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Wodarz D, Komarova NL. Mutant fixation in the presence of a natural enemy. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6642. [PMID: 37863909 PMCID: PMC10589345 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41787-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023] Open
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The literature about mutant invasion and fixation typically assumes populations to exist in isolation from their ecosystem. Yet, populations are part of ecological communities, and enemy-victim (e.g. predator-prey or pathogen-host) interactions are particularly common. We use spatially explicit, computational pathogen-host models (with wild-type and mutant hosts) to re-visit the established theory about mutant fixation, where the pathogen equally attacks both wild-type and mutant individuals. Mutant fitness is assumed to be unrelated to infection. We find that pathogen presence substantially weakens selection, increasing the fixation probability of disadvantageous mutants and decreasing it for advantageous mutants. The magnitude of the effect rises with the infection rate. This occurs because infection induces spatial structures, where mutant and wild-type individuals are mostly spatially separated. Thus, instead of mutant and wild-type individuals competing with each other, it is mutant and wild-type "patches" that compete, resulting in smaller fitness differences and weakened selection. This implies that the deleterious mutant burden in natural populations might be higher than expected from traditional theory.
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- Dominik Wodarz
- Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, US.
- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, US.
- School of Biological Sciences, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Department, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, US
- Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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Landa KJ, Mossman LM, Whitaker RJ, Rapti Z, Clifton SM. Phage-Antibiotic Synergy Inhibited by Temperate and Chronic Virus Competition. Bull Math Biol 2022; 84:54. [PMID: 35316421 DOI: 10.1007/s11538-022-01006-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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As antibiotic resistance grows more frequent for common bacterial infections, alternative treatment strategies such as phage therapy have become more widely studied in the medical field. While many studies have explored the efficacy of antibiotics, phage therapy, or synergistic combinations of phages and antibiotics, the impact of virus competition on the efficacy of antibiotic treatment has not yet been considered. Here, we model the synergy between antibiotics and two viral types, temperate and chronic, in controlling bacterial infections. We demonstrate that while combinations of antibiotic and temperate viruses exhibit synergy, competition between temperate and chronic viruses inhibits bacterial control with antibiotics. In fact, our model reveals that antibiotic treatment may counterintuitively increase the bacterial load when a large fraction of the bacteria are antibiotic resistant, and both chronic and temperate phages are present.
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- Kylie J Landa
- Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 55057, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 55057, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
- Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 55057, USA.
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Arya S, Todman H, Baker M, Hooton S, Millard A, Kreft JU, Hobman JL, Stekel DJ. A generalised model for generalised transduction: the importance of co-evolution and stochasticity in phage mediated antimicrobial resistance transfer. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5850753. [PMID: 32490523 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Antimicrobial resistance is a major global challenge. Of particular concern are mobilizable elements that can transfer resistance genes between bacteria, leading to pathogens with new combinations of resistance. To date, mathematical models have largely focussed on transfer of resistance by plasmids, with fewer studies on transfer by bacteriophages. We aim to understand how best to model transfer of resistance by transduction by lytic phages. We show that models of lytic bacteriophage infection with empirically derived realistic phage parameters lead to low numbers of bacteria, which, in low population or localised environments, lead to extinction of bacteria and phage. Models that include antagonistic co-evolution of phage and bacteria produce more realistic results. Furthermore, because of these low numbers, stochastic dynamics are shown to be important, especially to spread of resistance. When resistance is introduced, resistance can sometimes be fixed, and at other times die out, with the probability of each outcome sensitive to bacterial and phage parameters. Specifically, that outcome most strongly depends on the baseline death rate of bacteria, with phage-mediated spread favoured in benign environments with low mortality over more hostile environments. We conclude that larger-scale models should consider spatial compartmentalisation and heterogeneous microenviroments, while encompassing stochasticity and co-evolution.
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- Sankalp Arya
- Division of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK
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- School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Division of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK.,School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
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- Division of Food Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK
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- Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- School of Biosciences & Institute of Microbiology and Infection & Centre for Computational Biology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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- Division of Food Science, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK
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- Division of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington Campus, Loughborough, LE12 5RD, UK
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Cooper CJ, Koonjan S, Nilsson AS. Enhancing Whole Phage Therapy and Their Derived Antimicrobial Enzymes through Complex Formulation. Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 2018; 11:ph11020034. [PMID: 29671806 PMCID: PMC6027540 DOI: 10.3390/ph11020034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The resurgence of research into phage biology and therapy is, in part, due to the increasing need for novel agents to treat multidrug-resistant infections. Despite a long clinical history in Eastern Europe and initial success within the food industry, commercialized phage products have yet to enter other sectors. This relative lack of success is, in part, due to the inherent biological limitations of whole phages. These include (but are not limited to) reaching target sites at sufficiently high concentrations to establish an infection which produces enough progeny phages to reduce the bacterial population in a clinically meaningful manner and the limited host range of some phages. Conversely, parallels can be drawn between antimicrobial enzymes derived from phages and conventional antibiotics. In the current article the biological limitations of whole phage-based therapeutics and their derived antimicrobial enzymes will be discussed. In addition, the ability of more complex formulations to address these issues, in the context of medical and non-medical applications, will also be included.
