Genetics and expression of the carbapenem-hydrolyzing oxacillinase gene blaOXA-23 in Acinetobacter baumannii.

ABSTRACT: The genetic structures surrounding the plasmid-carried blaOXA-23 oxacillinase gene, encoding resistance to carbapenems, were studied in Acinetobacter baumannii. ISAba1 and the novel element ISAba4 were detected upstream of the blaOXA-23 gene, providing promoter sequences for its expression. These insertion elements were likely involved in transposition processes at the origin of acquisition of this beta-lactamase gene.

SUBMITTER: Corvec S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1855470 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature