Affiliation:
1. Département de Biochimie, Faculté des Sciences et de Génie, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada.
Abstract
Integrons constitute a novel family of DNA elements which evolved by site-specific integration of discrete units between two conserved segments. On the In4 integron of Tn1696, a precisely inserted gene cassette of 1,549 bp conferring nonenzymatic chloramphenicol resistance (cmlA) is present between the streptomycin-spectinomycin resistance (aadA2) gene cassette and the 3'-conserved segment of the integron. In this study, we present the nucleotide sequence of the cmlA gene cassette of Tn1696, show its similarity to bacterial efflux systems and other transport proteins, and present evidence for alterations that its expression exerts on bacterial membranes. The cmlA gene cassette apparently carries its own promoter(s), a situation that has not heretofore been observed in the integrons of multiresistance plasmids and transposons of gram-negative bacteria. One or more of these promoters were shown to be functionally active in expressing a cat marker gene from promoter-probe vectors. The putative CmlA polypeptide appears to provoke a reduction of the content of the major porins OmpA and OmpC.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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