Differential Roles of RND Efflux Pumps in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance of Sessile and Planktonic Burkholderia cenocepacia Cells
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Published:2014-09-29
Issue:12
Volume:58
Page:7424-7429
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ISSN:0066-4804
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Container-title:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.
Author:
Buroni Silvia,Matthijs Nele,Spadaro Francesca,Van Acker Heleen,Scoffone Viola C.,Pasca Maria Rosalia,Riccardi Giovanna,Coenye Tom
Abstract
ABSTRACTBurkholderia cenocepaciais notorious for causing respiratory tract infections in people with cystic fibrosis. Infections with this organism are particularly difficult to treat due to its high level of intrinsic resistance to most antibiotics. Multidrug resistance inB. cenocepaciacan be ascribed to different mechanisms, including the activity of efflux pumps and biofilm formation. In the present study, the effects of deletion of the 16 operons encoding resistance-nodulation-cell division (RND)-type efflux pumps inB. cenocepaciastrain J2315 were investigated by determining the MICs of various antibiotics and by investigating the antibiofilm effect of these antibiotics. Finally, the expression levels of selected RND genes in treated and untreated cultures were investigated using reverse transcriptase quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Our data indicate that the RND-3 and RND-4 efflux pumps are important for resistance to various antimicrobial drugs (including tobramycin and ciprofloxacin) in planktonicB. cenocepaciaJ2315 populations, while the RND-3, RND-8, and RND-9 efflux systems protect biofilm-grown cells against tobramycin. The RND-8 and RND-9 efflux pumps are not involved in ciprofloxacin resistance. Results from the RT-qPCR experiments on the wild-type strainB. cenocepaciaJ2315 suggest that there is little regulation at the level of mRNA expression for these efflux pumps under the conditions tested.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
Cited by
43 articles.
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