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Kumar A, Kumar A, Prasad KS. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in municipal sewage water joining river Ganga, at Prayagraj (India). GENE REPORTS 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.genrep.2021.101175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Fyfe C, Grossman TH, Kerstein K, Sutcliffe J. Resistance to Macrolide Antibiotics in Public Health Pathogens. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med 2016; 6:a025395. [PMID: 27527699 PMCID: PMC5046686 DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a025395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 115] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Macrolide resistance mechanisms can be target-based with a change in a 23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) residue or a mutation in ribosomal protein L4 or L22 affecting the ribosome's interaction with the antibiotic. Alternatively, mono- or dimethylation of A2058 in domain V of the 23S rRNA by an acquired rRNA methyltransferase, the product of an erm (erythromycin ribosome methylation) gene, can interfere with antibiotic binding. Acquired genes encoding efflux pumps, most predominantly mef(A) + msr(D) in pneumococci/streptococci and msr(A/B) in staphylococci, also mediate resistance. Drug-inactivating mechanisms include phosphorylation of the 2'-hydroxyl of the amino sugar found at position C5 by phosphotransferases and hydrolysis of the macrocyclic lactone by esterases. These acquired genes are regulated by either translation or transcription attenuation, largely because cells are less fit when these genes, especially the rRNA methyltransferases, are highly induced or constitutively expressed. The induction of gene expression is cleverly tied to the mechanism of action of macrolides, relying on antibiotic-bound ribosomes stalled at specific sequences of nascent polypeptides to promote transcription or translation of downstream sequences.
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- Corey Fyfe
- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472
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- Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472
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Cundliffe E, Demain AL. Avoidance of suicide in antibiotic-producing microbes. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2010; 37:643-72. [PMID: 20446033 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-010-0721-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2010] [Accepted: 03/30/2010] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Many microbes synthesize potentially autotoxic antibiotics, mainly as secondary metabolites, against which they need to protect themselves. This is done in various ways, ranging from target-based strategies (i.e. modification of normal drug receptors or de novo synthesis of the latter in drug-resistant form) to the adoption of metabolic shielding and/or efflux strategies that prevent drug-target interactions. These self-defence mechanisms have been studied most intensively in antibiotic-producing prokaryotes, of which the most prolific are the actinomycetes. Only a few documented examples pertain to lower eukaryotes while higher organisms have hardly been addressed in this context. Thus, many plant alkaloids, variously described as herbivore repellents or nitrogen excretion devices, are truly antibiotics-even if toxic to humans. As just one example, bulbs of Narcissus spp. (including the King Alfred daffodil) accumulate narciclasine that binds to the larger subunit of the eukaryotic ribosome and inhibits peptide bond formation. However, ribosomes in the Amaryllidaceae have not been tested for possible resistance to narciclasine and other alkaloids. Clearly, the prevalence of suicide avoidance is likely to extend well beyond the remit of the present article.
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- Eric Cundliffe
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK.
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Patterson AJ, Colangeli R, Spigaglia P, Scott KP. Distribution of specific tetracycline and erythromycin resistance genes in environmental samples assessed by macroarray detection. Environ Microbiol 2007; 9:703-15. [PMID: 17298370 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01190.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A macroarray system was developed to screen environmental samples for the presence of specific tetracycline (Tc(R)) and erythromycin (erm(R)) resistance genes. The macroarray was loaded with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplicons of 23 Tc(R) genes and 10 erm(R) genes. Total bacterial genomic DNA was extracted from soil and animal faecal samples collected from different European countries. Macroarray hybridization was performed under stringent conditions and the results were analysed by fluorescence scanning. Pig herds in Norway, reared without antibiotic use, had a significantly lower incidence of antibiotic resistant bacteria than those reared in other European countries, and organic herds contained lower numbers of resistant bacteria than intensively farmed animals. The relative proportions of the different genes were constant across the different countries. Ribosome protection type Tc(R) genes were the most common resistance genes in animal faecal samples, with the tet(W) gene the most abundant, followed by tet(O) and tet(Q). Different resistance genes were present in soil samples, where erm(V) and erm(E) were the most prevalent followed by the efflux type Tc(R) genes. The macroarray proved a powerful tool to screen DNA extracted from environmental samples to identify the most abundant Tc(R) and erm(R) genes within those tested, avoiding the need for culturing and biased PCR amplification steps.
