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      The 3' conserved segment of integrons contains a gene associated with multidrug resistance to antiseptics and disinfectants.

      Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
      Amino Acid Sequence, Anti-Infective Agents, Local, pharmacology, Base Sequence, DNA, Recombinant, Disinfectants, Drug Resistance, Microbial, genetics, Escherichia coli, Ethidium, chemistry, Genes, Bacterial, Klebsiella pneumoniae, drug effects, Molecular Sequence Data, Open Reading Frames, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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          Nucleotide sequence analysis of ORF1 from the integron on the broad-host-range plasmid R751 revealed that the first 94 of 110 codons of ORF1 from R751 are identical to ORF4, an open reading frame from the 3' conserved segment of other integrons found in gram-negative bacteria, after which point they diverged completely. The predicted products of both ORF1 and ORF4 share homology with the multidrug exporter QacC. Phenotypic analysis revealed that ORF1 specifies a resistance profile to antiseptics and disinfectants almost identical to that of qacC, whereas ORF4 specifies much lower levels of resistance to these compounds. ORF4, whose product lacks the C-terminal 16 amino acids of the ORF1 protein, may have evolved by the interruption of ORF1 from the insertion of a DNA segment carrying a sulI sulfonamide resistance determinant. Hence, ORF1 was designated qacE, and its partially functional deletion derivative, ORF4, was designated qacE delta 1. Fluorimetric experiments indicated that the mechanism of resistance mediated by QacE, the protein specified by qacE, is active export energized by proton motive force. Amino acid sequence comparisons revealed that QacE is related to a family of small multidrug export proteins with four transmembrane segments.

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