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Chen ZR, Guo HW, Liu J, Pan Q, Fu MZ, Qiu YK, Wong NK, Huang YC. Resistance traits and molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates from an intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Guangdong, southern China. Int Microbiol 2022; 25:471-479. [PMID: 35098390 DOI: 10.1007/s10123-022-00233-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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PURPOSE This study aims to characterize antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of all the non-duplicated Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated from an intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital during the period of January 1 to December 31, 2015. METHODS A. baumannii (n = 95 strains) isolated from patients was subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) by Vitek 2 Compact system to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations, followed by genotyping by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR (ERIC-PCR). Resistance genes of interest were PCR amplified and sequenced. RESULTS All isolates were qualified as MDR, with a resistance rate of > 80% to 8 antimicrobials tested. In terms of beta-lactamase detection, the blaOXA23, blaTEM-1, and armA genes were detected frequently at 92.63%, 9 1.58%, and 88.42%, respectively. The metallo-β-lactamase genes blaIMP and blaVIM were undetected. Aph (3')-I was detected in 82 isolates (86.32%), making it the most prevalent aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AMEs) encoding gene. In addition, ant (3″)-I was detected at 30.53%, while 26.32% of the strains harbored an aac (6')-Ib gene. ERIC-PCR typing suggested moderate genetic diversity among the isolates, which might be organized into 10 distinct clusters, with cluster A (n = 86 isolates or 90.53%) being the dominant cluster. CONCLUSIONS All of the A. baumannii strains detected in the ICU were MDR clones exhibiting extremely high resistance to carbapenems and aminoglycosides as monitored throughout the study period. They principally belonged to a single cluster of isolates carrying blaOXA23 and armA co-producing different AMEs genes.
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- Zhuo-Ran Chen
- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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- College of Life Sciences and Oceanology, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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- Department of Infection Diseases, Shenzhen Third People's Hospital, The Second Hospital Affiliated to Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518112, China
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- Microbiology Division, Department of Clinical Laboratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, 515041, China
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Carvalho A, Mazel D, Baharoglu Z. Deficiency in cytosine DNA methylation leads to high chaperonin expression and tolerance to aminoglycosides in Vibrio cholerae. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009748. [PMID: 34669693 PMCID: PMC8559950 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 11/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Antibiotic resistance has become a major global issue. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying microbial adaptation to antibiotics is of keen importance to fight Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Aminoglycosides are a class of antibiotics that target the small subunit of the bacterial ribosome, disrupting translational fidelity and increasing the levels of misfolded proteins in the cell. In this work, we investigated the role of VchM, a DNA methyltransferase, in the response of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae to aminoglycosides. VchM is a V. cholerae specific orphan m5C DNA methyltransferase that generates cytosine methylation at 5'-RCCGGY-3' motifs. We show that deletion of vchM, although causing a growth defect in absence of stress, allows V. cholerae cells to cope with aminoglycoside stress at both sub-lethal and lethal concentrations of these antibiotics. Through transcriptomic and genetic approaches, we show that groESL-2 (a specific set of chaperonin-encoding genes located on the second chromosome of V. cholerae), are upregulated in cells lacking vchM and are needed for the tolerance of vchM mutant to lethal aminoglycoside treatment, likely by fighting aminoglycoside-induced misfolded proteins. Interestingly, preventing VchM methylation of the four RCCGGY sites located in groESL-2 region, leads to a higher expression of these genes in WT cells, showing that the expression of these chaperonins is modulated in V. cholerae by DNA methylation.
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- André Carvalho
- Département Génomes et Génétique, Institut Pasteur, UMR3525, CNRS, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Collège doctoral, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Département Génomes et Génétique, Institut Pasteur, UMR3525, CNRS, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Paris, France
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- Département Génomes et Génétique, Institut Pasteur, UMR3525, CNRS, Unité Plasticité du Génome Bactérien, Paris, France
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Yan X, Hindra, Ge H, Yang D, Huang T, Crnovcic I, Chang CY, Fang SM, Annaval T, Zhu X, Huang Y, Zhao LX, Jiang Y, Duan Y, Shen B. Discovery of Alternative Producers of the Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotic C-1027 with High Titers. J Nat Prod 2018; 81:594-599. [PMID: 29345939 PMCID: PMC6261254 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b01013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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The potent cytotoxicity and unique mode of action make the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 an exquisite drug candidate for anticancer chemotherapy. However, clinical development of C-1027 has been hampered by its low titer from the original producer Streptomyces globisporus C-1027. Here we report three new C-1027 alternative producers, Streptomyces sp. CB00657, CB02329, and CB03608, from The Scripps Research Institute actinomycetes strain collection. Together with the previously disclosed Streptomyces sp. CB02366 strain, four C-1027 alternative producers with C-1027 titers of up to 11-fold higher than the original producer have been discovered. The five C-1027 producers, isolated from distant geographic locations, are distinct Streptomyces strains based on morphology and taxonomy. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Southern analysis of the five C-1027 producers reveal that their C-1027 biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are all located on giant plasmids of varying sizes. The high nucleotide sequence similarity among the five C-1027 BGCs implies that they most likely have evolved from a common ancestor.
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- Xiaohui Yan
- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
- Natural Products Library Initiative at The Scripps Research Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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- Xiangya International Academy of Translational Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, People’s Republic of China
- Hunan Engineering Research Center of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Natural Product Drug Discovery, Changsha, Hunan 410013, People’s Republic of China
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- Xiangya International Academy of Translational Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, People’s Republic of China
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- Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650091, People’s Republic of China
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- Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan 650091, People’s Republic of China
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- Xiangya International Academy of Translational Medicine, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410013, People’s Republic of China
- Hunan Engineering Research Center of Combinatorial Biosynthesis and Natural Product Drug Discovery, Changsha, Hunan 410013, People’s Republic of China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
- Natural Products Library Initiative at The Scripps Research Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
- Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, Florida 33458, United States
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Liu Z, Ling B, Zhou L. Prevalence of 16S rRNA methylase, modifying enzyme, and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes among Acinetobacter baumannii isolates. J Chemother 2014; 27:207-12. [PMID: 24766153 DOI: 10.1179/1973947814y.0000000190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii has become a worldwide problem, and methylation of 16S rRNA has recently emerged as a new mechanism of resistance to aminoglycosides, which is mediated by a newly recognized group of 16S rRNA methylases. 16S rRNA methylase confers a high-level resistance to all 4,6-substituted deoxystreptamine aminoglycosides that are currently used in clinical practice. Some of the A. baumannii isolates have been found to coproduce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs), contributing to their multidrug resistance. The aim of this study was to detect the determinants of the 16S rRNA methylase genes armA, rmtA, rmtB, rmtC, rmtD, rmtE, and npmA, the modifying enzyme genes aac(6')-Ib, ant(3″)-Ia, aph(3')-I, and the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes bla(TEM), bla(SHV), and bla(CTX-M-3) among A. baumannii isolates in northeastern Sichuan, China. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of 21 different antimicrobial agents against the A. baumannii isolates were determined. The clinical isolates showed a high level of resistance (MIC≧256 μg/ml) to aminoglycosides, which ranged from 50·1 to 83·8%. The resistances to meropenem and imipenem, two of the beta-lactam antibiotics and the most active antibiotics against A. baumannii, were 9·1 and 8·2%, respectively. Among 60 amikacin-resistant isolates, only the 16S rRNA methylase gene armA was found to be prevalent (66·7%), but the other 16S rRNA methylase genes rmtA, rmtB, rmtC, rmtD, rmtE, and npmA were not detected. The prevalences of the modifying enzyme genes aac (6')-Ib, ant (3″)-Ia, and aph (3')-I were 51·7, 81·7, and 58·3%, respectively, which are different from a previous study in which the occurrences of these genes were 3, 64, and 72%, respectively. Among the 40 isolates that were armA-positive, the prevalences of bla(TEM), bla(SHV), and bla(CTX-M-3) genes were detected for the first time in China, and their occurrences were 45, 65, and 52·5%, respectively. In all, A. baumannii with all the 16S rRNA methylase, modifying enzyme, and ESBL genes is extremely prevalent in northeastern Sichuan, China, posing a serious clinical concern with a major therapeutic threat in the future.