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- Andrea J Patterson
- Gut Health Division, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK
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Improvement of pristinamycin-producing Streptomyces pristinaespiralis by rational screening. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s11274-005-9008-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Davelos AL, Xiao K, Flor JM, Kinkel LL. Genetic and phenotypic traits of streptomycetes used to characterize antibiotic activities of field-collected microbes. Can J Microbiol 2004; 50:79-89. [PMID: 15052309 DOI: 10.1139/w03-107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Although antibiotic production may contribute significantly to microbial fitness, there is limited information on the ecology of antibiotic-producing microbial populations in soil. Indeed, quantitative information on the variation in frequency and intensity of specific antibiotic inhibitory and resistance abilities within soil microbial communities is lacking. Among the streptomycetes, antibiotic production is highly variable and resistance to antibiotics is highly specific to individual microbial strains. The objective of this work was to genetically and phenotypically characterize a reference collection of streptomycetes for use in distinguishing inhibition and resistance phenotypes of field-collected microbes. Specifically, we examined inhibition and resistance abilities of all isolates in all possible pairwise combinations, genetic relatedness using BOX-PCR and 16S rDNA sequence analyses, nutrient utilization profiles, and antibiotic induction among all possible three-way combinations of isolates. Each streptomycete isolate possessed a unique set of phenotypic and genetic characteristics. However, there was little correspondence between phenotypic and genetic traits. This collection of reference isolates provides the potential for distinguishing 1024 inhibition and resistance phenotypes in field-collected microbes. Relationships between the genetic and phenotypic characteristics examined may provide preliminary insight into the distinct strategies that microbes use in optimizing their fitness in natural environments.Key words: antibiotic inhibition, resistance, nutrient utilization, BOX-PCR, 16S rDNA.
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MESH Headings
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/biosynthesis
- Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology
- Antibiosis
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- DNA, Bacterial/isolation & purification
- DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry
- DNA, Ribosomal/isolation & purification
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Genes, rRNA/genetics
- Genotype
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Soil Microbiology
- Streptomycetaceae/drug effects
- Streptomycetaceae/genetics
- Streptomycetaceae/isolation & purification
- Streptomycetaceae/physiology
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- Anita L Davelos
- Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA
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Davelos AL, Kinkel LL, Samac DA. Spatial variation in frequency and intensity of antibiotic interactions among Streptomycetes from prairie soil. Appl Environ Microbiol 2004; 70:1051-8. [PMID: 14766588 PMCID: PMC348876 DOI: 10.1128/aem.70.2.1051-1058.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2003] [Accepted: 11/03/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Antibiotic interactions are believed to be significant to microbial fitness in soil, yet little is known of the frequency, intensity, and diversity of antibiotic inhibition and resistance among indigenous microbes. To begin to address these issues, we studied the abilities of streptomycete isolates from prairie soil to inhibit growth and display resistance to antibiotics produced by a test collection of 10 streptomycete isolates. Wide variations in antibiotic inhibition and resistance for prairie isolates among three locations and four soil depths within a 1-m2 plot were revealed. Fewer than 10% of 153 prairie isolates inhibited all 10 test isolates, while more than 40% of the isolates did not inhibit any of the test isolates. No field isolate was resistant to all of the test isolates, nor was any isolate susceptible to all of the test isolates. No correlation between inhibition and resistance phenotypes was found, suggesting that inhibition and resistance are under independent selection. The significant spatial variation in the frequency and intensity of antibiotic inhibition implies that the fitness benefits of antibiotic production are not the same among locations in soil. In contrast, the consistency of resistance over space indicates that its significance to fitness across locations is stable or the costs of maintaining resistance in the absence of selection are small or nonexistent. The spatial clustering of antibiotic inhibitory activity suggests a variable matrix of selection pressures and microbial responses across the soil landscape.
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- Anita L Davelos
- Department of Plant Pathology. Plant Science Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA.
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Fouces R, Rodríguez M, Mellado E, Díez B, Barredo JL. Conjugation and transformation of Streptomyces species by tylosin resistance. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2000; 186:319-25. [PMID: 10802191 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2000.tb09124.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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The tlrB gene from Streptomyces fradiae has been cloned and used to construct bifunctional Streptomyces-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors carrying the antibiotic resistance genes to kanamycin-neomycin, thiostrepton and tylosin as selection markers. In the same way, the tlrB gene was subcloned in plasmids including the apramycin resistance gene and the oriT sequence from the plasmid pSET152 to facilitate conjugation of Streptomyces spores. The usefulness of the tlrB gene as tylosin resistance marker was ascertained in Streptomyces lividans, Streptomyces parvulus and Streptomyces coelicolor, but not in Streptomyces clavuligerus. The tlrB gene constitutes a useful selection marker when high-frequency of conjugation/transformation is not required or as secondary marker in recombinant Streptomyces species where thiostrepton and kanamycin have been utilized for primary selection.
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- R Fouces
- Area de Biotecnología, Antibióticos S.A., Avenida de Antibióticos 59-61, 24009, León, Spain
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Bozdogan B, Berrezouga L, Kuo MS, Yurek DA, Farley KA, Stockman BJ, Leclercq R. A new resistance gene, linB, conferring resistance to lincosamides by nucleotidylation in Enterococcus faecium HM1025. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1999; 43:925-9. [PMID: 10103201 PMCID: PMC89227 DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.4.925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Resistance to lincomycin and clindamycin in the clinical isolate Enterococcus faecium HM1025 is due to a ribosomal methylase encoded by an ermAM-like gene and the plasmid-mediated inactivation of these antibiotics. We have cloned and determined the nucleotide sequence of the gene responsible for the inactivation of lincosamides, linB. This gene encodes a 267-amino-acid lincosamide nucleotidyltransferase. The enzyme catalyzes 3(5'-adenylation) (the adenylation of the hydroxyl group in position 3 of the molecules) of lincomycin and clindamycin. Expression of linB was observed in both Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The deduced amino acid sequence of the enzyme did not display any significant homology with staphylococcal nucleotidyltransferases encoded by linA and linA' genes. Sequences homologous to linB were found in 14 other clinical isolates of E. faecium, indicating the spread of the resistance trait in this species.
