Open rpetit3 opened 2 years ago
*mec Classes | Genes | Source |
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A | IS431-mecA-mecR1-mecI | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/1/86/htm |
B | IS1272-ΔmecR1-mecA-IS431 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC90469/ |
C1 | IS431-mecA-deltamecR1-IS431 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC90585/ |
C2 | IS431-mecA-deltamecR1-IS431 | https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/1/86/htm |
E | mecI–mecR1–mecA–blaZ | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309911701268 |
C1 & C2 is431 have different orientations
For subtypes
J regions: regions other than mec and ccr gene complexes.
Besides the mec and ccr gene complexes, the SCCmec element also contains three so-called J regions,
which constitute nonessential components of the cassette. These regions may carry additional antimicrobial
resistance determinants. They were first designated as the L-C, C-M, and I-R regions but were later changed
to J regions. We propose that the term J region refers to “joining region,” rather than the previously
used “junkyard region.”
J1 (formerly L-C) is the region between the right chromosomal junction and the ccr complex, J2 (C-M) is
between the ccr gene complex and the mec gene complex, and J3 (I-R) is between the mec complex and
the left chromosomal junction. Variations in the J regions within the same mec-ccr complex are used for
defining SCCmec subtypes.
source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2786320/
Hi Robert! I think this would be the place you'd mention it if this tool's blastn db gets preliminary updates, so I'm posting here to be among the first to know as much as anything else :)
P.S. FYI I ran a mini-workshop to get some graduate & project students up on bactopia for gram pos work last month - two of the participants were very excited about merlin giving them SCCmec results via this, yet another of your apparently infinite awesome tools :p IIRC one of the students had a potentially questionable negative result I didn't really consider again until seeing your ruminations in https://github.com/bactopia/bactopia/issues/467 referenced just above. I'm not too worried about that (probably from too low coverage honestly, training folks with their project isolates on old flow cells can be hit or miss), but it would be nice to have confidence that causation ≠ missing any types from the blastdb staphopia-sccmec.py points to.
P.P.S. rumination revenge: With the incredible breadth amrfinder+ includes, I'm a little surprised it doesn't include all the SCCmec determinants. Perfect fit for the "+" expanded scope right? If it did you could probably skip the extra BLAST and "just" have a staphopia-sccmec script parse their %coverage and %ID from that preexisting output? A future amrfinder+ inclusion, hopefully, so db maintenance/hosting wouldn't fall to you :)
@incoherentian by chance are interested in testing https://github.com/rpetit3/sccmec ?
Looking forward for new updates and new sccmecs identified!
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/11/1/86
SCCmec Types
Subtypes