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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 2283-2290Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01786-09
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- NIH [AI043316]
- Medical Research Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infections Program
- Veterans Affairs Research Service
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An insertional mutation made in the major cold shock gene cspB in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL, a methicillin-resistant clinical isolate, yielded a mutant that displayed a reduced capacity to respond to cold shock and many phenotypic characteristics of S. aureus small-colony variants: a growth defect at 37 degrees C, a reduction in pigmentation, and altered levels of susceptibility to many antimicrobials. In particular, a cspB null mutant displayed increased resistance to aminoglycosides, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, and paraquat and increased susceptibility to daptomycin, teicoplanin, and methicillin. With the exception of the increased susceptibility to methicillin, which was due to a complete loss of the type I staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec element, these properties were restored to wild-type levels by complementation when cspB was expressed in trans. Taken together, our results link a stress response protein (CspB) of S. aureus to important phenotypic properties that include resistance to certain antimicrobials.
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