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- B Bozdogan
- Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital Henri Mondor-Université Paris XII, Créteil, France
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Oh TG, Lee MJ, Baek MC, Kim BK, Choi EC. Resistance to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics is induced by 16 membered-ring macrolide antibiotics in Enterococcus faecalis 373. Arch Pharm Res 1998; 21:76-8. [PMID: 9875520 DOI: 10.1007/bf03216758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- T G Oh
- College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Korea
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Memili E, Weisblum B. Essential role of endogenously synthesized tylosin for induction of ermSF in Streptomyces fradiae. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997; 41:1203-5. [PMID: 9145902 PMCID: PMC163883 DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.5.1203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We compared ermSF induction in wild-type Streptomyces fradiae NRRL B-2702 and that in GS-14, a tylA mutant which cannot synthesize tylosin. Our findings suggest that (i) endogenously synthesized tylosin plays an obligatory role in ermSF induction and (ii) tylosin, or a biosynthetic intermediate beyond tylactone, has an "autocrine" function that induces ErmSF synthesis, thereby enabling S. fradiae to resist higher levels of tylosin.
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- E Memili
- Pharmacology Department, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706, USA
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Kamimiya S, Weisblum B. Induction of ermSV by 16-membered-ring macrolide antibiotics. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1997; 41:530-4. [PMID: 9055987 PMCID: PMC163745 DOI: 10.1128/aac.41.3.530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The erm family of 23S rRNA adenine-N6-methyltransferases confers resistance to all macrolide-lincosamide-streptograminB (MLS) antibiotics, but not all MLS antibiotics induce synthesis of Erm methyltransferase with equal efficiency in a given organism. The induction efficiency of a test panel of MLS antibiotics was studied by using two translational attenuator-lac reporter gene fusion constructs, one based on ermSV from Streptomyces viridochromogenes NRRL 2860 and the other based on ermC from Staphylococcus aureus RN2442. Four types of responses which were correlated with the macrolide ring size were seen, as follows: group 1, both ermSV and ermC were induced by the 14-membered-ring macrolides erythromycin, lankamycin, and matromycin, as well as by the lincosamide celesticetin; group 2, neither ermSV nor ermC was induced by the 12-membered-ring macrolide methymycin or by the lincosamide lincomycin or the streptogramin type B antibiotic ostreogrycin B; group 3, ermSV was selectively induced over ermC by the 16-membered-ring macrolides carbomycin, chalcomycin, cirramycin, kitasamycin, maridomycin, and tylosin; and group 4, ermC was selectively induced over ermSV by the 14-membered-ring macrolide megalomicin. These data suggest that the leader peptide determines the specificity of induction by different classes of MLS antibiotics and that for a given attenuator, a major factor which determines whether a given macrolide induces resistance is its size.
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- S Kamimiya
- Pharmacology Department, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706, USA
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- B Weisblum
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706, USA
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The distribution of antibiotic resistance patterns within streptomycetes and their use in secondary metabolite screening. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01569663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Zhang HZ, Schmidt H, Piepersberg W. Molecular cloning and characterization of two lincomycin-resistance genes, lmrA and lmrB, from Streptomyces lincolnensis 78-11. Mol Microbiol 1992; 6:2147-57. [PMID: 1328813 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb01388.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Two different lincomycin-resistance determinants (lmrA and lmrB) from Streptomyces lincolnensis 78-11 were cloned in Streptomyces lividans 66 TK23. The gene lmrA was localized on a 2.16 kb fragment, the determined nucleotide sequence of which encoded a single open reading frame 1446 bp long. Analysis of the deduced amino acid sequence suggested the presence of 12 membrane-spanning domains and showed significant similarities to the methylenomycin-resistance protein (Mmr) from Streptomyces coelicolor, the QacA protein from Staphylococcus aureus, and several tetracycline-resistance proteins from both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, as well as to some sugar-transport proteins from Escherichia coli. The lmrB gene was actively expressed from a 2.7 kb fragment. An open reading frame of 837 bp could be localized which encoded a protein that was significantly similar to 23S rRNA adenine(2058)-N-methyltransferases conferring macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance. LmrB also had putative rRNA methyltransferase activity since lincomycin resistance of ribosomes was induced in lmrB-containing strains. Surprisingly, both enzymes, LmrA and LmrB, had a substrate specificity restricted to lincomycin and did not cause resistance to other lincosamides such as celesticetin and clindamycin, or to macrolides.
