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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2004, p. 2069-2074, Vol. 48, No. 6
0066-4804/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.6.2069-2074.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Genetic Environments of the rmtA Gene in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Clinical Isolates
Kunikazu Yamane, Yohei Doi, Keiko Yokoyama, Tetsuya Yagi, Hiroshi Kurokawa, Naohiro Shibata, Keigo Shibayama, Haru Kato, and Yoshichika Arakawa*
Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Received 24 August 2003/
Returned for modification 24 December 2003/
Accepted 22 February 2004
Nine Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains showing very high levels of resistance to various aminoglycosides have been isolated from clinical specimens in seven separate Japanese hospitals in five prefectures since 1997. These strains harbor the newly identified 16S rRNA methylase gene (rmtA). When an rmtA gene probe was hybridized with genomic DNAs of the nine strains digested with EcoRI, two distinct patterns were observed. The 11.1- and 15.8-kb regions containing the rmtA genes of strains AR-2 and AR-11, respectively, were sequenced and compared. In strain AR-2, a transposase gene-like sequence (sequence 1) and a probable tRNA ribosyltransferase gene (orfA) were located upstream of rmtA, and a Na+/H+ antiporter gene-like sequence (sequence 2) was identified downstream of rmtA. This 6.2-kbp insert (the rmtA locus) was flanked by 262-bp 
elements. Part of the orfQ gene adjacent to an inverted repeat was found outside of the rmtA locus. In strain AR-11, the rmtA gene and sequence 2 were found, but the 5' end of the orfA gene was truncated and replaced with IS6100. An orfQ-orfI region was present on each side of the rmtA gene in strain AR-11. The G+C content of the rmtA gene was about 55%, and since the newly identified rmtA gene may well be mediated by some mobile genetic elements such as Tn5041, further dissemination of the rmtA gene could become an actual clinical problem in the near future.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Infection Control, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 4-7-1 Gakuen, Musashi-Murayama, Tokyo 208-0011, Japan. Phone: 81-42-561-0771, ext. 500. Fax: 81-42-561-7173. E-mail: yarakawa{at}nih.go.jp.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2004, p. 2069-2074, Vol. 48, No. 6
0066-4804/04/$08.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.6.2069-2074.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
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