• Hobbie S N
• Bruell C
• Kalapala S
• Akshay S
• Schmidt S
• Pfister P
• Böttger E C

Biochimie

• Publish Date: Aug 2006
• ISSN: 0300-9084
• Volume: 88
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 1033-43
• Medium: Print
• Language: English
• Citation (JAMA): Hobbie S N, Bruell C, Kalapala S, et al. A Genetic Model to Investigate Drug-target Interactions at the Ribosomal Decoding Site.. Biochimie Aug 2006;88:1033-43

Abstract

Recent advances in X-ray crystallography have greatly contributed to the understanding of the structural interactions between aminoglycosides and the ribosomal decoding site. Efforts to genetically probe the functional relevance of proposed drug-nucleotide contacts have in part been hampered by the presence of multiple rRNA operons in most bacteria. A derivative of the Gram-positive Mycobacterium smegmatis was rendered single rRNA operon allelic by means of gene inactivation techniques. In this system, genetic manipulation of the single chromosomal rRNA operon results in cells carrying homogeneous populations of mutant ribosomes. An exhaustive mutagenesis study of the ribosomal A site has been performed to define the importance of individual drug-nucleotide contacts. Mutational alterations in the M. smegmatis decoding site are discussed here, comparing the results with those obtained in other organisms. Implications for the selectivity of antimicrobial agents and for the fitness cost of resistance mutations are addressed.

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