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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Top Microbiol Immunol. 2013;374:10.1007/82_2012_300. doi: 10.1007/82_2012_300

Table 1. Macrophage-induced Mycobacterium tuberculosis efflux pumps.

Drug Efflux Pump§ Transporter Family Macrophage growth attenuation* Associated drug resistance Homologs in other mycobacteria References
Rv0194 ABC Yes STR M.marinum; M. ulcerans (Braibant et al. 2000; Danilchanka et al. 2008)
Rv1218c ABC Yes M. smegmatis; M. marinum; M. avium; M. leprae; M. abscessus (Balganesh et al. 2012; Balganesh et al. 2010; Braibant et al. 2000)
Rv1272c ABC Yes M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000)
Rv1273c ABC Yes M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000)
Rv1348 ABC ND M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. avium; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000; Farhana et al. 2008)
Rv1349 ABC ND M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. avium; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000; Farhana et al. 2008)
Rv1463 ABC ND M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. avium; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000)
Rv1687c ABC No M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae (Braibant et al. 2000)
Rv2686c ABC Yes CIP M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. leprae; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000; Louw et al. 2009;Pasca et al. 2004)
Rv2687c ABC ND CIP M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000; Pasca et al. 2004)
Rv2688c ABC No CIP M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. abscessus (Braibant et al. 2000; Pasca et al. 2004)
Rv1258c MFS Yes RIF, OFX, INH M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae; M. abscessus (Balganesh et al. 2012; De Rossi et al. 2002; Jiang et al. 2008; Rodrigues et al. 2011b; Siddiqi et al. 2004; Zhang et al. 2005)
Rv3239c MFS No M.marinum; M. ulcerans (De Rossi et al. 2002; Louw et al. 2009)
Rv3728 MFS No M.marinum; M. ulcerans; M. leprae (De Rossi et al. 2002; Gupta et al. 2010; Louw et al. 2009)
Rv1183 (mmpL1 0) RND ND M. smegmatis; M.marinum, M. avium; M. leprae; M. abscessus (Tekaia et al. 1999)
Rv1146 (mmpL13b) RND ND M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. abscessus (Tekaia et al. 1999)
Rv3065 (mmr) SMR ND ERM M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae (Balganesh et al. 2012; Gupta et al. 2010)
Rv0969 (ctpV) Putative copper exporter No M. smegmatis, M. marinum, M, ulcerans, M. avium; M. abscessus (Ward et al. 2010)
Rv3578 (arsB2) Probable arsenic pump Yes M. smegmatis; M.marinum; M. ulcerans, M. avium; M. leprae (Ordonez et al. 2005)

Isoniazid (INH); rifampicin (RIF); ofloxacin (OFX); ciprofloxacin (CIP); streptomycin (STR); ethambutol (EMB); erythromycin (ERM); ATP-binding cassette (ABC); major facilitator superfamily (MFS); resistance-nodulation cell division family (RND); small multidrug resistance family (SMR); not determined (ND)

§

Efflux pumps that are significantly induced (1.3 to 2.6-fold) at 48 hours in naïve macrophages (Schnappinger et al. 2003). Those highlighted in bold have been tested experimentally for efflux activity, all others are predicted efflux pumps based on homology to efflux pumps in other organisms.

*

Macrophage growth attenuation from resting or IFNγ-activated macrophages (Rengarajan et al. 2005)