Integron-located oxa-32 gene cassette encoding an extended-spectrum variant of OXA-2 beta-lactamase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2002 Feb;46(2):566-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.46.2.566-569.2002.

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolate CY-1, which was resistant to ceftazidime, harbored a conjugative ca. 250-kb plasmid that contained a class 1 integron with two gene cassettes encoding OXA-32, an OXA-2- type beta-lactamase, and the aminoglycoside acetyltransferase AAC(6')Ib(9). OXA-32 differed from OXA-2 by an Leu169Ile amino acid substitution (class D numbering). Site-directed mutagenesis established that Ile169 is responsible for resistance to ceftazidime but not to cefotaxime.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetyltransferases / metabolism
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Cefotaxime / pharmacology
  • Ceftazidime / pharmacology
  • Cephalosporins / pharmacology
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial / physiology
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / enzymology*
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa / genetics
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • Cephalosporins
  • Ceftazidime
  • Acetyltransferases
  • aminoglycoside N(6')-acetyltransferase
  • beta-lactamase OXA-2
  • beta-Lactamases
  • Cefotaxime

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AF315351