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

Table 6.

Acquired tetracycline resistance genes*.

Mechanism Gene Length (nt) Accession number Coding region Genera
Efflux otr(B) 1692 AF079900 40… 1731 Mycobacterium, Streptomyces
otr(C) 1056 AY509111 324… 1379 Streptomyces
tcr 1539 D38215 516… 2054 Streptomyces
tet(A) 1200 X00006 1328… 2527 Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, Alcaligenes, Bordetella, Chryseobacterium, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Flavobacterium, Klebsiella, Laribacter, Plesiomonas, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Variovorax, Veillonella, Vibrio
tetA(P) 1263 L20800 1063… 2325 Clostridium
tet(B) 1206 J01830 1608… 2813 Acinetobacter, Actinobacillus, Aeromonas, Aggregatibacter, Brevundimonas, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Haemophilus, Klebsiella, Mannheimia, Moraxella, Neisseria, Pantoea, Pasteurella, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas, Proteus, Providencia, Pseudomonas, Roseobacter, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Treponema, Vibrio, Yersinia
tet(C) 1191 X01654 86… 1276 Aeromonas, Bordetella, Chlamydia, Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Francisella, Halomonas, Klebsiella, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Roseobacter, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Vibrio
tet(D) 1185 X65876 1521… 2705 Aeromonas, Alteromoas, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Escherichia, Halomonas, Klebsiella, Morganella, Pasteurella, Photobacterium, Proteus, Salmonella, Shewanella, Shigella, Vibrio, Yersinia
tet(E) 1218 L06940 21… 1238 Aeromonas, Alcaligenes, Escherichia, Flavobacterium, Plesiomonas, Proteus, Providencia, Pseudomonas, Roseobacter, Serratia, Vibrio
tet(G) 1128 AF071555 6644… 7771 Acinetobacter, Brevundimonsa, Escherichia, Fusobacterium, Mannheimia, Ochrobactrum, Pasteurella, Proteus, Providencia, Pseudomonas, Roseobacter, Salmonella, Shewanella, Vibrio
tet(H) 1203 U00792 716… 1918 Acinetobacter, Actinobacillus, Histophilus, Mannheimia, Moraxella, Pasteurella, Psychrobacter
tet(J) 1197 AF038993 1084… 2280 Escherichia, Morganella, Proteus
tet(K) 1380 M16217 305… 1684 Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Eubacterium, Haemophilus, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Peptostreptococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Streptomyces
tet(L) 1377 D00006 189… 1565 Acinetobacter, Actinobacillus, Actinomyces, Bacillus, Bifidobacterium, Citrobacter, Clostridium, Enterobacter, Enterococcus, Escherichia, Flavobacterium, Fusobacterium, Geobacillus, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Mannheimia, Morganella, Mycobacterium, Nocardia, Ochrobactrum, Oceanobacillus, Paenibacillus, Pasteurella, Pediococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Proteus, Pseudomonas, Rahnella, Salmonella, Sporosarcina, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Streptomyces, Variovorax, Veillonella, Virgibacillus
tet(V) 1260 AF030344 462… 1721 Mycobacterium
tet(Y) 1176 AF070999 1680… 2855 Aeromonas, Escherichia, Photobacterium
tet(Z) 1155 AF121000 11880… 13034 Corynebacterium, Lactobacillus
tet(30) 1185 AF090987 1130… 2314 Agrobacterium
tet(31) 1233 AJ250203 1651… 2883 Aeromonas, Gallibacterium
tet(33) 1224 AJ420072 22940… 24163 Arthrobacter, Corynebacterium
tet(35) 1110 AF353562 2213… 3322 Stenotrophomonas, Vibrio
tet(38) 1353 AY825285 1… 1353 Staphylococcus
tet(39) 1188 AY743590 749… 1936 Acinetobacter, Alcaligenes, Brevundimonas, Enterobacter, Providencia, Stenotrophomonas
tet(40) 1221 AM419751 14211… 15431 Clostridium
tet(41) 1182 AY264780 1825… 3006 Serratia
tet(42) 1287 EU523697 687… 1973 Bacillus, Microbacterium, Micrococcus, Paenibacillus, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus
tet(43) 1560 GQ244501 60… 1619 Uncultured
Enzymatic tet(X) 1167 M37699 586… 1752 Bacteroides, Pseudomonas, Sphingobacterium
tet(34) 465 AB061440 306… 770 Aeromonas, Pseudomonas, Serratia
tet(37) 327 AF540889 1… 327 Uncultured
Ribosomal protection otr(A) 1992 X53401 349… 2340 Bacillus, Mycobacterium, Streptomyces
tetB(P) 1959 L20800 2309… 4267 Clostridium
tet(M) 1920 U08812 1981… 3900 Abiotrophia, Acinetobacter, Actinomyces, Aerococcus, Aeromonas, Afipia, Arthrobacter, Bacillus, Bacterionema, Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium, Catenibacterium, Clostridium, Corynebacterium, Edwardsiella, Eikenella, Enterobacter, Enterococcus, Erysipelothrix, Escherichia, Eubacterium, Flavobacterium, Fusobacterium, Gardnerella, Gemella, Granulicatella, Haemophilus, Kingella, Klebsiella, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Listeria, Microbacterium, Mycoplasma, Neisseria, Paenibacillus, Pantoea, Pasteurella, Peptostreptococcus, Photobacterium, Prevotella, Pseudoalteromonas, Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, Selenomonas, Serratia, Shewanella, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Streptomyces, Ureaplasma, Veillonella, Vibrio
tet(O) 1920 M18896 207… 2126 Actinobacillus, Aerococcus, Anaerovibrio, Bifidobacterium, Butyrivibrio, Campylobacter, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Eubacterium, Fusobacterium, Gemella, Lactobacillus, Megasphaera, Mobiluncus, Neisseria, Peptostreptococcus, Psychrobacter, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus
tet(Q) 1926 Z21523 362… 2287 Anaerovibrio, Bacteroides, Capnocytophaga, Clostridium, Eubacterium, Fusobacterium, Gardnerella, Lactobacillus, Mitsuokella, Mobiluncus, Neisseria, Peptostreptococcus, Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Ruminococcus, Selenomonas, Streptococcus, Subdolgranulum, Veillonella
tet(S) 1926 L09756 447… 2372 Enterococcus, Lactobacillus, Lactococcus, Listeria, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Veillonella
tet(T) 1956 L42544 478… 2433 Lactobacillus, Streptococcus
tet(W) 1920 AJ222769 3687… 5606 Acidaminococcus, Actinomyces, Arcanobacterium, Bacillus, Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium, Butyrivibrio, Clostridium, Fusobacterium, Lactobacillus, Megasphaera, Mitsuokella, Neisseria, Porphyromonas, Prevotella, Roseburia, Selenomonas, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Streptomyces, Subdolgranulum, Veillonella
tet(32) 1920 DQ647324 181… 2100 Eubacterium, Streptococcus
tet(36) 1923 AJ514254 2534… 4456 Bacteroides, Clostridium, Lactobacillus
tet(44) 1923 FN594949 25245… 27167 Campylobacter, Clostricium
tet 1920 M74049 343… 2261 Streptomyces
Unknown tet(U) 318 U01917 413… 730 Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus
*

Last update: January 6th 2012. Adapted from http://faculty.washington.edu/marilynr/. The efflux genes tet(45) and tet(46) have been named but not yet published.