Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Deformylase Inhibitors Is Due to Mutations in defB
- 1 September 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 45 (9) , 2432-2435
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.45.9.2432-2435.2001
Abstract
Resistance to peptide deformylase inhibitors in Escherichia coli or Staphylococcus aureus is due to inactivation of transformylase activity. Knockout experiments in Streptococcus pneumoniae R6x indicate that the transformylase (fmt) and deformylase (defB) genes are essential and that adef paralog (defA) is not. Actinonin-resistant mutants of S. pneumoniae ATCC 49619 harbor mutations indefB but not in fmt. Reintroduction of the mutated defB gene into wild-type S. pneumoniaeR6x recreates the resistance phenotype. The altered enzyme displays decreased sensitivity to actinonin.Keywords
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