MULTIDRUG-RESISTANCE PLASMID PSK108 FROM COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI - RELATIONSHIPS TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS QACC PLASMIDS

Authors
LEELAPORN A FIRTH N PAULSEN IT HETTIARATCHI A SKURRAY RA
Citation
A. Leelaporn et al., MULTIDRUG-RESISTANCE PLASMID PSK108 FROM COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI - RELATIONSHIPS TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS QACC PLASMIDS, Plasmid, 34(1), 1995, pp. 62-67
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Genetics & Heredity
Journal title
Plasmid → ACNP
ISSN journal
0147619X
Volume
34
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
62 - 67
Database
ISI
SICI code
0147-619X(1995)34:1<62:MPPFCS>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
The 2.4-kb Staphylococcus epidermidis plasmid, pSK108, encodes a qacC multidrug resistance determinant. Sequence analysis has revealed that pSK108 is a member of the pC194 family of rolling circle replicating p lasmids and suggests that the DNA segment containing qacC, which is bo unded by the replication nick site and the minus origin palA represent s a resistance gene cassette that has undergone horizontal genetic exc hange. (C) 1995 Academic Press, Inc.