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First, for PBP2a to properly fit onto the cell wall, to continue transpeptidation, it needs the proper amino acid residues, specifically a pentaglycine residue and an amidated glutamate residue. Second, PBP2a has an effective transpeptidase activity but lacks the transglycosylation domain of PBP2,
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domain, but scientists thought only monofunctional enzymes catalyze transglycosylation, yet PBP2 has domains to perform both essential processes. When antibiotics enter the medium, they bind to the transpeptidation domain and inhibit PBPs from cross-linking muropeptides, therefore preventing the
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that was more aggressive and failed to respond to methicillin treatment. The prevalence of this strain, MRSA, continued to increase, reaching up to 60% of British hospitals, and has spread throughout the world and beyond hospital settings. Researchers traced the source of this resistance to the
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formation of stable cell wall. With cooperative action, PBP2a lacks the proper receptor for the antibiotics and continues transpeptidation, preventing cell wall breakdown. The functionality of PBP2a depends on two structural factors on the cell wall of
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does, so it does not bind to the ringlike structure of penicillin-like antibiotics. This enables transpeptidase activity in the presence of beta-lactams, preventing them from inhibiting cell wall synthesis. The bacteria can then replicate as normal.
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which builds the backbone of the cell wall with polysaccharide monomers, so PBP2a must rely on PBP2 to continue this process. The latter forms a therapeutic target to improve the ability of beta-lactams to prevent cell wall synthesis in resistant
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Fuda C, Suvorov M, Shi Q, Hesek D, Lee M, Mobashery S (July 2007). "Shared functional attributes between the mecA gene product of Staphylococcus sciuri and penicillin-binding protein 2a of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus".
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Cano I, Alonso MC, Garcia-Rosado E, Saint-Jean SR, Castro D, Borrego JJ (March 2006). "Detection of lymphocystis disease virus (LCDV) in asymptomatic cultured gilt-head seabream (Sparus aurata, L.) using an immunoblot technique".
1449:"Insertion of epicatechin gallate into the cytoplasmic membrane of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disrupts penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2a-mediated beta-lactam resistance by delocalizing PBP2" 1405:
Huber J, Donald RG, Lee SH, Jarantow LW, Salvatore MJ, Meng X, Painter R, Onishi RH, Occi J, Dorso K, Young K, Park YW, Skwish S, Szymonifka MJ, Waddell TS, Miesel L, Phillips JW, Roemer T (August 2009).
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antibiotics inhibits activity of the cell-wall forming penicillin-binding protein family (PBP 1, 2, 3 and 4). This disrupts the cell wall structure, causing the cytoplasm to leak and cell death. However,
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depends on transglycosylation to form linear polymer of sugar monomers and transpeptidation to form an interlinking peptides to strengthen the newly developed cell wall. PBPs have a
1072:"Suppression of methicillin resistance in a mecA-containing pre-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain is caused by the mecI-mediated repression of PBP 2' production" 1023:"Multiple staphylococcal cassette chromosomes and allelic variants of cassette chromosome recombinases in Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci from Norway" 159:(PCR). Alternative methods include enzymatic detection PCR, which labels the PCR with enzymes detectable by immunoabsorbant assays. This takes less time and does not need gel 295:
codes for PBP2a that has a lower affinity for beta-lactams, which keeps the structural integrity of the cell wall, preventing cell death. Bacterial cell wall synthesis in
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strains isolated from humans either lack these regulatory elements or contain mutations in these genes that cause a loss of function of the protein products that inhibit
175:-positive strains can determine how resistant the strain is to methicillin. These phenotypic assays cannot rely on the accumulation of PBP2a, the protein product of 1157:"Whole-genome sequencing of staphylococcus haemolyticus uncovers the extreme plasticity of its genome and the evolution of human-colonizing staphylococcal species" 1626:"High-level (beta)-lactam resistance and cell wall synthesis catalyzed by the mecA homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri introduced into Staphylococcus aureus" 463:"Expression and inducibility in Staphylococcus aureus of the mecA gene, which encodes a methicillin-resistant S. aureus-specific penicillin-binding protein" 1155:
Takeuchi F, Watanabe S, Baba T, Yuzawa H, Ito T, Morimoto Y, Kuroda M, Cui L, Takahashi M, Ankai A, Baba S, Fukui S, Lee JC, Hiramatsu K (November 2005).
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Deurenberg RH, Stobberingh EE (March 2009). "The molecular evolution of hospital- and community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus".
