Tetracycline (pp-
tet), and kanamycin (pp-
kan) resistance genes were cloned from a transferable R plasmid of fish pathogen
Pasteurella piscicida, and complete nucleotide sequences were determined. The pp-
tet was a class D Tet determinant constructed with the
tetA resistance gene of 1, 182bp encoding a protein with a deduced molecular mass of 41kDa and the
tetR repressor gene of 654bp encoding a product of 24kDa. The pp-
tet was highly homologous to the
tet(D) of plasmid RA1 isolated from
Aeromonas hydrophila with two nucleotide differences in the
tetR, and of plasmid pIP173 from
Salmonella ordonez with two nucleotide differences in the
tetA. The pp-
kan contained 813bp encoding a 31kDa protein of 271 amino acids, and was classified into type
aph-Ic. It was identical to the
aphA7 in the IAB operon of pBWH77, in which was originally found an isolate of
Klebsiella pneumoniae, in its nucleotide sequences and hybrid promoter construction. The genes were connected by an insertion sequence IS
26 of 820bp, and were flanked by repeated copies in direct orientation at the 3' flanking region of the pp-
tetA and in inverted orientation at the 3' flanking region of the pp-
kan. The genetic elements are organized like a complex transposon by close linkage of the IS
26 and the pp-
tet and -
kan.
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