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Ho G, Reichardt J, Christodoulou J. In vitro read-through of phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) nonsense mutations using aminoglycosides: a potential therapy for phenylketonuria. J Inherit Metab Dis 2013; 36:955-9. [PMID: 23532445 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-013-9602-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Revised: 02/07/2013] [Accepted: 03/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Phenylketonuria (PKU, OMIM 261600) is an autosomal recessive inborn error of phenylalanine metabolism, predominantly caused by mutations in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene. Approximately 10% of patients carry a nonsense mutation, which results in an inactive or unstable truncated protein. In some genetic disorders, including cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, restoration of full-length protein has been achieved by aminoglycoside antibiotics, such as gentamicin and G-418 (Geneticin). More recently, nonsense read-through has been induced at greater rates using a non-aminoglycoside drug, PTC124 (Ataluren), which has the advantage of being non-toxic in contrast to the antibiotics. The efficacy of read-through induced by three compounds, aminoglycosides G418 and gentamicin, and PTC124 were evaluated for four nonsense mutations of PAH in an in vitro expression system in two mammalian cell lines (COS-7 and HEK293). The production of full-length PAH was investigated using western blotting and the functionality confirmed by enzyme activity. Gentamicin and G-418 induced read-through of nonsense PAH mutations in HEK293 cells. The read-through product partially restored enzymatic activity, which was significantly less than that of wild-type, but comparable to a missense mutation of PAH associated with less severe forms of PKU. Treatment with PTC124 up to 100 μM did not result in full-length PAH polypeptide. Nonsense read-through drugs are a potential form of treatment for PKU, although the high dosage of aminoglycosides used is not appropriate in a clinical setting. In vitro studies with new non-toxic read-through agents as well as in vivo studies would also be essential to determine the extent of read-through required to restore normal phenylalanine levels.
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- Gladys Ho
- Genetic Metabolic Disorders Research Unit, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
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Polishchuk LV, Holembiovs'ka SL, Matseliukh BP, Luk"ianchuk VV. [Genetic variability of synthesis feature of carotenoids in Streptomyces globisporus 1912]. Mikrobiol Z 2013; 75:40-46. [PMID: 24479312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Seventeen spontaneous and induced mutants, that acquired a new characteristic--the synthesis of beta-carotene and lycopene, were obtained from strain Streptomyces globisporus 1912. It was found that spontaneous mutants inherited more stably the acquired carotenogenesis as compared to induced ones. Synthesis of carotenoids by all isolated Crt+ Lcp+ cultures is a constitutive feature. It was shown that Crt(+)-mutants (4Crt, 6Crt, 7Crt, RVCrt and R3Crt) synthesized beta-carotene and lycopene, while Lcp(+)-mutants (TpS16-1, TpS16-2, 4Lcp and R3Lcp)--only lycopene. The obtained mutants and transformants of S. globisporus 1912, synthesizing carotene were characterized by a simultaneous change of two or three phenotypic characteristics: synthesis of the antibiotic landomycin E. sporullation and carotenogenesis. It can be assumed that the high instability of this characteristic (carotenogenesis) in strain S. globisporus 1912 was caused by localization of the crt-genes cluster close to a TIR-element in a chromosome terminal region, frequent structural reorganization of DNA here were reported in the literature.
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Gutierrez B, Douthwaite S, Gonzalez-Zorn B. Indigenous and acquired modifications in the aminoglycoside binding sites of Pseudomonas aeruginosa rRNAs. RNA Biol 2013; 10:1324-32. [PMID: 23948732 PMCID: PMC3817154 DOI: 10.4161/rna.25984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2013] [Revised: 07/26/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics remain the drugs of choice for treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections, particularly for respiratory complications in cystic-fibrosis patients. Previous studies on other bacteria have shown that aminoglycosides have their primary target within the decoding region of 16S rRNA helix 44 with a secondary target in 23S rRNA helix 69. Here, we have mapped P. aeruginosa rRNAs using MALDI mass spectrometry and reverse transcriptase primer extension to identify nucleotide modifications that could influence aminoglycoside interactions. Helices 44 and 45 contain indigenous (housekeeping) modifications at m (4)Cm1402, m (3)U1498, m (2)G1516, m (6) 2A1518, and m (6) 2A1519; helix 69 is modified at m (3)Ψ1915, with m (5)U1939 and m (5)C1962 modification in adjacent sequences. All modifications were close to stoichiometric, with the exception of m (3)Ψ1915, where about 80% of rRNA molecules were methylated. The modification status of a virulent clinical strain expressing the acquired methyltransferase RmtD was altered in two important respects: RmtD stoichiometrically modified m (7)G1405 conferring high resistance to the aminoglycoside tobramycin and, in doing so, impeded one of the methylation reactions at C1402. Mapping the nucleotide methylations in P. aeruginosa rRNAs is an essential step toward understanding the architecture of the aminoglycoside binding sites and the rational design of improved drugs against this bacterial pathogen.
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MESH Headings
- Aminoglycosides/chemistry
- Aminoglycosides/genetics
- Aminoglycosides/metabolism
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Bacterial Proteins/metabolism
- Binding Sites
- Circular Dichroism
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Escherichia coli/metabolism
- Escherichia coli Proteins/chemistry
- Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics
- Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism
- Methylation
- Methyltransferases/chemistry
- Methyltransferases/genetics
- Methyltransferases/metabolism
- Models, Molecular
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa/genetics
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa/metabolism
- RNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- RNA, Bacterial/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/metabolism
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/genetics
- RNA, Ribosomal, 23S/metabolism
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
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- Belen Gutierrez
- Departamento de Sanidad Animal; Facultad de Veterinaria; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET); Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; University of Southern Denmark; Odense, Denmark
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- Departamento de Sanidad Animal; Facultad de Veterinaria; Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, Spain
- Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET); Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Madrid, Spain
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Cho HH, Kwon KC, Sung JY, Koo SH. Prevalence and genetic analysis of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235 isolated from a hospital in Korea, 2008-2012. Ann Clin Lab Sci 2013; 43:414-419. [PMID: 24247798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the primary opportunistic pathogens responsible for nosocomial infections. Recently, sequence type 235 (ST235) has been found internationally in a multidrug-resistant clone and is involved in the dissemination of genes encoding IMP-6 and VIM-2. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL), epidemiological relationship, and genetic characterization to aminoglycoside resistance in carbapenem-resistant P. aeruginosa isolates obtained from a tertiary hospital in Daejeon, Korea, from 2008 to 2012. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of six antimicrobial agents were determined using the agar dilution method. PCR and DNA sequencing were used to identify MBL genes, class 1 integrons, and genes contributing to the aminoglycoside resistance phenotype. In addition, an epidemiological relationship was investigated by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Eleven (16.2%) carbapenem-resistant isolates were MBL-producers; the major MBL type was IMP-6 (10 isolates). IMP-6-producing isolates were multidrug-resistant and belonged to ST235. All IMP-6-producing isolates had class 1 integrons (5.5 Kb; blaIMP-6-qac-aacA4-blaOXA-1-addA1). We identified genetic characteristics in aminoglycoside genes between ST235 and non-ST235. All ST235 isolates contained aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme (AME) genes, whereas 23.5% of non-ST235 isolates contained AME genes. Development and spread of the aminoglycoside resistance gene in P. aeruginosa non-ST235 could result in multidrug resistance in the future.
