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  • Title: [Biochemical bases for the effect of combining kanamycin and nitrofuran resistance genes in Escherichia coli cells].
    Author: Morozov GI, Nosova LIu, Biketov SF, Valiaev AG, Domaradskiĭ IV.
    Journal: Mol Gen Mikrobiol Virusol; 1994; (2):11-4. PubMed ID: 8183300.
    Abstract:
    The fact of a significant increase in resistance to aminoglycosides when nfr genes with chromosomal or plasmid localization are combined with the plasmid genes coding for kanamycin-transferase in E. coli cells is confirmed. Gel-filtration of homogenates of the cells with and without pLD105 plasmid carrying nfr gene and of the cells with a chromosomal nfr gene revealed a 10 kD polypeptide when the plasmid is present. Relying on these results, it is concluded that the discovered polypeptide fulfils two roles: inhibiting of specific nitrofuran-reductase, which leads to nitrofurans resistance and a drop of transmembrane electric potential contributing to the increase of resistance to aminoglycosides (kanamycin) in strains with the plasmid nfr gene. Absence of the 10 kD polypeptide in the cells with a chromosomal nfr gene and other data are indicative of a possible existence of a different mechanism of resistance to nitrofurans and an increase of resistance to aminoglycosides in the strains with a chromosomal nfr mutation.
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