Using a mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis lacking the major
aa3 cytochrome c oxidase of the electron transport chain
(Δaa3), we demonstrated that inhibition of the respiratory
electron transport chain led to an increase in antibiotic resistance
of M. smegmatis to isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol,
and tetracycline. The alternative sigma factors SigB and SigE
were shown to be involved in an increase in rifampicin resistance
of M. smegmatis induced under respiration-inhibitory
conditions. As in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, SigE and SigB
form a hierarchical regulatory pathway in M. smegmatis through
SigE-dependent transcription of sigB. Expression of sigB and
sigE was demonstrated to increase in the Δaa3 mutant, leading
to upregulation of the SigB-dependent genes in the mutant.
The phoU2 (MSMEG_1605) gene implicated in a phosphatesignaling
pathway and the MSMEG_1097 gene encoding a putative
glycosyltransferase were identified to be involved in
the SigB-dependent enhancement of rifampicin resistance observed
for the Δaa3 mutant of M. smegmatis. The significance
of this study is that the direct link between the functionality
of the respiratory electron transport chain and antibiotic resistance
in mycobacteria was demonstrated for the first time
using an electron transport chain mutant rather than inhibitors
of electron transport chain.
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