Evidence of plasmid-mediated production of aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes not previously described in Acinetobacter.
AUTOR(ES)
Murray, B E
RESUMO
Two blood culture isolates of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus subsp. anitratus (Herellea vaginicola) were recently observed to be unusually resistant to aminoglycosides. Each strain was found to contain aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes which have not been described previously in this species, including 2"-adenylyltransferase, 3"-adenylyltransferase, 3'-phosphotransferase-III, and 3-acetyltransferase. Treatment of one strain (H-S) with novobiocin led to a loss of resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents and a loss of two aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes; agarose gel electrophoresis of lysates of this strain revealed that the loss of resistance markers was associated with the loss of a large-molecular-weight plasmid. Treatment of the second strain (H-D) with novobiocin produced derivative strains with three different resistance patterns. Agarose gel electrophoresis of deoxyribonucleic acid from crude lysates and from cesium chloride-ethidium bromide gradients of this strain showed only a small plasmid (molecular weight, 5 X 10(6)) common to all variants and failed to explain the loss of resistance markers.
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