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- H Z Zhang
- Bergische Universität GH Wuppertal, Germany
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Reig M, Fernández MC, Ballesta JP, Baquero F. Inducible expression of ribosomal clindamycin resistance in Bacteroides vulgatus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1992; 36:639-42. [PMID: 1622176 PMCID: PMC190570 DOI: 10.1128/aac.36.3.639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The abilities of erythromycin and clindamycin to act as inducers of clindamycin resistance in the strain Bacteroides vulgatus RYC18F6 is evaluated in vivo (efficiency of plating of inhibitory clindamycin concentrations) and in vitro [efficiency of poly(U)-directed polypeptide synthesis by ribosomes]. Uninduced cells failed to grow during the first 72 h, even at a very low clindamycin concentration (0.1 microgram/ml); after induction with erythromycin or clindamycin, cells were able to form colonies at 32 micrograms/ml after 48 h. The in vitro polymerization test with B. vulgatus RYC18F6 ribosomes (S-30 extract) showed that ribosomes from uninduced cells were fully sensitive to the inhibitory effect of clindamycin. Ribosomes obtained from erythromycin- or clindamycin-induced cells presented a reduced sensitivity to clindamycin inhibition. These results show that resistance to clindamycin in B. vulgatus RYC18F6 is an inducible phenomenon involving a ribosomal modification, probably similar to that previously described for gram-positive bacteria.
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- M Reig
- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Nacional de la Salud, Madrid, Spain
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Bedford DJ, Lewis CG, Buttner MJ. Characterization of a gene conferring bialaphos resistance in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Gene X 1991; 104:39-45. [PMID: 1916276 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(91)90462-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A gene (bar) was identified adjacent to the hrdD sigma factor gene in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). The predicted bar product showed 32.2% and 30.4% identity to those of the pat and bar genes of the bialaphos (Bp) producers Streptomyces viridochromogenes and Streptomyces hygroscopicus, respectively; these genes encode phosphinothricin (PPT) N-acetyltransferases that function as enzymes in the Bp biosynthetic pathway and as resistance determinants. The S. coelicolor bar gene conferred high-level resistance to Bp when cloned in S. coelicolor on a high-copy-number vector. Enzymic assay showed that the S. coelicolor bar gene product inactivates PPT by transfer of acetyl groups from acetyl CoA. The S. coelicolor bar gene appears to be expressed from two promoters (p1 and p2) and is divergently transcribed with respect to hrdD. The downstream (barp2) transcript overlaps the hrdDp1 transcript and the upstream (barp1) transcript overlaps both the hrdDp1 and hrdDp2 transcripts. Inactivation of hrdD did not prevent transcription from either bar promoter, indicating that sigma hrdD is not essential for recognition of these sequences.
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- D J Bedford
- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, University Plain, Norwich, U.K
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Di Giambattista M, Nyssen E, Pecher A, Cocito C. Affinity labeling of the virginiamycin S binding site on bacterial ribosome. Biochemistry 1990; 29:9203-11. [PMID: 2125475 DOI: 10.1021/bi00491a014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Virginiamycin S (VS, a type B synergimycin) inhibits peptide bond synthesis in vitro and in vivo. The attachment of virginiamycin S to the large ribosomal subunit (50S) is competitively inhibited by erythromycin (Ery, a macrolide) and enhanced by virginiamycin M (VM, a type A synergimycin). We have previously shown, by fluorescence energy transfer measurements, that virginiamycin S binds at the base of the central protuberance of 50S, the putative location of peptidyltransferase domain [Di Giambattista et al. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 3540-3547]. In the present work, the ribosomal protein components at the virginiamycin S binding site were affinity labeled by the N-hydroxysuccinimide ester derivative (HSE) of this antibiotic. Evidence has been provided for (a) the association constant of HSE-ribosome complex formation being similar to that of native virginiamycin S, (b) HSE binding to ribosomes being antagonized by erythromycin and enhanced by virginiamycin M, and (c) a specific linkage of HSE with a single region of 50S, with virtually no fixation to 30S. After dissociation of covalent ribosome-HSE complexes, the resulting ribosomal proteins have been fractionated by electrophoresis and blotted to nitrocellulose, and the HSE-binding proteins have been detected by an immunoenzymometric procedure. More than 80% of label was present within a double spot corresponding to proteins L18 and L22, whose Rfs were modified by the affinity-labeling reagent. It is concluded that these proteins are components of the peptidyltransferase domain of bacterial ribosomes, for which a topographical model, including the available literature data, is proposed.
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- M Di Giambattista
- Unit of Microbiology and Genetics, ICP, Medical School, University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Calcutt MJ, Cundliffe E. Cloning of a lincosamide resistance determinant from Streptomyces caelestis, the producer of celesticetin, and characterization of the resistance mechanism. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:4710-4. [PMID: 2376570 PMCID: PMC213311 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.8.4710-4714.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Self-resistance has been investigated in Streptomyces caelestis (producer of the lincosamide antibiotic celesticetin), from which a lincosamide resistance determinant (clr) has been isolated on a 1-kilobase DNA fragment and cloned in Streptomyces lividans. The clr product is a specific methylase which produces a single residue of N6-monomethyladenine in 23S rRNA at position 2058, thereby rendering the 50S ribosmal subunit resistant to the action of lincosamides.
