7 results on '"Yasmin N. Parsons"'
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2. PCR-Based Detection of a Cystic Fibrosis Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
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Craig Winstanley, Stavroula Panagea, C. Anthony Hart, Martin Ledson, Martin Walshaw, and Yasmin N. Parsons
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DNA, Bacterial ,Cystic Fibrosis ,Pcr assay ,medicine.disease_cause ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Cystic fibrosis ,Microbiology ,medicine ,Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ,Humans ,Pseudomonas Infections ,Epidemic strain ,DNA Primers ,Gel electrophoresis ,Pfge typing ,Base Sequence ,Pseudomonas aeruginosa ,business.industry ,Sputum ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Background: The Liverpool epidemic strain (LES) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is widespread among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) in specialist centers around Liverpool and elsewhere in the UK. This study evaluates a new diagnostic PCR assay based on a unique DNA sequence (PS21) of LES, for its identification of colonies directly from sputum. Methods: One hundred and fifty-eight sputum samples from 92 patients were cultured and P. aeruginosa isolates were typed by PS21 PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Subsequently, PS21 PCR was performed directly on sputum and the results were compared with culture, PFGE, and PS21 PCR typing. Results: Eighty patients were colonized with P. aeruginosa, 63 by LES (79%). There was 100% concordance between PS21 PCR on colonies and PFGE typing. The sensitivity and specificity of PS21 PCR directly on sputum was 98.2% and 93.6%, respectively. Conclusions: This study shows that PS21 PCR can be used for simple and rapid screening of LES colonization in CF patients.
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- 2003
3. Suppression-subtractive hybridisation reveals variations in gene distribution amongst the Burkholderia cepacia complex, including the presence in some strains of a genomic island containing putative polysaccharide production genes
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Craig Winstanley, Lucille Rainbow, Maria G. Detsika, Kwanjit Duangsonk, C. Anthony Hart, Rebecca Banasko, and Yasmin N. Parsons
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Burkholderia stabilis ,Cystic Fibrosis ,Gene Expression ,Burkholderia cepacia ,Opportunistic Infections ,Biochemistry ,Microbiology ,Burkholderia mallei ,Gene cluster ,Genetics ,Humans ,Molecular Biology ,DNA Primers ,Base Sequence ,biology ,Polysaccharides, Bacterial ,Burkholderia multivorans ,Genomovar ,Burkholderia Infections ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Burkholderia cepacia complex ,Burkholderia ,Genes, Bacterial ,Multigene Family ,Burkholderia vietnamiensis - Abstract
Some strains of the Burkholderia cepacia complex, including the ET12 lineage, have been implicated in epidemic spread amongst cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Suppression-subtractive hybridisation was used to identify genomic regions within strain J2315 (ET12 lineage; genomovar IIIA) that were absent from a non-transmissible genomovar IIIB strain. Sequence data from 15 subtracted clones were used to interrogate the genome sequence of strain J2315 and identify genomic regions incorporating the subtracted sequences. Many of the genomic regions displayed abnormally low GC content and similarity to sequences implicated in gene transfer. The distribution of three subtracted regions amongst members of the B. cepacia complex varied. A large cluster of genes with strong sequence similarity to capsular production genes from Burkholderia mallei and other bacterial pathogens was identified. This genomic island was detected in some but not all representatives of genomovar IIIA, two out of four genomovar I strains, and one of two strains of Burkholderia multivorans, but was not detected in Burkholderia stabilis, Burkholderia vietnamiensis, genomovar VI or Burkholderia. ambifaria. The polysaccharide production gene cluster of strain J2315 carries an IS 407-like sequence within the gene similar to B. mallei wcbO that is lacking in other ET12 isolates. Genes from this cluster are expressed during exponential growth in broth.
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- 2003
4. Flagellin gene PCR-RFLP analysis of a panel of strains from the Burkholderia cepacia complex
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Maria G. Detsika, Craig Winstanley, Yasmin N. Parsons, C. Anthony Hart, and Kerry J. Glendinning
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Microbiology (medical) ,Burkholderia cepacia ,DNA, Ribosomal ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Microbiology ,HaeIII ,law.invention ,law ,medicine ,Humans ,Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific ,Genotyping ,Polymerase chain reaction ,DNA Primers ,biology ,Gene Amplification ,Genomovar ,Burkholderia Infections ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,Bacterial Typing Techniques ,Burkholderia cepacia complex ,Burkholderia ,Genes, Bacterial ,biology.protein ,bacteria ,Restriction fragment length polymorphism ,Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ,Flagellin ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Burkholderia cepacia, an important opportunist pathogen, is genetically heterogeneous. The B. cepacia complex has been subdivided into a number of genospecies or genomovars. A flagellin gene PCR-RFLP method was applied to a representative panel of strains of known genomovar. The technique was able to distinguish strains of B. multivorans from other members of the B. cepacia complex on the basis of amplicon size (typical of type I rather than type II flagellins) with the exception of one genomovar I strain. There was considerable variation in RFLP patterns amongst the panel of strains; only two pairs of strains were indistinguishable with both HaeIII and MspI digestion. Where RFLP patterns matched with both enzymes or a single enzyme, matching strains were always in the same genomovar. It was possible to distinguish the UK cystic fibrosis epidemic strain from all other members of the panel, including nine other genomovar III strains. The level of variation suggests that flagellin genotyping is a useful method for discriminating between B. cepacia strains.
