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Previously, we demonstrated that Escherichia coli tolC mutations reduce the high-level resistance to tetracycline afforded by the transposon Tn10-encoded TetA pump from resistance at 200 microg/ml to resistance at 40 microg/ml. In this study, we found that the addition of an sbmA mutation to a tolC::Tn10 mutant exacerbates this phenotype: the double mutant did not form colonies, even in the presence of tetracycline at a concentration as low as 5 microg/ml. Inactivation of sbmA alone partially inhibited high-level tetracycline resistance, from resistance at 200 microg/ml to resistance at 120 microg/ml. There thus appears to be an additive effect of the mutations, resulting in almost complete suppression of the phenotypic expression of Tn10 tetracycline resistance.
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Departamento de Bioquímica de la Nutrición, Instituto Superior de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, 4000 San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
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