1408:"Chemical genetic identification of peptidoglycan inhibitors potentiating carbapenem activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus" 343:
is acquired and transmitted through a mobile genetic element, that inserts itself into the host genome. That structure is conserved between the
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complex into the host genome requires the recombinases. Researchers have isolated multiple genetic variants from resistant strains of
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uses phenotypic resistance to test not only for methicillin resistant strains but also for low resistant strains. The presence of
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increases. Even though the muropeptides (peptidoglycan precursors) that both species use are the same, the protein product of
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Guignard B, Entenza JM, Moreillon P (October 2005). "Beta-lactams against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus".
775:"Global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to guide research, discovery, and development of new antibiotics" 706: 1730: 849:"Comparison of cefoxitin disc diffusion test, oxacillin screen agar, and PCR for mecA gene for detection of MRSA" 255: 1750: 87: 17: 373:. The structure of the protein product of this homologue is so similar that the protein can be used in 179:, as a test for methicillin resistance, as no connection between protein amount and resistance exists. 97: 1755: 1498:
Lee SH, Jarantow LW, Wang H, Sillaots S, Cheng H, Meredith TC, Thompson J, Roemer T (November 2011).
432: 156: 140: 195: 1258:"Monofunctional transglycosylases are not essential for Staphylococcus aureus cell wall synthesis" 104:. PBP2A has a lower affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics such as methicillin and penicillin than 596:"Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) at ambient freshwater beaches" 389: 132: 52: 1675:"Origin and molecular evolution of the determinant of methicillin resistance in staphylococci" 1500:"Antagonism of chemical genetic interaction networks resensitize MRSA to β-lactam antibiotics" 1745: 1725: 352: 223: 122: 1321: 320:
Interactions with other genes decrease resistance to beta-lactams in resistant strains of
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Ubukata K, Nakagami S, Nitta A, Yamane A, Kawakami S, Sugiura M, Konno M (July 1992).
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Parvez MA, Shibata H, Nakano T, Niimi S, Fujii N, Arakaki N, Higuti T (August 2008).
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can continue cell wall synthesis when a beta-lactam inhibits the PBP protein family.
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contains this gene, the cassette chromosome must originate from another species.
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Kuwahara-Arai K, Kondo N, Hori S, Tateda-Suzuki E, Hiramatsu K (December 1996).
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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complex found on the Staphylococcal cassette chromosome, researchers used the
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Bernal P, Lemaire S, Pinho MG, Mobashery S, Hinds J, Taylor PW (July 2010).
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Bignardi GE, Woodford N, Chapman A, Johnson AP, Speller DC (January 1996).
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Fogarty LR, Haack SK, Johnson HE, Brennan AK, Isaacs NM, Spencer C (2015).
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but also for other non-essential genes the cassette chromosome can carry.
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and insert itself into the host species, which can be any species in the
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alone does not determine resistant strains; further phenotypic assays of
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Wielders CL, Fluit AC, Brisse S, Verhoef J, Schmitz FJ (November 2002).
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gene on the staphylococcal cassette chromosome. Since the genome of the
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Tsubakishita S, Kuwahara-Arai K, Sasaki T, Hiramatsu K (October 2010).
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Basset P, Feil EJ, Zanetti G, Blanc DS (2011). Tibayrenc M (ed.).
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strains when expression of PBP4 was inhibited but PBP2a was not.
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genus. This cassette is a 52 kilobase piece of DNA that contains
640:"Antimicrobial resistance: the example of Staphylococcus aureus" 262:. This cassette chromosome can move between species. Two other 242:; deletions or knock-outs in these genes increase resistance of 460: 80: 1539:
Memmi G, Filipe SR, Pinho MG, Fu Z, Cheung A (November 2008).
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present in all known MRSA strains. On February 27, 2017, the
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Reed P, Veiga H, Jorge AM, Terrak M, Pinho MG (May 2011).
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Ubukata K, Nonoguchi R, Matsuhashi M, Konno M (May 1989).
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Successful treatment of MRSA begins with the detection of
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is spread through the staphylococcal chromosome cassette
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Penicillin, its derivatives and methicillin, and other
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show conservation in this insertion site, not only for
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Pinho MG, de Lencastre H, Tomasz A (September 2001).
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the most significant candidate for the origin of the
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remains unknown, but they may be a precursor for the
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Methicillin resistance first emerged in hospitals in
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Severin A, Wu SW, Tabei K, Tomasz A (October 2005).
