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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 02 1995, 567-570, Vol 39, No. 2
Copyright © 1995 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Inhibitory action of lansoprazole and its analogs against Helicobacter pylori: inhibition of growth is not related to inhibition of urease

K Nagata, E Takagi, M Tsuda, T Nakazawa, H Satoh, M Nakao, H Okamura and T Tamura
Department of Bacteriology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan.

The proton pump inhibitors omeprazole and lansoprazole and its acid- activated derivative AG-2000, which are potent and specific inhibitors of urease of Helicobacter pylori (K. Nagata, H. Satoh, T. Iwahi, T. Shimoyama, and T. Tamura, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 37:769-774, 1993), inhibited the growth of H. pylori. The growth was inhibited not only in urease-positive clinical isolates but also in their urease- negative derivatives which had no urease polypeptides. AG-1789, a derivative of lansoprazole with no inhibitory activity against H. pylori urease, also inhibited the growth of both strains even more strongly than the urease inhibitors lansoprazole and AG-2000. Furthermore, the antibacterial activity of omeprazole and lansoprazole was not affected by glutathione or dithiothreitol, which completely abolished the inhibitory activity of lansoprazole against H. pylori urease. These results indicated that the inhibitory action of these compounds against the growth of H. pylori was independent from the inhibitory action against urease.

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