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- Hye Hyun Cho
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, 640, Daesa-dong, Jung-ku, Daejeon 301-721, Korea; phone: +82 42 280 7798, fax: +82 42 257 5365; e mail:
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Peng GH, Fang F, Zheng J, Zheng BJ, Yu X, Wu Y, Liang LZ, Zhang QM, Zhu Y, Tang XW, Chen BB. [Mitochondrial 12S rRNA variants studies in 456 subjects with hearing loss in seven schools for deaf and mutes in Zhejiang province]. Zhonghua Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi 2012; 47:996-1003. [PMID: 23328039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate mutational spectrum and frequency of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene in Chinese subjects with aminoglycoside-induced and non-syndromic hearing loss. METHODS Total of 456 subjects with non-syndromic hearing loss were recruited from seven schools for deaf-mutes in Zhejiang province. Genomic DNA was extracted from the whole blood, and then the DNA fragment was amplified spanning the 12S rRNA gene, followed by sequencing and analyzed. RESULTS Thirty-one variants were identified by mutation analysis of 12S rRNA gene in these subjects. The frequency of the known 1555A > G mutation was 4.4% (20/456). Prevalence of other putative deafness-associated mutation at positions 961 and 1095 were 2.0% (9/456) and 0.7% (3/456) respectively. Furthermore, the 1027A > G, 1109T > C and 1431G > A variants conferred increased sensitivity to ototoxic drugs or non-syndromic deafness as they were absent in 449 Chinese controls and localized at highly conserved nucleotides of this 12S rRNA gene. Moreover, clinical data showed a wide range of age-of-onset, variety of severity and various audiometric configurations in subjects carrying the 1555A > G mutation. CONCLUSIONS Our data demonstrated that the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene is the hot spot for mutations associated with aminoglycoside ototoxicity and non-syndromic hearing loss. Nuclear modifier genes, mitochondrial haplotypes and environmental factors might play a role in the phenotypic manifestation of these mutations.
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- Guang-hua Peng
- Department of Otolaryngology, Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 325027, China
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Matselyukh B, Mohammadipanah F, Laatsch H, Rohr J, Efremenkova O, Khilya V. Purification and structure elucidation of the by-product of new regulator of antibiotic production and differentiation of Streptomyces. Mikrobiol Z 2012; 74:66-73. [PMID: 23120988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Streptomyces globisporus 1912, a producer of the antitumor antibiotic landomycin E, forms the new low-molecular signaling molecule N-methylphenylalanyl-dehydrobutyrine diketopiperazine (BDD) and its complex and unstable by-product which restore, like the A-factor in Streptomyces griseus 773, landomycin E and streptomycin biosynthesis, and sporulation of the defective mutants S. globisporus 1912-B2 and S. griseus 1439, respectively. Here, we report the purification and structure elucidation of two compounds with R(f)0.8 by HPLC, LC/MS and 1HMR analysis. These compounds have m/z 338 and 384, accordingly, and each of them is presented by two stereoisomers containing BDD in their structure. A hypothesis explaining the composition and regulatory properties of these unstable compounds is presented.
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- B Matselyukh
- Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 154 Acad. Zabolotny St., Kyiv D 03680, Ukraine
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Cooke HA, Bruner SD. Probing the active site of MIO-dependent aminomutases, key catalysts in the biosynthesis of beta-amino acids incorporated in secondary metabolites. Biopolymers 2010; 93:802-10. [PMID: 20577998 PMCID: PMC3419534 DOI: 10.1002/bip.21500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The tyrosine aminomutase SgTAM produces (S)-ss-tyrosine from L-tyrosine in the biosynthesis of the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027. This conversion is promoted by the methylideneimidazole-5-one (MIO) prosthetic group. MIO was first identified in the homologous family of ammonia lyases, which deaminate aromatic amino acids to form alpha,ss-unsaturated carboxylates. Studies of substrate specificity have been described for lyases but there have been limited reports in altering the substrate specificity of aminomutases. Furthermore, it remains unclear as to what structural properties are responsible for catalyzing the presumed readdition of the amino group into the alpha,ss-unsaturated intermediates to form ss-amino acids. Attempts to elucidate specificity and mechanistic determinants of SgTAM have also proved to be difficult as it is recalcitrant to perturbations to the active site via mutagenesis. An X-ray cocrystal structure of the SgTAM mutant of the catalytic base with L-tyrosine verified important substrate binding residues as well as the enzymatic base. Further mutagenesis revealed that removal of these crucial interactions renders the enzyme inactive. Proposed structural determinants for mutase activity probed via mutagenesis, time-point assays and X-ray crystallography revealed a complicated role for these residues in maintaining key quaternary structure properties that aid in catalysis.
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- Heather A Cooke
- Department of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3860, USA.
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Ostash B, Ostash I, Zhu L, Kharel MK, Luzhetskyy A, Bechthold A, Walker S, Rohr J, Fedorenko V. Properties of lanK-based regulatory circuit involved in landomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces cyanogenus S136. Genetika 2010; 46:604-609. [PMID: 20583594 PMCID: PMC2905788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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LanK is TetR-like regulatory protein recently shown to regulate the export and glycosylation of landomycins in Streptomyces cyanogenus S136. Here, several properties of the lanK-mediated regulation were deciphered. LanK seems to function as oligomer as evident from experiments in vitro. In vivo, it is able to recognize various landomycins with altered aglycon structure and the minimal concentration of landomycin A sensed by LanK lies in low nanomolar range. Coexpression studies showed that the positive regulatory gene lanI upregulates lanK-dependent lan genes once the negative LanK-regulation is cancelled. Gene lanK can be useful for the construction of biosensor strains for sensitive and specific identification of producers of landomycin-like molecules with long glycosidic chains.
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- B. Ostash
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of L’viv, L’viv, 79005 Ukraine
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of L’viv, L’viv, 79005 Ukraine
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0082 USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0082 USA
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- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften, Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie, Freiburg, 79104 Germany
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- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Pharmazeutische Wissenschaften, Pharmazeutische Biologie und Biotechnologie, Freiburg, 79104 Germany
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536-0082 USA
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- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of L’viv, L’viv, 79005 Ukraine
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The gene clusters responsible for the biosynthesis of two antitumor antibiotics, ravidomycin and chrysomycin, have been cloned from Streptomyces ravidus and Streptomyces albaduncus, respectively. Sequencing of the 33.28 kb DNA region of the cosmid cosRav32 and the 34.65 kb DNA region of cosChry1-1 and cosChryF2 revealed 36 and 35 open reading frames (ORFs), respectively, harboring tandem sets of type II polyketide synthase (PKS) genes, D-ravidosamine and D-virenose biosynthetic genes, post-PKS tailoring genes, regulatory genes, and genes of unknown function. The isolated ravidomycin gene cluster was confirmed to be involved in ravidomycin biosynthesis through the production of a new analogue of ravidomycin along with anticipated pathway intermediates and biosynthetic shunt products upon heterologous expression of the cosmid, cosRav32, in Streptomyces lividans TK24. The identity of the cluster was further verified through cross complementation of gilvocarcin V (GV) mutants. Similarly, the chrysomycin gene cluster was demonstrated to be indirectly involved in chrysomycin biosynthesis through cross-complementation of gilvocarcin mutants deficient in the oxygenases GilOII, GilOIII, and GilOIV with the respective chrysomycin monooxygenase homologues. The ravidomycin glycosyltransferase (RavGT) appears to be able to transfer both amino- and neutral sugars, exemplified through the structurally distinct 6-membered D-ravidosamine and 5-membered D-fucofuranose, to the coumarin-based polyketide derived backbone. These results expand the library of biosynthetic genes involved in the biosyntheses of gilvocarcin class compounds that can be used to generate novel analogues through combinatorial biosynthesis.
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- Madan K Kharel
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, 789 South Limestone Street, Lexington, KY 40536-0596, USA
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Nepal KK, Oh TJ, Sohng JK. Heterologous production of paromamine in Streptomyces lividans TK24 using kanamycin biosynthetic genes from Streptomyces kanamyceticus ATCC12853. Mol Cells 2009; 27:601-8. [PMID: 19466609 DOI: 10.1007/s10059-009-0080-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2009] [Revised: 03/26/2009] [Accepted: 03/30/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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The 2-deoxystreptamine and paromamine are two key intermediates in kanamycin biosynthesis. In the present study, pSK-2 and pSK-7 recombinant plasmids were constructed with two combinations of genes: kanABK and kanABKF and kacA respectively from kanamycin producer Streptomyces kanamyceticus ATCC12853. These plasmids were heterologously expressed into Streptomyces lividans TK24 independently and generated two recombinant strains named S. lividans Sk-2/SL and S. lividans SK-7/SL, respectively. ESI/ MS and ESI-LC/MS analysis of the metabolite from S. lividans SK-2/SL showed that the compound had a molecular mass of 163 [M + H]+, which corresponds to that of 2-deoxystreptamine. ESI/MS and MS/MS analysis of metabolites from S. lividans SK-7/SL demonstrated the production of paromamine with a molecular mass of 324 [M + H]+. In this study, we report the production of paromamine in a heterologous host for the first time. This study will evoke to explore complete biosynthetic pathways of kanamycin and related aminoglycoside antibiotics.
