Microbial resistance: The role of efflux pump superfamilies and their respective substrates
Issued Date
2022-04-15
Resource Type
ISSN
00243205
eISSN
18790631
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85124404949
Pubmed ID
35149116
Journal Title
Life Sciences
Volume
295
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Life Sciences Vol.295 (2022)
Suggested Citation
Garcia Í.R., de Oliveira Garcia F.A., Pereira P.S., Coutinho H.D.M., Siyadatpanah A., Norouzi R., Wilairatana P., de Lourdes Pereira M., Nissapatorn V., Tintino S.R., Rodrigues F.F.G. Microbial resistance: The role of efflux pump superfamilies and their respective substrates. Life Sciences Vol.295 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.lfs.2022.120391 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/83759
Title
Microbial resistance: The role of efflux pump superfamilies and their respective substrates
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Abstract
The microorganism resistance to antibiotics has become one of the most worrying issues for science due to the difficulties related to clinical treatment and the rapid spread of diseases. Efflux pumps are classified into six groups of carrier proteins that are part of the different types of mechanisms that contribute to resistance in microorganisms, allowing their survival. The present study aimed to carry out a bibliographic review on the superfamilies of carriers in order to understand their compositions, expressions, substrates, and role in intrinsic resistance. At first, a search for manuscripts was carried out in the databases Medline, Pubmed, ScienceDirect, and Scielo, using as descriptors: efflux pump, expression, pump inhibitors and efflux superfamily. For article selection, two criteria were taken into account: for inclusion, those published between 2000 and 2020, including textbooks, and for exclusion, duplicates and academic collections. In this research, 139,615 published articles were obtained, with 312 selected articles and 7 book chapters that best met the aim. From the comprehensive analysis, it was possible to consider that the chromosomes and genetic elements can contain genes encoding efflux pumps and are responsible for multidrug resistance. Even though this is a well-explored topic in the scientific community, understanding the behavior of antibiotics as substrates that increase the expression of pump-encoding genes has challenged medicine. This review study succinctly summarizes the most relevant features of these systems, as well as their contribution to multidrug resistance.