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SUBMITTER: Raherison S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5404527 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Raherison Sophie S Jove Thomas T Gaschet Margaux M Pinault Emilie E Tabesse Aurore A Torres Carmen C Ploy Marie-Cécile MC
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20170424 5
<i>aac(6')-Ib-cr</i> is a plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance gene embedded within a gene cassette, most often within an integron. It confers resistance to quinolones and aminoglycosides. We investigated the role of a 101-bp fragment frequently present upstream of the <i>aac(6')-Ib-cr</i> gene cassette and found that it contributes to the expression of <i>aac(6')-Ib-cr</i> and provides an alternative start codon, confirming the length of the AAC(6')-Ib-cr protein to 199 amino acids. ...[more]