1993
DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.10.2844-2852.1993
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Cloning and sequencing of the low-affinity penicillin-binding protein 3r-encoding gene of Enterococcus hirae S185: modular design and structural organization of the protein

Abstract: The clinical isolate Enterococcus hirae S185 has a peculiar mode of resistance to penicillin in that it possesses two low-affinity penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs): the 71-kDa PBP5, also found in other enterococci, and the 77-kDa PBP3r. The two PBPs have the same low affinity for the drug and are immunochemically related to each other. The PBP3r-encoding gene has been cloned and sequenced, and the derived amino.acid sequence has been compared by computer-assisted hydrophobic cluster analysis with that of the… Show more

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“…The genes of different strains of three species coding for these PBPs have been cloned and sequenced (13,14,31,33,38,45). Moreover, with the DNA sequencing data collected recently from clones of E. hirae, E. faecalis, and E. faecium (13, 45; this study) and the determination of the genomic sequences of E. faecalis V583 (http://tigr.org) and E. faecium DO (http://genome.ornl.gov/microbial/efae/), it is possible to establish the genetic context of these genes.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The genes of different strains of three species coding for these PBPs have been cloned and sequenced (13,14,31,33,38,45). Moreover, with the DNA sequencing data collected recently from clones of E. hirae, E. faecalis, and E. faecium (13, 45; this study) and the determination of the genomic sequences of E. faecalis V583 (http://tigr.org) and E. faecium DO (http://genome.ornl.gov/microbial/efae/), it is possible to establish the genetic context of these genes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Inactivation of PBP5 of Enterococcus faecalis leads to hypersusceptibility to all ␤-lactams (93). Interestingly, the first low-affinity PBP found to be located on a plasmid is PBP3r from Enterococcus hirae, which is almost identical to PBP5 (80,82).…”
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“…The mecA gene and the associated large (40-to 60-kb) mec element (9,10,13,15,21,27) are not native to S. aureus but were acquired from an extraspecies source by an unknown mechanism (3, 18). The nature of the extraspecies source, i.e., the evolutionary origin of mecA and the formation of the mec element, has remained largely a matter of speculation (1,8,11,20,26).In a recent effort to track the evolutionary origin of mecA, we used a DNA probe internal to this gene in S. aureus to screen bacterial isolates belonging to 13 different staphylococcal species for bacteria that would give a positive signal with this DNA probe under hybridization conditions of high stringency. This effort has led to the identification of a close homologue of the S. aureus mecA gene in Staphylococcus sciuri, a species considered taxonomically the most primitive among staphylococci and found mainly in rodents and primitive mammals (4).…”
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