Apramycin resistance as a selective marker for gene transfer in mycobacteria

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 6357-6360

  Paget, Eric ^a   Davies, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE TRANSFER; MARKER GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BORIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029907148     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.21.6357-6360.1996     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Baulard, A., C. Jourdan, A. Mercenier, and C. Locht. 1992. Rapid mycobacterial plasmid analysis by electroduction between Mycobacterium spp. and Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 20:4105.
2. Baulard, A., V. E. Scuyer, N. Haddad, L. Kremer, C. Locht, and P. Berche. 1995. Mercury resistance as a selective marker for recombinant mycobacteria. Microbiology 141:1045-1050.
3. Braü, B., U. Pilz, and W. Piepersberg. 1984. Genes for gentamicin-(3)-N-acetyltransferase 11 and IV. I. Nucleotide sequence of the AAC(3)-IV gene and possible involvement of an 1S40 element in its expression. Mol. Gen. Genet. 193:179-187.
4. Chaslus-Dancla, E., J.-L. Martel, C. Carlier, J.-P. Lafont, and P. Courvalin. 1986. Emergence of aminoglycoside 3-N-acetyltransferase IV in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium isolated from animals in France. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 29:239-243.
5. Das Gupta, S. K., M. D. Bashyam, and A. K. Tyagi. 1993. Cloning and assessment of mycobacterial promoters by using a plasmid shuttle vector. J. Bacteriol. 175:5186-5192.
6. Davies, J., and S. O'Connor. 1978. Enzymatic modification of aminoglycoside antibiotics: 3-N-acetyltransferase with broad specificity that determines resistance to the novel aminoglycoside apramycin. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 14:69-72.
7. Garbe, T. R., J. Barathi, S. Barnini, Y. Zhang, C. Abou-Zeid, D. Tang, R. Mukherjee, and D. B. Young. 1994. Transformation of mycobacterial species using hygromycin resistance as selectable marker. Microbiology 140:133-138.
8. Gormley, E. P., and J. E. Davies. 1991. Transfer of plasmid RSF1010 by conjugation from Escherichia coli to Streptomyces lividans and Mycobacterium smegmatis. J. Bacteriol. 173:6705-6708.
9. Guerry, P., J. Van Embden, and S. Falkow. 1974. Molecular nature of two conjugative plasmids carrying drug resistance genes. J. Bacteriol. 2:619-630.
10. Hatfull, G. F. 1993. Genetic transformation of mycobacteria. Trends Microbiol. 1:310-314.
11. Jacobs, W. R., G. V. Kalpana, J. D. Cirillo, L. Pascopella, S. B. Snapper, R. A. Udani, W. Jones, R. G. Barletta, and B. R. Bloom. 1991. Genetic systems for mycobacteria. Methods Enzymol. 294:537-555.
12. Jacobs, W. R., M. Tuckman, and B. R. Bloom. 1987. Introduction of foreign DNA into mycobacteria using a shuttle phasmid. Nature (London) 327:532-535.
13. Labidi, A., H. L. David, and D. Roulland-Dussoix. 1985. Restriction endo-nuclease mapping and cloning of Mycobacterium fortuitum var fortuitum plasmid pAL5000. Ann. Inst. Pasteur Microbiol. 136B:209-215.
14. Lazraq, R., S. Clavel-Sérès, H. L. David, and D. Roulland-Dussoix. 1990. Conjugative transfer of a shuttle plasmid for Escherichia coli to Mycobacterium smegmatis. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 69:135-138.
15. Martin, C., J. Timm, J. Rauzier, R. Gomez-Lus, J. Davies, and B. Gicquel. 1990. Transposition of an antibiotic resistance element in mycobacteria. Nature (London) 345:739-743.
16. Mazodier, P., R. Petter, and C. Thompson. 1989. Intergeneric conjugation between Escherichia coli and Streptomyces species. J. Bacteriol. 171:3583-3585.
17. Nano, F. Personal communication.
18. Ranes, M. G., J. Rauzier, M. Lagranderie, M. Gheorghiu, and B. Gicquel. 1990. Functional analysis of pAL5000, a plasmid from Mycobacterium fortuitum: construction of a "mini" mycobacterium-Escherichia coli shuttle vector. J. Bacteriol. 172:2793-2797.
19. Salauze, D., I. Otal, R. Gomez-Lus, and J. Davies. 1990. Aminoglycoside acetyltransferase 3-IV (aacC4) and hygromycin B 4-I phosphotransferase (hphB) in bacteria isolated from human and animal sources. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 34:1915-1920.
20. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
21. Simon, R., U. Priefer, and A. Pülhler. 1983. Vector plasmids for in-vivo and in-vitro manipulations of gram-negative bacteria, p. 98-105. In A. Pülhler (ed.), Molecular genetics of the bacteria-plant interaction. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
22. Skeggs, P. A., D. J. Holmes, and E. Cundliffe. 1987. Cloning of aminoglycoside-resistance determinants from Streptomyces tenebrarius and comparison with related genes from other actinomycetes. J. Gen. Bacteriol. 133:915-923.
23. Snapper, S. B., L. Lugosi, A. Jekkel, R. E. Melton, T. Kieser, B. R. Bloom, and W. R. Jacobs, Jr. 1988. Lysogeny and transformation in mycobacteria: stable expression of foreign genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:6987-6991.
24. Snapper, S. B., R. E. Melton, S. Mustafa, T. Kieser, and W. R. Jacobs, Jr. 1990. Isolation and characterisation of efficient plasmid transformation mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis. Mol. Microbiol. 4:1911-1919.