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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2008, p. 1021-1027, Vol. 52, No. 3
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01082-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Highly Variable Penicillin Resistance Determinants PBP 2x, PBP 2b, and PBP 1a in Isolates of Two Streptococcus pneumoniae Clonal Groups, Poland23F-16 and Poland6B-20{triangledown}

Radoslaw Izdebski,1 Jens Rutschmann,2 Janusz Fiett,1 Ewa Sadowy,1 Marek Gniadkowski,1 Waleria Hryniewicz,1* and Regine Hakenbeck2

National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Chelmska 30/34, Warsaw 00-725, Poland,1 University of Kaiserslautern, Department of Microbiology, Paul-Ehrlich Strasse 23, Kaiserslautern D-67663, Germany2

Received 17 August 2007/ Returned for modification 10 November 2007/ Accepted 16 December 2007

Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) in representatives of two Streptococcus pneumoniae clonal groups that are prevalent in Poland, Poland23F-16 and Poland6B-20, were investigated by PBP profile analysis, antibody reactivity pattern analysis, and DNA sequence analysis of the transpeptidase (TP) domain-encoding regions of the pbp2x, pbp2b, and pbp1a genes. The isolates differed in their MICs of β-lactam antibiotics. The majority of the 6B isolates were intermediately susceptible to penicillin (penicillin MICs, 0.12 to 0.5 µg/ml), whereas all 23F isolates were penicillin resistant (MICs, ≥2 µg/ml). The 6B isolates investigated had the same sequence type (ST), determined by multilocus sequence typing, as the Poland6B-20 reference strain (ST315), but in the 23F group, isolates with three distinct single-locus variants (SLVs) in the ddl gene (ST173, ST272, and ST1506) were included. None of the isolates showed an identical PBP profile after labeling with Bocillin FL and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and only one pair of 6B isolates and one pair of 23F isolates (ST173 and ST272) each contained an identical combination of PBP 2x, PBP 2b, and PBP 1a TP domains. Some 23F isolates contained PBP 3 with an apparently higher electrophoretic mobility, and this feature also did not correlate with their STs. The data document a highly variable pool of PBP genes as a result of multiple gene transfer and recombination events within and between different clonal groups.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: National Medicines Institute, Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, Chelmska 30/34, Warsaw 00-725, Poland. Phone: 48 22 8413367. Fax: 48 22 8412949. E-mail: waleria{at}cls.edu.pl

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 26 December 2007.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2008, p. 1021-1027, Vol. 52, No. 3
0066-4804/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01082-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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