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Penicillin-binding proteins of Rhodococcus equi: potential role in resistance to imipenem.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1993 July
Rhodococcus equi is a gram-positive coccobacillus which, like other members of the order Actinomycetales, is increasingly reported as an opportunistic pathogen in patients with AIDS. The use of combinations of antibiotics that include imipenem (IMP) has been suggested for the treatment of patients infected with R. equi. An antagonism between IMP, meropenem, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, moxalactam, and oxacillin and other beta-lactams, such as penicillin, amoxicillin, cephalothin, and ticarcillin, was detected in vitro both on Mueller-Hinton agar and in broth for all 10 IMP-susceptible R. equi strains examined. To study the mechanism of the antagonism between beta-lactams, a mutant with decreased susceptibility to IMP (isolate IpR) was selected in vitro from a susceptible clinical isolate of R. equi (isolate IpS). IpR exhibited decreased susceptibility to IMP, meropenem, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, moxalactam, and oxacillin but not to penicillin, amoxicillin, cephalothin, or ticarcillin. No beta-lactamase was found in IpS, IpS cultured with antagonistic beta-lactams, or IpR strains. Labeling of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) revealed four PBPs with molecular masses of ca. 59, 56, 43, and 26 kDa in IpS. In IpR, PBP 3 disappeared and was replaced by PBP 3a of 40 kDa. The 50% saturation of PBP 3 and PBP 3a by the carbapenems correlated with the MICs of these antibiotics, respectively, for IpS and IpR strains. However, PBP 3a was not detected in IpS when IpS was cultured in the presence of beta-lactams, with which antagonism was observed. The present work describes the PBPs of R. equi and reports that IMP resistance in R. equi is related to an altered PBP pattern.
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