The Identification of Intrinsic Chloramphenicol and Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Members of the Bacillus cereus Group (sensu lato)

被引:8
作者
Glenwright, Helen [1 ]
Pohl, Susanne [1 ]
Navarro, Ferran [2 ]
Miro, Elisenda [2 ]
Jimenez, Guillermo [3 ]
Blanch, Anicet R. [4 ]
Harwood, Colin R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Newcastle Univ, Inst Cell & Mol Biol, Ctr Bacterial Cell Biol, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England
[2] Hosp Santa Creu & Sant Pau, Inst Invest Biomed St Pau, Microbiol Serv, Barcelona, Spain
[3] Rubinum SA, Dept Res & Dev, Rubi, Spain
[4] Univ Barcelona, Dept Microbiol, Barcelona, Spain
基金
英国生物技术与生命科学研究理事会;
关键词
Bacillus toyonensis; gene knockouts; intrinsic antibiotic resistance; Bacillus cereus; quantitative PCR; SP NOV; MECHANISMS; EVOLUTION;
D O I
10.3389/fmicb.2016.02122
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Bacillus toyonensis strain BCT-7112(T) (NCIMB 14858(T)) has been widely used as an additive in animal nutrition for more than 30 years without reports of adverse toxigenic effects. However, this strain is resistant to chloramphenicol and tetracycline and it is generally considered inadvisable to introduce into the food chain resistance determinants capable of being transferred to other bacterial strains, thereby adding to the pool of such determinants in the gastro-enteric systems of livestock species. We therefore characterized the resistance phenotypes of this strain and its close relatives to determine whether they were of recent origin, and therefore likely to be transmissible. To this end we identified the genes responsible for chloramphenicol (catQ) and tetracycline (tetM) resistance and confirmed the presence of homologs in other members of the toyonensis taxonomic unit. Unexpectedly, closely related strains encoding these genes did not exhibit chloramphenicol and tetracycline resistance phenotypes. To understand the differences in the behaviors, we cloned and expressed the genes, together with their upstream regulatory regions, into Bacillus subtilis. The data showed that the genes encoded functional proteins, but were expressed inefficiently from their native promoters. B. toyonensis is a taxonomic unit member of the Bacillus cereus group (sensu lato). We therefore extended the analysis to determine the extent to which homologous chloramphenicol and tetracycline resistance genes were present in other species within this group. This analysis revealed that homologous genes were present in nearly all representative species within the B. cereus group (sensu lato). The absence of known transposition elements and the observations that they are found at the same genomic locations, indicates that these chloramphenicol and tetracycline resistance genes are of ancient origin and intrinsic to this taxonomic group, rather than recent acquisitions. In this context we discuss definitions of what are and are not intrinsic genes, an issue that is of fundamental importance to both Regulatory Authorities, and the animal feed and related industries.
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