| Accession | ARO:3000122 |
| Definition | Inactivates chloramphenicol by addition of an acyl group. CAT is used to describe many variants of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene in a range of organisms including Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Alkalihalobacillus clausii, Bacillus subtilis, Campylobacter coli, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Lactococcus lactis, Listeria monocytogenes, Listonella anguillarum, Morganella morganii, Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella typhi, Serratia marcescens, Shigella flexneri, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus intermedius, Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus suis and Streptomyces acrimycini. |
| Drug Class | phenicol antibiotic |
| Resistance Mechanism | antibiotic inactivation |
| Classification | 5 ontology terms | Show |
| Parent Term(s) | 3 ontology terms | Show + participates_in acylation of antibiotic conferring resistance + confers_resistance_to_drug_class phenicol antibiotic [Drug Class] + antibiotic inactivation enzyme |
| Sub-Term(s) | 33 ontology terms | Show + cat + Limosilactobacillus reuteri cat-TC + Bacillus pumilus cat86 + Clostridium butyricum catB + catB2 + catB3 + Pseudomonas aeruginosa catB6 + Pseudomonas aeruginosa catB7 + catB8 + catB9 + catD + catA1 + catII + catIII + catP + catQ + catS + Plasmid-encoded cat (pp-cat) + catB10 + CatU + catII from Escherichia coli K-12 + catA8 + catA4 + catB11 + catV + Agrobacterium fabrum chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Alkalihalobacillus clausii chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Campylobacter coli chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Streptococcus suis chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Enterococcus faecium chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Staphylococcus intermedius chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Enterococcus faecalis chloramphenicol acetyltransferase + Vibrio anguillarum chloramphenicol acetyltransferase |
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Identification of an Acinetobacter baumannii gene region with sequence and organizational similarity to Tn2670. (PMID 1650008) Schwarz S, et al. 1991. J Gen Microbiol 137(4): 977-981. Cloning and sequence analysis of a plasmid-encoded chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene from Staphylococcus intermedius. (PMID 1713259) Bhakta M, et al. 2003. Curr Microbiol 46(6): 413-417. Identification and characterization of a shuttle plasmid with antibiotic resistance gene from Staphylococcus aureus. (PMID 12732947) Aoki T, et al. 1987. Gene 51(1): 107-111. Complete nucleotide sequence of pTZ12, a chloramphenicol-resistance plasmid of Bacillus subtilis. (PMID 3110008) Brenner DG and Shaw WV. 1985. EMBO J 4(2): 561-568. The use of synthetic oligonucleotides with universal templates for rapid DNA sequencing: results with staphylococcal replicon pC221. (PMID 3860383) Goodner B, et al. 2001. Science 294(5550): 2323-2328. Genome sequence of the plant pathogen and biotechnology agent Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58. (PMID 11743194) Schwarz FV, et al. 2001. Plasmid 46(3): 170-187. Sequence of the 50-kb conjugative multiresistance plasmid pRE25 from Enterococcus faecalis RE25. (PMID 11735367) Galopin S, et al. 2009. FEMS Microbiol Lett 296(2): 185-189. A chromosomal chloramphenicol acetyltransferase determinant from a probiotic strain of Bacillus clausii. (PMID 19459958) Horinouchi S and Weisblum B. 1982. J Bacteriol 150(2): 815-825. Nucleotide sequence and functional map of pC194, a plasmid that specifies inducible chloramphenicol resistance. (PMID 6950931) Schwarz S, et al. 1991. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 35(7): 1277-1283. Molecular cloning, purification, and properties of a plasmid-encoded chloramphenicol acetyltransferase from Staphylococcus haemolyticus. (PMID 1929282) Wang Y and Taylor DE. 1990. Gene 94(1): 23-28. Chloramphenicol resistance in Campylobacter coli: nucleotide sequence, expression, and cloning vector construction. (PMID 2227449) Zhao J, et al. 1992. Microbiol Immunol 36(7): 695-705. Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene from Vibrio anguillarum. (PMID 1406372) Takamatsu D, et al. 2003. Plasmid 49(2): 143-151. Chloramphenicol resistance transposable element TnSs1 of Streptococcus suis, a transposon flanked by IS6-family elements. (PMID 12726767) Grady R, et al. 2003. Mol Microbiol 47(5): 1419-1432. Axe-Txe, a broad-spectrum proteic toxin-antitoxin system specified by a multidrug-resistant, clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecium. (PMID 12603745) Bruckner R and Matzura H. 1985. EMBO J 4(9): 2295-2300. Regulation of the inducible chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene of the Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pUB112. (PMID 3865770) Murray IA, et al. 1989. Gene 85(2): 283-291. Nucleotide sequence of the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene of Streptomyces acrimycini. (PMID 2697637) Parkhill J, et al. 2001. Nature 413(6858): 848-852. Complete genome sequence of a multiple drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi CT18. (PMID 11677608) |