Goldway M, Teff D, Schmidt R, Oppenheim A B, Koltin Y
Department of Molecular Genetics, Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1995 Feb;39(2):422-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.39.2.422.
The BENr gene of Candida albicans, which confers resistance on susceptible strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to six structurally and functionally unrelated drugs, was described recently (R. Ben-Yaacov, S. Knoller, G. Caldwell, J. M. Becker, and Y. Koltin, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 38:648-652, 1994). This gene bears similarity to membrane proteins encoding antibiotic resistance in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The effect of disruption of this gene on viability and drug susceptibility was determined. The results indicate that the gene is not essential but its inactivation leads to susceptibility to three of the four drugs tested. Inactivation of this gene did not increase the susceptibility of the mutant to benomyl, suggesting that C. albicans has other mechanisms of resistance, some of which may be additional efflux pumps that confer resistance to this tubulin-destabilizing agent.
白色念珠菌的BENr基因最近被报道,该基因可使酿酒酵母的敏感菌株对六种结构和功能不相关的药物产生抗性(R. Ben-Yaacov、S. Knoller、G. Caldwell、J. M. Becker和Y. Koltin,《抗菌剂与化疗》38:648 - 652,1994年)。该基因与原核生物和真核生物中编码抗生素抗性的膜蛋白具有相似性。确定了该基因缺失对生存能力和药物敏感性的影响。结果表明该基因并非必需基因,但其失活会导致对所测试的四种药物中的三种产生敏感性。该基因的失活并未增加突变体对苯菌灵的敏感性,这表明白色念珠菌具有其他抗性机制,其中一些可能是赋予对这种微管蛋白不稳定剂抗性的额外外排泵。