PBP2a mutations causing high-level Ceftaroline resistance in clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Ceftaroline is the first member of a novel class of cephalosporins approved for use in the United States. Although prior studies have identified eight ceftaroline-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in Europe and Asia with MICs ranging from 4 to 8 mg/liter, high-level resistance to ceftaroline (>32 mg/liter) has not been described in MRSA strains isolated in the United States. We isolated a ceftaroline-resistant (MIC > 32 mg/liter) MRSA strain from the blood of a cystic fibrosis patient and five MRSA strains from the respiratory tract of this patient. Whole-genome sequencing identified two amino acid-altering mutations uniquely present in the ceftaroline-binding pocket of the transpeptidase region of penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a) in ceftaroline-resistant isolates. Biochemical analyses and the study of isogenic mutant strains confirmed that these changes caused ceftaroline resistance. Thus, we identified the molecular mechanism of ceftaroline resistance in the first MRSA strain with high-level ceftaroline resistance isolated in the United States.

publication date

  • August 25, 2014

Research

keywords

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Cephalosporins
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Penicillin-Binding Proteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC4249384

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84908431770

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/AAC.03622-14

PubMed ID

  • 25155594

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 58

issue

  • 11