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- M J Calcutt
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, England
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Mayford M, Weisblum B. The ermC leader peptide: amino acid alterations leading to differential efficiency of induction by macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:3772-9. [PMID: 2113911 PMCID: PMC213355 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.7.3772-3779.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The inducibility of ermC by erythromycin, megalomicin, and celesticetin was tested with both wild-type ermC and several regulatory mutants altered in the 19-amino-acid-residue leader peptide, MGIFSIFVISTVHYQP NKK. In the model test system that was used, the ErmC methylase was translationally fused to beta-galactosidase. Mutational alterations that mapped in the interval encoding Phe-4 through Ile-9 of the leader peptide not only affected induction by individual antibiotics, but did so differentially. The subset of mutations that affected inducibility by the two macrolides erythromycin and megalomicin overlapped and were distinct from the subset of mutations that affected induction by celesticetin. These studies provide a model system for experimentally varying the relative efficiencies with which different antibiotics induce the expression of ermC. The possibility that antibiotics with inducing activity interact directly with the nascent leader peptide was tested by using a chemically synthesized decapeptide, MGIFSIFVIS--, attached at its C-terminus to a solid-phase support. This peptide, however, failed to bind erythromycin in vitro.
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- M Mayford
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Zalacain M, Cundliffe E. Methylation of 23S ribosomal RNA due to carB, an antibiotic-resistance determinant from the carbomycin producer, Streptomyces thermotolerans. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 189:67-72. [PMID: 1691981 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb15460.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A resistance gene, carB, originally isolated from the carbomycin-producing organism, Streptomyces thermotolerans, confers on Streptomyces lividans high-level resistance to the drug. However, ribosomes from S. lividans expressing carB show only moderate resistance to this macrolide in vitro, although they are highly resistant to the action of lincosamide antibiotics. The carB product monomethylates the amino group of the adenosine residue located at position 2058 in 23S ribosomal RNA. In contrast, ribosomes from S. lividans expressing ermE, in which 23S RNA is dimethylated at this same position, are much more highly resistant to macrolides and insensitive to lincosamides.
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- M Zalacain
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, England
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Reig M, Baquero F. Selection of constitutively resistant mutants of inducible clindamycin-resistant Bacteroides vulgatus. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 1989; 8:711-5. [PMID: 2506038 DOI: 10.1007/bf01963757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The rate of spontaneous mutation to constitutive clindamycin resistance and the kinetics of selection of such mutants in preinduced and non-preinduced cells was evaluated in the Bacteroides vulgatus strain RYC18F6 (original MIC less than or equal to 0.25 micrograms/ml), which shows inducible resistance to clindamycin and erythromycin. Mutants demonstrating a high level of constitutive resistance to clindamycin (64 micrograms/ml) occurred at a frequency of 10(-7). Culture in broth containing either subinhibitory or inhibitory levels of clindamycin resulted in induction of clindamycin resistance. This permitted survival of a part of the population that seemed to facilitate the further growth of constitutively resistant mutants (up to a frequency of 10(-1)). At both low and high clindamycin concentrations mutants appeared to be selected over merely induced cells. Preincubation of cultures with erythromycin gave rise to an apparently higher level of induction. Under these circumstances, the selection of constitutively resistant mutants was less effective (10(-4). The use of erythromycin or clindamycin against populations of Bacteroides spp. exhibiting inducible resistance may contribute to selection of mutants showing constitutive clindamycin resistance.
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- M Reig
- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Nacional de la Salud, Madrid, Spain
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Zalacain M, Cundliffe E. Methylation of 23S rRNA caused by tlrA (ermSF), a tylosin resistance determinant from Streptomyces fradiae. J Bacteriol 1989; 171:4254-60. [PMID: 2753855 PMCID: PMC210198 DOI: 10.1128/jb.171.8.4254-4260.1989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Ribosomes from Streptomyces griseofuscus expressing tlrA, a resistance gene isolated from the tylosin producer Streptomyces fradiae, are resistant to macrolide and lincosamide antibiotics in vitro. The tlrA product was found to be a methylase that introduces two methyl groups into a single base within 23S rRNA, generating N6,N6-dimethyladenine at position 2058. This activity is therefore similar to the ermE resistance mechanism in Saccharopolyspora erythraea (formerly Streptomyces erythraeus).
