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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
卷 51, 期 4, 页码 1293-1303出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01128-06
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI56021, R01 AI056021] Funding Source: Medline
Thirteen spontaneous multiple-antibiotic-resistant (Mar) mutants of Escherichia coli AGIN were isolated on Luria-Bertani (LB) agar in the presence of tetracycline (4 mu g/ml). The phenotype was linked to insertion sequence (IS) insertions in marR or acrR or unstable large tandem genomic amplifications which included acrAB and which were bordered by IS3 or IS5 sequences. Five different Ion mutations, not related to the Mar phenotype, were also found in 12 of the 13 mutants. Under specific selective conditions, most drug-resistant mutants appearing late on the selective plates evolved from a subpopulation of AGIN with lon mutations. That the Ion locus was involved in the evolution to low levels of multidrug resistance was supported by the following findings: (i) AG100 grown in LB broth had an important spontaneous subpopulation (about 3.7 x 10(-4)) of lon::IS186 mutants, (ii) new Ion mutants appeared during the selection on antibiotic-containing agar plates, (iii) lon mutants could slowly grow in the presence of low amounts (about 2x MIC of the wild type) of chloramphenicol or tetracycline, and (iv) a Ion mutation conferred a mutator phenotype which increased IS transposition and genome rearrangements. The association between Ion mutations and mutations causing the Mar phenotype was dependent on the medium (LB versus MacConkey medium) and the antibiotic used for the selection. A previously reported unstable amplifiable high-level resistance observed after the prolonged growth of Mar mutants in a low concentration of tetracycline or chloramphenicol can be explained by genomic amplification.
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