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Phosphorus stress induces the synthesis of novel glycolipids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that confer protection against a last-resort antibiotic
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Jones, Rebekah A., Shropshire, Holly, Zhao, Caimeng, Murphy, Andrew, Lidbury, Ian, Wei, Tao, Scanlan, David J. and Chen, Yin (2021) Phosphorus stress induces the synthesis of novel glycolipids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa that confer protection against a last-resort antibiotic. ISME Journal, 15 . pp. 3303-3314. doi:10.1038/s41396-021-01008-7
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-021-01008-7
Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a nosocomial pathogen with a prevalence in immunocompromised individuals and is particularly abundant in the lung microbiome of cystic fibrosis patients. A clinically important adaptation for bacterial pathogens during infection is their ability to survive and proliferate under phosphorus-limited growth conditions. Here, we demonstrate that P. aeruginosa adapts to P-limitation by substituting membrane glycerophospholipids with sugar-containing glycolipids through a lipid renovation pathway involving a phospholipase and two glycosyltransferases. Combining bacterial genetics and multi-omics (proteomics, lipidomics and metatranscriptomic analyses), we show that the surrogate glycolipids monoglucosyldiacylglycerol and glucuronic acid-diacylglycerol are synthesised through the action of a new phospholipase (PA3219) and two glycosyltransferases (PA3218 and PA0842). Comparative genomic analyses revealed that this pathway is strictly conserved in all P. aeruginosa strains isolated from a range of clinical and environmental settings and actively expressed in the metatranscriptome of cystic fibrosis patients. Importantly, this phospholipid-to-glycolipid transition comes with significant ecophysiological consequence in terms of antibiotic sensitivity. Mutants defective in glycolipid synthesis survive poorly when challenged with polymyxin B, a last-resort antibiotic for treating multi-drug resistant P. aeruginosa. Thus, we demonstrate an intriguing link between adaptation to environmental stress (nutrient availability) and antibiotic resistance, mediated through membrane lipid renovation that is an important new facet in our understanding of the ecophysiology of this bacterium in the lung microbiome of cystic fibrosis patients.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QP Physiology Q Science > QR Microbiology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- ) | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Glycolipids, Antibiotics -- Analysis, Cystic fibrosis -- Treatment | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | ISME Journal | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 1751-7362 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 24 May 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 3303-3314 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41396-021-01008-7 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||
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