Draft genome sequence of Sphingobium sp. strain ba1, resistant to kanamycin and nickel ions

Caterina Manzari; Matteo Chiara; Alessandra Costanza; Claudia Leoni; Mariateresa Volpicella; Ernesto Picardi; Anna Maria D'Erchia; Antonio Placido; Massimo Trotta; David S Horner; Graziano Pesole; Luigi R Ceci

doi:10.1111/1574-6968.12618

Draft genome sequence of Sphingobium sp. strain ba1, resistant to kanamycin and nickel ions

FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2014 Dec;361(1):8-9. doi: 10.1111/1574-6968.12618. Epub 2015 Jan 8.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
² Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
³ Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
⁴ National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems (INBB), Rome, Italy.
⁵ Institute for Chemical-Physical Processes, National Research Council, Bari, Italy.
⁶ Center of Excellence in Comparative Genomics, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
⁷ Institute of Biomembranes and Bioenergetics, National Research Council, Bari, Italy l.ceci@ibbe.cnr.it.

PMID: 25288103
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12618

Abstract

The genome sequence of a Sphingobium strain capable of tolerating high concentrations of Ni ions, and exhibiting natural kanamycin resistance, is presented. The presence of a transposon derived kanamycin resistance gene and several genes for efflux-mediated metal resistance may explain the observed characteristics of the new Sphingobium isolate.

Keywords: antibiotic resistance; metal resistance; transposon.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics*
Genome, Bacterial / genetics*
Kanamycin / pharmacology*
Nickel / toxicity*
Sphingomonadaceae / drug effects
Sphingomonadaceae / genetics*
Sphingomonadaceae / isolation & purification

Substances

Kanamycin
Nickel