administrations.
Pharmaceutical Microbiology Concepts
In modern microbiological research, the recent development of pharmaceutical products based on microorganisms represents an emerging branch of pharmacy and microbiology namely “pharmaceutical microbiology” (Sandle, 2016; Li et al., 2020). In 2016, Sandle described the potential of field to produce new pharmaceuticals based on microbiological concepts (Sandle, 2016). According to Magdy (2014) the main role of a microbiologist in pharmaceutical companies is to assure the safety and sterility of raw biomaterials before manufacturing. However other major concepts in pharmaceutical microbiology can be exploited not only for treatment of H. pylori infection, but also for other recalcitrant bacterial infections (Figure 6).
FIGURE 6. Schematic representation of concepts in pharmaceutical microbiology relevant to the treatment of bacterial infections (FTIR: Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, PET: Positron emission tomography, SPECT: Single photon emission computed tomography, PK/PD: Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics, GIT: Gastrointestinal tract and FMT: Fecal microbiota transplantation).
Before discussing in detail the major concepts of pharmaceutical microbiology, it is necessary to review information on the microbiota. The term “microbiota” is defined as a collection of microbial communities which live on or in a particular biological system (Abdelsalam et al., 2020). The term was preceded by the use of “flora” or “microflora” (Abdelsalam et al., 2020). The gut microbiota is also considered as a virtual organ in modern biological science (Carlucci et al., 2016). The normal human gut microbiota is composed of harmless microorganisms ranging from Gram-positive Firmicutes to several Gram-negative Bacteroidetes such as Bacteroides, Prevotella, Parabacteroides, and Alistipes (Roy and Trinchieri, 2017; Toor et al., 2019). Their normal functions include the control of host metabolism, nutrition, homeostasis, inflammation, and immunity. An appropriate balance between these microbes is pivotal to keep the human body in a healthy condition (Dzutsev et al., 2015; Roy and Trinchieri, 2017; Visconti et al., 2019). Importantly, the composition of host gut microbiota can be affected by metabolic, inflammatory bowel disease, physiological, and immune-related diseases (Roy and Trinchieri, 2017; Chung et al., 2018). In order to choose a good animal model for microbiota research, a review by Zheng et al. (2018) suggested that honey bees could be appropriate because of similarities between honey bee gut microbiota and human gut microbiota. Such research can provide an understanding of microbe-microbe and microbe-host interactions, which take place in the human body.
Moreover, a great deal of attention has recently been paid to pharmacogenomics, and this has also led to a surge of interest in emerging pharmacomicrobiomics (Weersma et al., 2020). This term was first introduced by Rizkallah et al. (2010). While pharmacogenomics concentrates on interactions between drugs and the human genome, pharmacomicrobiomics focuses on interactions between drugs and the host gut microbiota, which can influence the PK/PD of pharmaceuticals (Aziz et al., 2018; Doestzada et al., 2018; Sharma et al., 2019; Scher et al., 2020). Given the lack of specific pharmacogenomics and pharmacomicrobiomics testing for many drugs, Aziz et al. (2020) asked the question: “Has not the time come for routine microbiome testing and establishing pharmacomicrobiomic guidelines, at least for some drugs, in 2020?”. Therefore there is a strong need to determine clinical guidelines, at least for those drugs which have well-identified pharmacomicrobiomic interactions (Aziz et al., 2020). Equally important is the fact that the association between microbial metabolites and drug responses should be further investigated (Sharma et al., 2019). This is applicable in two related fields, pharmacometabolomics and pharmacometabonomics (Sharma et al., 2019). The major point in pharmacometabolomics is the metabotypes resulting from environmental, chemical, genetic, and physiological factors, while pharmacometabonomics involves the measurement of metabolic profiles in bio-fluids (Everett, 2015; Balasopoulou et al., 2016). For the detection of such metabolites, mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy are mainly used for analyzing metabolic data (Everett, 2015; Van Der Hooft et al., 2020). Another term used in pharmaceutical microbiology is toxicomicrobiomics. This involves the interaction between host gut microbiota and xenobiotics (foods, drugs, and environmental chemicals) in terms of toxicology (Aziz, 2018; Abdelsalam et al., 2020). Some of these interactions may increase or decrease the toxicity of antibiotics. Thus, these interactions should be comprehensively explored in pharmaceutical microbiology. To date, the use of pharmaceutical microbiology concepts is still lacking in many studies. If mechanistic data in this field can be more widely appreciated, many of the challenges associated with antibiotic treatment could be addressed.