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Park JW, Hong JSJ, Parajuli N, Jung WS, Park SR, Lim SK, Sohng JK, Yoon YJ. Genetic dissection of the biosynthetic route to gentamicin A2 by heterologous expression of its minimal gene set. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008; 105:8399-404. [PMID: 18550838 PMCID: PMC2448848 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803164105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Since the first use of streptomycin as an effective antibiotic drug in the treatment of tuberculosis, aminoglycoside antibiotics have been widely used against a variety of bacterial infections for over six decades. However, the pathways for aminoglycoside biosynthesis still remain unclear, mainly because of difficulty in genetic manipulation of actinomycetes producing this class of antibiotics. Gentamicin belongs to the group of 4,6-disubstituted aminoglycosides containing a characteristic core aminocyclitol moiety, 2-deoxystreptamine (2-DOS), and the recent discovery of its biosynthetic gene cluster in Micromonospora echinospora has enabled us to decipher its biosynthetic pathway. To determine the minimal set of genes and their functions for the generation of gentamicin A(2), the first pseudotrisaccharide intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway for the gentamicin complex, various sets of candidate genes from M. echinospora and other related aminoglycoside-producing strains were introduced into a nonaminoglycoside producing strain of Streptomyces venezuelae. Heterologous expression of different combinations of putative 2-DOS biosynthetic genes revealed that a subset, gtmB-gtmA-gacH, is responsible for the biosynthesis of this core aminocyclitol moiety of gentamicin. Expression of gtmG together with gtmB-gtmA-gacH led to production of 2'-N-acetylparomamine, demonstrating that GtmG acts as a glycosyltransferase that adds N-acetyl-d-glucosamine (GLcNA) to 2-DOS. Expression of gtmM in a 2'-N-acetylparomamine-producing recombinant S. venezuelae strain generated paromamine. Expression of gtmE in an engineered paromamine-producing strain of S. venezuelae successfully generated gentamicin A(2), indicating that GtmE is another glycosyltransferase that attaches d-xylose to paromamine. These results represent in vivo evidence elucidating the complete biosynthetic pathway of the pseudotrisaccharide aminoglycoside.
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- Je Won Park
- Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyung-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyung-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyung-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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- Genotech Corporations, 59-5 Jang-dong, Usung-gu, Daejon 305-343, Republic of Korea; and
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Institute of Biomolecule Reconstruction, Sun Moon University, 100 Kalsanri, Tangjeonmyun, Asansi, Chungnam 336-708, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyung-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Republic of Korea
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Aminoglycoside antibiotics are small-molecule drugs that bind RNA. The affinity and specificity of aminoglycoside binding to RNA can be increased through chemical modification, such as guanidinylation. Here, we report the binding of guanidinoneomycin B (GNB) to an RNA helix from the HIV-1 frameshift site. The binding of GNB increases the melting temperature (T(m)) of the frameshift-site RNA by at least 10 degrees C, to a point at which a melting transition is not even observed in 2 M urea. A structure of the complex was obtained by using multidimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopic methods. We also used a novel paramagnetic-probe assay to identify the site of GNB binding to the surface of the RNA. GNB makes major-groove contacts to two sets of Watson-Crick bases and is in van der Waals contact with a highly structured ACAA tetraloop. Rings I and II of GNB fit into the major groove and form the binding interface with the RNA, whereas rings III and IV are exposed to the solvent and disordered. The binding of GNB causes a broadening of the major groove across the binding site.
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- David W. Staple
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706 (USA)
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- Biomolecular Structure Research Center and Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena (Italy)
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- Biomolecular Structure Research Center and Dipartimento di Biologia Molecolare, Università di Siena, 53100 Siena (Italy)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 (USA)
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 (USA)
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706 (USA)
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Carrell CJ, Bruckner RC, Venci D, Zhao G, Jorns MS, Mathews FS. NikD, an unusual amino acid oxidase essential for nikkomycin biosynthesis: structures of closed and open forms at 1.15 and 1.90 A resolution. Structure 2007; 15:928-41. [PMID: 17697998 PMCID: PMC2764521 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2007.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2007] [Revised: 06/12/2007] [Accepted: 06/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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NikD is an unusual amino-acid-oxidizing enzyme that contains covalently bound FAD, catalyzes a 4-electron oxidation of piperideine-2-carboxylic acid to picolinate, and plays a critical role in the biosynthesis of nikkomycin antibiotics. Crystal structures of closed and open forms of nikD, a two-domain enzyme, have been determined to resolutions of 1.15 and 1.9 A, respectively. The two forms differ by an 11 degrees rotation of the catalytic domain with respect to the FAD-binding domain. The active site is inaccessible to solvent in the closed form; an endogenous ligand, believed to be picolinate, is bound close to and parallel with the flavin ring, an orientation compatible with redox catalysis. The active site is solvent accessible in the open form, but the picolinate ligand is approximately perpendicular to the flavin ring and a tryptophan is stacked above the flavin ring. NikD also contains a mobile cation binding loop.
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- Christopher J. Carrell
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO 63110
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 19102
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 19102
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 19102
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia PA 19102
- Contact:; ; (Tel) 314-362-1080; (FAX) 314-362-7183, Contact: ; (Tel) 215-762-7495; (FAX) 215-762-4452
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO 63110
- Contact:; ; (Tel) 314-362-1080; (FAX) 314-362-7183, Contact: ; (Tel) 215-762-7495; (FAX) 215-762-4452
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Miao Q, Shang B, Ouyang Z, Liu X, Zhen Y. Generation and antitumor effects of an engineered and energized fusion protein VL-LDP-AE composed of single-domain antibody and lidamycin. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 50:447-56. [PMID: 17653664 DOI: 10.1007/s11427-007-0058-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2006] [Accepted: 02/13/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Type IV collagenase plays a pivotal role in invasion, metastasis and angiogenesis of tumor. Single domain antibodies are attractive as tumor-targeting vehicle because of their much smaller size compared with antibody molecules produced by conventional methods. Lidamycin (LDM) is a potent enediyne-containing antitumor antibiotic. In this study an engineered and energized fusion protein VL-LDP-AE composed of lidamycin and VL domain of mAb 3G11 directed against type IV collagenase was prepared using a novel two-step method. First a VL-LDP fusion protein was constructed by DNA recombination. Secondly VL-LDP-AE was obtained by molecular reconstitution. In MTT assay, VL-LDP-AE showed potent cytotoxicity to HT-1080 cells and KB cells with IC(50) values of 8.55 x 10(-12) and 1.70 x 10(-11) mol/L, respectively. VL-LDP-AE showed antiangiogenic activity in chick chrorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay and tube formation assay. In in vivo experiments, VL-LDP-AE was proved to be more effective than free LDM against the growth of subcutaneously transplanted hepatoma 22 in mice. Drugs were given intravenously on day 3 and 10 after tumor transplantation. Compared in terms of maximal tolerated doses, VL-LDP-AE at 0.25 mg/kg suppressed the tumor growth by 89.5%, LDM at 0.05 mg/kg by 69.9%, and mitomycin at 1 mg/kg by 35%. Having a molecular weight of 25.2 kDa, VL-LDP-AE was much smaller than other reported antibody-based drugs. The results suggested that VL-LDP-AE would be a promising candidate for tumor targeting therapy. And the 2-step approach could serve as a new technology platform for making a series of highly potent engineered antibody-based drugs for a variety of cancers.
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- QingFang Miao
- Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College Beijing 100050, China
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Rebets YV, Ostash BO, Fukuhara M, Nakamura T, Fedorenko VO. Expression of the regulatory protein LndI for landomycin E production in Streptomyces globisporus 1912 is controlled by the availability of tRNA for the rare UUA codon. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2007; 256:30-7. [PMID: 16487316 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2005.00087.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The gene lndI encodes the activator of landomycin biosynthesis. The utilization of LndI-EGFP fusions led us to investigate the temporal pattern of this gene expression and demonstrated the delay between lndI transcription and translation. The TTA codon in lndI is thought to be the reason for this delay. The replacement of TTA with CTC cancelled the pause between lndI transcription and the translation. The wild-type of the lndI gene is not expressed in the Streptomyces coelicolor bldA- mutant strain, indicating the importance of the bldA tRNA in its mRNA translation.
