Antitoxin MqsA decreases antibiotic susceptibility through the global regulator AgtR in Pseudomonas fluorescens.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
; 67(11): e0081223, 2023 11 15.
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Type II toxin-antitoxin systems are highly prevalent in bacterial genomes and play crucial roles in the general stress response. Previously, we demonstrated that the type II antitoxin PfMqsA regulates biofilm formation through the global regulator AgtR in Pseudomonas fluorescens. Here, we found that both the C-terminal DNA-binding domain of PfMqsA and AgtR are involved in bacterial antibiotic susceptibility. Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) analyses revealed that AgtR, rather than PfMqsA, binds to the intergenic region of emhABC-emhR, in which emhABC encodes an resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pump and emhR encodes a repressor. Through quantitative real-time reverse-transcription PCR and EMSA analysis, we showed that AgtR directly activates the expression of the emhR by binding to the DNA motif [5´-CTAAGAAATATACTTAC-3´], leading to repression of the emhABC. Furthermore, we demonstrated that PfMqsA modulates the expression of EmhABC and EmhR. These findings enhance our understanding of the mechanism by which antitoxin PfMqsA contributes to antibiotic susceptibility.
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Pseudomonas fluorescens
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