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ArticleThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2008

The fusidic acid stimulon of Staphylococcus aureus.

Alejandro Delgado, Shahrear Zaman, Arunachalam Muthaiyan, Vijayaraj Nagarajan, Mohamed O Elasri, Brian J Wilkinson, John E Gustafson

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Article in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alejandro DelgadoMicrobiology Group, Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
Shahrear Zaman
Arunachalam Muthaiyan
Vijayaraj Nagarajan
Mohamed O Elasri
Brian J Wilkinson
John E Gustafson
New Mexico State University · USIllinois State University · USUniversity of Southern Mississippi · US

Funding

ZUNI HEALTH INITIATIVE-PILOT STUDYP20RR016480 · NCRR · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI ZHANG, PENG F · 2001 to 2011
$33.7M
Translational Control in the Hepatitis C VirusS06GM008136 · NIGMS · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI KUEHN, GLENN D · 1989 to 2011
$23.2M
RISE PROGRAM AT NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITYR25GM061222 · NIGMS · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI HOUSTON, JESSICA PEREA, REDDI, LAKSHMI · 2000 to 2022
$21.3M
Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training at New Mexico State Univ., Las CrucesT34GM007667 · NIGMS · NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY LAS CRUCES · PI UNGUEZ, GRACIELA ALEXANDRA · 1985 to 2022
$13.6M
Howard Hughes Medical Institute 52005881NCRR NIH HHS P20RR016480NIGMS NIH HHS R25 GM07667-30NIGMS NIH HHS S06 GM008136NIGMS NIH HHS S06 GM008136-32NIGMS NIH HHS S06 GM61222-05
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesFusidic acid interferes with the release of elongation factor G (EF-G) after the translocation step of protein synthesis. The objective of this study was to characterize the fusidic acid stimulon of a fusidic acid-susceptible strain of Staphylococcus aureus (SH1000).

methodsS. aureus microarrays and real-time PCR determined transcriptome alterations occurring in SH1000 grown with fusidic acid. The Staphylococcus aureus microarray meta-database (SAMMD) compared and contrasted the SH1000 fusidic stimulon with 89 other S. aureus transcriptional datasets. Fusidic acid gradient analyses with mutant-parent strain pairs were used to identify genes required for intrinsic fusidic acid susceptibility identified during transcriptional analysis.

resultsMany genes altered by fusidic acid challenge are associated with protein synthesis. SAMMD analysis determined that the fusidic acid stimulon has the greatest overlap with the S. aureus cold shock and stringent responses. Six out of nine peptidoglycan hydrolase genes making up the two component YycFG regulon were also up-regulated by fusidic acid, as were a carboxylesterase gene (est) and two putative drug efflux pump genes (emr-qac1 and macA). Genes down-regulated by fusidic acid induction encoded a putative secreted acid phosphatase and a number of protease genes. Roles for the agr operon, the peptidoglycan hydrolase gene isaA and two proteases (htrA1 and htrA2) in the expression of fusidic acid susceptibility were revealed.

conclusionsThe SH1000 fusidic acid stimulon includes genes involved with two stress responses, YycFG-regulated cell wall metabolism, drug efflux, and protein synthesis and turnover.

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialAnti-Bacterial AgentsFusidic AcidGene Expression ProfilingGenes, BacterialOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisProtein BiosynthesisReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionStaphylococcus aureusAnti-Bacterial AgentsFusidic Acid

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PMID18786940
PMCPMC2583067
OpenAlexW2153795264

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