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Model can predict how drug interactions influence antibiotics resistance

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Scientists have proposed a modelling framework that could predict how antibiotics resistance will evolve in response to different treatment combinations, according to a study published in eLife.

The research could help doctors optimize the choice, timing, dose and sequence of antibiotics used to treat common infections, helping to halt the growing threat of antibiotic resistance to modern medicine.

“Drug combinations are a particularly promising approach for slowing resistance but the evolutionary impacts of combination therapy remain difficult to predict, especially in a clinical setting,” explains first author Erida Gjini, Researcher at the Department of Mathematics Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon Portugal. “Interactions between antibiotics can accelerate, reduce or even reverse the evolution of resistance and resistance to another. These interactions involve genes, competing for evolutionary pathways and external stressors making it a complex scenario to pick apart.”

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In their study, Gjini and co-author Kevin Wood of the University of Michigan, US, sought to simplify things. They took a fundamental measurement of microbes fitness – their growth rate, measured by a simple growth curve over time – and linked this to resistance to two theoretical drugs. In the model, they assumed that drug-resistant mutants respond to a high concentration of drugs in exactly the same way that drug-sensitive cells respond to a low concentration of drugs. This rescaling assumption means that the growth behaviour of mutants can be inferred from the behaviour of the ancestral (sensitive) cells simply by measuring their growth over a range of concentrations. The team then connected this assumption to a famous statistical relationship called the Price Equation, to explain how drug interaction and cross-resistance impact the way populations evolve resistance quantitatively and adapt to drug combinations.

The rescaling model showed that the selected resistance trait is determined by both the drug interaction and by cross-resistance ( where cells develop resistance to one of the drugs and become resistant to the second drug at the same time). A mixture of two drugs in the model leads to markedly different growth trajectories and rates of growth adaption depending on how the drugs interact, for example, growth adaptation can be slowed by drugs that mutually weaken one another – drugs that interact antagonistically – but the effects can be tempered or even reversed if resistance to one drug is highly correlated with resistance to the other. The predictions of the model help explain counterintuitive behaviour observed in past experiments, such as the slowed evolution seen when the combination of tigecycline and ciprofloxacin – two antibiotics commonly used in a clinical setting – are applied simultaneously to the opportunistic Pathogen Enterococcus Faecalis.

Having established the basic model, the team then added in the effect of mutations on drug resistance. They looked at two different routes to accumulating mutations: in the first, there was a uniform pathway between the ancestral genetics, and all possible mutations combination, in the second, they assumed that mutations must arise in a specific sequence. They used a theoretical combination of two drugs, one at a higher dose than the other, and found that the sequential pathway leads to slower adaptation of growth, reflecting its evolution to the first fittest mutant before adapting further.

In addition to being able to include mutations in the model, the team also tested whether they could predict the effects of different timing and sequences of antibiotics treatment. They study two sequential regimes A and B based on different dosage combinations of tigecycline and ciprofloxacin. They found that both the resistance levels to the two drugs and the growth rate increases during treatment, as they anticipated. But the dynamics of this increase depends on the relative duration of each treatment and the total treatment length.

“We built a model that incorporates drugs interactions and cross-resistance to predict how microbes will adapt over time in a way that can be experimentally measured,” concludes co-author Wood, who is an Associate Professor at U-M’s Department of Biophysics and Physics . “in contrast to the classical genetics-based approaches to studying drugs resistance, we used simple scaling assumptions- something commonly used in physics to dramatically reduced the complexity of the problem. The approach helps us unravel a number of competing evolutionary effects and may eventually offer a framework for optimizing time-dependent, multidrug treatment.”

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