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Stability of polymorphic GC-rich repeat sequence-containing regions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.


ABSTRACT: Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures were subjected to DNA fingerprinting with IS6110- and polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS)-containing probes. The PGRS banding patterns remained highly stable during multiple cultures of specimens from one disease episode (0.5% changed) and during transmission in patients with close contact (1.9% changed). Characteristic PGRS-restriction fragment length polymorphism motifs for different strain groupings may indicate distant evolutionary events leading to the differentiation of M. tuberculosis strain lineages.

SUBMITTER: Richardson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC356821 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Stability of polymorphic GC-rich repeat sequence-containing regions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Richardson Madalene M   van der Spuy Gian D GD   Sampson Samantha L SL   Beyers Nulda N   van Helden Paul D PD   Warren Robin M RM  

Journal of clinical microbiology 20040301 3


Mycobacterium tuberculosis cultures were subjected to DNA fingerprinting with IS6110- and polymorphic GC-rich sequence (PGRS)-containing probes. The PGRS banding patterns remained highly stable during multiple cultures of specimens from one disease episode (0.5% changed) and during transmission in patients with close contact (1.9% changed). Characteristic PGRS-restriction fragment length polymorphism motifs for different strain groupings may indicate distant evolutionary events leading to the di  ...[more]

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