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- Functional analysis of Vibrio vulnificus RND efflux pumps homologous to Vibrio cholerae VexAB and VexCD, and to Escherichia coli AcrAB
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Seunghwa Lee , Ji-Hyun Yeom , Sojin Seo , Minho Lee , Sarang Kim , Jeehyeon Bae , Kangseok Lee , Jihwan Hwang
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J. Microbiol. 2015;53(4):256-261. Published online March 4, 2015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12275-015-5037-0
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Abstract
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Resistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux pumps are associated
with multidrug resistance in many gram-negative
pathogens. The genome of Vibrio vulnificus encodes 11 putative
RND pumps homologous to those of Vibrio cholerae
and Escherichia coli. In this study, we analyzed three putative
RND efflux pumps, showing homology to V. cholerae VexAB
and VexCD and to E. coli AcrAB, for their functional roles in
multidrug resistance of V. vulnificus. Deletion of the vexAB
homolog resulted in increased susceptibility of V. vulnificus
to bile acid, acriflavine, ethidium bromide, and erythromycin,
whereas deletion of acrAB homologs rendered V. vulnificus
more susceptible to acriflavine only. Deletion of vexCD had
no effect on susceptibility of V. vulnificus to these chemicals.
Upon exposure to these antibacterial chemicals, expression
of tolCV1 and tolCV2, which are putative outer membrane
factors of RND efflux pumps, was induced, whereas expression
levels of vexAB, vexCD, and acrAB homologs were not
significantly changed. Our results show that the V. vulnificus
homologs of VexAB largely contributed to in vitro antimicrobial
resistance with a broad substrate specificity that
was partially redundant with the AcrAB pump homologs.
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