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ArticleJournal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea)2022

Comparative analysis of the Colistin resistance-regulating gene cluster in Klebsiella species.

Sun Ju Kim, Hongbaek Cho, Kwan Soo Ko

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Article in Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Sun Ju KimDepartment of Microbiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea.
Hongbaek ChoDepartment of Biological Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea. hongbaek@skku.edu.
Kwan Soo KoDepartment of Microbiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, 16419, Republic of Korea. ksko@skku.edu.
Sungkyunkwan University · KR

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Abstract

CrrAB two-component regulatory system is associated with colistin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. Recently, some K. pneumoniae isolates lacking crrAB genes have been identified. In this study, we investigated the distribution and structural variation of the crrBAC-kexD cluster. To evaluate the structural variation of the crrBAC-kexD cluster, we explored 59 clinical K. pneumoniae isolates from Korea, and 508 whole genomes of K. pneumoniae and other strains of Klebsiella sp. Significant structural variations in crrBAC-kexD and its surrounding regions were identified among K. pneumoniae genomes. Within the genus Klebsiella, the cluster was identified only in K. pneumoniae, K. variicola, and K. quasipneumoniae, which form the K. pneumoniae complex. Among the 304 available K. pneumoniae genomes, an intact crrBAC-kexD cluster was identified in 178 isolates (58.6%), while the cluster was absent in 90 isolates (29.6%). Partial deletions within the cluster were identified in 22 genomes (7.2%). The most diverse structural patterns of the crrBAC-kexD cluster were observed in ST11 strains. Some clades lacked the crrBAC-kexD cluster. The crrBAC-kexD cluster was identified in the genomes of other bacterial species, including Citrobacter freundii and Enterobacter ludwigii. The crrBAC-kexD cluster is proposed to have been acquired by the ancestor of the K. pneumoniae complex from other bacterial species and the cluster may have been lost and re-acquired repeatedly in K. pneumoniae strains according to the phylogenetic analysis. The dynamic evolution of the crrBAC-kexD cluster suggests that it may have other roles, in addition to colistin resistance, in bacterial physiology.

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ColistinKlebsiella InfectionsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsHumansKlebsiellaKlebsiella pneumoniaeMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMultigene FamilyPhylogenyAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial ProteinsColistincolistin resistancecrrABkexDKlebsiella

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