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- Yuriy V Rebets
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology of Ivan Franko National University of L'viv, L'viv, Ukraine
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Liu T, Kharel MK, Fischer C, McCormick A, Rohr J. Inactivation of gilGT, encoding a C-glycosyltransferase, and gilOIII, encoding a P450 enzyme, allows the details of the late biosynthetic pathway to gilvocarcin V to be delineated. Chembiochem 2006; 7:1070-7. [PMID: 16795121 PMCID: PMC2879343 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200600031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Resequencing of the gilGT gene, which encodes a putative glycosyltransferase (GT) that is 495 amino acids (aa) long, from the Streptomyces griseoflavus Gö3592 gilvocarcin V (GV) gene cluster, revealed that the previously reported gilGT indeed contains two genes. These are the larger gilGT, which encodes the C-glycosyltransferase GilGT (379 aa), and the smaller gilV gene, which encodes an enzyme of unknown function (116 aa). The gene gilV is located immediately upstream of gilGT in the GV gene cluster. In-frame deletion of gilGT created a mutant that accumulated defucogilvocarcin E (defuco-GE). The result proves the function of GilGT as a C-glycosyltransferase. Deletion of gilOIII, which is located immediately downstream of gilGT, led to a mutant that accumulated gilvocarcin E (GE). This confirms that the corresponding P450 enzyme, GilOIII, is involved in the vinyl-group formation of GV. Cross-feeding experiments in which GE, defuco-GE, and defucogilvocarcin V (defuco-GV) were fed to an early blocked mutant of the GV biosynthetic pathway, showed that neither GE nor any of the defuco- compounds was an intermediate of the pathway.
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- Tao Liu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 40536-0082, USA
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Jia XY, Tian ZH, Shao L, Qu XD, Zhao QF, Tang J, Tang GL, Liu W. Genetic Characterization of the Chlorothricin Gene Cluster as a Model for Spirotetronate Antibiotic Biosynthesis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 13:575-85. [PMID: 16793515 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2006.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2005] [Revised: 03/16/2006] [Accepted: 03/27/2006] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The biosynthetic gene cluster for chlorothricin (CHL) was localized to a 122 kb contiguous DNA from Streptomyces antibioticus DSM 40725, and its involvement in CHL biosynthesis was confirmed by gene inactivation and complementation. Bioinformatic analysis of the sequenced 111.989 kb DNA region revealed 42 open reading frames, 35 of which were defined to constitute the CHL gene cluster. An assembly model for CHL biosynthesis from D-olivose, 2-methoxy-5-chloro-6-methylsalicyclic acid, and chlorothricolide building blocks was proposed. This work represents cloning of a gene cluster for spirotetronate antibiotic biosynthesis and sets the stage to investigate the unusual macrolide biosynthesis including tandem Diels-Alder cyclizations, Baeyer-Villiger oxidation, and incorporation of an enoylpyruvate unit.
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- Xin-Ying Jia
- State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 354 Fenglin Road, Shanghai, 200032, China
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Crystal structures of complexes between ribosomal particles and antibiotics have pinned down very precisely the discrete binding sites of several classes of antibiotics inhibiting protein synthesis. The crystal structures of complexes between various antibiotics and ribosomal particles show definitively that ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), rather than ribosomal proteins, are overwhelmingly targeted. The antibiotics are found at messenger RNA or transfer RNA binding sites and, most importantly, at pivot locations that are key for the structural rearrangements during the molecular mechanical steps in initiation, elongation, or termination of protein synthesis. We focus here on the 30S particle. Structurally, the antibiotics interact in many ways with RNA: (i) only with the phosphate groups (streptomycin); (ii) mainly with bases (hygromycin, spectinomycin); (iii) with a mixture of both (paromomycin, Geneticin); (iv) via magnesium ions (tetracycline) or a protein side chain (streptomycin). The antibiotics can mimic base stacking (pactamycin) or form pseudo-base pairing interactions with ribosomal bases (paromomycin and related aminoglycosides). Resistance strategies (mutations or methylations in rRNA or enzymatic modifications of the antibiotics) can generally be understood on the basis of the intermolecular contacts made between the antibiotics and rRNA residues in the crystal structures. In humans, toxicity of ribosomal antibiotics is most likely due, at least in part, to the sensitivity of mitochondrial ribosomes, since mitochondria evolved from a bacterial ancestor. Antibiotic families (e.g., aminoglycosides) form a set of invariant H-bonds to defined rRNA residues. When such residues are conserved in bacteria, but not in eukaryotes, resistance of eukaryotic ribosomes is observed. The structural knowledge, together with comparative genomic analysis, should allow for the development of new broad-spectrum antibiotics with higher selectivity toward bacterial ribosomes and less toxicity on eukaryotic cytoplasmic and mitochondrial ribosomes.
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- Julia Wirmer
- Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
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The increase in Gram-negative broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance is worrisome, particularly as there are few, if any, ''pipeline'' antimicrobial agents possessing suitable activity against Pseudomonas spp. or Acinetobacter spp. The increase in resistance will be further enhanced by the acquisition of metallo-beta-lactamase (MBL) genes that can potentially confer broad-spectrum beta-lactam resistance. These genes encode enzymes that can hydrolyse all classes of beta-lactams and the activity of which cannot be neutralised by beta-lactamase inhibitors. MBL genes are often associated with aminoglycoside resistant genes and thus bacteria that possess MBL genes are often co-resistant to aminoglycosides, further compromising therapeutic regimes. Both types of genes can be found as gene cassettes carried by integrons that in turn are embedded within transposons providing a highly ambulatory genetic element. The dissemination of MBL genes is typified by the spread of blaVIM-2, believed to originate from a Portuguese patient in 1995, and is now present in over 20 counties. The increase in international travel is likely to be a contributory factor for the ascendancy of mobile MBL genes as much as the mobility among individual bacteria. Fitness, acquisition and host dependency are key areas that need to be addressed to enhance our understanding of how antibiotic resistance spreads. There is also a pressing need for new, and hopefully novel, compounds active against pan-resistant Gram-negative bacteria--a growing problem that needs to be addressed by both government and industry.
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- T R Walsh
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
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Sainlos M, Hauchecorne M, Oudrhiri N, Zertal-Zidani S, Aissaoui A, Vigneron JP, Lehn JM, Lehn P. Kanamycin A-derived cationic lipids as vectors for gene transfection. Chembiochem 2005; 6:1023-33. [PMID: 15883979 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400344] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Cationic lipids nowadays constitute a promising alternative to recombinant viruses for gene transfer. We have recently explored the transfection potential of a new class of lipids based upon the use of aminoglycosides as cationic polar headgroups. The encouraging results obtained with a first cholesterol derivative of kanamycin A prompted us to investigate this family of vectors further, by modulating the constituent structural units of the cationic lipid. For this study, we have investigated the transfection properties of a series of new derivatives based on a kanamycin A scaffold. The results primarily confirm that aminoglycoside-based lipids are efficient vectors for gene transfection both in vitro and in vivo (mouse airways). Furthermore, a combination of transfection and physicochemical data revealed that some modifications of the constitutive subunits of kanamycin A-based vectors were associated with substantial changes in their transfection properties.
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- Matthieu Sainlos
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires, Collège de France, CNRS UPR 285, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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Ogasawara Y, Kakinuma K, Eguchi T. Involvement of Glutamate Mutase in the Biosynthesis of the Unique Starter Unit of the Macrolactam Polyketide Antibiotic Vicenistatin. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2005; 58:468-72. [PMID: 16161486 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2005.62] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The macrolactam antibiotic vicenistatin, produced in Streptomyces halstedii HC34, is biosynthesized by the polyketide pathway, using a unique 3-methylaspartate-derived molecule as starter unit. The vinI gene in the vicenistatin biosynthetic gene cluster encoding glutamate mutase, which rearranges glutamate to 3-methylaspartate, was disrupted. The vinI disruption completely abolished the production of vicenistatin, while the disruptant recovered the production of vicenistatin when 3-methylaspartate was added to the culture. These results indicate that vinI is essential for the 3-methylaspartate formation in the vicenistatin biosynthesis. Furthermore, the mutant accumulated new vicenistatin derivatives (desmethylvicenistatins), which lacked a methyl group in the starter unit. The desmethylvicenistatins were shown by feeding experiments to be derived from aspartate instead of 3-methylaspartate as the starter unit. These results indicate that the vicenistatin polyketide synthase can accept alternative starter units toward the production of novel polyketides.