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Resistant strains cause many 27:Gene for resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics 1020: 982:"SCCmec in staphylococci: genes on the move" 725:Katayama Y, Ito T, Hiramatsu K (June 2000). 690:Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Disease 587: 39:cells which allows them to be resistant to 281: 100:2A), a transpeptidase that helps form the 1698: 1649: 1564: 1515: 1474: 1464: 1423: 1343: 1333: 1281: 1232: 1180: 1095: 1046: 997: 956: 915: 904:The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 874: 864: 823: 750: 663: 611: 570: 486: 190:is on staphylococcal cassette chromosome 986:FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 335: 14: 1738: 1207:Stapleton PD, Taylor PW (2002-02-15). 853:Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology 693:. London: Elsevier. pp. 669–688. 385:is inserted into antibiotic sensitive 1679:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1545:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1365: 1363: 1303: 1301: 1202: 1200: 1076:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1027:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 731:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 644:The Journal of Clinical Investigation 135:, staphylococcal cassette chromosome 1374:. Anti-infectives/New technologies. 945:The Journal of Medical Investigation 720: 718: 637: 633: 631: 403:To further understand the origin of 1453:The Journal of Biological Chemistry 381:homologue of beta-lactam resistant 24: 1360: 1298: 1197: 1021:Hanssen AM, Sollid JU (May 2007). 699:10.1016/B978-0-12-384890-1.00025-X 25: 1767: 1718: 715: 628: 538: 1731:HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee 1642:10.1128/JB.187.19.6651-6658.2005 1173:10.1128/JB.187.21.7292-7308.2005 999:10.1111/j.1574-695X.2005.00009.x 804:Journal of Clinical Microbiology 563:10.1128/jcm.40.11.3970-3975.2002 551:Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1666: 1617: 1581: 1532: 1491: 1440: 1398: 1372:Current Opinion in Pharmacology 1249: 1148: 1112: 1063: 1014: 973: 932: 891: 840: 816:10.1128/jcm.30.7.1728-1733.1992 743:10.1128/aac.44.6.1549-1555.2000 479:10.1128/jb.171.5.2882-2885.1989 357:. As of 2007, function for the 1517:10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.08.015 1425:10.1016/j.chembiol.2009.05.012 791: 767: 680: 503: 454: 347:gene product and a homologous 238:. These two genes can repress 13: 1: 866:10.1016/S0255-0857(21)01748-5 448: 1134:10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.10.024 182: 146: 88:hospital-acquired infections 53:penicillin-like antibiotics. 7: 600:Journal of Water and Health 427:is almost identical to the 206:and two recombinase genes, 96:encodes the protein PBP2A ( 10: 1772: 1384:10.1016/j.coph.2005.06.002 1225:10.3184/003685002783238870 524:10.2174/156652409787581637 512:Current Molecular Medicine 434:Staphylococcus fleurettii, 256:constitutive transcription 214:. Proper insertion of the 115: 98:penicillin-binding protein 779:World Health Organization 157:polymerase chain reaction 141:World Health Organization 61:is methicillin-resistant 196:horizontal gene transfer 165:cefoxitin disc diffusion 131:gene acquired through a 1630:Journal of Bacteriology 1504:Chemistry & Biology 1466:10.1074/jbc.M110.114793 1412:Chemistry & Biology 1262:Journal of Bacteriology 1161:Journal of Bacteriology 1122:Veterinary Microbiology 467:Journal of Bacteriology 419:in comparison to other 282:Mechanism of resistance 254:. This in turn, causes 1335:10.1073/pnas.191260798 1088:10.1128/AAC.40.12.2680 390:antibiotics resistance 133:mobile genetic element 354:Staphylococcus sciuri 224:origin of replication 123:Staphylococcus aureus 63:Staphylococcus aureus 1691:10.1128/AAC.00356-10 1557:10.1128/AAC.00049-08 1039:10.1128/AAC.00978-06 638:Lowy FD (May 2003). 336:Evolutionary history 246:to methicillin. 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Index

MecA (gene)
bacterial
antibiotics
methicillin
penicillin
penicillin-like antibiotics.
MRSA
Staphylococcus
SCCmec
hospital-acquired infections
penicillin-binding protein
bacterial cell wall
DD-transpeptidase
Staphylococcus aureus
mobile genetic element
World Health Organization
polymerase chain reaction
electrophoresis
cefoxitin disc diffusion
horizontal gene transfer
origin of replication
constitutive transcription
beta-lactam
transpeptidase
epicatechin gallate
Staphylococcus sciuri
antibiotics resistance
Staphylococcus fleurettii,
"Expression and inducibility in Staphylococcus aureus of the mecA gene, which encodes a methicillin-resistant S. aureus-specific penicillin-binding protein"
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