Recovery of a functional class 2 integron from an Escherichia coli strain mediating a urinary tract infection

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Nov;52(11):4153-4. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00710-08. Epub 2008 Sep 15.

Abstract

A class 2 integron was found in an Escherichia coli isolate mediating a urinary tract infection. Unlike other class 2 integrons from pathogens, the encoded IntI2 protein was functional. The integron possessed a dfrA14 cassette, and a second novel cassette in which a lipoprotein signal peptidase gene is predicted.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology
  • Escherichia coli / genetics*
  • Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
  • Escherichia coli / pathogenicity*
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics*
  • Genes, Bacterial
  • Humans
  • Integrases / genetics*
  • Integrons*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Recombination, Genetic
  • Urinary Tract Infections / microbiology*

Substances

  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • InTI2 protein, E coli
  • Integrases

Associated data

  • GENBANK/EU780012