Back

AedG, a new weapon in Acinetobacters fight against antimicrobials

Hassan, K. A.; Naidu, V. N.; Shah, B.; Maher, C.; Paulsen, I. T.

2023-01-03 microbiology
10.1101/2023.01.03.522653 bioRxiv
Show abstract

A novel multidrug efflux pump, AadT from the Drug:H+ antiporter 2 family, was discovered in Acinetobacter multidrug resistance plasmids. Here, we profiled the antimicrobial resistance potential and examined the distribution of this gene. Putative homologs of this efflux pump were encoded in many Acinetobacter species and other Gram-negative species, and were genetically associated with novel variants of adeAB(C), which encodes a major tripartite efflux pump in Acinetobacter. The AadT pump conferred decreased susceptibility to at least eight diverse antimicrobials, including antibiotics erythromycin, tetracycline; biocides chlorhexidine; and dyes ethidium bromide and DAPI. These results show that AadT is a new determinant in the Acinetobacter resistance arsenal and may cooperate with variants of AdeAB(C).

Matching journals

The top 5 journals account for 50% of the predicted probability mass.

50% of probability mass above

"Similar papers" are the closest papers from that journal in the model's embedding space. They show what the match is built on, but the ranking comes mostly from a classifier over the whole training set, not from these examples alone.