Novel tetracycline resistance determinant isolated from an environmental strain of Serratia marcescens

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Thompson, Stuart A.
Maani, Elizabeth V.
Lindell, Angela H.
King, Catherine J.
McArthur, J. Vaun
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[1] Med Coll Georgia, Dept Biochem & Mol Biol, Augusta, GA 30912 USA
[2] Univ Georgia, Savannah River Ecol Lab, Aiken, SC 29802 USA
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10.1128/AEM.02511-06
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Resistances to tetracycline and mercury were identified in an environmental strain of Serratia marcescens isolated from a stream highly contaminated with heavy metals. As a step toward addressing the mechanisms of coselection of heavy metal and antibiotic resistances, the tetracycline resistance determinant was cloned in Escherichia coli. Within the cloned 13-kb segment, the tetracycline resistance locus was localized by deletion analysis and transposon mutagenesis. DNA sequence analysis of an 8.0-kb region revealed a novel gene [tet,4(41)] that was predicted to encode a tetracycline efflux pump. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the TetA(41) protein was most closely related to the Tet(39) efflux protein of Acinetobacter spp. yet had less than 80% amino acid identity with known tetracycline efflux pumps. Adjacent to the tetA(41) gene was a divergently transcribed gene. [tetR(41)] predicted to encode a tetracycline-responsive repressor protein. The tetA(41)tetR(41) intergenic region contained putative operators for TetR(41) binding. The tetA(41) and tetR(41) promoters were analyzed using 1acZ fusions, which showed that the expression of both the tetA(41) and tetR(41) genes exhibited TetR(41) -dependent regulation by subinhibitory concentrations of tetracycline. The apparent lack of plasmids in this S. marcescens strain, as well as the presence of metabolic genes adjacent to the tetracycline resistance locus, suggested that the genes were located on the S. marcescens chromosome and may have been acquired by transduction. The cloned Tet 41 determinant did not confer mercury resistance to E. coli, confirming that Tet 41 is a tetracycline-specific efflux pump rather than a multidrug transporter.
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