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Five genes were identified between IRL of SCCmec and ccrA.
However, while half of the enzymes bind Zn II) in the same fashion (BcII, IMP-1, and now VIM-2), with varying levels of cooperativity, the other half (NDM-1, Bla2, and CcrA) bind Zn II) sequentially, without cooperativity.
Interestingly, the chromacef-derived intermediate formed in the reaction with 2Zn-VIM-2 absorbed at 620 nm, a significant shift from the 575 nm λmax observed with NDM-1, L1, and CcrA (M. Aitha and M. W. Crowder, unpublished results).
We have successfully used a biological incorporation method to prepare catalytically active Co II -substituted MBLs (L1 and Co II -substitutedand this MBLsod resuL1ed in andoverexpressed VIM-2 that bound 0.5 equiv of CcrAI), and no other detectable metals.
[In IMP-1 and CcrA, Trp59 87), otherwise conserved in B1 MBLs, is replaced by a phenylalanine residue which also contributes to the hydrophobic pocket involved in inhibitor binding.] Thiomandelate, a relatively small molecule, makes less extensive interactions with residues in the β3 β4 loop compared with many of the other inhibitors whose binding to MBLs has been studied crystallographically.
The IMP-1 and CcrA MBLs have a loop which is one residue longer, and have a tryptophan residue near the tip of the loop at position 64 (BBL numbering) which interacts with the bound ligand [ 14, 16, 17, 28], but makes only a modest contribution to the binding energy of thiomandelate and another mercaptocarboxylate inhibitor [ 30].
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This strain carries a SCCmec IV element as well as Q6GD50 and novel ccrA and ccrB genes (GenBank GU066221).
Nucleotide sequence determination revealed that the type IX SCC mec element in strain O-2 was distinct from that in a Thai ST398 strain (JCSC6943) previously identified in 2011; nucleotide identities of ccrA and ccrB were 93 and 91%, respectively and several open reading frames (ORFs) at the joining regions were different.
However, the excision and integration of the mec DNA from and to the chromosome are apparently catalyzed by cassette chromosome recombinases A and B (Ccr A and B) coded by mec-associated genes (ccrA and B), with homology to the invertase-resolvase family of DNA recombinases (10 ).
The distributions of genes and alleles of the SCCmec element (mecA, mecI, mecR1, ccrA, and ccrB) were analyzed across the full S. aureus and S. epidermidis data set.
It had type I ccr gene complex carrying ccrA and ccrB genes that were classified into ccrA1 and ccrB1 based on the criteria suggested by IWG-SCC [ 2].
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