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Inactivation of MarR gene homologs increases susceptibility to antimicrobials in Bacteroides fragilis.


ABSTRACT: Bacteroides fragilis is the strict anaerobic bacteria most commonly found in human infections, and has a high mortality rate. Among other virulence factors, the remarkable ability to acquire resistance to a variety of antimicrobial agents and to tolerate nanomolar concentrations of oxygen explains in part their success in causing infection and colonizing the mucosa. Much attention has been given to genes related to multiple drug resistance derived from plasmids, integrons or transposon, but such genes are also detected in chromosomal systems, like the mar (multiple antibiotic resistance) locus, that confer resistance to a range of drugs. Regulators like MarR, that control expression of the locus mar, also regulate resistance to organic solvents, disinfectants and oxygen reactive species are important players in these events. Strains derived from the parental strain 638R, with mutations in the genes hereby known as marRI (BF638R_3159) and marRII (BF638R_3706) were constructed by gene disruption using a suicide plasmid. Phenotypic response of the mutant strains to hydrogen peroxide, cell survival assay against exposure to oxygen, biofilm formation, resistance to bile salts and resistance to antibiotics was evaluated. The results showed that the mutant strains exhibit statistically significant differences in their response to oxygen stress, but no changes were observed in survival when exposed to bile salts. Biofilm formation was not affected by either gene disruption. Both mutant strains however, became more sensitive to multiple antimicrobial drugs tested. This indicates that as observed in other bacterial species, MarR are an important resistance mechanism in B. fragilis.

SUBMITTER: Silva CMG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790583 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan - Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inactivation of MarR gene homologs increases susceptibility to antimicrobials in Bacteroides fragilis.

Silva Clara Maria Guimarães CMG   Silva Déborah Nascimento Dos Santos DNDS   Costa Scarlathe Bezerra da SBD   Almeida Juliana Soares de Sá JSS   Boente Renata Ferreira RF   Teixeira Felipe Lopes FL   Domingues Regina Maria Cavalcanti Pilotto RMCP   Lobo Leandro Araujo LA  

Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20170809 1


Bacteroides fragilis is the strict anaerobic bacteria most commonly found in human infections, and has a high mortality rate. Among other virulence factors, the remarkable ability to acquire resistance to a variety of antimicrobial agents and to tolerate nanomolar concentrations of oxygen explains in part their success in causing infection and colonizing the mucosa. Much attention has been given to genes related to multiple drug resistance derived from plasmids, integrons or transposon, but such  ...[more]

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