Mechanisms of Polymyxin Resistance

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Jennifer H MoffattJohn D Boyce

Abstract

Polymyxin antibiotics are increasingly being used as last-line therapeutic options against a number of multidrug resistant bacteria. These antibiotics show strong bactericidal activity against a range of Gram-negative bacteria, but with the increased use of these antibiotics resistant strains are emerging at an alarming rate. Furthermore, some Gram-negative species, such as Neisseria meningitidis, Proteus mirabilis and Burkholderia spp., are intrinsically resistant to the action of polymyxins. Most identified polymyxin resistance mechanisms in Gram-negative bacteria involve changes to the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structure, as polymyxins initially interact with the negatively charged lipid A component of LPS. The controlled addition of positively charged residues such as 4-amino-L-arabinose, phosphoethanolamine and/or galactosamine to LPS results in a reduced negative charge on the bacterial surface and therefore reduced interaction between the polymyxin and the LPS. Polymyxin resistant species produce LPS that intrinsically contains one or more of these additions. While the genes necessary for most of these additions are chromosomally encoded, plasmid-borne phosphoethanolamine transferases (mcr-1 to mcr-8) have recently been i...Continue Reading

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