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Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1984 August; 26(2): 235-244

Characterization of non-beta-lactamase-mediated ampicillin resistance in Haemophilus influenzae.

P M Mendelman, D O Chaffin, T L Stull, C E Rubens, K D Mack and A L Smith

ABSTRACT

Ampicillin resistance in Haemophilus influenzae is most often due to the plasmid-mediated production of TEM beta-lactamase. We studied four strains with high-level ampicillin resistance (MIC of 32 micrograms/ml with an inoculum of 10(5) CFU on solid media) which did not produce detectable beta-lactamase activity with two different detection methods. Two of the four strains contained extrachromosomal DNA by agarose gel electrophoresis. Conjugation failed to transfer ampicillin resistance; in contrast, transformation yielded ampicillin-resistant transformants in three of the four strains. These transformants did not contain detectable extrachromosomal DNA. In addition, mobilization of the resistance determinant by transformation to, or conjugation with, recombination-deficient strains was unsuccessful. DNA-DNA hybridization experiments revealed no homology of the DNA of these strains with two R plasmids (one coding for ampicillin resistance, the other for chloramphenicol and tetracycline resistance). We conclude that the genetic basis of the non-beta-lactamase ampicillin resistance in these strains appears to be chromosomally mediated. We investigated the mechanism of resistance in these strains. Enzymatic modification of penicillin was not detected by autoradiography of a thin-layer chromatogram of cell sonic extracts of three ampicillin-resistant transformant strains incubated with [14C]penicillin. To assess changes in permeability of the cell envelope, a plasmid coding for beta-lactamase was conjugated into these strains, and the hydrolysis of penicillin by intact cells and cell sonic extracts was compared. Only one of three transformant strains had significantly diminished permeability. Outer membrane proteins of these strains analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed apparent differences in comparison with the isogenic ampicillin-susceptible recipient strain. Autofluorography of a sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of Sarkosyl-solubilized crude membrane (the putative inner membranes) from these ampicillin-resistant transformant strains incubated with [3H]penicillin compared with the isogenic ampicillin-susceptible recipient strain revealed reduced binding to PBP 3 and 6, 3 and 4, or 4. In addition, affinity binding studies revealed decreased affinity of PBP 4 for ampicillin of all four transformants tested. We conclude that the major mechanism of resistance in these strains is altered penicillin-binding proteins; however, other mechanisms, including permeability, may also play a role.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1984 August; 26(2): 235-244




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