[Establishment and drug susceptibility test of isoniazid resistant Mycobacterium smegmatis]

Yao Xue Xue Bao. 2011 Apr;46(4):377-82.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

With the emergence of drug resistant tuberculosis, it is very urgent to find novel anti-tuberculosis drugs, especially novel anti-drug-resistant tuberculosis drugs. Because of the slow growth and the need to work in a biosafty environment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the development of evaluation of drug effect is severely impeded. In order to solve these issues, non-pathogenic fast-growing Mycobacterium smegmatis is introduced as test organism. The inhA is one of a target of isoniazid (INH) overexpression or mutation of this gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis conferring resistant to INH. A recombinant plasmid bearing inhA was constructed and electroporated into Mycobacterium smegmatis, using shuttle expression vector pMV261. Transformants were induced to express a protein of inhA, identified by SDS-PAGE. Results show that Mycobacterium smegmatis containing inhA plasmids exhibited 100-fold or greater increased resistance to INH, but it conferred no increased resistance to others first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs. Resazurin microtiter assay plate testing of Mycobacterium smegmatis susceptibility to drugs is a rapid, simple, and inexpensive method and could decrease color background of drugs by detecting fluorescence. It will be benefit for high-throughout screening of drugs of anti-isoniazid-resistant Mycobacteria.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Antibiotics, Antitubercular / pharmacology
  • Antitubercular Agents / pharmacology*
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics
  • Bacterial Proteins / metabolism*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Electroporation
  • Ethambutol / pharmacology
  • Isoniazid / pharmacology*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Mycobacterium smegmatis / drug effects*
  • Mycobacterium smegmatis / genetics
  • Mycobacterium smegmatis / metabolism
  • Oxidoreductases / genetics
  • Oxidoreductases / metabolism*
  • Plasmids
  • Rifampin / pharmacology
  • Streptomycin / pharmacology

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Antibiotics, Antitubercular
  • Antitubercular Agents
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Ethambutol
  • Oxidoreductases
  • InhA protein, Mycobacterium
  • Isoniazid
  • Rifampin
  • Streptomycin