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MICROBIOLOGY-SGM
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 2873-2880Publisher
MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-147-10-2873
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multidrug resistance; multidrug transport; Lactococcus lactis; antibiotic resistance
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The active efflux of toxic compounds by (multi)drug transporters is one of the mechanisms that bacteria have developed to resist cytotoxic drugs. The authors describe the role of the lactococcal secondary multidrug transporter LmrP in the resistance to a broad range of clinically important antibiotics. Cells expressing LmrP display an increased resistance to the lincosamide, streptogramin, tetracycline and 14- and 15-membered macrolide antibiotics. The streptogramin antibiotic quinupristin, present in the fourth-generation antibiotic RP 59500, can inhibit LmrP-mediated Hoechst 33342 transport, but is not transported by LmrP, indicating that quinupristin acts as a modulator of LmrP activity. LmrP-expressing Lactococcus lactis cells in which a protonmotive force is generated accumulate significantly less tetracycline than control cells without LmrP expression. In contrast, LmrP-expressing and control cells accumulate equal amounts of tetracycline in the absence of metabolic energy. These findings demonstrate that the increased antibiotic resistance in LmrP-expressing cells is a result of the active extrusion of antibiotics from the cell.
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