Molecular evolution of the tet(M) gene in Gardnerella vaginalis | Zendy

Ruisen Huang | Zendy; Deborah GascoyneBinzi | Zendy; Peter M. Hawkey | Zendy; Mei Yu | Zendy; John Heritage | Zendy; A. Eley | Zendy

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Molecular evolution of the tet(M) gene in Gardnerella vaginalis

Author(s) -

Ruisen Huang,

Deborah GascoyneBinzi,

Peter M. Hawkey,

Mei Yu,

John Heritage,

A. Eley

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/40.4.561

Subject(s) - biology , gardnerella vaginalis , genetics , gene , homology (biology) , plasmid , neisseria gonorrhoeae , tetracycline , neisseria , nucleic acid sequence , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteria , antibiotics

Five clinical isolates of Gardnerella vaginalis known to carry the tetracycline resistance determinant Tet M were examined by hybridization and nucleotide sequencing. Four of the strains carried tet(M) genes with identical sequences. The two versions of the tet(M) gene found in G. vaginalis did not show complete identity with other published tet(M) sequences, but showed mosaic structures with regions of homology to tet(M) gene sequences from Tn916, Tn1545 and the American type plasmid found in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Hybridization studies showed that all isolates carried the tet(M) gene on a single HindII restriction fragment of variable length. No evidence was found for the presence of sequences homologous to the transposition functions of Tn916.

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