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Stepwise upregulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa chromosomal cephalosporinase conferring high-level beta-lactam resistance involves three AmpD homologues.

Abstract：

:Development of resistance to the antipseudomonal penicillins and cephalosporins mediated by hyperproduction of the chromosomal cephalosporinase AmpC is a major threat to the successful treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. Although ampD inactivation has been previously found to lead to a partially derepressed phenotype characterized by increased AmpC production but retaining further inducibility, the regulation of ampC in P. aeruginosa is far from well understood. We demonstrate that ampC expression is coordinately repressed by three AmpD homologues, including the previously described protein AmpD plus two additional proteins, designated AmpDh2 and AmpDh3. The three AmpD homologues are responsible for a stepwise ampC upregulation mechanism ultimately leading to constitutive hyperexpression of the chromosomal cephalosporinase and high-level antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance, as shown by analysis of the three single ampD mutants, the three double ampD mutants, and the triple ampD mutant. This is achieved by a three-step escalating mechanism rendering four relevant expression states: basal-level inducible expression (wild type), moderate-level hyperinducible expression with increased antipseudomonal beta-lactam resistance (ampD mutant), high-level hyperinducible expression with high-level beta-lactam resistance (ampD ampDh3 double mutant), and very high-level (more than 1,000-fold compared to the wild type) derepressed expression (triple mutant). Although one-step inducible-derepressed expression models are frequent in natural resistance mechanisms, this is the first characterized example in which expression of a resistance gene can be sequentially amplified through multiple steps of derepression.

journal_name

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

journal_title

Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

authors

Juan C,Moyá B,Pérez JL,Oliver A

doi

10.1128/AAC.50.5.1780-1787.2006

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1780-7

issue

eissn

0066-4804

issn

1098-6596

pii

50/5/1780

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Stepwise upregulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa chromosomal cephalosporinase conferring high-level beta-lactam resistance involves three AmpD homologues.