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SUBMITTER: Warner DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3623324 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Warner Douglas M DM Yang Qiwen Q Duval Valérie V Chen Minjun M Xu Yingchun Y Levy Stuart B SB
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20130114 4
A carbapenem-resistant clinical isolate of Escherichia coli, which lacked OmpF and OmpC porins, carried a marR mutation and expressed a functional yedS, a normally nontranslated gene. MarR and YedS are described here as having effects on the ability of this strain to resist carbapenems. Additionally, expression of YedS was regulated by the small RNA MicF in a MarA-dependent way. These findings illustrate how broadly bacteria can mutate within a selective clinical setting, in this case, resistanc ...[more]