Low-energy N+ implantation mutagenesis allows Staphylococcus aureus to develop resistance
to vancomycin. Then the vancomycin-resistant S. aureus strain was examined using drug-resistance
phenotypes, and biofilm growth analysis to explore the potential resistance mechanism underlying
the vancomycin-resistant S. aureus strain. The results showed that 9 vancomycin-resistant S. aureus
strains were constructed by low energy N+ implantation mutagenesis. The biofilm biomass and density
as well as the matrix protein content within the biofilms of five representative vancomycin-resistant
strains with muti-drug resistance capacity were significantly enhanced over the original strain, and their
resistance to vancomycin increased by between two and four times. These vancomycin-resistant strains
acquired multiple resistance to different antibiotics. The results indicate that the enhancement of biofilm
formation ability and the matrix protein content within the biofilm might be attributed to be the changes
in the expression of drug-resistant-related genes in vancomycin-resistant S. aureus strains, which were
mediated by low energy N+ implantation, thereby accelerating the formation of drug resistance. These
results provide the theoretical basis for examining the mechanism of environmental radiation-mediating
the drug-resistant formation in S. aureus.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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