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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2001, p. 583-588, Vol. 45, No. 2
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.2.583-588.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Characterization of OXA-25, OXA-26, and OXA-27,
Molecular Class D
-Lactamases Associated with Carbapenem
Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter
baumannii
Mariya
Afzal-Shah,
Neil
Woodford, and
David M.
Livermore*
Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and
Reference Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, London NW9
5HT, United Kingdom
Received 17 March 2000/Returned for modification 1 July
2000/Accepted 17 November 2000
Carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter spp.
is increasingly being associated with OXA-type
-lactamases with weak
hydrolytic activity against imipenem and meropenem. Such enzymes were
characterized from Acinetobacter isolates collected in
Belgium, Kuwait, Singapore, and Spain. The isolates from Spain and
Belgium had novel class D
-lactamases that were active against
carbapenems. These were designated OXA-25 and OXA-26, respectively, and
had >98% amino acid homology with each other and with the OXA-24
enzyme recently described by others from an Acinetobacter
isolate collected elsewhere in Spain. The isolate from Singapore had
OXA-27
-lactamase, another novel class D type with only 60%
homology to OXA-24, -25, and -26, but with 99% homology to OXA-23
(ARI-1), described previously from an Acinetobacter
baumannii isolate collected in Scotland. Sequence data were not
obtained for the carbapenem-hydrolyzing OXA enzyme from the isolate
from Kuwait; nevertheless, the enzyme was phenotypically similar to
OXA-25 and -26. The enzymes OXA-23, -24, -25, -26, and -27 retained the
STFK and SXV motifs typical of class D
-lactamases, but the YGN
motif was altered to FGN. The KTG motif was retained by OXA-27 and -23 but was replaced by KSG in OXA-24, -25, and -26. OXA-25 and -26 enzymes
were strongly active against oxacillin, but unusually for an OXA-type
-lactamase, OXA-27 had apparently weak activity, although
measurement was complicated by biphasic kinetics. None of the new
enzymes was transmissible to Escherichia coli recipients.
Many Acinetobacter isolates are multiresistant to other
antibiotics, and the emergence of class D enzymes with
carbapenem-hydrolyzing activity is a disturbing development for
antimicrobial chemotherapy.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: ARMRL, CPHL, 61 Colindale Ave., London NW9 5HT, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-208-200-4400. Fax: 44-208-358-3292. E-mail: dlivermore{at}phls.nhs.uk.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 2001, p. 583-588, Vol. 45, No. 2
0066-4804/01/$04.00+0 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.45.2.583-588.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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