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Effect of membrane fusion protein AdeT1 on the antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli

Barlow, Victoria L., Lai, Shu-Jung, Chen, Chia-Yu, Tsai, Cheng-Han ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-5088, Wu, Shih-Hsiung and Tsai, Yu-Hsuan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-5088 2020. Effect of membrane fusion protein AdeT1 on the antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli. Scientific Reports 10 (1) , 20464. 10.1038/s41598-020-77339-w

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Abstract

Acinetobacter baumannii is a prevalent pathogen that can rapidly acquire resistance to antibiotics. Indeed, multidrug-resistant A. baumannii is a major cause of hospital-acquired infections and has been recognised by the World Health Organization as one of the most threatening bacteria to our society. Resistance-nodulation-division (RND) type multidrug efflux pumps have been demonstrated to convey antibiotic resistance to a wide range of pathogens and are the primary resistance mechanism employed by A. baumannii. A component of an RND pump in A. baumannii, AdeT1, was previously demonstrated to enhance the antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli. Here, we report the results of experiments which demonstrate that wild-type AdeT1 does not confer antimicrobial resistance in E. coli, highlighting the importance of verifying protein production when determining minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) especially by broth dilution. Nevertheless, using an agar-based MIC assay, we found that propionylation of Lys280 on AdeT1 renders E. coli cells more resistant to erythromycin.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Chemistry
Additional Information: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 2045-2322
Funders: EPSRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 3 December 2020
Date of Acceptance: 10 November 2020
Last Modified: 07 Jul 2023 16:52
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136754

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