Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Oita, Japan.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and Public Health, University of Mbujimayi, Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo.
mSphere. 2024 Aug 28;9(8):e0008924. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00089-24. Epub 2024 Aug 1.
The growing resistance to amoxicillin (AMX)-one of the main antibiotics used in eradication therapy-is an increasing health concern. Several mutations of penicillin-binding protein 1A (PBP1A) are suspected of causing AMX resistance; however, only a limited set of these mutations have been experimentally explored. This study aimed to investigate four PBP1A mutations (i.e., T558S, N562H, T593A, and G595S) carried by strain KIN76, a high-level AMX-resistant clinical isolate with an AMX minimal inhibition concentration (MIC) of 2 µg/mL. We transformed a recipient strain 26695 with the DNA containing one to four mutation allele combinations of the gene from strain KIN76. Transformants were subjected to genomic exploration and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The resistance was transformable, and the presence of two to four PBP1A mutations (T558S and N562H, or T593A and G595S), rather than separate single mutations, was necessary to synergistically increase the AMX MIC up to 16-fold compared with the wild-type (WT) strain 26695. An AMX binding assay of PBP1A was performed using these strains, and binding was visualized by chasing Bocillin, a fluorescent penicillin analog. This revealed that all four-mutation allele-transformed strains exhibited decreased affinity to AMX on PBP1A than the WT. Protein structure modeling indicated that functional modifications occur as a result of these amino acid substitutions. This study highlights a new synergistic AMX resistance mechanism and establishes new markers of AMX resistance in .IMPORTANCEThe development of resistance to antibiotics, including amoxicillin, is hampering the eradication of infection. The identification of mechanisms driving this resistance is crucial for the development of new therapeutic strategies. We have demonstrated the synergistic role of novel mutations in the gene of that is suspected to drive amoxicillin resistance. Also deepening our understanding of amoxicillin resistance mechanisms, this study establishes new molecular markers of amoxicillin resistance that may be useful in molecular-based antibiotic susceptibility testing approaches for clinical practice or epidemiologic investigations.
对阿莫西林(AMX)的耐药性不断增强(AMX 是根除疗法中使用的主要抗生素之一),这是一个日益严重的健康问题。几种青霉素结合蛋白 1A(PBP1A)的突变被怀疑导致 AMX 耐药;然而,只有有限的突变被实验性地探索过。本研究旨在研究 KIN76 菌株中携带的四个 PBP1A 突变(即 T558S、N562H、T593A 和 G595S),该菌株是一种高水平 AMX 耐药的临床分离株,其 AMX 最小抑制浓度(MIC)为 2μg/mL。我们用来自 KIN76 菌株的基因的一个到四个突变等位基因组合的 DNA 转化了受体菌株 26695。转化子进行了基因组探索和抗菌药敏试验。耐药性可转化,并且存在两个到四个 PBP1A 突变(T558S 和 N562H,或 T593A 和 G595S),而不是单独的单个突变,协同作用将 AMX MIC 增加到比野生型(WT)菌株 26695 高 16 倍。使用这些菌株进行了 PBP1A 的 AMX 结合测定,并用荧光青霉素类似物 Bocillin 追踪来可视化结合。这表明所有四个突变等位基因转化的菌株在 PBP1A 上对 AMX 的亲和力均低于 WT。蛋白质结构建模表明,这些氨基酸取代会导致功能修饰。本研究强调了一种新的协同 AMX 耐药机制,并在 中建立了 AMX 耐药的新标志物。
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