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- M Zalacain
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
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Kamimiya S, Weisblum B. Translational attenuation control of ermSF, an inducible resistance determinant encoding rRNA N-methyltransferase from Streptomyces fradiae. J Bacteriol 1988; 170:1800-11. [PMID: 3127381 PMCID: PMC211034 DOI: 10.1128/jb.170.4.1800-1811.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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An inducible resistance determinant, ermSF, from the tylosin producer Streptomyces fradiae NRRL 2338 has been cloned, sequenced, and shown to confer inducible macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance when transferred to Streptomyces griseofuscus NRRL 23916. From mapping studies with S1 nuclease to locate the site of transcription initiation, the ermSF message contains a 385-nucleotide 5' leader sequence upstream from the 960-nucleotide major open reading frame that encodes the resistance determinant. On the basis of the potential secondary structure that the ermSF leader can assume, a translational attenuation model similar to that for ermC is proposed. The model is supported by mutational analysis involving deletions in the proposed attenuator. By analysis with restriction endonucleases, ermSF is indistinguishable from the tlrA gene described by Birmingham et al. (V. A. Birmingham, K. L. Cox, J. L. Larson, S. E. Fishman, C. L. Hershberger, and E. T. Seno, Mol. Gen. Genet. 204:532-539, 1986) which comprises one of at least three genes from S. fradiae that can confer tylosin resistance when subcloned into S. griseofuscus. When tested for inducibility, ermSF appears to be strongly induced by erythromycin, but not by tylosin.
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- S Kamimiya
- Pharmacology Department, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison 53706
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The purified ermC methyltransferase described here incorporates two methyl groups per Bacillus subtilis 23S rRNA molecule in vitro. The Km for S-adenosyl-L-methionine was 12 microM, and for B. subtilis 23S rRNA the Km was 375 nM. In vivo methylation specified by several related resistance determinants prevented in vitro methylation by the ermC enzyme, suggesting that methylation specified by all of these determinants occurs at homologous sites. Since methyl groups were incorporated in protein-free 23S rRNA molecules, the structure of rRNA alone must contain sufficient information to specify the methylation site.
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Katz L, Brown D, Boris K, Tuan J. Expression of the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin-B-resistance methylase gene, ermE, from Streptomyces erythraeus in Escherichia coli results in N6-monomethylation and N6,N6-dimethylation of ribosomal RNA. Gene 1987; 55:319-25. [PMID: 3117622 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(87)90291-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The ermE gene was cloned from Streptomyces erythraeus into Escherichia coli on a series of plasmids. When transcribed from the lac promoter, ermE conferred high-level resistance to erythromycin and other macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin-B (MLS) antibiotics. A methylase activity capable of N6-mono- and N6,N6-dimethylation of adenine residues in E. coli rRNA was detected in extracts of MLS-resistant cells. In addition, rRNA extracted from MLS-resistant E. coli contained N6-mono- and N6,N6-dimethylated adenine residues.
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- L Katz
- Department of Molecular Biology, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL 60064
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Birmingham VA, Cox KL, Larson JL, Fishman SE, Hershberger CL, Seno ET. Cloning and expression of a tylosin resistance gene from a tylosin-producing strain of Streptomyces fradiae. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1986; 204:532-9. [PMID: 3020383 DOI: 10.1007/bf00331036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A gene conferring high-level resistance to tylosin in Streptomyces lividans and Streptomyces griseofuscus was cloned from a tylosin-producing strain of Streptomyces fradiae. The tylosin-resistance (Tylr) gene (tlrA) was isolated on five overlapping DNA fragments which contained a common 2.6 Kb KpnI fragment. The KpnI fragment contained all of the information required for the expression of the Tylr phenotype in S. lividans and S. griseofuscus. Southern hybridization indicated that the sequence conferring tylosin resistance was present on the same 5 kb SalI fragment in genomic DNA from S. fradiae and several tylosin-sensitive (Tyls) mutants. The cloned tlrA gene failed to restore tylosin resistance in two Tyls mutants derived by protoplast formation and regeneration, and it restored partial resistance in a Tyls mutant obtained by N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) mutagenesis. The tlrA gene conferred resistance to tylosin, carbomycin, niddamycin, vernamycin-B and, to some degree, lincomycin in S. griseofuscus, but it had no effect on sensitivity to streptomycin or spectinomycin, suggesting that the cloned gene is an MLS (macrolide, lincosamide, streptogramin-B)-resistance gene. Twenty-eight kb of S. fradiae DNA surrounding the tlrA gene was isolated from a genomic library in bacteriophage lambda Charon 4. Introduction of these DNA sequence into S. fradiae mutants blocked at different steps in tylosin biosynthesis failed to restore tylosin production, suggesting that the cloned Tylr gene is not closely linked to tylosin biosynthetic genes.
