Reduction of acid tolerance by tetracycline in Escherichia coli expressing tetA(C) is reversed by cations

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4472-4474

  Hung, Kai F ^a   Byrd, Jeffrey J ^b   Bose, Jeffrey L ^a,c   Kaspar, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IONS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; POTASSIUM; PROTEINS; SODIUM; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ACID TOLERANCE; SUPPRESSED RPOS EXPRESSION; TETRACYCLINE; TOTAL SOLUBLE PROTEINS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CALCIUM ION; CATION; MAGNESIUM; MESSENGER RNA; POTASSIUM; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; SODIUM; SUCROSE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACID; ANTIBIOTICS; CATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; INHIBITION; TOLERANCE;

ACID TOLERANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOSE RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TETA(B) GENE; TETA(C) GENE;

ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; SUCROSE; TETRACYCLINE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33745152677     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02519-05     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Arnold, K. W., and C. W. Kaspar. 1995. Starvation- and stationary-phase-induced acid tolerance in Escherichia coli O157:H7. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:2037-2039.
2. Baumler, D. J., K. F. Hung, J. L. Bose, B. M. Vykhodets, C. Cheng, K.-C. Jeong, and C. W. Kaspar. Enhancement of acid tolerance in Zymomonas mobilis by a proton-buffering peptide. Appl. Biochem. Biotechnol., in press.
3. Choi, S. H., D. J. Baumler, and C. W. Kaspar. 2000. Contribution of dps to acid stress tolerance and oxidative stress tolerance in Escherichia coli 0157: H7. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:3911-3916.
4. Chopra, I., and M. Roberts. 2001. Tetracycline antibiotics: mode of action, applications, molecular biology, and epidemiology of bacterial resistance. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 65:232-260.
5. Eckert, B., and C. F. Beck. 1989. Overproduction of transposon Tn10-encoded tetracycline resistance protein results in cell death and loss of membrane potential. J. Bacteriol. 171:3557-3559.
6. s subunit of RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli is controlled at the levels of transcription, translation, and protein stability. Genes Dev. 8:1600-1612.
7. Lee, S. W., and G. Edlin. 1985. Expression of tetracycline resistance in pBR322 derivatives reduces the reproductive fitness of plasmid-containing Escherichia coli. Gene 39:173-180.
8. Miller, J. H. 1992. Experiments in molecular genetics. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
9. s subunit of RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 178:1607-1613.
10. Nguyen, T. N., Q. G. Phan, L. P. Duong, K. P. Bertrand, and R. E. Lenski. 1989. Effects of carriage and expression of the Tn10 tetracycline-resistance operon on the fitness of Escherichia coli K12. Mol. Biol. Evol. 6:213-225.
11. Rockabrand, D., K. Livers, T. Austin, R. Kaiser, D. Jensen, R. Burgess, and P. Blum. 1998. Roles of DnaK and RpoS in starvation-induced thermotolerance of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 180:846-854.
12. Schnappinger, D., and W. Hillen. 1996. Tetracyclines: antibiotic action, uptake, and resistance mechanisms. Arch. Microbiol. 165:359-369.
13. Stavropoulos, T. A., and C. A. Strathdee. 2000. Expression of the tetA(C) tetracycline efflux pump in Escherichia coli confers osmotic sensitivity. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 190:147-150.
14. Valenzuela, M. S., K. A. Siddiqui, and B. L. Sarkar. 1996. High expression of plasmid-encoded tetracycline resistance gene in E. coli causes a decrease in membrane-bound ATPase activity. Plasmid 36:19-25.
15. Yamaguchi, A., Y. Iwasaki-Ohba, N. Ono, M. Kaneko-Ohdera, and T. Sawai. 1991. Stoichiometry of metal-tetracycline/H+ antiport mediated by transposon Tn10-encoded tetracycline resistance protein in Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett. 282:415-418.