Department of Biotechnology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 May;55(5):2481-2. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01394-10. Epub 2011 Feb 22.
Sulfadoxine (SDX) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) each inhibit the Plasmodium falciparum dihydropteroate synthetase (PfDHPS), and certain point mutations in this enzyme yield the drug-resistant parasite. Using a simple Escherichia coli model system, we describe here the effect of the recently reported novel K540N mutation in PfDHPS on the level of SDX/SMX resistance. The survival rate of the transformed E. coli (DHPS-deficient strain) under different SDX or SMX concentrations revealed that the K540N mutation confers a lower level of drug resistance than its contemporary K540E mutation. Further, SMX was more effective than SDX in the E. coli system.
磺胺多辛(SDX)和磺胺甲恶唑(SMX)均可抑制恶性疟原虫二氢叶酸合成酶(PfDHPS),而该酶的某些点突变可导致寄生虫对药物产生耐药性。本研究利用简单的大肠杆菌模型系统,描述了最近报道的 PfDHPS 中的新型 K540N 突变对 SDX/SMX 耐药水平的影响。在不同 SDX 或 SMX 浓度下,转化的大肠杆菌(DHPS 缺陷株)的存活率表明,K540N 突变比其当代 K540E 突变导致的耐药水平更低。此外,SMX 在大肠杆菌系统中比 SDX 更有效。