OUTER-MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY IN PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA - COMPARISON OF A WILD-TYPE WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC-SUPERSUSCEPTIBLE MUTANT
OUTER-MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY IN PSEUDOMONAS-AERUGINOSA - COMPARISON OF A WILD-TYPE WITH AN ANTIBIOTIC-SUPERSUSCEPTIBLE MUTANT
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DOI:
10.1128/aac.21.2.299
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
HANCOCK, REW
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作者:
ANGUS, BL;CAREY, AM;HANCOCK, REW
The P. aeruginosa mutant Z61 is highly supersusceptible to a wide range of antibiotics, including .beta.-lactams, aminoglycosides, rifampin, tetracycline and chloramphenicol. Spontaneous revertants were isolated, using gentamicin or carbenicillin as selective agents, and shown to have 2 patterns of susceptibility to a group of 12 antibiotics. Partial revertants had 2- to 10-fold greater resistance to these antibiotics than mutant Z61, whereas full revertants had antibiotic susceptibilities indistinguishable from those of the wild-type strain K799, from which mutant Z61 was derived. Uptake of a chromogenic .beta.-lactam nitrocefin was studied in both uninduced and induced cells of all strains by measuring the steady-state rate of nitrocefin hydrolysis by the inducible, periplasmic .beta.-lactamase in whole and broken cells. This demonstrated that outer membrane permeability decreased as antibiotic resistance increased in the series mutant Z61, partial revertants, wild type and full revertants. The data were consistent with the idea of low outer membrane permeability being caused by a low proportion of open functional porins in the outer membrane as the reason for the high natural antibiotic resistance of wild-type P. aeruginosa strains. Levels of benzylpenicillin below the minimal inhibitory concentration for mutant Z61 failed to induce .beta.-lactamase production. The possibility that this was related to the observed increase in outer membrane permeability is discussed. Preliminary evidence is presented that the pore-forming outer membrane porin protein F is not altered in mutant Z61.