Expression of tfx and sensitivity to the rhizobial peptide antibiotic trifolitoxin in a taxonomically distinct group of alpha-proteobacteria including the animal pathogen Brucella abortus

Appl Environ Microbiol. 1994 Nov;60(11):4163-6. doi: 10.1128/aem.60.11.4163-4166.1994.

Abstract

Three phylogenetically distinct groups within the alpha-proteobacteria which differ in trifolitoxin sensitivity are described. Trifolitoxin sensitivity was found in strains of Agrobacterium, Brucella, Mycoplana, Ochrobactrum, Phyllobacterium, Rhodobacter, Rhodopseudomonas, Rhodospirillum, and Rhizobium. Strains of Agrobacterium, Brucella, Phyllobacterium, Rhizobium, and Rhodospirillum were capable of producing trifolitoxin upon conjugal transfer of tfxABCDEFG.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents*
  • Brucella abortus / drug effects*
  • Brucella abortus / genetics
  • Conjugation, Genetic
  • Drug Resistance, Microbial / genetics*
  • Gene Transfer Techniques
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Oligopeptides / genetics*
  • Oligopeptides / pharmacology*
  • Peptides*
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Bacterial
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Rhizobium / drug effects*
  • Rhizobium / genetics

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Oligopeptides
  • Peptides
  • RNA, Bacterial
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
  • trifolitoxin

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