Research Reveals New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic Containing Arsenic

(Newswire.net — December 8, 2022) Orlando, FL — In the United States, antibiotic resistance claims the lives of over 35,000 individuals. The scientific community continues to carry out studies in looking into the various aspects of this global public health issue. 

A study was carried out by researchers from Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine.

In this research, the investigators discovered a new broad-spectrum antibiotic that has arsenic. 

The findings of this research were published in Nature’s Communication Biology.

It was carried out in collaboration with Barry P. Rosen, Masafumi Yoshinaga, Venkadesh Sarkarai Nadar, and others from the Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, and Satoru Ishikawa and Masato Kuramata from the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO in Japan. 

“The antibiotic, arsinothricin or AST, is a natural product made by soil bacteria and is effective against many types of bacteria, which is what broad-spectrum means,” said Rosen, co-senior author of the study published in the Nature journal, Communications Biology. 

“Arsinothricin is the first and only known natural arsenic-containing antibiotic, and we have great hopes for it.”

While it contains arsenic, scientists reveal they actually tested AST toxicity on human blood cells. Further, they reported that it doesn’t kill human cells in tissue culture.

“People get scared when they hear the word arsenic because it can be a toxin and carcinogen, but the use of arsenicals as antimicrobials and anticancer agents is well established,” says Rosen.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that “a growing number of infections — such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and salmonellosis — are becoming harder to treat as the antibiotics used to treat them become less effective.” 

“We are running out of tools to fight these diseases. We need a new potent antibiotic to solve this problem,” says Yoshinaga, the other co-senior author. 

“We showed that this new novel arsenic compound can be a potent antibiotic.”

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