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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26180-3
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- National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas-CONICET, Argentina), project PIP [0700]
- CONICET
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst)
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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Bacteria belonging to the genus Acinetobacter have become of clinical importance over the last decade due to the development of a multi-resistant phenotype and their ability to survive under multiple environmental conditions. The development of these traits among Acinetobacter strains occurs frequently as a result of plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer. In this work, plasmids from nosocomial and environmental Acinetobacter spp. collections were separately sequenced and characterized. Assembly of the sequenced data resulted in 19 complete replicons in the nosocomial collection and 77 plasmid contigs in the environmental collection. Comparative genomic analysis showed that many of them had conserved backbones. Plasmid coding sequences corresponding to plasmid specific functions were bioinformatically and functionally analyzed. Replication initiation protein analysis revealed the predominance of the Rep_3 superfamily. The phylogenetic tree constructed from all Acinetobacter Rep_3 superfamily plasmids showed 16 intermingled clades originating from nosocomial and environmental habitats. Phylogenetic analysis of relaxase proteins revealed the presence of a new sub-clade named MOBQ(Acl), composed exclusively of Acinetobacter relaxases. Functional analysis of proteins belonging to this group showed that they behaved differently when mobilized using helper plasmids belonging to different incompatibility groups.
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