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- Yasushi Ogasawara
- Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 152-8551, Japan
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Li Y, Ling H, Li W, Tan H. Improvement of nikkomycin production by enhanced copy of sanU and sanV in Streptomyces ansochromogenes and characterization of a novel glutamate mutase encoded by sanU and sanV. Metab Eng 2005; 7:165-73. [PMID: 15885615 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2005.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2004] [Revised: 12/10/2004] [Accepted: 01/05/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Previous studies revealed that two genes-sanU and sanV were associated with nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. A plasmid used to increase an extra copy of sanU and sanV was constructed and introduced into wild-type strain. HPLC results showed that nikkomycin production of recombinant strain was about 1.8 fold than that of wild-type strain. RT-PCR analysis indicated that the transcriptional level of sanU and sanV in this recombinant strain was about two folds than that of wild-type strain. The sanU and sanV were expressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3). SanU and SanV were purified individually. SanU and SanV assembled with coenzyme B12 to form a complete enzyme in vitro, which showed glutamate mutase activity. The glutamate mutase converted L-glutamate toL-threo-beta-Methylaspartic acid, and then l-threo-beta-Methylaspartic acid was probably deaminated to form 2-oxo-3-methylsuccinic acid to join biosynthetic pathway of the peptidyl moiety HPHT in S. ansochromogenes. SanU is the coenzyme B12-binding component and more than two folds of SanU are required for maximal enzyme activity. The optimal pH and temperature for the formed enzyme are 7.5-8.5 and 35-42 degrees C, respectively. Sulfhydryl compounds are important for activity of the reassembled enzyme.
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- Yirong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100080, PR China
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Means JA, Hines JV. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies of aminoglycoside binding to a T box antiterminator RNA. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2005; 15:2169-72. [PMID: 15808490 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2004] [Revised: 02/01/2005] [Accepted: 02/02/2005] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The T box transcription antitermination mechanism is found in many Gram-positive bacteria. The T box genes are typically tRNA synthetase, amino acid biosynthesis, and amino acid transport genes that have a common transcriptional control mechanism in which a unique RNA-RNA interaction occurs between an uncharged tRNA and the 5' leader region of the nascent mRNA, leading to antitermination of transcription. The tRNA binds the mRNA in at least two regions: the specifier sequence and the antiterminator. If the latter interaction does not occur, then transcription is terminated. The binding of eight different aminoglycosides to a model of the Bacillus subtilis tyrS T box antiterminator RNA has been studied using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. The observed single-site binding dissociation constants were in the low to mid micromolar range. The structure-activity relationship of aminoglycoside binding indicates that selective binding of small molecules to T box antiterminator RNA can be achieved.
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- John A Means
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA
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Rhodinosyl transferase gene lndGT4, governing the conversion of the disaccharide oligoketide ('polyketide') landomycin D into a trisaccharide derivative landomycin E, was deleted in Streptomyces globisporus 1912 genome. Possible resistance mechanisms that protect the resulting landomycin D-producing mutant strain S. globisporus LD3 against the toxic action of landomycins were determined.
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- B Ostash
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 79005 Lviv, Ukraine
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A 2-kb SmaI DNA fragment was cloned from the cosmid library of Streptomyces ansochromogenes. This DNA fragment contains a complete open reading frame which is 1275 bp in length, designated sanS (GenBank accession no. AF322179). The deduced SanS protein consists of 424 amino acids and belongs to a superfamily of enzymes with an unusual ATP-grasp fold. The disruption and complementation of sanS indicated that sanS is essential for nikkomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. The sanS gene was subcloned into expression vector pET23b and overexpressed in E. coli BL21 (DE3). The protein was then purified and showed ATPase activity.
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- Yirong Li
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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This study characterised the contribution of a novel ribosomal S12 mutation to aminoglycoside resistance in Escherichia coli via step-wise mutation analysis. Mutants of E. coli NCTC 10418 were selected in four separate progressive series (I-IV) on plates containing increasing aminoglycoside (streptomycin, neomycin, gentamicin, tobramycin, and kanamycin) concentrations. Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of these aminoglycosides were established for the most resistant mutants in each series. There was no cross-resistance between streptomycin and the other aminoglycosides tested; however there was cross-resistance between the neomycin, tobramycin and kanamycin resistant mutants. DNA sequencing of a 423bp region of the rpsL gene encoding S12 revealed a novel Lys87-->Glu mutation in the streptomycin selected resistant mutants, while there were no S12 mutations in resistant mutants resulting from selection with neomycin, gentamicin, and tobramycin and kanamycin.
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- A E Gill
- Division of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
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Lombó F, Braña AF, Salas JA, Méndez C. Genetic Organization of the Biosynthetic Gene Cluster for the Antitumor Angucycline Oviedomycin in Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 11891. Chembiochem 2004; 5:1181-7. [PMID: 15368568 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The oviedomycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces antibioticus ATCC 11891 has been sequenced and characterized. It contains all the necessary genes for oviedomycin biosynthesis, together with several genes for the generation of malonyl-CoA extender units. Production of this unusual angucyclinone in its natural host occurs only in solid cultures in parallel with aerial mycelium and spore formation. A mutant that did not produce oviedomycin was generated by disruption of the beta-ketoacyl synthase gene ovmK. No other physiological process in the mutant appears to be affected; this rules out a direct relationship between oviedomycin production and cell differentiation in S. antibioticus.
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- Felipe Lombó
- Departamento de Biología Funcional, Instituto Universitario de Oncología del Principado de Asturias (IUOPA), Universidad de Oviedo, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
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Kim C, Haddad J, Vakulenko SB, Meroueh SO, Wu Y, Yan H, Mobashery S. Fluorinated aminoglycosides and their mechanistic implication for aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferases from Gram-negative bacteria. Biochemistry 2004; 43:2373-83. [PMID: 14992574 DOI: 10.1021/bi036095+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Aminoglycoside 3'-phosphotransferases [APH(3')s] are important bacterial resistance enzymes for aminoglycoside antibiotics. These enzymes phosphorylate the 3'-hydroxyl of these antibiotics, a reaction that inactivates the drug. A series of experiments were carried out to shed light on the details of the turnover chemistry by these enzymes. Quench-flow pre-steady-state kinetic analyses of the reactions of Gram-negative APH(3') types Ia and IIa with kanamycin A, neamine, and their respective difluorinated analogues 4'-deoxy-4',4'-difluorokanamycin A and 4'-deoxy-4',4'-difluoroneamine were carried out, in conjunction with measurements of thio effect and viscosity studies. The fluorinated analogues were shown to be severely impaired as substrates for these enzymes. The magnitude of the effect of the impairment of the fluorinated substrates was in the same range as when the D198A mutant APH(3')-Ia was studied with nonfluorinated substrates. Residue 198 is the proposed active site base that promotes the aminoglycoside hydroxyl for phosphorylation. These findings collectively argue that the Gram-negative APH(3')s show significant nucleophilic participation in the transition state for the phosphate transfer reaction.