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Messenger RNA from Staphylococcus aureus that specifies macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin resistance. Demonstration of its conformations and of the leader peptide it encodes. J Mol Biol 1985; 185:769-80. [PMID: 2414456 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(85)90061-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The +1 site for transcription initiation of the inducible 23 S rRNA adenine methylase encoded by plasmid pE194 was determined experimentally by nuclease S1 mapping of mRNA synthesized in vivo, and by nuclease T1 mapping of (5'-gamma-32P)-end-labeled transcripts synthesized in vitro. By partial digestion of the in vitro transcripts using S1 and cobra venom nuclease as probes of mRNA conformation, the analysis was extended to reveal single-stranded and double-stranded regions, respectively, which correspond to the critical stems and loops postulated for active and inactive conformations of the nascent mRNA. According to the model for induction, the transition from inactive to active conformation involves disruption of mRNA secondary structure which, in turn, is predicated on protracted occupancy by ribosomes complexed with erythromycin of one of the critical stem sequences. Ribosome occupancy of the critical stem sequence is due to the presence of an open reading frame that encodes part of a 19 amino acid residue "leader" peptide. The existence of this peptide, deduced from the nucleotide sequence of the control region upstream from the methylase structural gene, was demonstrated in vivo as part of a translational fusion with Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase in which the first four amino acid residues of the N-terminal sequence of the fusion protein, analyzed directly by the microsequencing method, were found to comprise N-terminal amino acids 2 through 5, Gly-Ile-Phe-Ser, predicted for the leader peptide.
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Construction and application of a promoter-probe plasmid that allows chromogenic identification in Streptomyces lividans. J Bacteriol 1985; 162:406-12. [PMID: 2984181 PMCID: PMC219003 DOI: 10.1128/jb.162.1.406-412.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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We cloned a Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) DNA fragment which directed synthesis of a brown pigment, presumably a shunt product in the actinorhodin biosynthetic pathway, on the plasmid vector pIJ41 in Streptomyces lividans. The pigment production was observed only when the DNA fragment was inserted downstream from a functional promoter sequence. By subcloning the fragment together with in vitro manipulation, a promoter-probe plasmid vector (pARC1) with a unique BamHI cloning site was constructed that allows chromogenic identification of transcriptional control signals in Streptomyces lividans based on the expression of the cloned pigment gene(s). The Escherichia coli tac (trp-lac hybrid) promoter, consisting of 92 base pairs and a promoter region including the leader sequence of erythromycin resistance gene (ermC) on staphylococcal plasmid pE194, when ligated in the correct orientation in the BamHI site of pARC1, promoted expression of the cloned pigment gene(s) in Streptomyces lividans, whereas the Saccharomyces cerevisiae GAL7 promoter did not. In the case of the ermC, induction of the pigment production by the addition of either erythromycin or lincomycin, but not virginiamycin, was observed. The system was also shown to be useful and convenient in isolating transcriptional control signals of Streptomyces chromosomal DNA and estimating their activities.
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Kordel M, Schallehn G. Plasmid detection in a macrolide-lincosamide resistant strain ofClostridium perfringens. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1984. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1984.tb01296.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Israeli-Reches M, Weinrauch Y, Dubnau D. Evolutionary relationships of the Bacillus licheniformis macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance elements. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1984; 194:362-7. [PMID: 6429478 DOI: 10.1007/bf00425545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Naturally occurring erythromycin (Em) resistance was found in 11 of the 18 Bacillus licheniformis isolates tested but was absent from a wide variety of other Bacillus strains. The Em resistance elements confer inducible macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS) resistance and are related to ermD , an MLS resistance element previously cloned from the chromosome of B. licheniformis 749. The MLS sensitive B. licheniformis strains and the other sensitive Bacillus strains tested, lack sequences with detectable homology to ermD . The sensitive B. licheniformis strains do exhibit homology to sequences which flank ermD in B. licheniformis 749. The relative sizes of the homologous DNA fragments suggest that the sensitive strains are lacking a 3.6 kb segment which contains ermD . It is shown that ermD is homologous to chromosomal DNA from Streptomyces erythreus ATCC 11635, an Em producing organism. These observations suggest to us that MLS resistance may have arisen in the Streptomyces and spread to B. licheniformis, another gram positive bacterium found in soil. It is further proposed that ermD is or was located on a transposon-like element and has spread and evolved further to yield a variety of related Staphylococcal and Streptococcal MLS determinants.
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Dubnau D. Translational attenuation: the regulation of bacterial resistance to the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics. CRC CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY 1984; 16:103-32. [PMID: 6203682 DOI: 10.3109/10409238409102300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The regulation of ermC is described in detail as an example of regulation on the level of translation. ermC specifies a ribosomal RNA methylase which confers resistance to the macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B group of antibiotics. Synthesis of the ermC gene product is induced by erythromycin, a macrolide antibiotic. Stimulation of methylase synthesis is mediated by binding of erythromycin to an unmethylated ribosome. The translational attenuation model, supported by sequencing data and by mutational analysis, proposes that binding of erythromycin causes stalling of a ribosome during translation of a "leader peptide", resulting in isomerization of the ermC transcript from an inactive to an active conformer. The ermC system is analogous to the transcriptional attenuation systems described for certain biosynthetic operons. ermC is unique in that interaction with a small molecule inducer mediates regulation on the translational level. However, it is but one example of nontranscriptional -level control of protein synthesis. Other systems are discussed in which control is also exerted through alterations of RNA conformation and an attempt is made to understand ermC in this more general context. Finally, other positive examples of translational attenuation are presented.