Relationship Between Biopharmaceutical Principles of Antibiotics and H. pylori Eradication
The antibacterial properties of a drug are strongly dependent on the affinity of the pharmaceutical agent to the targeted microbes, and provision of a sufficient drug dose into the infected area (Neely and Reed, 2018). According to microbiological in vitro tests, the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) values, are the gold standards for determining the biocidal activity of pharmaceuticals (Bergman et al., 2007; Feng et al., 2019). As its name suggests, MIC is the lowest concentration of an antibiotic to inhibit bacterial growth, whereas MBC is lowest concentration of an antibiotic to kill a certain number of logs of a particular bacterium (Andrews, 2001). Many efforts have been made to overcome the limitations of bacterial eradication, by an accurate selection of the PK/PD properties of pharmaceuticals. Antibiotics are generally divided into two categories, time-dependent antibiotics (beta-lactams, tetracyclines, clindamycin and macrolides, except for azalides such as azithromycin) and concentration-dependent antibiotics (such as vancomycin, aminoglycosides, azithromycin, ketolides, and quinolones) (Bergman et al., 2007; Pelgrift and Friedman, 2013; Neely and Reed, 2018). The PK/PD ratio is the major factor used to evaluate the efficacy of antibiotics: Tmax:MIC, Cmax:MIC, and
Newly Proposed Candidate Drugs and Regimens for Treatment of H. pylori
There is an urgent need to discover new alternative antibiotics for rescuing clinical failures. A study by Andrei et al. (2019) pointed out that the number of FDA-approved antibacterial drugs (FDA: United.States. Food and Drug Administration) was strikingly lower than drugs for other indications, over more than a quarter-century. In one study, Jin et al. (2018) suggested that standard triple therapy containing ilaprazole could be used for the future treatment of H. pylori. They showed that there was no significant change in PK drug interactions. Although they reported the PK parameters of ilaprazole, including
TABLE 1. Newly proposed antimicrobial agents and regimens to eradicate H. pylori infection.
Future Perspectives and Conclusion
Over the years, H. pylori has been discovered to be as major causative agent of a variety of gastric diseases such as peptic ulcer, gastric ulcer and gastric cancer. As stated earlier, triple and quadruple antibiotic therapy regimens are by far the preferred option for clinicians. Statistical analysis from recent microbiological studies has confirmed that the antibiotic resistance crisis is becoming critical for healthcare, and this also applies to H. pylori. Due to the sky-rocketing development of antibiotic resistance, there is an ever-increasing need to improve current clinical approaches. If nothing changes, we will probably encounter a new pandemic of extremely resistant bacteria in the near future. To overcome the challenges associated with antibiotic therapy, it is necessary to consider biopharmaceutical principles of antibiotics such as PK/PD studies and concepts of pharmaceutical microbiology. Despite undeniable challenges, there is still a hope for improving current antibiotic therapy in the near future.
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Keywords: H. pylori, antibiotic therapy, biopharmaceutical principles, pharmaceutical microbiology, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics
Citation: Miri AH, Kamankesh M, Llopis-Lorente A, Liu C, Wacker MG, Haririan I, Asadzadeh Aghdaei H, Hamblin MR, Yadegar A, Rad-Malekshahi M and Zali MR (2022) The Potential Use of Antibiotics Against Helicobacter pylori Infection: Biopharmaceutical Implications. Front. Pharmacol. 13:917184. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.917184
Received: 10 April 2022; Accepted: 31 May 2022;
Published: 27 June 2022.
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