Neyfakh A A, Borsch C M, Kaatz G W
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy (M/C 781), University of Illinois, Chicago 60680.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1993 Jan;37(1):128-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.37.1.128.
The gene of the Staphylococcus aureus fluoroquinolone efflux transporter protein NorA confers resistance to a number of structurally dissimilar drugs, not just to fluoroquinolones, when it is expressed in Bacillus subtilis. NorA provides B. subtilis with resistance to the same drugs and to a similar extent as the B. subtilis multidrug transporter protein Bmr does. NorA and Bmr share 44% sequence similarity. Both the NorA- and Bmr-conferred resistances can be completely reversed by reserpine.
金黄色葡萄球菌氟喹诺酮外排转运蛋白NorA的基因在枯草芽孢杆菌中表达时,可使枯草芽孢杆菌对多种结构不同的药物产生耐药性,而不仅仅是对氟喹诺酮类药物。NorA赋予枯草芽孢杆菌对相同药物的耐药性,其程度与枯草芽孢杆菌多药转运蛋白Bmr相似。NorA和Bmr的序列相似性为44%。利血平可完全逆转NorA和Bmr所赋予的耐药性。