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Foster TJ. Plasmid-determined resistance to antimicrobial drugs and toxic metal ions in bacteria. Microbiol Rev 1983; 47:361-409. [PMID: 6355806 PMCID: PMC281581 DOI: 10.1128/mr.47.3.361-409.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 168] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Horinouchi S, Byeon WH, Weisblum B. A complex attenuator regulates inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides, and streptogramin type B antibiotics in Streptococcus sanguis. J Bacteriol 1983; 154:1252-62. [PMID: 6406429 PMCID: PMC217598 DOI: 10.1128/jb.154.3.1252-1262.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance specified by Streptococcus sanguis plasmid pAM77 involves an adenine methylase, whose synthesis, demonstrable both phenotypically and by analysis of methionine-labeled proteins made in Bacillus subtilis minicells, is inducible by erythromycin, lincomycin, and streptogramin type B antibiotics. Localization of the methylase structural gene, including its control region in DNA fragments obtained with restriction endonucleases, has been deduced from DNA blot experiments with characterized target and probe DNAs from other streptococci, combined with DNA sequence analysis and comparison of the putative streptococcal methylase sequence with that of a cognate methylase in staphylococcal plasmid pE194. The streptococcal methylase migrates electrophoretically in polyacrylamide gels with the mobility of a 29,000-dalton protein. The sequence organization of the putative streptococcal methylase mRNA leader sequence partially resembles its staphylococcal counterpart and can support a similar mechanism of secondary structure rearrangement leading to methylase synthesis. The deduced 5' leader sequence preceding the pAM77 methylase structural gene sequence comprises approximately 155 nucleotides within which one can identify a putative control peptide 36 amino acid residues in length (in contrast to 19 in the pE194 peptide) and at least 14 possible classes of overlapping inverted complementary repeat sequences (in contrast to 3 in the pE194 control region), one of which can sequester the sequence AGGAG 7 nucleotides upstream from the putative (methionine) start codon of the streptococcal methylase. Comparison of the pAM77 and pE194 methylase amino acid sequences and their respective nucleotide sequences shows 51% conservation of amino acid residues (124 of 244) and 59% conservation of nucleotide residues (433 of 738), which suggests a common origin for the two methylase structural gene sequences. Differences in mRNA base composition associated with conserved amino acid residues occur mostly in the third nucleotide ("wobble") position of codons and may reflect adaptation of methylase genes to optimal expression in host cells with differing codon use patterns.
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Hardy K, Haefeli C. Expression in Escherichia coli of a staphylococcal gene for resistance to macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin type B antibiotics. J Bacteriol 1982; 152:524-6. [PMID: 6811564 PMCID: PMC221457 DOI: 10.1128/jb.152.1.524-526.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Plasmid pBD9, which comprises two plasmids from Staphylococcus aureus, pE194 and pUB110, was joined to plasmid pBR322 by in vitro recombination to form plasmid pKH80. The ermC gene of plasmid pE194 confers inducible resistance to macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin type B antibiotics. When pKH80 was transferred to Escherichia coli K-12, the bacteria became resistant to several of these antibodies.
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Tally FP, Snydman DR, Shimell MJ, Malamy MH. Characterization of pBFTM10, a clindamycin-erythromycin resistance transfer factor from Bacteroides fragilis. J Bacteriol 1982; 151:686-91. [PMID: 7096266 PMCID: PMC220309 DOI: 10.1128/jb.151.2.686-691.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Bacteroides fragilis TMP10, which is clindamycin-erythromycin resistant (Clnr) and tetracycline resistant (Tetr), contains several plasmids and is capable of transferring drug resistance markers to suitable recipients. We were able to separate a 14.6-kilobase self-transmissible Clnr plasmid, pBFTM10, from the other plasmids of TMP10 in a tetracycline-sensitive recipient strain, B. fragilis TM4000. All Clnr transconjugants acquired an unaltered pBFTM10 and became plasmid donor strains. Transfer is proposed to occur by conjugation since it required to cell-to-cell contact of filter matings and was insensitive to DNase, but sensitive to chloroform treatment of donor cells. The efficiency of transfer of pBFTM10 in a Tets background (TM4003) was not affected by pretreatment of donor cells with clindamycin. A spontaneously occurring Clns derivative, pBFTM10 delta 1, suffered a deletion of DNA, which included a 4.4-kilobase EcoRI fragment. A complex interaction between the autonomous plasmid pBFTM10 and a tetracycline transfer element also present in strain TMP10 was observed since pretreatment of this donor with tetracycline or clindamycin resulted in a marked increase in transfer of both tetracycline and clindamycin resistance.
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Otaka T, Kaji A. Inhibitory action of erythromycin on protein biosynthesis by isolated polyribosomes. Arch Biochem Biophys 1982; 214:846-9. [PMID: 7046636 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(82)90092-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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