Diversity of Substitutions within or Adjacent to Conserved Amino Acid Motifs of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2X in Cephalosporin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 43 (5) , 1252-1255
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.43.5.1252
Abstract
The sequence of an approximately 1.1-kb DNA fragment of the pbp2x gene, which encodes the transpeptidase domain, was determined for 35 clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae for which the cefotaxime (CTX) MICs varied. Strains with substitutions within a conserved amino acid motif changing STMK to SAFK and a Leu-to-Val change just before the KSG motif were highly resistant to CTX (MIC, ≧2 μg/ml). Strains with substitutions adjacent to SSN or KSG motifs had low-level resistance. The amino acid substitutions were plotted on the three-dimensional crystallographic structure of the transpeptidase domain of PBP2X. Transformants containing pbp2x from strains with high-level CTX resistance increased the CTX MIC from 0.016 μg/ml to 0.5 to 1.0 μg/ml.Keywords
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