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Resolving colistin resistance and heteroresistance in Enterobacter species

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  • Swapnil Prakash Doijad

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University)

  • Nicolas Gisch

    (Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center)

  • Renate Frantz

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University)

  • Bajarang Vasant Kumbhar

    (NMIMS (Deemed-to-be) University)

  • Jane Falgenhauer

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University)

  • Can Imirzalioglu

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University)

  • Linda Falgenhauer

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University
    Justus Liebig University)

  • Alexander Mischnik

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    University of Lübeck)

  • Jan Rupp

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    University of Lübeck)

  • Michael Behnke

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine)

  • Michael Buhl

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Tübingen University
    Tübingen University
    Paracelsus Medical University, Klinikum Nürnberg)

  • Simone Eisenbeis

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Tübingen University)

  • Petra Gastmeier

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine)

  • Hanna Gölz

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Albert-Ludwigs-University)

  • Georg Alexander Häcker

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Albert-Ludwigs-University)

  • Nadja Käding

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    University of Lübeck)

  • Winfried V. Kern

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital and Medical Center, Albert-Ludwigs-University)

  • Axel Kola

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine)

  • Evelyn Kramme

    (University of Lübeck
    Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine)

  • Silke Peter

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Tübingen University)

  • Anna M. Rohde

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität of Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine)

  • Harald Seifert

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne)

  • Evelina Tacconelli

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Tübingen University)

  • Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne
    University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt)

  • Sarah V. Walker

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne)

  • Janine Zweigner

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne)

  • Dominik Schwudke

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Priority Area Infections, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center
    Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Site: Research Center Borstel)

  • Trinad Chakraborty

    (German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
    Justus Liebig University)

Abstract

Species within the Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) include globally important nosocomial pathogens. A three-year study of ECC in Germany identified Enterobacter xiangfangensis as the most common species (65.5%) detected, a result replicated by examining a global pool of 3246 isolates. Antibiotic resistance profiling revealed widespread resistance and heteroresistance to the antibiotic colistin and detected the mobile colistin resistance (mcr)−9 gene in 19.2% of all isolates. We show that resistance and heteroresistance properties depend on the chromosomal arnBCADTEF gene cassette whose products catalyze transfer of L-Ara4N to lipid A. Using comparative genomics, mutational analysis, and quantitative lipid A profiling we demonstrate that intrinsic lipid A modification levels are genospecies-dependent and governed by allelic variations in phoPQ and mgrB, that encode a two-component sensor-activator system and specific inhibitor peptide. By generating phoPQ chimeras and combining them with mgrB alleles, we show that interactions at the pH-sensing interface of the sensory histidine kinase phoQ dictate arnBCADTEF expression levels. To minimize therapeutic failures, we developed an assay that accurately detects colistin resistance levels for any ECC isolate.

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  • Swapnil Prakash Doijad & Nicolas Gisch & Renate Frantz & Bajarang Vasant Kumbhar & Jane Falgenhauer & Can Imirzalioglu & Linda Falgenhauer & Alexander Mischnik & Jan Rupp & Michael Behnke & Michael Bu, 2023. "Resolving colistin resistance and heteroresistance in Enterobacter species," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-022-35717-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35717-0
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