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- Choonkeun Kim
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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Udou T. Dissemination of nosocomial multiple-aminoglycoside-resistant Staphylococcus aureus caused by horizontal transfer of the resistance determinant (aacA/aphD) and clonal spread of resistant strains. Am J Infect Control 2004; 32:215-9. [PMID: 15175616 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2003.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND The multiple-aminoglycoside-resistant gene aacA/aphD exists as a transposable genetic element (Tn4001) in gram-positive cocci. Here we describe our retrospective investigation of the mechanism responsible for the dissemination of Tn4001 among staphylococci present in clinical isolates collected in our university hospital. At its peak, about 80% of the total isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus showed multiple-aminoglycoside resistance, and all harbored aacA/aphD. METHODS Clonal relatedness was analyzed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis after SmaI endonuclease digestion of the genomic DNA from isolates collected in 1991 and 1997. To detect Tn4001 on the chromosome and conjugative plasmids, specific sequences from aacA/aphD and the insertion sequence IS256, whose inverted sequence flanks aacA/aphD, were amplified by polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Pulsed field gel electrophoresis of genomic DNA, plasmid analysis, and polymerase chain reaction detection of the resistance determinant all indicated the presence of disseminated clones that had survived among hospitalized patients through acquisition of conjugative plasmids harboring aacA/aphD. Furthermore, aacA/aphD also disseminated among nosocomial strains other than S aureus as a consequence of the self-transferability of Tn4001. CONCLUSIONS The nosocomial prevalence of multiple-aminoglycoside-resistant staphylococci is the result of both horizontal and interspecific transfer of aacA/aphD and the clonal spread and survival of resistant strains.
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- Takezo Udou
- Department of Clinical Microbiology, School of Health Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
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Murrell JM, Liu W, Shen B. Biochemical characterization of the SgcA1 alpha-D-glucopyranosyl-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase from the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 biosynthetic pathway and overexpression of sgcA1 in Streptomyces globisporus to improve C-1027 production. J Nat Prod 2004; 67:206-213. [PMID: 14987060 DOI: 10.1021/np0340403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Sequence analysis of the biosynthetic gene cluster for the enediyne antitumor antibiotic C-1027 from Streptomyces globisporus has previously suggested that the sgcA1 gene encodes a alpha-d-glucopyranosyl-1-phosphate thymidylyltransferase (Glc-1-P-TT) catalyzing the first step in the biosynthesis of the 4-deoxy-4-(dimethylamino)-5,5-dimethyl-d-ribopyranose moiety by activating alpha-d-glucopyranosyl-1-phosphate (Glc-1-P) into deoxythymidine diphosphate-alpha-d-glucose (dTDP-Glc). Here we report the overexpression of sgcA1 in E. coli, purification of the overproduced SgcA1 to homogenetity, biochemical and kinetic characterization of the purified SgcA1 as a Glc-1-P-TT, and yield improvement for C-1027 production by overexpression of sgcA1 and its flanking gene in S. globisporus. These findings provide biochemical evidence supporting the genetics-based hypothesis for C-1027 biosynthesis, set the stage for further investigation of the deoxysugar biosynthetic pathway, and demonstrate the utility of sugar biosynthesis genes in natural product yield improvement via combinatorial biosynthesis methods. In contrast to the homotetrameric quaternary structure known for Glc-1-P-TT enzymes from primary metabolic pathways, Glc-1-P-TT enzymes such as SgcA1 from secondary metabolic pathways are monomeric in solution. Sequence differences between the two subclasses of Glc-1-P-TT enzymes were noted. The monomeric structural feature of the latter enzymes could be exploited in engineering Glc-1-P-TT enzymes with broad substrate specificity for structural diversity via the glycorandomization strategy.
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- Jeffrey M Murrell
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
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A recombinant strain was constructed by introducing pWO6 which contains the sanO gene encoding a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) into Streptomyces ansochromogenes 7100 (wild-type strain). The bioassay of nikkomycin indicated that the anti-fungal activity was enhanced in the recombinant strain in comparison with the wild-type strain. HPLC analysis revealed that 1200 mg nikkomycin X l(-1) was produced in the recombinant strain after growth for 6 d, which was about twice that of the wild-type strain. RT-PCR also indicated that higher transcription of the sanO gene was observed in the recombinant strain in contrast with wild-type strain.
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- Guojun Wang
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China
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Gromyko O, Rebets Y, Ostash B, Luzhetskyy A, Fukuhara M, Bechthold A, Nakamura T, Fedorenko V. Generation of Streptomyces globisporus SMY622 Strain with Increased Landomycin E Production and It's Initial Characterization. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2004; 57:383-9. [PMID: 15323127 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.57.383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Landomycin E (LaE) overproducing strain Streptomyces globisporus SMY6222 has been developed using UV induced mutagenesis and selection for streptomycin resistance. SMY622 has been shown by HPLC to produce 200-fold higher amounts of LaE when comparing with parental strain. The levels of transcription of regulatory gene lndI and oxygenase gene lndE are two times higher in the mutant than in the wild type. Gene rpsL for ribosomal protein S12 from SMY622 was shown to contain point mutation K43R. Possible reasons for increased LaE synthesis in SMY622 are discussed.
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- Oleksandr Gromyko
- Department of Genetics and Biotechnology of Ivan Franko National University of L'viv, Grushevskogo st.4, L'viv 79005, Ukraine
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AIMS To clone and characterize sanO, a gene involved in the biosynthesis of nikkomycins in Streptomyces ansochromogenes. METHODS AND RESULTS A 4.5-kb BamHI-KpnI fragment was cloned and sequenced. Sequence analysis revealed that this fragment contains three complete open reading frames. The largest one with 2034 bp was designated sanO, which encodes a protein consisting of 667 amino acids with high similarity to module of peptide synthetase. sanO disruption mutants produced no nikkomycin X, but formed nikkomycin Z at almost the same level of the wild-type strain. The production of nikkomycin X can be recovered by genetic complementation of sanO disruption mutants. Primer extension also revealed that transcription start point(tsp) of sanO was localized 87 bp upstream of the potential start codon (GTG). CONCLUSIONS sanO was essential for the biosynthesis of nikkomycin X. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY Nikkomycins have received increased interest of study because of their prospective application in agriculture and medicine. Cloning and characterization of genes involved in the nikkomycin biosynthesis will help to elucidate the whole biosynthetic pathway of nikkomycins.
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- G Wang
- Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Matseliukh BP, Lutchenko VA, Polishchuk LV. [Synthesis of carotenoids by mutant strains of Streptomyces globisporus 1912]. Mikrobiol Z 2003; 65:24-30. [PMID: 15077545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/29/2023]
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Landomycin-deficient mutants (24) were obtained under the effect of nitrosoguanidine on the strains 3-1 and RSp2 of Streptomyces globisporus 1912, high active procedures of polyketide antibiotic landomycin E. Two strains of these mutants produced red and one strain--yellow pigments. The absorption spectra of the pigments purified by means of thin layer chromatography were characterized by three maxima of absorption of acetone 446-448, 472-474 and 501-507 nm resembling the same characteristic of lycopene. The Rf values of isolated pigments and lycopene do not differ between themselves. The corn medium is more optimal for lycopene synthesis by strains of S. globisporus 1912 in comparison with soy one. The highly active mutants synthesized 2 mg of lycopene per 1 g of dry biomass. High frequency of spontaneous mutability of lycopene production of isolated strains can be explained by the localization of gene cluster for carotenoid biosynthesis on the one end of linear chromosome, where genetic rearrangements often take place (amplifications, deletions, recombination) because of the presence of terminal inverter DNA repetitions.
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- B P Matseliukh
- Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 154 Zabolotny St., Kyiv, 03143, Ukraine
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Fischer C, Lipata F, Rohr J. The complete gene cluster of the antitumor agent gilvocarcin V and its implication for the biosynthesis of the gilvocarcins. J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125:7818-9. [PMID: 12822997 PMCID: PMC4480634 DOI: 10.1021/ja034781q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Gilvocarcin V, an antitumor agent produced by the bacterium Streptomyces griseoflavus Gö 3592, is the most studied representative of the distinct family of benzo[d]naphtho[1,2-b]pyran-6-one aryl C-glycoside antibiotics, which show excellent antitumor activity and a remarkably low toxicity. Its biosynthesis contains many intriguing steps, including an oxidative rearrangement, the C-glycosylation, and the generation of a vinyl side chain. These steps all contribute to structural elements of the drug, which are essential for its biological activity, but only poorly understood. Herein we report the cloning and characterization of the gilvocarcin (gil) gene cluster from S. griseoflavus Gö 3592, and its heterologous expression in a foreign host (S. lividans). This is the first reported gene cluster encoding the biosynthesis of a benzo[d]naphtho[1,2-b]pyran-6-one aryl C-glycoside antibiotic, which not only provides insights regarding the biosynthesis of gilvocarcin V but also lays the foundation for the detailed studies of its intriguing biosynthetic steps and possibly for the generation of gilvocarcin analogues with improved biological activities through combinatorial biosynthesis.
