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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
卷 241, 期 -, 页码 1048-1055出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.06.047
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), POPH [SFRH/BPD/77900/2011]
- European Union [SFRH/BD/98446/2013]
- FCT/MEC [UID/AMB/50017 - POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007638]
- FEDER within the PT2020 Partnership Agreement and Compete 2020
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BPD/77900/2011, SFRH/BD/98446/2013] Funding Source: FCT
The environment is one of the main reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) but multidrug resistant (MDR) environmental isolates are barely characterised. As suggested by the name, Pedobacter species have been predominantly isolated from soils, but are also recovered from water (including drinking water), chilled food, fish, compost, sludge, glaciers and other extreme environments. The susceptibility phenotype of Pedobacter lusitanus NL19 (isolated from a deactivated uranium mine), its closely related species and the genus type strain were investigated. All strains are MDR bacteria, resistant to beta-lactams, colistin, aminoglycosides and ciprofloxacin. Therefore, Pedobacter spp. are likely intrinsically resistant to beta-lactams (including ertapenem) and to other three classes of antibiotics. 6%-8% of their total protein-encoding genes encode a diverse collection of putative ARGs, including beta-lactamases. These enzymes are highly abundant in all the other Pedobacter strains with sequenced genomes, especially class C, class B3 and class A. LUS-1 and PLN-1 were further characterised in E. coli. LUS-1 is a class A beta-lactamase and it conferred an increase in the MIC of cefotaxime, albeit very low. PLN-1 is a class 133 beta-lactamase with carbapenemase activity, conferring resistance to ertapenem and a 66x and 16x increase in the MIC of imipenem and meropenem, respectively. PLN-1 also hydrolyses ampicillin, 1st and 3rd generation cephalosporins, and at a lower extent cephamycins and 4th generation cephalosporins. Therefore, Pedobacter spp. encode a large and diverse arsenal of resistance mechanisms that make them environmental superbugs. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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