Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22314529›Full record

ArticleAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2012

blaNDM-1 is a chimera likely constructed in Acinetobacter baumannii.

M A Toleman, J Spencer, L Jones, T R Walsh

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Article in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 71 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

71 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Global Epidemiology and Mechanisms of Resistance of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus Complex.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2023
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  14. Characterization ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
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  20. Emergence of a Carbapenem-ResistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M A TolemanDepartment of Medical Microbiology and Infection, the Heath Hospital, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. Tolemanma@Cardiff.ac.uk
J Spencer
L Jones
T R Walsh

Funding

Medical Research Council G1100135
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alignment of DNA sequences found upstream of aphA6 and all bla(NDM-1) genes displays 100% identity. This identity continues 19 bp into the bla(NDM-1) gene such that the first 6 amino acids of aphA6 and bla(NDM-1) are the same. Furthermore, the percent GC content (GC%) of aphA6 is considerably lower than that of bla(NDM-1) and the GC% within the bla(NDM-1) structural gene changes dramatically after the first 19 bp. This is unequivocal evidence that bla(NDM-1) is a chimera.

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5' Flanking RegionAcinetobacter baumanniiAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsBase CompositionBase Sequencebeta-LactamasesCarbapenemsHumansMolecular Sequence DataMutant Chimeric ProteinsOpen Reading FramesSequence AlignmentAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Proteinsbeta-LactamasesCarbapenemsMutant Chimeric Proteins

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PMID22314529
PMCPMC3346620

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