Insertion of Mini-IS605 and Deletion of Adjacent Sequences in the Nitroreductase (rdxA) Gene Cause Metronidazole Resistance in Helicobacter Pylori NCTC11637

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1999 Oct 30

PMID 10543743

Citations 30

Authors

Y J Debets-Ossenkopp

R G Pot

D J van Westerloo

A Goodwin

C M Vandenbroucke-Grauls

D E Berg

P S Hoffman

J G Kusters

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Abstract

We found that NCTC11637, the type strain of Helicobacter pylori, the causative agent of peptic ulcer disease and an early risk factor for gastric cancer, is metronidazole resistant. DNA transformation, PCR-based restriction analysis, and DNA sequencing collectively showed that the metronidazole resistance of this strain was due to mutation in rdxA (gene HP0954 in the full genome sequence of H. pylori 26695) and that resistance did not depend on mutation in any of the other genes that had previously been suggested: catalase (katA), ferredoxin (fdx), flavodoxin (fldA), pyruvate:flavodoxin oxidoreductase (porgammadeltaalphabeta), RecA (recA), or superoxide dismutase (sodB). This is in accord with another recent study that attributed metronidazole resistance to point mutations in rdxA. However, the mechanism of rdxA inactivation that we found in NCTC11637 is itself also novel: insertion of mini-IS605, one of the endogenous transposable elements of H. pylori, and deletion of adjacent DNA sequences including 462 bp of the 851-bp-long rdxA gene.

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