title: Detection of two groups of 25.2 MDa Tet M plasmids by polymerase chain reaction of the downstream region.
abstract: Forty-four Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 12 N. meningitidis, four Kingella denitrificans and one Eikenella corrodens carrying 25.2 MDa Tet M plasmids were analysed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to the downstream region of the incomplete Tet M transposon. From each isolate, one of two different PCR fragments of approximately 700 or 1600 bp were obtained. The two different sized PCR fragments had > or = 90% DNA sequence identity with Ureaplasma urealyticum Tet M downstream sequences. The difference between the large PCR fragment and the smaller PCR fragment was a deletion of over 800 bp in the smaller fragment. Both PCR fragments were found in plasmids isolated from N. gonorrhoeae and K. denitrificans. The smaller PCR fragment was found in N. meningitidis plasmids and the larger PCR fragment was found in the E. corrodens plasmid.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathobiology, University of Washington, Seattle 89195, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016124:Eikenella corrodens / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D017881:Kingella / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009344:Neisseria gonorrhoeae / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D011815:R Factors; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013753:Tetracycline Resistance / Q000235:genetics*; D016990:Ureaplasma urealyticum / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C083138:Tet M resistance protein, Bacteria