Mosaic staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec containing two recombinase loci and a new mec complex, B2

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 390-393

  Heusser, R ^a   Ender, M ^a   Berger Bachi B ^a   McCallum, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BACTERIAL DNA; METICILLIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CCR GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; MEC GENE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL CASSETTE CHROMOSOME; TRANSPOSON; TRANSPOSON TN4001;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENES, BACTERIAL; ISOENZYMES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINASES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 33846011890     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00921-06     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aires de Sousa, M., and H. de Lencastre. 2003. Evolution of sporadic isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals and their similarities to isolates of community-acquired MRSA. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:3806-3815.
2. Altschul, S. F., T. L. Madden, A. A. Schäffet, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25:3389-3402.
3. Barberis-Maino, L., B. Berger-Bächi, H. Weber, W. D. Beck, and F. H. Kayser. 1987. IS431, a staphylococcal insertion sequence-like element related to IS26 from Proteus vulgaris. Gene 59:107-113.
4. Boyle-Vavra, S., B. Ereshefsky, C. C. Wang, and R. S. Daum. 2005. Successful multiresistant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage from Taipei, Taiwan, that carries either the novel staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) type VT or SCCmec type IV. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43:4719-4730.
5. Chongtrakool, P., T. Ito, X. X. Ma, Y. Kondo, S. Trakulsomboon, C. Tiensasitorn, M. Jamklang, T. Chavalit, J. H. Song, and K. Hiramatsu. 2006. Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in 11 Asian countries: a proposal for a new nomenclature for SCCmec elements. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 50:1001-1012.
6. Hartmann, B. J., and A. Tomasz. 1984. Low-affinity penicillin-binding protein associated with β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 158:513-516.
7. Hiramatsu, K., K. Asada, E. Suzuki, K. Okonogi, and T. Yokota. 1992. Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence determination of the regulator region of mecA gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). FEBS Lett. 298:133-136.
8. Hiramatsu, K., Y. Katayama, H. Yuzawa, and T. Ito. 2002. Molecular genetics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 292:67-74.
9. Holden, M. T., E. J. Feil, J. A. Lindsay, S. J. Peacock, N. P. Day, M. C. Enright, T. J. Foster, C. E. Moore, L. Hurst, R. Atkin, A. Barron, N. Bason, S. D. Bentley, C. Chillingworth, T. Chillingworth, C. Churcher, L. Clark, C. Corton, A. Cronin, J. Doggett, L. Dowd, T. Feltwell, Z. Hance, B. Harris, H. Hauser, S. Holroyd, K. Jagels, K. D. James, N. Lennard, A. Line, R. Mayes, S. Moule, K. Mungall, D. Ormond, M. A. Quail, E. Rabbinowitsch, K. Rutherford, M. Sanders, S. Sharp, M. Simmonds, K. Stevens, S. Whitehead, B. G. Barrell, B. G. Spratt, and J. Parkhill. 2004. Complete genomes of two clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: evidence for the rapid evolution of virulence and drug resistance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:9786-9791.
10. Ito, T., Y. Katayama, K. Asada, N. Mori, K. Tsutsumimoto, C. Tiensasitorn, and K. Hiramatsu. 2001. Structural comparison of three types of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec integrated in the chromosome in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 45:1323-1336.
11. Ito, T., Y. Katayama, and K. Hiramatsu. 1999. Cloning and nucleotide sequence determination of the entire mec DNA of pre-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus N315. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 43:1449-1458.
12. Ito, T., X. X. Ma, F. Takeuchi, K. Okuma, H. Yuzawa, and K. Hiramatsu. 2004. Novel type V staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec driven by a novel cassette chromosome recombinase, ccrC. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48:2637-2651.
13. Katayama, Y., T. Ito, and K. Hiramatsu. 2000. A new class of genetic element, Staphylococcus cassette chromosome mec, encodes methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 44:1549-1555.
14. Katayama, Y., F. Takeuchi, T. Ito, X. X. Ma, Y. Ui-Mizutani, I. Kobayashi, and K. Hiramatsu. 2003. Identification in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus hominis of an active primordial mobile genetic element for the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 185:2711-2722.
15. Kuroda, M., A. Yamashita, H. Hirakawa, M. Kumano, K. Morikawa, M. Higashide, A. Maruyama, Y. Inose, K. Matoba, H. Toh, S. Kuhara, M. Hattori, and T. Ohta. 2005. Whole genome sequence of Staphylococcus saprophyticus reveals the pathogenesis of uncomplicated urinary tract infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102:13272-13277.
16. Lukashin, A., and M. Borodovsky. 1998. Gene Mark.hmm: new solutions for gene finding. Nucleic Acids Res. 26:1107-1115.
17. Luong, T. T., S. Ouyang, K. Bush, and C. Y. Lee. 2002. Type 1 capsule genes of Staphylococcus aureus are carried in a staphylococcal cassette chromosome genetic element. J. Bacteriol. 184:3623-3629.
18. Ma, X. X., T. Ito, C. Tiensasitorn, M. Jamklang, P. Chongtrakool, S. Boyle-Vavra, R. S. Daum, and K. Hiramatsu. 2002. Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec identified in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 46: 1147-1152.
19. Mongkolrattanothai, K., S. Boyle-Vavra, T. V. Murphy, and R. S. Daum. 2004. Novel non-mecA-containing staphylococcal chromosomal cassette composite island containing pbp4 and tagF genes in a commensal staphylococcal species: a possible reservoir for antibiotic resistance islands in Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48:1823-1836.
20. Oliveira, D. C., and H. de Lencastre. 2002. Multiplex PCR strategy for rapid identification of structural types and variants of the mec element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 46: 2155-2161.
21. Qi, W., M. Ender, F. G. O'Brien, A. Imhof, C. Ruef, N. McCallum, and B. Berger-Bächi. 2005. Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Zürich, Switzerland (2003): prevalence of type IV SCCmec and a new SCCmec element associated with isolates from intravenous drug users. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43:5164-5170.
22. Reynolds, P. E., and D. F. Brown. 1985. Penicillin-binding proteins of β-lactam-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus. Effect of growth conditions. FEBS Lett. 11:28-32.
23. Shore, A., A. S. Rossney, C. T. Keane, M. C. Enright, and D. C. Coleman. 2005. Seven novel variants of the staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Ireland. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 49:2070-2083.
24. Sola, C., P. Cortes, H. A. Saka, Cordoba MRSA Collaborative Study Group, A. Vindel, and J. L. Bocco. 2006. Evolution and molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemic and sporadic clones in Cordoba, Argentina. J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:192-200.
25. Tesch, W., C. Ryffel, A. Strässle, F. H. Kayser, and B. Berger-Bächi. 1990. Evidence of a novel staphylococcal mee-encoded element (mecR) controlling expression of penicillin-binding protein 2′. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 34:1703-1706.
26. Utsui, Y., and T. Yokota. 1985. Role of an altered penicillin-binding protein in methicillin- and cephem-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 28:397-403.