Two Mutations Commonly Associated with Daptomycin Resistance in Enterococcus faecium LiaS
| Autor: | Milya, Davlieva, Chelsea, Wu, Yue, Zhou, Cesar A, Arias, Yousif, Shamoo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Molecular Histidine Kinase Enterococcus faecium Epistasis Genetic biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Article Anti-Bacterial Agents Kinetics Amino Acid Substitution Bacterial Proteins Daptomycin Drug Resistance Bacterial Mutation Enterococcus faecalis Mutagenesis Site-Directed Humans Protein Interaction Domains and Motifs Phosphorylation Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Biochemistry |
| ISSN: | 1520-4995 |
| Popis: | The cyclic antimicrobial lipopeptide daptomycin is now frequently used as a first-line therapy in serious infections caused by multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium. Resistance to daptomycin in E. faecium is mediated by activation of the LiaFSR membrane stress response pathway. Deletion of liaR, encoding the response regulator of the system, restores susceptibility to daptomycin, suggesting that the LiaFSR pathway is a potential target for the development of drugs that would induce hypersusceptibility to daptomycin as well as make it more difficult for enterococci to become daptomycin resistant. In clinical isolates of E. faecium, substitutions in the membrane-bound histidine kinase LiaS (T120A) and its response regulator LiaR (W73C) are found together, suggesting a potential epistatic relationship in daptomycin resistance. Using in vitro phosphorylation studies, we show that while the phosphotransfer rate of the wild type LiaS and LiaS(T120A) to either wild type LiaR or LiaR(W73C) remains rapid and comparable, the LiaS dependent dephosphorylation rate of phosphorylated LiaR(W73C) is markedly higher. When the two adaptive mutants LiaR(W73C) and LiaS(T210A) are paired, however, LiaS mediated LiaR dephosphorylation is restored back to wild type levels. Taken together with earlier work showing that LiaR(W73C) leads to increased oligomerization and subsequently favors increased transcription of the LiaFSR regulon, the net effect of the two commonly found LiaS(T120A) and LiaR(W73C) alleles would be to coordinately increase the strength and persistence of LiaFSR signaling and reduce daptomycin susceptibility. The in vitro approaches developed in this work also provide the basis for screens to identify drug candidates that inhibit the LiaFSR pathway. |
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