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Mechanisms of resistance in multiple-antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins.

ABSTRACT: Seventeen multiple-antibiotic-resistant nonpathogenic Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins showed a wide variety of antibiotic resistance genes, many of them carried by class 1 and class 2 integrons. Amino acid changes in MarR and mutations in marO were identified for 15 and 14 E. coli strains, respectively.

SUBMITTER: Saenz Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC521888 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mechanisms of resistance in multiple-antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins.

Sáenz Yolanda Y Briñas Laura L Domínguez Elena E Ruiz Joaquim J Zarazaga Myriam M Vila Jordi J Torres Carmen C

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20041001 10

Seventeen multiple-antibiotic-resistant nonpathogenic Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins showed a wide variety of antibiotic resistance genes, many of them carried by class 1 and class 2 integrons. Amino acid changes in MarR and mutations in marO were identified for 15 and 14 E. coli strains, respectively. ...[more]

PMID: 15388464

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Project description:Mutations are one of the common means by which bacteria acquire resistance to antibiotics. In an Escherichia coli mutant lacking major antibiotic efflux pumps AcrAB and AcrEF, mutations can activate alternative pathways that lead to increased antibiotic resistance. In this work, we isolated and characterized compensatory mutations of this nature mapping in four different regulatory genes, baeS, crp, hns, and rpoB. The gain-of-function mutations in baeS constitutively activated the BaeSR two-component regulatory system to increase the expression of the MdtABC efflux pump. Missense or insertion mutations in crp and hns caused derepression of an operon coding for the MdtEF efflux pump. Interestingly, despite the dependence of rpoB missense mutations on MdtABC for their antibiotic resistance phenotype, neither the expression of the mdtABCD-baeSR operon nor that of other known antibiotic efflux pumps went up. Instead, the transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) data revealed a gene expression profile resembling that of a "stringent" RNA polymerase where protein and DNA biosynthesis pathways were downregulated but pathways to combat various stresses were upregulated. Some of these activated stress pathways are also controlled by the general stress sigma factor RpoS. The data presented here also show that compensatory mutations can act synergistically to further increase antibiotic resistance to a level similar to the efflux pump-proficient parental strain. Together, the findings highlight a remarkable genetic ability of bacteria to circumvent antibiotic assault, even in the absence of a major intrinsic antibiotic resistance mechanism. IMPORTANCE Antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens is a chronic health concern. Bacteria possess or acquire various mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, and chief among them is the ability to accumulate beneficial mutations that often alter antibiotic targets. Here, we explored E. coli's ability to amass mutations in a background devoid of a major constitutively expressed efflux pump and identified mutations in several regulatory genes that confer resistance by activating specific or pleiotropic mechanisms.

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Mechanisms of resistance in multiple-antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins.

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Mechanisms of resistance in multiple-antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli strains of human, animal, and food origins.

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