Zwittermicin A resistance gene from Bacillus cereus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 4266-4272

  Milner, Jocelyn L ^a   Stohl, Elizabeth A ^a   Handelsman, J O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA FRAGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZWITTERMICIN A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030005276     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.14.4266-4272.1996     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Allen, L. N., and R. S. Hanson. 1985. Construction of broad host range cosmid cloning vectors: identification of genes necessary for growth of Methylobacterium organophilum on methanol. J. Bacteriol. 161:955-962.
2. Altschul, S. F., W. Gish, W. Miller, E. W. Myers, and D. J. Lipman. 1990. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol. 215:403-410.
3. Arantes, O., and D. Lereclus. 1991. Construction of cloning vectors for Bacillus thuringiensis. Gene 108:115-119.
4. Benveniste, R., and J. Davies. 1973. Aminoglycoside antibiotic-inactivating enzymes in actinomycetes similar to those present in clinical isolates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 70:2276-2280.
5. Bonas, U., R. E. Stall, and B. Staskawicz. 1989. Genetic and structural characterization of the avirulence gene avrBs3 from Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. Mol. Gen. Genet. 218:127-136.
6. Carlson, C. R., A. Gronstad, and A.-B. Kolsto. 1992. Physical maps of the genomes of three Bacillus cereus strains. J. Bacteriol. 174:3750-3756.
7. Chou, P. Y., and G. D. Fasman. 1978. Predictions of the secondary structure of proteins from their amino acid sequence. Adv. Enzymol. 47:45-148.
8. Clark, L., and J. Carbon. 1976. A colony bank containing synthetic Col E1 hybrid plasmids representative of the entire E. coli genome. Cell 9:91-99.
9. Claus, D., and R. C. W. Berkeley. 1986. Genus Bacillus Cohn 1872, p. 1105-1139. In P. H. A. Sneath, N. S. Mair, M. E. Sharpe,. and J. G. Holt (ed.), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 2. The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore.
10. Cundliffe, E. 1989. How antibiotic-producing organisms avoid suicide. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 43:207-233.
11. Davies, J. 1994. Inactivation of antibiotics and the dissemination of resistance genes. Science 264:375-382.
12. Dunny, G. M., L. N. Lee, and D. J. LeBlanc. 1991. Improved electroporation and cloning vector system for gram-positive bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:1194-1201.
13. Figurski, D. H., and D. R. Helinski. 1979. Replication of an origin-containing derivative of plasmid RK2 dependent on a plasmid function provided in trans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 76:1648-1652.
14. Garnier, J., J. D. Osguthorpe, and B. Robson. 1978. Analysis of the accuracy and implications of simple methods for predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins. J. Mol. Biol. 120:97-120.
15. Gonzalez, J. M., Jr., H. T. Dulmage, and B. C. Carlton. 1981. Correlation between specific plasmids and 8-endotoxin production in Bacillus thuringiensis. Plasmid 5:351-365.
16. Graham, M. Y., and B. Weisblum. 1979. 23S ribosomal ribonucleic acid of macrolide-producing streptomycetes contains methylated adenine. J. Bacteriol. 137:1464-1467.
17. Guilfoile, P. G., and C. R. Hutchinson. 1992. Sequence and transcriptional analysis of the Streptomyces glaucescens tcmAR tetracenomycin C resistance and repressor gene loci. J. Bacteriol. 174:3651-3658.
18. Guilfoile, P. G., and C. R. Hutchinson. 1992. The Streptomyces glaucescens TcmR protein represses transcription of the divergently oriented tcmR and tcmA genes by binding to an intergenic operator region. J. Bacteriol. 174:3659-3666.
19. Hanahan, D. 1983. Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids. J. Mol. Biol. 166:557-580.
20. Handelsman, J., S. Raffel, E. H. Mester, L. Wunderlich, and C. R. Grau. 1990. Biological control of damping-off of alfalfa seedlings with Bacillus cereus UW85. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56:713-718.
21. He, H., L. A. Silo-Suh, J. Clardy, and J. Handelsman. 1994. Zwittermicin A, an antifungal and plant protection agent from Bacillus cereus. Tetrahedron Lett. 35:2499-2502.
22. Heinzel, P., O. Werbitzky, J. Distler, and W. Piepersberg. 1988. A second streptomycin resistance gene from Streptomyces griseus codes for streptomycin-3′-ptiosphotransferase. Arch. Microbiol. 150:184-192.
23. Jenkins, G., M. Zalacain, and E. Cundlifie. 1989. Inducible ribosomal RNA methylation in Streptomyces lividans, conferring resistance to lincomycin. J. Gen. Microbiol. 135:3281-3288.
24. Klein, C., and K. D. Entian. 1994. Genes involved in self-protection against the lantibiotic subtilin produced by Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:2793-2801.
25. Krause, M., and M. A. Marahiel. 1988. Organization of the biosynthesis genes for the peptide antibiotic gramicidin S. J. Bacteriol. 170:4669-4674.
26. Kyte, J., and R. F. Doolittle. 1982. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein. J. Mol. Biol. 157:105-132.
