The novel macrolide resistance genes mef(F) and msr(G) are located on a plasmid in Macrococcus canis and a transposon in Macrococcus caseolyticus.

Fernandez, Javier Eduardo; Perreten, Vincent; Schwendener, Sybille (2021). The novel macrolide resistance genes mef(F) and msr(G) are located on a plasmid in Macrococcus canis and a transposon in Macrococcus caseolyticus. The journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 76(1), pp. 48-54. Oxford University Press 10.1093/jac/dkaa405

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OBJECTIVES
To analyse macrolide resistance in a Macrococcus canis strain isolated from a dog with an ear infection, and determine whether the resistance mechanism is also present in other bacteria, and associated with mobile genetic elements.
METHODS
The whole genome of M. canis Epi0082 was sequenced using PacBio and Illumina technologies. Novel macrolide resistance determinants were identified through bioinformatic analysis, and functionality was demonstrated by expression in Staphylococcus aureus. Mobile genetic elements containing the novel genes were analysed in silico for strain Epi0082 as well as in other bacterial strains deposited in GenBank.
RESULTS
M. canis Epi0082 contained a 3212 bp operon with the novel macrolide resistance genes mef(F) and msr(G) encoding a efflux protein and an ABC-F ribosomal protection protein, respectively. Cloning in S. aureus confirmed that both genes individually confer resistance to the 14- and 15-membered ring macrolides erythromycin and azithromycin, but not the 16-membered ring macrolide tylosin. A reduced susceptibility to the streptogramin B pristinamycin IA was additionally observed when msr(G) was expressed in S. aureus under erythromycin induction. Epi0082 carried the mef(F)-msr(G) operon together with the chloramphenicol resistance gene fexB in a novel 39 302 bp plasmid pMiCAN82a. The mef(F)-msr(G) operon was also found in macrolide-resistant Macrococcus caseolyticus strains in the GenBank database, but was situated in the chromosome as part of a novel 13 820 bp or 13 894 bp transposon Tn6776.
CONCLUSIONS
The identification of mef(F) and msr(G) on different mobile genetic elements in Macrococcus species indicates that these genes hold potential for further dissemination of resistance to the clinically important macrolides in the bacterial population.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

09 Interdisciplinary Units > Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Platform
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology > Molecular Bacterial Epidemiology and Infectiology
05 Veterinary Medicine > Research Foci > Host-Pathogen Interaction
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP)
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology

UniBE Contributor:

Fernandez, Javier Eduardo, Perreten, Vincent, Schwendener, Sybille

Subjects:

500 Science
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture

ISSN:

1460-2091

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Funders:

Organisations 118 not found.

Language:

English

Submitter:

Vincent Perreten

Date Deposited:

21 Dec 2020 11:57

Last Modified:

17 Apr 2023 11:02

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/jac/dkaa405

PubMed ID:

33118027

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.149627

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/149627

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