scholarly journals Phenotypic assortment in Tetrahymena thermophila: assortment kinetics of antibiotic-resistance markers, tsA, death, and the highly amplified rDNA locus.

Genetics ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-395
Author(s):  
E V Merriam ◽  
P J Bruns
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Random Distribution ◽  
Tetrahymena Thermophila ◽  
Single Gene ◽  
Rdna Locus ◽  
Phenotypic Assortment ◽  
Resistance Markers ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Input Ratio ◽  
As If

Abstract Phenotypic assortment in Tetrahymena thermophila results from random distribution of alleles during amitotic division of the macronucleus. The rate of assortment is dependent on input ratio and the number of assorting units. The assortment of the antibiotic resistance markers Chx, Mpr and gal was determined and is consistent for each with the model of 45 assorting chromosomes. The gene tsA (previously ts-1) shows normal assortment, in contrast to previous reports. A mutation in the highly amplified ribosomal locus (rdnA2) assorts as if present at only 45 copies. Death of clones occurred at a rate consistent with assortment for a single gene.

scholarly journals Autonomously Replicating Macronuclear DNA Pieces Are the Physical Basis of Genetic Coassortment Groups in Tetrahymena thermophila

Genetics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 1119-1125
Author(s):  
Laura Wong ◽  
Lana Klionsky ◽  
Steve Wickert ◽  
Virginia Merriam ◽  
Eduardo Orias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Random Distribution ◽  
Tetrahymena Thermophila ◽  
Physical Basis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Phenotypic Assortment ◽  
Somatic Genome

Abstract The macronucleus of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila contains a fragmented somatic genome consisting of several hundred identifiable chromosome pieces. These pieces are generated by site-specific fragmentation of the germline chromosomes and most of them are represented at an average of 45 copies per macronucleus. In the course of successive divisions of an initially heterozygous macronucleus, the random distribution of alleles of loci carried on these copies eventually generates macronuclei that are pure for one allele or the other. This phenomenon is called phenotypic assortment. We have previously reported the existence of loci that assort together (coassort) and hypothesized that these loci reside on the same macronuclear piece. The work reported here provides new, rigorous genetic support for the hypothesis that macronuclear autonomously replicating chromosome pieces are the physical basis of coassortment groups. Thus, coassortment allows the mapping of the somatic genome by purely genetic means. The data also strongly suggest that the random distribution of alleles in the Tetrahymena macronucleus is due to the random distribution of the MAC chromosome pieces that carry them.

Antibiotic resistance markers for plant transformation

1994 ◽  
pp. 125-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geert Angenon ◽  
Willy Dillen ◽  
Marc Van Montagu
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Plant Transformation ◽  
Resistance Markers

scholarly journals Simultaneous Detection of Nine Antibiotic Resistance-Related Genes in Streptococcus agalactiae Using Multiplex PCR and Reverse Line Blot Hybridization Assay

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianyu Zeng ◽  
Fanrong Kong ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Archie Darbar ◽  
Gwendolyn L. Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Multiplex Pcr ◽  
Streptococcus Agalactiae ◽  
Single Gene ◽  
Blot Hybridization ◽  
Simultaneous Detection ◽  
Reverse Line Blot ◽  
Hybridization Assay ◽  
Inducible Clindamycin Resistance ◽  
Phenotypic Resistance

