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Molecular basis of bile-salt- and iron-induced enterohaemorrhagic resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides Free

Abstract

Colonization of the gastrointestinal tract by enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) is critically dependent on its ability to sense and respond to various microenvironments within the host. EHEC exposure to physiologically relevant levels of bile salts upregulates the two-component system, and the operon, resulting in lipopolysaccharide modification and increased resistance to the cationic antimicrobial peptide, polymyxin B (PMB). A similar and -dependent PMB resistance has been observed in in the presence of ferric iron. Limiting magnesium levels and mild acid can also induce resistance to PMB through another two-component system, PhoPQ and the connector protein, PmrD. This study aims to evaluate the relative contributions of a bile-salt mix (BSM), iron, limiting magnesium as well as the roles of and to EHEC’s resistance to PMB. Killing assays show that EHEC treatment with the BSM or iron under excess magnesium and neutral pH conditions induces a -dependent, -independent PMB resistance. By contrast, exposure to limiting magnesium triggers a and dependent PMB resistance. The iron-induced PMB resistance is independent of and under limiting magnesium conditions while the bile-salt-induced PMB resistance is independent of only under non-PhoP-inducing conditions. GFP- transcriptional reporter studies reveal that the limiting magnesium enhances expression, which is repressed upon additional exposure to either BSM or iron. Our results also show that exposure to mild acid enhances PMB resistance in a independent manner and GFP reporter results confirm minimal expression of at this pH regardless of the magnesium level. This study provides novel insights into how EHEC differentially employs PmrAB, PhoPQ and PmrD to monitor and respond to bile salts, iron, acidic pH and magnesium typically encountered within the gastrointestinal tract in order to modulate its survival against cationic antimicrobial peptides.

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Keyword(s): Antimicrobial resistance , Bile salts , Enterohaemorrhagic E. coli, cationic antimicrobial peptides , Iron , PmrAB and PmrD
Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Award 04679)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Joseph B McPhee
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Award 05220)
    • Principle Award Recipient: Debora Barnett Foster
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Molecular basis of bile-salt- and iron-induced enterohaemorrhagic E. coli resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides
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