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HflXr mediates a novel antibiotic resistance mechanism 1 2

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To overcome the action of antibiotics, bacteria have evolved a variety of different strategies, such as drug modification, target mutation, and efflux pumps. Recently, we performed a genome-wide analysis of Listeria monocytogenes gene expression after growth in the presence of antibiotics, identifying genes that are up-regulated upon antibiotic treatment. One of them, lmo0762, is a homologof hflX, which encodes a heat shock protein that rescues stalled ribosomes by separating their two subunits. To our knowledge, ribosome splitting has never been described as an antibiotic resistance mechanism. We thus investigated the role of lmo0762 in antibiotic resistance. First, we demonstrated that lmo0762 is an antibiotic resistance gene that confers protection against lincomycin and erythromycin, and that we renamed hflXr (hflX resistance). We show that hflXr expression is regulated by a transcription attenuation mechanism relying on the presence of alternative RNA structures and a small ORF encoding a 14 amino acid peptide containing the RLR motif, characteristic of macrolide resistance genes. We also provide evidence that HflXr is involved in ribosome recycling in presence of antibiotics. Interestingly, L. monocytogenes possesses another copy of hflX, lmo1296, that is not involved in antibiotic resistance. Phylogenetic analysis shows several events of hflXr duplication in prokaryotes and widespread presence of hflXr in Firmicutes. Overall, this study reveals the Listeria hflXr as the founding member of a family of antibiotic resistance genes. The resistance conferred by this gene is probably of importance in the environment and within microbial communities.
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hal-02329775 , version 1 (23-10-2019)

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Mélodie Duval, Daniel Dar, Filipe Carvalho, Eduardo P C Rocha, Rotem Sorek, et al.. HflXr mediates a novel antibiotic resistance mechanism 1 2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018, 115 (52), pp.13359-13364. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1810555115⟩. ⟨hal-02329775⟩
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