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J Med Microbiol 55 (2006), 1521-1525; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46702-0
© 2006 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Insertion sequence ISEcp1-like element connected with a novel aph(2'') allele [aph(2'')-Ie] conferring high-level gentamicin resistance and a novel streptomycin adenylyltransferase gene in Enterococcus

Ya-Gang Chen, Ting-Ting Qu, Yun-Song Yu, Jian-Ying Zhou and Lan-Juan Li

Infectious Disease Department, The First Affiliated Hospital, Medical School, Zhejiang University, The Key Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of Public Health Ministry, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China

Correspondence
Yun-Song Yu
yvys119{at}163.com

Received 28 April 2006
Accepted 26 July 2006

Enterococcus casseliflavus HZ95 is an enterococcus with high-level resistance to aminoglycosides. Nine genes responsible for high-level aminoglycoside resistance, including aac(6')-Ie-aph(2'')-Ia, aph(2'')-Ib, aph(2'')-Ic, aph(2'')-Id, aph(3')-IIIa, aac(6')-Ii, ant(3')-Ia, ant(4')-Ia and ant(6')-Ia, were not detected in HZ95. An 8 kb fragment from unconjugative plasmids of HZ95 was cloned, and expressed gentamicin resistance in Escherichia coli DH5{alpha}. The genetic structures (~8 kb DNA fragment) containing these aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme genes in Ent. casseliflavus HZ95 were determined. The deduced amino acid sequence of the novel aph(2'') allele, aph(2'')-Ie, had 93.7 % amino acid identity with APH(2'')-Id. The aph(2'')-Ie gene was bracketed upstream by an insertion sequence (IS)Ecp1-like element and downstream by a streptomycin adenylyltransferase gene (str). The streptomycin adenylyltransferase encoded by the str gene had 80.3 % amino acid identity with the protein encoded by aadE. The plasmid of ~16 kb could hybridize with a PCR-generated aph(2'')-Ie intragenic probe. The ISEcp1-like element had 91 % identity with ISEcp1. ISEcp1, which commonly acts as a key factor in the dissemination of CTX-M-type ß-lactamase genes in Gram-negative bacteria, has not been reported in Enterococcus.

Abbreviations: AME, aminoglycoside-modifing enzyme; HLGR, high-level gentamicin resistance; IS, insertion sequence.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the cloned fragment sequence of Ent. casseliflavus HZ95 containing the novel HLGR gene aph(2'')-Ie is AY939911.






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