Background
As a kind of opportunist pathogen,
Staphylococcus xylosus (S. xylosus)
can cause mastitis. Antibiotics are widely used for treating infected animals and tylosin is a member of such group. Thus, the continuous use of antibiotics in dairy livestock enterprise will go a long way in increasing tylosin resistance. However, the mechanism of tylosin-resistant
S. xylosus
is not clear. Here, isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ)-based quantitative proteomics methods was used to find resistance-related proteins.
Results
We compared the differential expression of
S. xylosus
in response to tylosin stress by iTRAQ. A total of 155 proteins (59 up-regulated, 96 down-regulated) with the fold-change of >1.2 or <0.8 (
p
value ≤0.05) were observed between the
S. xylosus
treated with 1/2 MIC (0.25 μg/mL) tylosin and the untreated
S. xylosus
. Bioinformatic analysis revealed that these proteins play important roles in stress-response and transcription. Then, in order to verify the relationship between the above changed proteins and mechanism of tylosin-resistant
S. xylosus
, we induced the tylosin-resistant
S. xylosus
, and performed quantitative PCR analysis to verify the changes in the transcription proteins and the stress-response proteins in tylosin-resistant
S. xylosus
at the mRNA level
.
The data displayed that ribosomal protein L23 (
rplw
), thioredoxin(
trxA
) and Aldehyde dehydrogenase A(
aldA-1
) are up-regulated in the tylosin-resistant
S. xylosus
, compared with the tylosin-sensitive strains.
Conclusion
Our findings demonstrate the important of stress-response and transcription in the tylosin resistance of
S. xylosus
and provide an insight into the prevention of this resistance, which would aid in finding new medicines .
Electronic supplementary material
The online version of this article (10.1186/s12917-019-1959-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.