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. 2012 Nov 16;3:384. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00384

Table 3.

Acquired phenicol resistance genes*.

Mechanism Group Gene Gene(s) included Length (nt) Accession number Coding region Genera
Efflux Type E-1 cmlA1 cmlA, cmlA2, cmlA4, cmlA5, cmlA6, cmlA7, cmlA8, cmlA10, cmlB 1260 M64556 601… 1860 Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Arcanobacterium, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Laribacter, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, Serratia, Staphylococcus
Type E-2 cml 903 M22614 427… 1335 Escherichia
Type E-3 floR cmlA-like, flo, pp-flo, cmlA9 1215 AF071555 4445… 5659 Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Bordetella, Escherichia, Pasteurella, Salmonella, Stenotrophomonas, Vibrio
Type E-4 fexA 1428 AJ549214 177… 1604 Bacillus, Staphylococcus
Type E-5 cml 1179 X59968 508… 1686 Streptomyces
Type E-6 cmlv 1311 U09991 28… 1338 Streptomyces
Type E-7 cmrA cmr 1176 Z12001 993… 2168 Rhodococcus
Type E-8 cmr cmx 1176 U85507 3518… 4693 Corynebacterium
cmlB1 1266 AM296481 776… 2041 Bordetella
fexB 1410 JN192453 10637… 12046 Enterococcus
pexA 1248 HM537013 24055… 25302 Uncultured
Inactivating enzyme Type A-1 catA1 cat, catI, pp-cat 660 V00622 244… 903 Acinetobacter, Corynebacterium, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Salmonella, Shigella
Type A-2 catA2 cat, catII 642 X53796 187… 828 Aeromonas, Agrobacterium, Escherichia, Haemophilus, Legionella, Klebsiella, Photobacterium, Salmonella, Vibrio
Type A-3 catA3 cat, catIII 642 X07848 272… 913 Actinobacillus, Edwardsiella, Klebsiella, Mannheimia, Pasteurella, Shigella
Type A-4 cat 654 M11587 880… 1533 Proteus
Type A-5 cat 663 P20074$ 1002758… 1003420 Streptomyces
Type A-6 cat86 663 K00544 145… 807 Bacillus
Type A-7 cat(pC221) cat, catC 648 X02529 2267… 2914 Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus
Type A-8 cat(pC223) cat 648 AY355285 1000… 1647 Enterococcus, Lactococcus, Listeria, Staphylococcus
Type A-9 cat(pC194) cat, cat-TC 651 NC_002013 1260… 1910 Bacillus, Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus
Type A-10 cat 687 AY238971 1055… 1741 Bacillus
Type A-11 catP catD 624 U15027 2953… 3576 Clostridium, Neisseria
Type A-12 catS 492§ X74948 1… 492 Streptococcus
Type A-13 cat 624 M35190 309… 932 Campylobacter
Type A-14 cat 651 S48276 479… 1129 Listonella, Photobacterium, Proteus, Vibrio
Type A-15 catB 660 M93113 145… 804 Clostridium
Type A-16 catQ 660 M55620 459… 1118 Clostridium
Type B-1 catB1 cat 630 M58472 148… 777 Agrobacterium
Type B-2 catB2 633 AF047479 5957… 6589 Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Bordetella, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Pasteurella, Pseudomonas, Salmonella
Type B-3 catB3 catB4, catB5, catB6, catB8 633 AJ009818 883… 1515 Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Bordetella, Comamonas, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Morganella, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, Serratia, Stenotrophomonas
Type B-4 catB7 639 AF036933 177… 815 Pseudomonas
Type B-5 catB9 630 AF462019 27… 656 Vibrio
Type B-6 catB10 633 AJ878850 1197… 1829 Pseudomonas
rRNA methylase cfr$ 1050 AJ579365 6290… 7339 Bacillus, Enterococcus, Escherichia, Jeotgalicoccus, Macrococcus, Proteus, Staphylococcus
*

Last update: December 16th 2011. Adapted from Partridge et al. (2009), Roberts and Schwarz (2009), Schwarz et al. (2004), and nucleotide BLAST searches.

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Partial sequence.

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The multidrug resistance gene cfr confers resistance against phenicols, lincosamides, oxazolidinones, pleuromutilins, and streptogramin A (see Table 4; Kehrenberg et al., 2007).