Mechanism of imipenem resistance acquired by threePseudomonas aeruginosa strains during imipenem therapy
- 1 August 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 9 (8), 580-587
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01967212
Abstract
Imipenem sensitive pretherapy isolates (MICs 1–2 mg/l) and the corresponding resistant posttherapy isolates (MICs 16 mg/l) ofPseudomonas aeruginosa from three patients undergoing imipenem treatment were analyzed to establish the resistance mechanism. The identity of pyocin types, serotypes, DNA restriction endonuclease profiles and plasmid profiles strongly suggested isogenicity of pre- and posttherapy isolates. The imipenem resistant posttherapy isolates showed cross-resistance only to another carbapenem, meropenem. There were neither qualitative nor quantitative differences between pre- and posttherapy isolates in β-lactamase production. Affinity of the penicillin-binding proteins 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4, 4′ and 5 for [14C]imipenem was the same in pre- and posttherapy isolates. One-dimensional and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis of outer membrane protein preparations showed diminished expression of an outer membrane protein of about 46.5 and 47.5 kilodaltons, respectively, in the posttherapy isolates. This protein had an apparent isoelectric point of about pH 5.2 in two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Growth in proteose peptone no. 2 broth did not reduce expression of this outer membrane protein, which spoke against its identity with the outer membrane protein D1. The permeability of the outer membrane for imipenem was reduced in the posttherapy isolates, since addition of 0.5 or 0.25 of the MIC of the permeabilizing agent ethylenediaminetetraacetate reduced the MICs of imipenem for all isolates from each patient to the same (susceptible) level. The diminished expression of one of the outer membrane proteins might be the reason for this reduced permeability.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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