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Tolerance to Glutaraldehyde in Escherichia coli Mediated by Overexpression of the Aldehyde Reductase YqhD by YqhC

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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.680553

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yqhC; yqhD; glutaraldehyde; resistance; tolerance

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  1. National Institutes of Health [NIEHS P42 ES004699]
  2. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)/NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS), USDA Award [2020-67021-32855]
  3. UC Davis Open Access Fund (UCD-OAF)

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The study found that bacteria strains evolved through adaptive laboratory evolution show improved survival in the biocide due to mutations in the activator yqhC, leading to overexpression of the yqhD aldehyde reductase gene. This protection mechanism is specific to yqhD and not offered by other aldehyde reductase genes in E. coli.
Glutaraldehyde is a widely used biocide on the market for about 50 years. Despite its broad application, several reports on the emergence of bacterial resistance, and occasional outbreaks caused by poorly disinfection, there is a gap of knowledge on the bacterial adaptation, tolerance, and resistance mechanisms to glutaraldehyde. Here, we analyze the effects of the independent selection of mutations in the transcriptional regulator yqhC for biological replicates of Escherichia coli cells subjected to adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) in the presence of glutaraldehyde. The evolved strains showed improved survival in the biocide (11-26% increase in fitness) as a result of mutations in the activator yqhC, which led to the overexpression of the yqhD aldehyde reductase gene by 8 to over 30-fold (3.1-5.2 log2FC range). The protective effect was exclusive to yqhD as other aldehyde reductase genes of E. coli, such as yahK, ybbO, yghA, and ahr did not offer protection against the biocide. We describe a novel mechanism of tolerance to glutaraldehyde based on the activation of the aldehyde reductase YqhD by YqhC and bring attention to the potential for the selection of such tolerance mechanism outside the laboratory, given the existence of YqhD homologs in various pathogenic and opportunistic bacterial species.

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