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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 63, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01718-18
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa; beta-lactams; drug resistance mechanisms; efflux pump inhibitor; efflux pumps; heavy metals
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Efflux pumps contribute to antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative pathogens. Correspondingly, efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs) may reverse this resistance. D139001 specifically inhibits MexAB-OprM in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mutants with decreased susceptibility to MexAB-OprM inhibition by D13-9001 were identified, and these fell into two categories: those with alterations in the target MexB (F628L and Delta V177) and those with an alteration in a putative sensor kinase of unknown function, PA1438 (L172P). The alterations in MexB were consistent with reported structural studies of the D13-9001 interaction with MexB. The PA1438L172P alteration mediated a > 150-fold upregulation of MexMN pump gene expression and a > 50-fold upregulation of PA1438 and the neighboring response regulator gene, PA1437. We propose that these be renamed mmnR and mmnS for MexMN regulator and MexMN sensor, respectively. MexMN was shown to partner with the outer membrane channel protein OprM and to pump several beta-lactams, monobactams, and tazobactam. Upregulated MexMN functionally replaced MexAB-OprM to efflux these compounds but was insusceptible to inhibition by D13-9001. MmnS(L172P) also mediated a decrease in susceptibility to imipenem and biapenem that was independent of MexMN-OprM. Expression of oprD, encoding the uptake channel for these compounds, was downregulated, suggesting that this channel is also part of the MmnSR regulon. Transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) of cells encoding MmnS(L172P) revealed, among other things, an interrelationship between the regulation of mexMN and genes involved in heavy metal resistance.
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