The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2021
Novel tigecycline resistance gene cluster tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b in Proteus spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, co-existing with tet(X6) on an SXT/R391 integrative and conjugative element.
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Wang Cheng-Zhen, Gao Xun, Lv Lu-Chao, Cai Zhong-Peng, Yang Jun, Liu Jian-Hua
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OBJECTIVES: To characterize a novel MDR efflux pump gene cluster tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b carried by Proteus spp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from chickens.
METHODS: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, conjugation and WGS were performed to characterize tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b-positive isolates. Cloning and reverse transcription-quantitative PCR were performed to investigate the function of tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b.
RESULTS: The WGS data revealed that a novel efflux pump gene cluster, tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b, was identified on the chromosome of the Proteus cibarius strain SDQ8C180-2T, where an SXT/R391-family integrative and conjugative element (ICE) was found to co-carry tet(X6) and tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b. Further retrospective analysis found two other tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b variants in a Proteus mirabilis isolate and a P. aeruginosa isolate, respectively. tmexCD3-toprJ1b and its variants increased the MICs of tigecycline (8-fold) and other antibiotics (2-8-fold) in Escherichia coli host strains. The TNfxB3 protein down-regulated the expression of the tmexCD3-toprJ1b operon. Moreover, genetic-context analyses showed that tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b together with adjacent integrase genes appeared to compose a transferable module 'int1-like+int2-like+hp1+hp2+ISCfr1+tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b', which was inserted into the umuC-like gene of this ICE. Further analysis of the tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b-harbouring sequences deposited in GenBank revealed similar transferable modules inserted into umuC-like genes in plasmids or chromosomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas spp. and Aeromonas spp., implying that these modules could be transferred across different bacterial species.
CONCLUSIONS: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first identification of a novel tigecycline gene cluster, tmexCD3-toprJ1b, which co-exists with tet(X6) within an ICE. More attention should be paid to the co-transfer of these two tigecycline resistance determinants via an ICE to other Gram-negative bacteria.
METHODS: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing, conjugation and WGS were performed to characterize tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b-positive isolates. Cloning and reverse transcription-quantitative PCR were performed to investigate the function of tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b.
RESULTS: The WGS data revealed that a novel efflux pump gene cluster, tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b, was identified on the chromosome of the Proteus cibarius strain SDQ8C180-2T, where an SXT/R391-family integrative and conjugative element (ICE) was found to co-carry tet(X6) and tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b. Further retrospective analysis found two other tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b variants in a Proteus mirabilis isolate and a P. aeruginosa isolate, respectively. tmexCD3-toprJ1b and its variants increased the MICs of tigecycline (8-fold) and other antibiotics (2-8-fold) in Escherichia coli host strains. The TNfxB3 protein down-regulated the expression of the tmexCD3-toprJ1b operon. Moreover, genetic-context analyses showed that tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b together with adjacent integrase genes appeared to compose a transferable module 'int1-like+int2-like+hp1+hp2+ISCfr1+tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b', which was inserted into the umuC-like gene of this ICE. Further analysis of the tnfxB3-tmexCD3-toprJ1b-harbouring sequences deposited in GenBank revealed similar transferable modules inserted into umuC-like genes in plasmids or chromosomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas spp. and Aeromonas spp., implying that these modules could be transferred across different bacterial species.
CONCLUSIONS: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first identification of a novel tigecycline gene cluster, tmexCD3-toprJ1b, which co-exists with tet(X6) within an ICE. More attention should be paid to the co-transfer of these two tigecycline resistance determinants via an ICE to other Gram-negative bacteria.