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Table 2 ARG families found exclusively in a single community

From: A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils

Sample site

ARG family description

MS4-1

Multidrug efflux pump

MGM-3

Dihydrofolate reductase, which cannot be inhibited by trimethoprim

MS1-1

Tet35 is a tetracycline efflux pump found in the Gram-negative Vibrio and Stenotrophomonas. Unrelated to other tet resistance genes

TG5-1

Aminoglycoside 6-N-acetyltransferase, which modifies aminoglycosides by acetylation

CN-4

Adenine transferase/methyltransferase, conferring resistance to erythromycin/kasugamycin

 

Mutation frequency decline (Mfd) protein