Mutations In The Embb Locus Among Korean Clinical Isolates Of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Resistant To Ethambutol (Vol 43, Pg 59, 2002)
YONSEI MEDICAL JOURNAL(2002)
摘要
Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to ethambutol (ENS) has been assigned to an operon, embCAB, which has been proposed to be a structural gene for mycobacterial arabinosyl transferases. Recently, genetic events resulting in structural mutations at embB have been proposed as major contributors to the ENS-resistance of isolates whose minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) level is higher than 20 mug/ml. On the contrary, isolates with a MIC level lower than 20 mug/ml do not seem to contain any sequence alterations. In this study, in an effort to understand the role of embB mutations at a low-level of ENS resistance, we investigated the sequence polymorphisms of clinical isolates whose MIC levels are lower than 10 mug/ml. Accordingly, the sequence alterations of a 312-bp region of the embB gene containing the 306(th) codon, which has been assigned as a hot-spot for ENM-resistance related mutations, were determined for 21 EMB-resistant and 5 EMB-susceptible clinical isolates. In brief, among 21 EMB-resistant isolates examined, 12 (57.1%) contained mutations in embB (10 at the 306th codon and 2 at other sites), and the remaining isolates 9 contained no mutations in any region of embB. The observed mutations included M306V, M306I, and M306L substitutions that have been reported previously. However, 3 were novel types, which included M306T, A313G and Y322C, D331Y double substitutions. On the other hand, all of the EMB-susceptible isolates were found to be free of mutations. In conclusion, our findings suggest that sequence polymorphism. of embB may play a pivotal role in the EMB-resistance of M.:tuberculosis.
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M. tuberculosis,ethambutol resistance,embB mutations
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