Publication: Overexpression of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia major facilitator superfamily protein MfsA increases resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics
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2018-05-01
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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol.73, No.5 (2018), 1263-1266
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Paiboon Vattanaviboon, Punyawee Dulyayangkul, Skorn Mongkolsuk, Nisanart Charoenlap Overexpression of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia major facilitator superfamily protein MfsA increases resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Vol.73, No.5 (2018), 1263-1266. doi:10.1093/jac/dky024 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/46722
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Overexpression of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia major facilitator superfamily protein MfsA increases resistance to fluoroquinolone antibiotics
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© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. Background: Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an opportunistic human pathogen causing nosocomial infections worldwide. S. maltophilia infection is of particular concern due to its inherent resistance to currently used antibiotics. Proton motive force-driven transporters of the major facilitator superfamily frequently contribute to the efflux of substances, including antibiotics, across cellmembranes. Methods: An mfsA expression plasmid (pMfsA) was constructed and transferred into bacterial strains by electroporation. The antibiotic susceptibility levels of S. maltophilia strains were determined using standard methods. Results and conclusions: S. maltophilia MfsA is an efflux pump associated with paraquat resistance. We show here that plasmid-mediated overexpression of mfsA in WT S. maltophilia K279a increased resistance not only to paraquat but also to second-generation fluoroquinolone antibiotics, i.e. ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, levofloxacin and ofloxacin. Ciprofloxacin was used as a representative drug. Addition of the proton motive force inhibitor carbonyl cyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone increases susceptibility to ciprofloxacin. Taken together these results suggest that MsfA is a novel fluoroquinolone efflux pump of S. maltophilia. Moreover, heterologous expression of mfsA in other Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria conferred resistance to paraquat as well as to fluoroquinolones. Thus, if this determinant was horizontally transferred, it could cause the spread of fluoroquinolone resistance among bacterial species.