Adaptor protein ClpS is an essential regulator of prokaryotic ATP-dependent protease ClpAP, which delivers certain protein substrates with specific amino acid sequences to ClpAP for degradation. However, ClpS also functions asthe inhibitor of the ClpAP-mediated protein degradation for other proteins. Here, we constructed the clpS-overexpression Mycobacterium smegmatis strain, and showed for the first time that overexpression of ClpS increased the resistance of M. smegmatis to rifampicin that is one of most ...