State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009 Dec;53(12):5291-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00032-09. Epub 2009 Sep 14.
In this work we report the characterization of plasmid pCTX-M360, isolated from a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain from China and encoding the CTX-M-3 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase. Sequence analysis of pCTX-M360 revealed extensive similarity with pEL60 and pCTX-M3, two other enterobacterial plasmids of the IncL/M incompatibility group. Compared to pEL60, pCTX-M360 contains several insertions but lacks most of a 27-kb insert found in pCTX-M3, suggesting that it could be an evolutionary intermediate between pEL60 and pCTX-M3.
在这项工作中,我们报告了质粒 pCTX-M360 的特征,该质粒分离自一株来自中国的肺炎克雷伯菌,编码 CTX-M-3 型超广谱β-内酰胺酶。对 pCTX-M360 的序列分析表明,它与 pEL60 和 pCTX-M3 具有高度相似性,后两者是 IncL/M 不相容群的两种其他肠杆菌质粒。与 pEL60 相比,pCTX-M360 含有几个插入片段,但缺失了 pCTX-M3 中发现的 27kb 插入片段的大部分,这表明它可能是 pEL60 和 pCTX-M3 之间的进化中间体。