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. 2004 Jun;48(6):2075-80.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.48.6.2075-2080.2004.

Spread of novel aminoglycoside resistance gene aac(6')-Iad among Acinetobacter clinical isolates in Japan

Yohei Doi  1 , Jun-Ichi Wachino, Kunikazu Yamane, Naohiro Shibata, Tetsuya Yagi, Keigo Shibayama, Haru Kato, Yoshichika Arakawa
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Spread of novel aminoglycoside resistance gene aac(6')-Iad among Acinetobacter clinical isolates in Japan

Yohei Doi et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Jun.

Abstract

A novel aminoglycoside resistance gene, aac(6')-Iad, encoding aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase, was identified in Acinetobacter genospecies 3 strain A-51. The gene encoded a 144-amino-acid protein, which shared modest identity (up to 36.7%) with some of the aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferases. The results of high-pressure liquid chromatography assays confirmed that the protein is a functional aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase. The enzyme conferred resistance to amikacin, tobramycin, sisomicin, and isepamicin but not to gentamicin. The prevalence of this gene among Acinetobacter clinical isolates in Japan was then investigated. Of 264 Acinetobacter sp. strains isolated from geographically diverse areas in Japan in 2002, 16 were not susceptible to amikacin, and aac(6')-Iad was detected in 7. Five of the producers of aminoglycoside 6'-N-acetyltransferase type Iad were identified as Acinetobacter baumannii, and two were identified as Acinetobacter genospecies 3. These results suggest that aac(6')-Iad plays a substantial role in amikacin resistance among Acinetobacter spp. in Japan.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Alignment of the deduced amino acid sequences of AAC(6′)-Iad and other aminoglycoside acetyltransferases, including AAC(6′)-Ic (GenBank accession no. M94066), AAC(6′)-Id (X12618), AAC(6′)-If (X55353), AAC(6′)-Ig (L09246), AAC(6′)-Ih (L29044), AAC(6′)-Ij (L29045), AAC(6′)-Ik (L29510), AAC(6′)-Il (Z54241, U13880), AAC(6′)-Ir (AF031326), AAC(6′)-Is (AF031327), AAC(6′)-It (AF031328), AAC(6′)-Iu (AF031329), AAC(6′)-Iv (AF031330), AAC(6′)-Iw (AF031331), AAC(6′)-Ix (AF031332), AAC(6′)-Iy (AF144880), and AAC(6′)-Iz (AF140221). Asterisks indicate identical amino acids. Conservative amino acid substitutions are indicated by dots.
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FIG. 2.
Dendrogram for aminoglycoside 6′-N-acetyltransferases belonging to the subfamily represented by AAC(6′)-Ic. The dendrogram was calculated by the ClustalW computer program, available on the National Institute of Genetics website (http://www.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/E-mail/clustalw-e.html), and illustrated with the TreeViewPPC computer program (version 1.6.5 for Macintosh). Branch lengths correspond to the numbers of amino acid exchanges.
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