Current Therapeutic Approaches for Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Infections

Rafailidis, Petros; Panagopoulos, Periklis; Koutserimpas, Christos; Samonis, George

doi:10.3390/antibiotics13030261

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“…Among them, we focused on the increased susceptibility to minocycline and tigecycline in the Δ phoQ mutant (red bars). Although minocycline and tigecycline are potent antibiotics in treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens (20, 21), their mechanisms of resistance remains poorly understood, which prompted us to elucidate the underlying mechanisms of these phenotypes.…”

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PhoPQ-mediated lipopolysaccharide modification regulates intrinsic resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics inEscherichia coli

Choi,

Ryu

et al. 2024

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Tetracyclines and glycylcycline are among the last-resort antibiotics used to combat infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. Despite the clinical importance of these antibiotics, their mechanisms of resistance remain unclear. In this study, we elucidated a novel mechanism of resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics via lipopolysaccharide (LPS) modification. Disruption of theEscherichia coliPhoPQ two-component system, which regulates the transcription of various genes involved in magnesium transport and LPS modification, leads to increased susceptibility to tetracycline, minocycline, doxycycline, and tigecycline. These phenotypes are caused by enhanced expression of phosphoethanolamine transferase EptB, which catalyzes the modification of the inner core sugar of LPS. PhoPQ-mediated regulation of EptB expression appears to affect the intracellular transportation of doxycycline. Disruption of EptB increases resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics, whereas the other two phosphoethanolamine transferases, EptA and EptC, that participate in the modification of other LPS residues, are not associated with resistance to tetracyclines and glycylcycline. Overall, our results demonstrated that PhoPQ-mediated modification of a specific residue of LPS by phosphoethanolamine transferase EptB regulates resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics.ImportanceElucidating the resistance mechanisms of clinically important antibiotics helps in maintaining the clinical efficacy of antibiotics and in the prescription of adequate antibiotic therapy. Although tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics are clinically important in combating multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections, their mechanisms of resistance are not fully understood. Our research demonstrates that theEscherichia colitwo-component system PhoPQ regulates resistance to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics by controlling the expression of phosphoethanolamine transferase EptB, which catalyzes the modification of the inner core residue of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Therefore, our findings highlight a novel resistance mechanism to tetracycline and glycylcycline antibiotics and the physiological significance of LPS core modification inE. coli.One sentence summaryLipopolysaccharide modification-mediated tigecycline resistance

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