Serine/threonine protein kinase mediates rifampicin resistance in Brucella melitensis through interacting with ribosomal protein RpsD and affecting antioxidant capacity

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第一作者： Yuan, Yaqin

作者： Yuan, Yaqin;Xue, Tianqi;Ye, Jianqiang;Yuan, Yaqin;Ning, Wenqing;Xue, Tianqi;Zhang, Guangzhi;Zhou, Shizhong;Ding, Jiabo;Yang, Xiaowen;Ning, Wenqing;Chen, Junjie;Li, Jiquan;An, Cuihong;Mao, Lingling

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关键词： Brucella; rifampicin resistance; STPK; rpsD; sulfur metabolism

期刊名称：MSYSTEMS （ 影响因子：4.6； 五年影响因子：5.7 ）

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年卷期： 2025 年 10 卷 1 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Brucellosis, a zoonotic disease, has re-emerged in both humans and animals, causing significant economic losses globally. Recently, an increasing number of rifampicin-resistant Brucella strains have been isolated worldwide without detectable mutations in known antibiotic resistance genes. Here, this study identified the deletion of serine/threonine protein kinase (STPK) gene in B. melitensis as an efficient trigger for rifampicin resistance using bioinformatics predictions, a transposon mutant library, and gene mutation strains. Notably, the absence of the STPK could increase the expression of ribosomal proteins and genes involved in sulfur metabolism and reduced glutathione, and decrease NADPH oxidase activity and NADP+/NADPH ratio, which is associated with the antioxidant capacity of B. melitensis. Moreover, co-immunoprecipitation revealed that STPK could efficiently interact with the ribosomal protein RpsD, possibly altering protein translation and riboswitch expression. These findings demonstrate that the STPK gene mediates resistance by regulating sulfur metabolism to counteract the reactive oxygen species induced by rifampicin. Furthermore, the approaches developed in this study provide a platform for screening new resistance genes in Brucella spp., and the identifiedSTPK or its pathway can serve as a potential target for new drug development against rifampicin-resistant Brucella spp. IMPORTANCE New rifampicin resistance gene in Brucellamelitensis is identified via bioinformatics predictions and a whole-genome transposon mutant library, new mechanisms of rifampicin resistance in B. melitensis, and new function of serine/threonine protein kinase gene and its interaction proteins.

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