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. 2001 Jul;45(7):2110–2114. doi: 10.1128/AAC.45.7.2110-2114.2001

TABLE 3.

Identification of genes encoding SHV β-lactamases by a combination of PCR-RFLP and RSI-PCR analysis

Mutations detected by PCR-RFLP analysis or RSI-PCR witha:
blaSHV variants yielding amplimers with various RFLP and RSI profilesc
SspI* (8b) DdeI (35) BglI
HinfI* (179) PstI* (205) NheI (238) NruI* (240)
43 156 187
[blaSHV-1], blaSHV-16, dblaSHV-19(173/HaeII), blaSHV-28e
+ + blaSHV-14
+ + + blaSHV-18
+ blaSHV-27
+ blaSHV-26
+ blaSHV-6, blaSHV-8 (179/BstUI), blaSHV-24 (179/SacII)
+ [blaSHV-11], blaSHV-13 (238/BsrI), blaSHV-25 (129/NlaIII)
+ + [blaSHV-2a]
+ + + [blaSHV-12], blaSHV-15 (80/BtsI)
+ [blaSHV-2], blaSHV-20 (173/HaeII), blaSHV-21 (173/HaeII and 122/EcoRI)
+ + [blaSHV-3]
+ + + [blaSHV-4]
+ + + blaSHVf
+ + + + blaSHV-7
+ + [blaSHV-5], blaSHV-9 (54/NotI), blaSHV-10 (54/NotI and 130/StyI), blaSHV-22 (158/MaeII), blaSHV-23 (122/EcoRI and 188/AvaII)
a

Mutations (amino acid positions are shown in parentheses or as subordinate headings) are detected by either PCR-RFLP analysis or RSI-PCR (indicated by asterisks). Symbols −, yielding amplimers with the same PCR-RFLP or RSI-PCR pattern as that of blaSHV-1; +, yielding amplimers with PCR-RFLP or RSI-PCR pattern generated by mutation. 

b

Amino acid position numbering according to Ambler et al. (1). 

c

Brackets indicate the blaSHV genes that are commonly found and can be differentiated by detecting four mutations (DdeI, position 35; PstI, position 205; NheI, position 238, and NruI, position 240) (see text). 

d

Parentheses enclose mutation position and restriction endonuclease for PCR-RFLP or RSI-PCR (indicated by asterisk) analysis that can be applied for further identification of the gene. The gene encoding SHV-16 (Arpin et al., GenBank accession no. AF072684) can be differentiated from that encoding SHV-1 by comparing sizes of their amplimers using a pair of primers identifying the mutation at position 179; the amplimer generated from blaSHV-16 will yield a fragment of 250 bp, whereas that of blaSHV-1 will give a 235-bp fragment. 

e

The gene encoding SHV-28 (Yu et al., GenBank accession no. AF299299) differs from that encoding SHV-1 by an amino acid substitution at position 7 from tyrosine in SHV-1 to phenylalanine in SHV-28. No restriction endonucleases detecting this mutation are available. 

f

This gene was described by Winokur et al. and appears to be identical to SHV-17, which has been withdrawn (see text).