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Efflux-Mediated Resistance to Tigecycline (GAR-936) in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

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Dean, Charles R., Visalli, Melissa A., Projan, Steven J., Sum, Phaik-Eng, Bradford, Patricia A.·2003·Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains are less susceptible to tigecycline (previously GAR-936; MIC, 8 μg/ml) than many other bacteria (P. J. Petersen, N. V. Jacobus, W. J. Weiss, P. E. Sum, and R. T. Testa, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 43:738-744, 1999). To elucidate the mechanism of resistance to tigecycline, P. aeruginosa PAO1 strains defective in the MexAB-OprM and/or MexXY (OprM) efflux pumps were tested for susceptibility to tigecycline. Increased susceptibility to tigecycline (MIC, 0.5 to 1 μg/ml) was specifically associated with loss of MexXY. Transcription of mexX and mexY was also responsive to exposure of cells to tigecycline. To test for the emergence of compensatory efflux pumps in the absence of MexXY-OprM, mutants lacking MexXY-OprM were plated on medium containing tigecycline at 4 or 6 μg/ml. Resistant mutants were readily recovered, and these also had decreased susceptibility to several other antibiotics, suggesting efflux pump recruitment. One representative carbenicillin-resistant strain overexpressed OprM, the outer membrane channel component of the MexAB-OprM efflux pump. The mexAB-oprM repressor gene, mexR , from this strain contained a 15-bp in-frame deletion. Two representative chloramphenicol-resistant strains showed expression of an outer membrane protein slightly larger than OprM. The mexCD-OprJ repressor gene, nfxB , from these mutants contained a 327-bp in-frame deletion and an IS element insertion, respectively. Together, these data indicated drug efflux mediated by MexCD-OprJ. The MICs of the narrower-spectrum semisynthetic tetracyclines doxycycline and minocycline increased more substantially than did those of tigecycline and other glycylcyclines against the MexAB-OprM- and MexCD-OprJ-overexpressing mutant strains. This suggests that glycylcyclines, although they are subject to efflux from P. aeruginosa , are generally inferior substrates for P. aeruginosa efflux pumps than are narrower-spectrum tetracyclines.

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  • MDR efflux pumps AcrAB-TolC in Enterobacteriaceae and MexAB-OprM in P. aeruginosa, both RND-family pumps, extrude tetracyclines including tigecycline as part of their contribution to multidrug resistance.

    “In addition to the tetracycline-specific transport systems, several MDR efflux pumps like AcrAB-TolC in Enterobacteriaceae and MexAB-OprM in P. aeruginosa (both belonging to the RND family) are able to extrude tetracyclines (including tigecycline) as part of their contribution to multidrug resistance (48, 49).”

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Authors
Dean, C. R., Visalli, M. A., Projan, S. J., Sum, P.-E., & Bradford, P. A.
Affiliations
Wyeth (US)
Corresponding author
Dean, Charles R.
Venue
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Published
2003-03
Volume
47
Issue
3
Pages
972-978
ISSN
  • 0066-4804 (ISSN-L)
  • 1098-6596
OpenAlex
W2139818499
Cited by
286
References
43
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FWCI
9.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
Keywords
tigecycline resistance, Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, efflux pumps, MexXY-OprM, MexCD-OprJ, MexAB-OprM, OprM, mexR, glycylcyclines, tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline, carbenicillin resistance
MeSH terms
Tigecycline, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins, Bacterial Proteins, Culture Media, DNA, Bacterial, Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Minocycline, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Tetracycline Resistance, Tetracyclines, Transcription, Genetic, Blotting, Western, Membrane Transport Proteins

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