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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 12, Pages 5167-5188Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15177
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- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (Spanish Network for Research on Infectious Diseases) [RD16/0016/0011]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity [BIO2017-83128-R]
- Autonomous Community of Madrid [B2017/BMD-3691]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/R012415/1]
- National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- InnovateUK
- Hartree Centre
- BBSRC [BB/R012415/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Multidrug (MDR) efflux pumps are ancient and conserved molecular machineries with relevant roles in different aspects of the bacterial physiology, besides antibiotic resistance. In the case of the environmental opportunistic pathogenPseudomonas aeruginosa, it has been shown that overexpression of different efflux pumps is linked to the impairment of the quorum sensing (QS) response. Nevertheless, the causes of such impairment are different for each analysed efflux pump. Herein, we performed an in-depth analysis of the QS-mediated response of aP. aeruginosaantibiotic resistant mutant that overexpresses MexAB-OprM. Although previous work claimed that this efflux pump extrudes the QS signal 3-oxo-C12-HSL, we show otherwise. Our results evidence that the observed attenuation in the QS response when overexpressing this pump is related to an impaired production of alkyl quinolone QS signals, likely prompted by the reduced availability of one of their precursors, the octanoate. Together with previous studies, this indicates that, although the consequences of overexpressing efflux pumps are similar (impaired QS response), the underlying mechanisms are different. This 'apparent redundancy' of MDR efflux systems can be understood as aP. aeruginosastrategy to keep the robustness of the QS regulatory network and modulate its output in response to different signals.
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