In Vitro-Selected Linezolid-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mutants

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Development of resistance against linezolid, an alternative drug for the therapy of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (2), was assessed to be rare (5). We aimed to generate linezolidresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from 10 different, fully susceptible M. tuberculosis parental strains. Ten linezolidresistant colonies could be isolated from six different parental strains. The frequency of the in vitro appearance of linezolidresistant mutants was 2 10 8 to 5 10 . Previous investigations with a genetically engineered Mycobacterium smegmatis derivative that harbored only one of the original two copies of the rrn operon revealed a similar rate of 4.5 10 9 (6). MIC value determination gave identical results performed with both Bactec 460 TB system and Bactec MGIT 960 (Becton Dickinson Diagnostic Systems, Sparks, MD). MIC values of the linezolid-resistant strains varied from 4 to 32 g/ml, whereas all parent strains had MIC values of 1 g/ml. Genotypic characterization of the linezolid-resistant strains was performed by sequencing of the 23S rRNA gene (5). Overall, in five strains mutations in the 23S rRNA gene were found. Four strains (derived from three different parental strains) with a MIC value of 32 g/ml showed an identical G-to-T base pair exchange at position 2061; another strain with a MIC value of 16 g/ml showed a G-to-T base pair exchange at position 2576 (Fig. 1). As a control, the respective parental strains had no alteration in the 23S rRNA gene when aligned with the M. tuberculosis H37 wild-type sequence. The remaining five strains with MIC values from 4 to 8 g/ml showed no mutations in the 23S rRNA gene. To investigate whether in vitro-generated linezolid resistance influences the growth rate, suspensions of parental susceptible and resistant strains were inoculated into MGIT tubes (0.1 ml of a 1:100 dilution of a McFarland 0.5 suspension). The average time to detection (TTD) of parental strains was 5.93 1.84 days (mean standard deviation). Linezolid-resistant strains without mutation in the 23S rRNA showed a TTD of 5.81 1.81 days. However, linezolid-resistant strains with mutations in the 23S rRNA showed an elevated TTD of 10.10 3.49 days. The isolated M. tuberculosis mutants can be divided into two classes corresponding to in vitro-generated linezolid-resistant M. smegmatis clones (6). In that study, one class showed wildtype growth characteristics in cultures, lower MIC values of 4 to 8 g/ml, and no mutation in the 23S rRNA, pointing to a nonribosomal mechanism of resistance (6). Mutants of the other class had alterations in domain V of 23S rRNA, high MIC values of 64 g/ml, and a decreased growth rate in culture. In contrary to the study by Sander et al., who found exclusively G2447T mutations in M. smegmatis, different mutations were found in M. tuberculosis and other bacterial species (1, 3, 4). Whereas the G2576T mutation is well known and often described as the predominant mutation in various other gram-positive bacteria, such as Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus (3, 4, 7), to our knowledge the G2061T mutation found in four M. tuberculosis strains is described here for the first time.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008