Perreten, Vincent; Kollöffel, Beat; Teuber, Michael (1997). Conjugal Transfer of the Tn916-like Transposon TnFO1 from Enterococcus faecalis Isolated from Cheese to Other Gram-positive Bacteria. Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 20(1), pp. 27-38. 10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80045-8
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)A Tn916-like transposon (TnFO1) was found in the multiple antibiotic resistant Enterococcus faecalis strain FO1 isolated from a raw milk cheese. In this strain, the tetracycline determinant was localized by DNA-DNA hybridization with a tetM nucleotide probe on the chromosome and on a 30-kb plasmid. The transposon TnFO1 was identified and characterized by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments with the five internal HincII fragments of Tn916. The tetracycline resistance determinant was identified by its complete nucleotide sequence as TetM. Transposon TnFO1 was also detected in its circular form by DNA-DNA hybridization and PCR amplification. Both ends including the joining region of the closed circular transposon TnFO1 were sequenced. TnFO1 could be transferred by conjugation from Enterococcus faecalis into Enterococcus faecalis, Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar. diacetylactis, Listeria innocua, Leuconostoc mesenteroides and Staphylococcus aureus, and from Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar. diacetylactis into Listeria innocua. Pulsed-field electrophoresis of genomic DNA from E. faecalis FO1 transconjugants showed that transposon TnFO1 integrated at different sites.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Veterinary Bacteriology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Perreten, Vincent |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology |
ISSN: |
0723-2020 |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Vincent Perreten |
Date Deposited: |
22 Sep 2014 09:37 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:34 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80045-8 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/52003 |
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