27. Laemmli, U. K. 1970. Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature (London) 227:680-685.
28. Manker, D. C., W. D. Lidster, R. L. Starnes, and S. C. MacIntosh. May 1994. Potentiator of Bacillus pesticidal activity. European Patent Cooperation Treaty WO94/09630.
29. Marahiel, M. A., M. M. Nakano, and P. Zuber. 1993. Regulation of peptide antibiotic production in Bacillus. 7:631-636.
30. Matsudaira, P. 1987. Sequence from picomole quantities of proteins electroblotted onto polyvinylidene difluoride membranes. J. Biol. Chem. 262:10035-10038.
31. Milner, J. L., and J. Handelsman, Unpublished data.
32. Milner, J. L., S. J. Raffel, B. J. Lethbridge, and J. Handelsman. 1995. Culture conditions that influence accumulation of zwittermicin A by Bacillus cereus UW85. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 43:685-691.
33. Ohnuki, T., T. Imanaka, and S. Aiba. 1985. Self-cloning in Streptomyces griseus of an str gene cluster for streptomycin biosynthesis and streptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 164:85-94.
34. Ohnuki, T., T. Katoh, T. Imanaka, and S. Aiba. 1985. Molecular cloning of tetracycline resistance genes from Streptomyces rimosus in Streptomyces griseus and characterization of the cloned genes. J. Bacteriol. 161:1010-1016.
35. Salauze, D., J. A. Ferez-Gonzalez, W. Piepersberg, and J. Davies. 1991. Characterization of aminoglycoside acetyltransferase-encoding genes of neomycin-producing Micromonospora chalcea and Streptomyces fradiae. Gene 101:143-148.
36. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
37. Seno, E. T., and R. H. Baltz. 1989. Structural organization and regulation of antibiotic biosynthesis and resistance genes in actinomycetes, p. 2-48. In S. Shapiro (ed.), Regulation of secondary metabolism in actinomycetes. CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, Fla.
38. Silo-Suh, L. A. 1994. Ph.D. thesis. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison.
39. Silo-Suh, L. A., B. J. Lethbridge, S. J. Raffel, H. He, J. Clardy, and J. Handelsman. 1994. Biological activities of two fungistatic antibiotics produced by Bacillus cereus UW85. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:2023-2030.
40. Smith, P. K., R. I. Krohn, C. T. Hermanson, A. K. Mallia, F. H. Gärtner, M. D. Provenzano, E. K. Fujimoto, M. N. Goeke, B. J. Olson, and D. C. Klenk. 1985. Measurement of protein using bicinchoninic acid. Anal. Biochem. 150:76-85.
41. Stabb, E. V., and J. Handelsman, Unpublished data.
42. Stabb, E. V., L. M. Jacobson, and J. Handelsman. 1994. Zwittermicin A-producing strains of Bacillus cereus from diverse soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:4404-4412.
43. Stachel, S. E., G. An, C. Flores, and E. W. Nester. 1985. A Tn3 lacZ transposon for the random generation of β-galactosidase gene fusions: application to the analysis of gene expression in Agrobacterium tumefaciens. EMBO J. 4:891-898.
44. Stewart, S. J., and J. Handelsman, Unpublished data.
45. Tercero, A., R. A. Lacelle, and A. Jimenez. 1993. The pur8 gene from the pur cluster of Streptomyces alboniger encodes a highly hydrophobic polypeptide which confers resistance to puromycin. J. Biochem. (FEBS) 218:963-971.
46. Thiara, A. S., and E. Cundliffe. 1989. Interplay of novobiocin-resistant and -sensitive DNA gyrase activities in self-protection of the novobiocin producer, Streptomyces sphaeroides. Gene 81:65-72.
47. Vellanoweth, R. L. 1993. Translation and its regulation, p. 699-711. In A. L. Sonenshein, J. A. Hoch, and R. Losick (ed.), Bacillus subtilis and other gram-positive bacteria. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
48. Von Tersch, M. A., H. L. Robbins, C. S. Jany, and T. B. Johnson. 1991. Insecticidal toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kenyae: gene cloning and characterization and comparison with B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki CryIA(c) toxins. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:349-358.
49. Walker, J. G., and M. Skovaga. 1973. Phosphorylation of streptomycin and dihydrostreptomycin by Streptomyces. Enzymatic synthesis of different diphosphorylated derivatives. J. Biol. Chem. 248:2435-2440.
50. Weisblum, B. 1985. Inducible resistance to macrolides, lincosamides and the streptogramin type B antibiotics: the resistance phenotype, its biological diversity, and structural elements that regulate expression - a review. J. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 16:63-90.
51. Zalacain, M., and E. Cundliffe. 1991. Cloning of tlrD, a fourth resistance gene, from the tylosin producer, Streptomyces fradiae. Gene 97:137-142.
52. Zhang, H. Z., H. Schmidt, and W. Piepersberg. 1992. Molecular cloning and characterization of two linocomycin-resistance genes, ImrA and ImrB, from Streptomyces lincolnensis 78-11. Mol. Microbiol. 6:2147-2157.