Potential Risk of Spreading Resistance Genes within Extracellular-DNA-Dependent Biofilms of Streptococcus mutans in Response to Cell Envelope Stress Induced by Sub-MICs of Bacitracin.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Ryo NagasawaHidenobu Senpuku

Abstract

Antibiotics are used to treat or prevent some types of bacterial infection. The inappropriate use of antibiotics unnecessarily promotes antibiotic resistance and increases resistant bacteria, and controlling these bacteria is difficult. While the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a serious problem, the behavior of drug-resistant bacteria is not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the behavior of Streptococcus mutans, a major etiological agent of dental caries that is resistant to bacitracin, which is a cell wall-targeting antibiotic, and focused on biofilm formation in the presence of bacitracin. S. mutans UA159 most strongly induced extracellular DNA (eDNA)-dependent biofilm formation in the presence of bacitracin at 1/8× MIC. The ΔmbrC and ΔmbrD mutant strains, which lack bacitracin resistance, also formed biofilms in the presence of bacitracin at 1/2× MIC. This difference between the wild type and the mutants was caused by the induction of atlA expression in the mid-log phase. We also revealed that certain rgp genes involved in the synthesis of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide related to cell wall synthesis were downregulated by bacitracin. In addition, glucosyltransferase-I was also involved in eDNA-depend...Continue Reading

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