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Belmont P, Aissaoui A, Hauchecorne M, Oudrhiri N, Petit L, Vigneron JP, Lehn JM, Lehn P. Aminoglycoside-derived cationic lipids as efficient vectors for gene transfection in vitro and in vivo. J Gene Med 2002; 4:517-26. [PMID: 12221645 DOI: 10.1002/jgm.297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cationic lipids are at present very actively investigated for gene transfer studies and gene therapy applications. Basically, they rely on the formation of DNA/lipid aggregates via electrostatic interactions between their cationic headgroup and the negatively charged DNA. Although their structure/activity relationships are not well understood, it is generally agreed that the nature of the positive headgroup impacts on their transfection activity. Thus, we have directed our efforts toward the development of cationic lipids with novel cationic moieties. In the present work, we have explored the transfection potential of the lipophilic derivatives of the aminoglycoside kanamycin A. Indeed, aminoglycosides, which are natural polyamines known to bind to nucleic acids, provide a favorable scaffold for the synthesis of a variety of cationic lipids because of their structural features and multifunctional nature. METHODS AND RESULTS We report here the synthesis of a cationic cholesterol derivative characterized by a kanamycin A headgroup and of its polyguanidinylated derivative. The amino-sugar-based cationic lipid is highly efficient for gene transfection into a variety of mammalian cell lines when used either alone or as a liposomal formulation with the neutral phospholipid dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE). Its polyguanidinylated derivative was also found to mediate in vitro gene transfection. In addition, colloidally stable kanamycin-cholesterol/DOPE lipoplexes were found to be efficient for gene transfection into the mouse airways in vivo. CONCLUSIONS These results reveal the usefulness of cationic lipids characterized by headgroups composed of an aminoglycoside or its guanidinylated derivative for gene transfection in vitro and in vivo.
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- Philippe Belmont
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Interactions Moléculaires, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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Nie L, Zhang J, Tan H. [Structure and function of sanL--a gene involved in nikkomycin biosynthesis of Streptomyces ansochromogenes]. Wei Sheng Wu Xue Bao 2001; 41:59-64. [PMID: 12549190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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The chromosome walking strategy has been used in this experiment and a 10 kb DNA fragment was cloned from the cosmid library of Streptomyces ansochromogenes using a partial DNA fragment involved in the nikkomycin biosynthesis as a probe. The nucleotide sequence showed that the DNA fragment contains two complete open reading frames (ORFs), they are designated as sanK and sanL respectively. The sanL is located on the upstream of sanK, it has 1281 nucleotides with ATG at 345 position as start codon and TGA at 623 position as stop codon. The deduced product is L-lysine 2-aminotransferase using Blastx program. The experiment of gene disruption indicated that this gene is closely related to nikkomycin biosynthesis of Streptomyces ansochromogenes.
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- L Nie
- Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
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Cashman DJ, Rife JP, Kellogg GE. Which aminoglycoside ring is most important for binding? A hydropathic analysis of gentamicin, paromomycin, and analogues. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2001; 11:119-22. [PMID: 11206440 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-894x(00)00615-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The NMR structures of gentamicin and paromomycin in complex with the A-site of Escherichia coli 16S ribosomal RNA were modified with molecular modeling to 12 analogues. The intermolecular interactions between these molecules and RNA were examined using the HINT (Hydropathic INTeractions) computational model to obtain interaction scores that have been shown previously to be related to free energy. The calculations correlated well with experimental binding data, and the interaction scores were used to analyze the specific structural features of each aminoglycoside that contribute to the overall binding with the 16S rRNA. Our calculations indicate that, while ring I binds to the main binding pocket of the rRNA A-site, ring IV of paromomycin-based aminoglycosides contributes significantly to the overall binding.
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- D J Cashman
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Institute for Structural Biology & Drug Discovery, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0540, USA
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The ototoxic effects of aminoglycoside antibiotics are well known. However, a molecular and cellular mechanism for the death of cochlear hair cells has remained difficult to prove. Human genetic studies have shown that a rare trait for hypersensitivity to aminoglycosides is conferred by mitochondrial genetic variation. Recently, a gene involved has been identified as the mitochondrial small ribosomal RNA gene, consistent with the known mechanism of aminoglycoside action against bacteria. We used the existing data as a basis for our hypothesis of a molecular and cellular model for aminoglycoside ototoxicity that is described in this paper.
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- G Cortopassi
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Pharmacy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033
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The role of aminoglycoside (AG) acetyltransferases (AACs) and of the corresponding genes in resistance to foreign AGs in AG-producing strains of Streptomyces were studied. The research focussed on (i) the activation mechanism of the cryptic kanamycin(Km)-resistance-encoding gene that encodes an AAC(3) in streptomycin-producing S. griseus SS-1198, and (ii) an AAC(2') with novel activity and substrate specificity in kasugamycin-producing S. kasugaensis MB273. Activation of the cryptic kan gene in S. griseus SS-1198 is probably due to a single base substitution at the putative -10 promoter region, leading to the enhancement of transcription, resulting in resistance to AG. The coding region of the kan gene was highly homologous to that of the aacC7 gene of paromomycin-producing S. rimosus forma paromomycinus. On the other hand, resistance in S. kasugaensis MB273 was found to be due to an AAC(2') capable of acetylating astromicin group AGs at two different sites (1-NH2 with istamycin B, and 2'-NH2 with astromicin and istamycin A). These additional antibiotic resistances that are independent of a self-resistance basis may be regarded as 'secondary' resistances, so as to distinguish them from 'primary' resistances arising from a self-resistance basis.
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- K Hotta
- Department of Antibiotics, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan
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Skeggs PA, Holmes DJ, Cundliffe E. Cloning of aminoglycoside-resistance determinants from Streptomyces tenebrarius and comparison with related genes from other actinomycetes. J Gen Microbiol 1987; 133:915-23. [PMID: 3655737 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-133-4-915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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At least two aminoglycoside-resistance determinants from Streptomyces tenebrarius have been cloned separately in Streptomyces lividans. In each case, resistance (to kanamycin plus apramycin or to kanamycin plus gentamicin) was expressed at the level of the ribosome and involved specific methylation of 16S ribosomal RNA. Hybridization and restriction analysis revealed that related genes were present in other aminoglycoside-producing actinomycetes.
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- P A Skeggs
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, UK
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Matsuhashi Y, Murakami T, Nojiri C, Toyama H, Anzai H, Nagaoka K. Mechanisms of aminoglycoside-resistance of Streptomyces harboring resistant genes obtained from antibiotic-producers. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1985; 38:279-82. [PMID: 3838980 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.38.279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Botha PL, Elisha G, Pratt K. Aminoglycoside resistance among isolates of nosocomial Enterobacteriaceae. S Afr Med J 1981; 60:451-2. [PMID: 7280893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Fifty-seven gentamicin-resistant isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, obtained from patients attending hospital, were examined for the production of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes. Of the 51 strains producing such enzymes, 34 were presumptively plasmid-mediated as indicated by conjugation experiments.
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Hummel H, Piepersberg W, Böck A. 30S subunit mutations relieving restriction of ribosomal misreading caused by L6 mutations. Mol Gen Genet 1980; 179:147-53. [PMID: 7005622 DOI: 10.1007/bf00268457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Mutants were analyzed biochemically and genetically in which restriction of translational misreading by ribosomes containing an altered L6 protein is relieved. Amongst 100 such strains eight possessed an altered S4 and two a mutant S5 protein. The protein-chemical type of L6 mutation seems to influence the kind of S4 mutant form selected. Also, only a few types of S4 ram mutations are obtained and they are different from those usually found amongst suppressors of streptomycin-dependent (SmD) strains. The S4 mutations selected are able to reduce the level of streptomycin-resistance of strA1 or strA40 strains and they confer extreme hypersensitivity to aminoglycosides when present alone. On the other hand, S4 mutations from SmD suppressor strains only weakly reverse L6 restriction. The results imply that control of translational fidelity is an intersubunit function and that protein L6 (an interface protein) cooperates with 30S proteins by directly or indirectly determining parameters involved in aminoacyl-tRNA recognition.
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