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- Title
A clinical isolate of Aeromonas sobria with three chromosomally mediated inducible beta-lactamases: a cephalosporinase, a penicillinase and a third enzyme, displaying carbapenemase activity.
- Authors
Walsh, Timothy R.; Payne, David J.; MacGowan, Alasdair P.; Bennett, Peter M.; Walsh, T R; Payne, D J; MacGowan, A P; Bennett, P M
- Abstract
Hydrolytic profiles of Aeromonas sobria 163a, non-induced and induced, and of a derepressed mutant 163a-M, indicate that this strain has inducible beta-lactamases with activities against cephalosporins, penicillins and carbapenems. Three enzymes were identified and two of the beta-lactamase genes, ampS, encoding a penicillinase and cepS, encoding a cephalosporinase, were cloned into Escherichia coli, permitting analysis of the individual enzymes. Isoelectric focusing (IEF) analysis using inhibition profiles with EDTA and BRL 42715, confirmed AmpS (pI 7.9) and CepS (7.0) to be serine beta-lactamases. A third beta-lactamase displaying hydrolytic activity against the carbapenems was inhibited by EDTA. The carbapenemase had a pI of 9.3 and was detected on IEF gels by overlaying the gel with agarose containing imipenem and the chromogenic pH indicator, bromothymol blue. Co-inducibility and the recovery of a derepressed mutant in which all three enzymes were produced at high levels indicate that this isolate of A. sobria has three co-ordinately controlled beta-lactamase genes.
- Subjects
BACTERIAL proteins; CHROMOSOMES; COMPARATIVE studies; ELECTROPHORESIS; ESCHERICHIA coli; GENES; GENETIC techniques; GRAM-negative bacteria; GRAM-negative bacterial diseases; HYDROLASES; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (JAC), 1995, Vol 35, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0305-7453
- Publication type
journal article