Affiliation:
1. Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Assistance Publique/Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine Paris-Sud, 94275 Le Kremlin Bicêtre cedex, France
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The genetic structures (ca. 10-kb DNA fragment) surrounding the plasmid-borne extended-spectrum β-lactamase
bla
CTX-M-19
gene in a
Klebsiella pneumoniae
clinical isolate were determined. This β-lactamase gene was part of a 4,797-bp transposon inserted inside
orf1
of Tn
1721.
Inside this transposon,
bla
CTX-M-19
was bracketed upstream and downstream by insertion sequences IS
E cp1B
and IS
903D,
respectively, and further downstream by a truncated gene encoding an outer membrane protein for iron transport. The single-copy IS
Ecp1B
element was probably involved alone in the mobilization process that led to a 5-bp duplication at the target site of the transposed fragment. This mobilization event probably involved one inverted repeat of IS
E cp1B
and a second sequence farther away, resembling its second inverted repeat. Additionally, IS
Ecp1B
provided −35 and −10 promoter sequences, contributing to the high-level expression of the
bla
CTX-M-19
gene. Southern blot analysis failed to identify a reservoir of IS
Ecp1
-like sequences among a series of gram-negative and gram-positive bacterial species usually found in the skin and intestinal human floras. The ability of IS
Ecp1
-like elements to mobilize and to promote the expression of β-lactamase genes may explain, in part, the current spread of CTX-M-type enzymes worldwide.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
Cited by
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