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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2006, p. 1847-1855, Vol. 188, No. 5
0021-9193/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.188.5.1847-1855.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Antibiotic Inducibility of the MexXY Multidrug Efflux System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Involvement of the Antibiotic-Inducible PA5471 Gene Product

Yuji Morita, Mara L. Sobel, and Keith Poole*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6

Received 14 November 2005/ Accepted 12 December 2005

The MexXY components of the MexXY-OprM multidrug efflux system of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are encoded by a MexZ repressor-regulated operon that is inducible by antibiotics that target the ribosome. Mutant strains disrupted in a gene, PA5471, were shown to be compromised for drug-inducible mexXY expression and, therefore, MexXY-OprM-mediated antimicrobial resistance. The PA5471 gene was inducible by the same ribosome-targeting agents that induce mexXY expression. Moreover, vector-driven expression of cloned PA5471 was sufficient to promote mexXY expression and MexXY-mediated resistance in the absence of antibiotic exposure, consistent with PA5471 directly or indirectly activating mexXY expression following its own upregulation in response to antibiotics. The requirement for PA5471 for mexXY expression and antimicrobial resistance was, however, obviated in mutants lacking the MexZ repressor of mexXY expression, suggesting that PA5471 directly or indirectly modulates MexZ activity in effecting mexXY expression. While the recruitment of PA5471 and MexXY in response to ribosome disruption by antimicrobials is consistent with their genes playing a role in protecting cells from the adverse consequences of disrupting the translation process, reminiscent of trans-translation, these genes appear to operate independently in their contribution to resistance: mutants defective in trans-translation showed a much more modest (twofold) decrease in resistance to ribosome-targeting agents than those lacking PA5471 or MexXY, and this decrease was observed whether functional PA5471/MexXY was present or not.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. Phone: (613) 533-6677. Fax: (613) 533-6796. E-mail: poolek{at}post.queensu.ca.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2006, p. 1847-1855, Vol. 188, No. 5
0021-9193/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.188.5.1847-1855.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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