ABSTRACT Streptococcus agalactiae (group B streptococcus [GBS]) is the leading cause of neonatal and maternal sepsis. Penicillin is recommended for intrapartum prophylaxis, but erythromycin or clindamycin is used for penicillin-allergic carriers. Antibiotic resistance (AR) has increased recently and needs to be monitored. We have developed a multiplex PCR-based reverse line blot (mPCR/RLB) hybridization assay to detect, simultaneously, seven genes encoding AR—erm(A/TR), erm(B), mef(A/E), tet(M), tet(O), aphA-3, and aad-6—and two AR-related genes, int-Tn and mreA. We tested 512 GBS isolates from Asia and Australasia and compared mPCR/RLB with antibiotic susceptibility phenotype or single-gene PCR. Phenotypic resistance to tetracycline was identified in 450 (88%) isolates, of which 442 had tet(M) (93%) and/or tet(O) (6%). Of 67 (13%) erythromycin-resistant isolates, 18 were susceptible to clindamycin, i.e., had the M phenotype, encoded by mef(A/E); 39 had constitutive (cMLSB) and 10 inducible clindamycin resistance, and of these, 34 contained erm(B) and 12 erm(A/TR). Of four additional isolates with mef(A/E), three contained erm(B) with cMLSB and one was erythromycin susceptible. Of 61 (12%) clindamycin-resistant isolates, 20 were susceptible to erythromycin and two had intermediate resistance. Based on sequencing, 21 of 22 isolates with mef had mef(E), and 8 of 353 with int-Tn had an atypical sequence. Several AR genes, erm(B), tet(O), aphA-3, aad-6, and mef(A/E), were significantly more common among Asian than Australasian isolates, and there were significant differences in distribution of AR genes between GBS serotypes. Our mPCR/RLB assay is simple, rapid, and suitable for surveillance of antibiotic resistance in GBS.

scholarly journals Characterization of the Global Stabilizing Substitution A77V and Its Role in the Evolution of CTX-M β-Lactamases

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 6741-6748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meha P. Patel ◽  
Bartlomiej G. Fryszczyn ◽  
Timothy Palzkill
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Adaptive Mutation ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Antibiotic Hydrolysis ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
M 14

ABSTRACTThe widespread use of oxyimino-cephalosporin antibiotics drives the evolution of the CTX-M family of β-lactamases that hydrolyze these drugs and confer antibiotic resistance. Clinically isolated CTX-M enzymes carrying the P167S or D240G active site-associated adaptive mutation have a broadened substrate profile that includes the oxyimino-cephalosporin antibiotic ceftazidime. The D240G substitution is known to reduce the stability of CTX-M-14 β-lactamase, and the P167S substitution is shown here to also destabilize the enzyme. Proteins are marginally stable entities, and second-site mutations that stabilize the enzyme can offset a loss in stability caused by mutations that enhance enzyme activity. Therefore, the evolution of antibiotic resistance enzymes can be dependent on the acquisition of stabilizing mutations. The A77V substitution is present in CTX-M extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) from a number of clinical isolates, suggesting that it may be important in the evolution of antibiotic resistance in this family of β-lactamases. In this study, the effects of the A77V substitution in the CTX-M-14 model enzyme were characterized with regard to the kinetic parameters for antibiotic hydrolysis as well as enzyme expression levelsin vivoand protein stabilityin vitro. The A77V substitution has little effect on the kinetics of oxyimino-cephalosporin hydrolysis, but it stabilizes the CTX-M enzyme and compensates for the loss of stability resulting from the P167S and D240G mutations. The acquisition of global stabilizing mutations, such as A77V, is an important feature in β-lactamase evolution and a common mechanism in protein evolution.

A nuclear magnetic resonance study of the equilibria and kinetics of the reaction of penicillamine with cystine and related disulfides

1985 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 2225-2231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvon Theriault ◽  
Dallas L. Rabenstein
Keyword(s):  
Random Distribution ◽  
Ph Dependence ◽  
Thiol Group ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study ◽  
Mercaptoacetic Acid ◽  
Exchange Reactions ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Mixed Disulfide ◽  
Ph Range ◽  
Kinetics Of

The thiol/disulfide exchange reactions of penicillamine (PSH) with cystine and several related disulfides (RSSR) have been studied by 1H nmr. The reactions take place in two steps:[Formula: see text]The equilibria and kinetics of the reactions of PSH with cystine were characterized over the pH range 5–8, while the reactions with the disulfides of cysteamine, homocysteine, 2-mercaptoethanol, mercaptoacetic acid, 3-mercaptopropionic acid, and mercaptosuccinic acid were studied at neutral pH. From the pH dependence of the rate of the reaction of PSH with cystine, the reactive species are identified as penicillamine with its amino group protonated and its thiol group deprotonated and cystine and penicillamine–cysteine mixed disulfide with their amino groups protonated. For all the disulfides studied, the extent to which the first reaction occurs is within a factor of 2–3 of that predicted by a random distribution, while the extent to which the second reaction occurs is considerably less than for a random distribution. This is attributed to steric effects due to the two methyl groups next to the sulfur of penicillamine.

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