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Pseudomonas: Biology and Diversity |
Department of Microbiology, #300, 6174 University Boulevard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z31
Author for correspondence: Robert E. W. Hancock. Tel: +1 604 822 2682. Fax: +1 604 822 6041. e-mail: bob{at}cmdr.ubc.ca
Resistance to the polycationic antibiotic polymyxin B and expression of the outer-membrane protein OprH in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa both involve the PhoP-PhoQ two-component regulatory system. The genes for this system form an operon with oprH, oprH-phoP-phoQ, that responds to Mg2+ starvation and PhoP levels. In this study, the Mg2+-regulated promoter for this operon was mapped upstream of oprH by primer-extension experiments. An oprH::xylE-GmR mutant H855 was constructed and measurement of the catechol 2,3-dioxygenase activity expressed from this transcriptional fusion provided evidence for a second, weak promoter for phoP-phoQ. Wild-type P. aeruginosa PAO1 strain H103 was found to exhibit Mg2+-regulated resistance to the 
-helical antimicrobial cationic peptide CP28 in addition to its previously characterized resistance to polymyxin B. Resistance to this peptide was unchanged in the OprH-null mutant H855 and a PhoP-null mutant H851. In contrast, PhoQ-null mutant H854 demonstrated constitutive CP28 resistance. Northern blot analysis revealed constitutive expression of phoP in this strain, implicating PhoP-PhoQ in the resistance of P. aeruginosa to cationic peptides. Furthermore, all three null-mutant strains demonstrated increased resistance to the aminoglycoside antibiotics streptomycin, kanamycin and amikacin. Two additional mutant strains, H895 and H896, were constructed that carried unmarked deletions in oprH and were found to exhibit aminoglycoside susceptibility equivalent to that of the wild-type. This result provided definitive evidence that OprH is not involved in P. aeruginosa aminoglycoside resistance and that the changes in resistance in strain H855 and a previously reported oprH mutant were due to polar effects on phoP-phoQ rather than loss of OprH expression. A role for PhoP-PhoQ in resistance to aminoglycosides is envisaged that is distinct from that in resistance to cationic peptides and polymyxin B.
Keywords: PhoP-PhoQ, antimicrobial cationic peptides, aminoglycoside resistance, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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