1. Identification and characterization of a novel aac(6')-Iag associated with the blaIMP-1-integron in a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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Kobayashi K, Hayashi I, Kouda S, Kato F, Fujiwara T, Kayama S, Hirakawa H, Itaha H, Ohge H, Gotoh N, Usui T, Matsubara A, and Sugai M
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- Acetylation, Acetyltransferases metabolism, Aminoglycosides chemistry, Aminoglycosides metabolism, Base Sequence, Cross Infection epidemiology, Disease Outbreaks, Gene Order, Humans, Kinetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Phylogeny, Pseudomonas Infections epidemiology, Pseudomonas aeruginosa classification, Sequence Alignment, beta-Lactamases metabolism, Acetyltransferases genetics, Anti-Bacterial Agents pharmacology, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial genetics, Integrons, Pseudomonas aeruginosa drug effects, Pseudomonas aeruginosa genetics, beta-Lactamases genetics
- Abstract
In a continuing study from Dec 2006 to Apr 2008, we characterized nine multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from four patients in a ward at the Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SpeI-digested genomic DNAs from the isolates suggested the clonal expansion of a single strain; however, only one strain, NK0009, was found to produce metallo-β-lactamase. PCR and subsequent sequencing analysis indicated NK0009 possessed a novel class 1 integron, designated as In124, that carries an array of four gene cassettes: a novel aminoglycoside (AG) resistance gene, aac(6')-Iag, blaIMP-1, a truncated form of blaIMP-1, and a truncated form of aac(6')-Iag. The aac(6')-Iag encoded a 167-amino-acid protein that shows 40% identity with AAC(6')-Iz. Recombinant AAC(6')-Iag protein showed aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase activity using thin-layer chromatography (TLC) and MS spectrometric analysis. Escherichia coli carrying aac(6')-Iag showed resistance to amikacin, arbekacin, dibekacin, isepamicin, kanamycin, sisomicin, and tobramycin; but not to gentamicin. A conjugation experiment and subsequent Southern hybridization with the gene probes for blaIMP-1 and aac(6')-Ig strongly suggested In124 is on a conjugal plasmid. Transconjugants acquired resistance to gentamicin and were resistant to virtually all AGs, suggesting that the In124 conjugal plasmid also possesses a gene conferring resistance to gentamicin.
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- 2013
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