Tetracycline determinants: Class V

Tetracycline resistance gene classification: Class W

© Service of Biosafety & Biotechnology - Author: Jean-Marc Collard
Last revised: June 28, 1999

MECHANISM		Efflux
		Ribosomal protection
		Enzymatic
		Unknown

MINOCYCLINE RESISTANCE

YES

DISTRIBUTION

Butyrivibrio

REPRESENTATIVES	tet(W)
GENETIC LOCATION	Large mobile chromosomal element
SOURCE	Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens
SEQUENCE ACCESS NB	AJ222769 (Ref. 2)

PROTEIN WEIGHT
PROBES
PCR PRIMERS

REFERENCE

1 Scott, K. P., T. M. Barbosa, K. J. Forbes, and H. J. Flint. 1997. High-frequency transfer of naturally occuring chromosomal tetracycline resistance element in the ruminal anaerobe Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:3405-3411.

2 Barbosa, T. M., K. Scott, and H. J. Flint. 1999. Evidence for recent intergeneric transfer of a new tetracycline resistance gene, tet(W), isolated from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and the occurence of tet(O) in ruminal bacteria. Environ. Microbiol. 1(1), 53-64.

	REFERENCE
1	Scott, K. P., T. M. Barbosa, K. J. Forbes, and H. J. Flint. 1997. High-frequency transfer of naturally occuring chromosomal tetracycline resistance element in the ruminal anaerobe Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:3405-3411.
2	Barbosa, T. M., K. Scott, and H. J. Flint. 1999. Evidence for recent intergeneric transfer of a new tetracycline resistance gene, tet(W), isolated from Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and the occurence of tet(O) in ruminal bacteria. Environ. Microbiol. 1(1), 53-64.