Lenart Jakub, Vimberg Vladimir, Vesela Ludmila, Janata Jiri, Balikova Novotna Gabriela
Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2015 Feb;59(2):1360-4. doi: 10.1128/AAC.04468-14. Epub 2014 Dec 15.
Detailed mutational analysis examines the roles of individual residues of the Vga(A) linker in determining the antibiotic resistance phenotype. It defines a narrowed region of residues 212 to 220 whose composition determines the resistance specificity to lincosamides, pleuromutilins, and/or streptogramins A. From the analogy with the recently described function of the homologous ABC-F protein EttA as a translational factor, we infer that the Vga(A) linker interacts with the ribosome and directly or indirectly affects the binding of the respective antibiotic.
详细的突变分析研究了Vga(A)连接子中各个残基在决定抗生素抗性表型中的作用。它确定了一个残基范围缩小至212到220的区域,该区域的组成决定了对林可酰胺类、截短侧耳素类和/或链阳菌素A的抗性特异性。从与最近描述的同源ABC-F蛋白EttA作为翻译因子的功能类比中,我们推断Vga(A)连接子与核糖体相互作用,并直接或间接影响相应抗生素的结合。