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- 2001
5. Sequence divergence in type III secretion gene clusters of the Burkholderia cepacia complex
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Kerry J, Glendinning, Yasmin N, Parsons, Kwanjit, Duangsonk, Barbara A, Hales, Daniel, Humphreys, C Anthony, Hart, and Craig, Winstanley
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Bacterial Proteins ,Cystic Fibrosis ,Genes, Bacterial ,Burkholderia cepacia complex ,Multigene Family ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Humans ,Burkholderia Infections ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Phylogeny - Abstract
The Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) comprises a group of bacteria associated with opportunistic infections, especially in cystic fibrosis patients. B. cenocepacia J2315, of the transmissible ET12 lineage, contains a type III secretion (TTS) gene cluster implicated in pathogenicity. PCR and hybridisation assays indicate that the TTS gene cluster is present in all members of the BCC except B. cepacia (formerly genomovar I). The TTS gene clusters of B. cenocepacia J2315 and B. multivorans are similar in organisation but have variable levels of gene identity. Nucleotide sequence data obtained for the equivalent region of the B. cepacia genome indicate the absence of TTS structural genes due to a rearrangement likely to involve more than one step.
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- 2004
6. Identification of type II and type III pyoverdine receptors from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Stuart J. Cordwell, Scott A. Beatson, Theresa Pattery, Patrice Chablain, Craig Winstanley, Jean Marie Meyer, Magaly de Chial, Bart Ghysels, Christine Baysse, Pierre Cornelis, Valérie Geoffroy, Yasmin N. Parsons, Microbial Interactions, Department of Bio-engineering Sciences, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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Cystic Fibrosis ,Iron ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Mutant ,Receptors, Cell Surface ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,medicine ,Humans ,Pseudomonas Infections ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Escherichia coli ,Peptide sequence ,Pyocins ,Pyoverdine ,Genetic Complementation Test ,Pigments, Biological ,Sequence Analysis, DNA ,Ethylenediamines ,biology.organism_classification ,Culture Media ,Complementation ,Biochemistry ,chemistry ,Mutation ,Pseudomonas aeruginosa ,Cosmid ,Bacterial outer membrane ,Oligopeptides ,Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins ,Pseudomonadaceae - Abstract
Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces, under conditions of iron limitation, a high-affinity siderophore, pyoverdine (PVD), which is recognized at the level of the outer membrane by a specific TonB-dependent receptor, FpvA. So far, for P. aeruginosa, three different PVDs, differing in their peptide chain, have been described (types I-III), but only the FpvA receptor for type I is known. Two PVD-producing P. aeruginosa strains, one type II and one type III, were mutagenized by a mini-TnphoA3 transposon. In each case, one mutant unable to grow in the presence of the strong iron chelator ethylenediaminedihydroxyphenylacetic acid (EDDHA) and the cognate PVD was selected. The first mutant, which had an insertion in the pvdE gene, upstream of fpvA, was unable to take up type II PVD and showed resistance to pyocin S3, which is known to use type II FpvA as receptor. The second mutant was unable to take up type III PVD and had the transposon insertion in fpvA. Cosmid libraries of the respective type II and type III PVD wild-type strains were constructed and screened for clones restoring the capacity to grow in the presence of PVD. From the respective complementing genomic fragments, type II and type III fpvA sequences were determined. When in trans, type II and type III fpvA restored PVD production, uptake, growth in the presence of EDDHA and, in the case of type II fpvA, pyocin S3 sensitivity. Complementation of fpvA mutants obtained by allelic exchange was achieved by the presence of cognate fpvA in trans. All three receptors posses an N-terminal extension of about 70 amino acids, similar to FecA of Escherichia coli, but only FpvAI has a TAT export sequence at its N-terminal end.
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- 2003
7. A putative type III secretion gene cluster is widely distributed in the Burkholderia cepacia complex but absent from genomovar I
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Victoria Thornton, Yasmin N. Parsons, Craig Winstanley, C. Anthony Hart, Barbara A. Hales, and Kerry J. Glendinning
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Genetics ,Burkholderia pseudomallei ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Genomovar ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,Biology ,Burkholderia cepacia ,biology.organism_classification ,Microbiology ,Homology (biology) ,law.invention ,Burkholderia cepacia complex ,Burkholderia ,Species Specificity ,law ,Genes, Bacterial ,Putative gene ,Multigene Family ,Gene cluster ,bacteria ,Cloning, Molecular ,Molecular Biology ,Polymerase chain reaction - Abstract
Using probes constructed from Ralstonia solanacearum and Burkholderia pseudomallei, putative type III secretion (TTS) genes were identified in Burkholderia cepacia J2315 (genomovar III). A cosmid clone containing DNA with homology to five TTS genes was sub-cloned and regions were sequenced in order to design oligonucleotides for polymerase chain reaction assays. These indicated that two putative TTS genes (bcscQ and bcscV) were present in all members of the B. cepacia complex with the exception of strains from genomovar I. Southern blot assays confirmed this observation, suggesting that the lack of a TTS gene cluster may define a major difference between B. cepacia genomovar I and other members of the B. cepacia complex, including genomovar III. In contrast to TTS gene clusters in other bacteria, a putative gene homologous to the virB1 gene of Brucella suis was located directly downstream of bcscQR.
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- 2001
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