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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 1998, p. 3173-3178, Vol. 42, No. 12
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Expression of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Gentamicin Resistance Gene aacC3 in Escherichia coli

Renée A. J. van Boxtel and Jos A. M. van de Klundert*

Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands

Received 11 March 1998/Returned for modification 15 May 1998/Accepted 17 September 1998

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa aacC3 gene was expressed in Escherichia coli after cloning of the single gene behind the strong tac promoter. In the original Pseudomonas strain, aacC3 is preceded by cysC; together they form a single transcription unit. The ribosome-binding site and start codon of aacC3 are involved in a putative intercistronic hairpin, the stability of which interfered with the aminoglycoside resistance level. In Northern blots, full-length transcripts comprising both cysC and aacC3 could not be detected either in the original Pseudomonas strain or in E. coli harboring a plasmid with the cloned operon. In contrast, cysC transcripts were abundant. Cloning of the operon between the tac promoter and a transcription termination signal resulted in higher mRNA levels and phenotypic expression in E. coli. The absence of a transcription termination signal in the wild-type cysC-aacC3 sequence is associated with transcripts of heterogeneous size that were undetected in Northern blots. Our results shed more light on the expression of this gentamicin resistance determinant, although the discrepancies between its expression in E. coli and Pseudomonas are not fully solved.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. Phone: 31.71.5263358. Fax: 31.71.5248148. E-mail: jvdklundert{at}rullf2.medfac.leidenuniv.nl.


Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, December 1998, p. 3173-3178, Vol. 42, No. 12
0066-4804/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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