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- Callum J Cooper
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Cairns J, Becks L, Jalasvuori M, Hiltunen T. Sublethal streptomycin concentrations and lytic bacteriophage together promote resistance evolution. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 372:rstb.2016.0040. [PMID: 27920385 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Sub-minimum inhibiting concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics frequently occur in natural environments owing to wide-spread antibiotic leakage by human action. Even though the concentrations are very low, these sub-MICs have recently been shown to alter bacterial populations by selecting for antibiotic resistance and increasing the rate of adaptive evolution. However, studies are lacking on how these effects reverberate into key ecological interactions, such as bacteria-phage interactions. Previously, co-selection of bacteria by phages and antibiotic concentrations exceeding MICs has been hypothesized to decrease the rate of resistance evolution because of fitness costs associated with resistance mutations. By contrast, here we show that sub-MICs of the antibiotic streptomycin (Sm) increased the rate of phage resistance evolution, as well as causing extinction of the phage. Notably, Sm and the phage in combination also enhanced the evolution of Sm resistance compared with Sm alone. These observations demonstrate the potential of sub-MICs of antibiotics to impact key ecological interactions in microbial communities with evolutionary outcomes that can radically differ from those associated with high concentrations. Our findings also contribute to the understanding of ecological and evolutionary factors essential for the management of the antibiotic resistance problem.This article is part of the themed issue 'Human influences on evolution, and the ecological and societal consequences'.
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- Johannes Cairns
- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences/Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology/Community Dynamics Group, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, August Thienemann Street 2, Plön 24306, Germany
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science/Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences/Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 65, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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Arias-Sánchez FI, Hall AR. Effects of antibiotic resistance alleles on bacterial evolutionary responses to viral parasites. Biol Lett 2017; 12:rsbl.2016.0064. [PMID: 27194288 PMCID: PMC4892242 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2016] [Accepted: 04/26/2016] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Antibiotic resistance has wide-ranging effects on bacterial phenotypes and evolution. However, the influence of antibiotic resistance on bacterial responses to parasitic viruses remains unclear, despite the ubiquity of such viruses in nature and current interest in therapeutic applications. We experimentally investigated this by exposing various Escherichia coli genotypes, including eight antibiotic-resistant genotypes and a mutator, to different viruses (lytic bacteriophages). Across 960 populations, we measured changes in population density and sensitivity to viruses, and tested whether variation among bacterial genotypes was explained by their relative growth in the absence of parasites, or mutation rate towards phage resistance measured by fluctuation tests for each phage. We found that antibiotic resistance had relatively weak effects on adaptation to phages, although some antibiotic-resistance alleles impeded the evolution of resistance to phages via growth costs. By contrast, a mutator allele, often found in antibiotic-resistant lineages in pathogenic populations, had a relatively large positive effect on phage-resistance evolution and population density under parasitism. This suggests costs of antibiotic resistance may modify the outcome of phage therapy against pathogenic populations previously exposed to antibiotics, but the effects of any co-occurring mutator alleles are likely to be stronger.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Associations among Antibiotic and Phage Resistance Phenotypes in Natural and Clinical Escherichia coli Isolates. mBio 2017; 8:mBio.01341-17. [PMID: 29089428 PMCID: PMC5666156 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01341-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The spread of antibiotic resistance is driving interest in new approaches to control bacterial pathogens. This includes applying multiple antibiotics strategically, using bacteriophages against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and combining both types of antibacterial agents. All these approaches rely on or are impacted by associations among resistance phenotypes (where bacteria resistant to one antibacterial agent are also relatively susceptible or resistant to others). Experiments with laboratory strains have shown strong associations between some resistance phenotypes, but we lack a quantitative understanding of associations among antibiotic and phage resistance phenotypes in natural and clinical populations. To address this, we measured resistance to various antibiotics and bacteriophages for 94 natural and clinical Escherichia coli isolates. We found several positive associations between resistance phenotypes across isolates. Associations were on average stronger for antibacterial agents of the same type (antibiotic-antibiotic or phage-phage) than different types (antibiotic-phage). Plasmid profiles and genetic knockouts suggested that such associations can result from both colocalization of resistance genes and pleiotropic effects of individual resistance mechanisms, including one case of antibiotic-phage cross-resistance. Antibiotic resistance was predicted by core genome phylogeny and plasmid profile, but phage resistance was predicted only by core genome phylogeny. Finally, we used observed associations to predict genes involved in a previously uncharacterized phage resistance mechanism, which we verified using experimental evolution. Our data suggest that susceptibility to phages and antibiotics are evolving largely independently, and unlike in experiments with lab strains, negative associations between antibiotic resistance phenotypes in nature are rare. This is relevant for treatment scenarios where bacteria encounter multiple antibacterial agents.IMPORTANCE Rising antibiotic resistance is making it harder to treat bacterial infections. Whether resistance to a given antibiotic spreads or declines is influenced by whether it is associated with altered susceptibility to other antibiotics or other stressors that bacteria encounter in nature, such as bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). We used natural and clinical isolates of Escherichia coli, an abundant species and key pathogen, to characterize associations among resistance phenotypes to various antibiotics and bacteriophages. We found associations between some resistance phenotypes, and in contrast to past work with laboratory strains, they were exclusively positive. Analysis of bacterial genome sequences and horizontally transferred genetic elements (plasmids) helped to explain this, as well as our finding that there was no overall association between antibiotic resistance and bacteriophage resistance profiles across isolates. This improves our understanding of resistance evolution in nature, potentially informing new rational therapies that combine different antibacterials, including bacteriophages.
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Touchon M, Moura de Sousa JA, Rocha EP. Embracing the enemy: the diversification of microbial gene repertoires by phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer. Curr Opin Microbiol 2017; 38:66-73. [PMID: 28527384 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2017.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 163] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 04/20/2017] [Accepted: 04/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Bacteriophages and archaeal viruses contribute, through lysogenic conversion or transduction, to the horizontal transfer of genetic material between microbial genomes. Recent genomics, metagenomics, and single cell studies have shown that lysogenic conversion is widespread and provides hosts with adaptive traits often associated with biotic interactions. The quantification of the evolutionary impact of transduction has lagged behind and requires further theoretical and experimental work. Nevertheless, recent studies suggested that generalized transduction plays a role in the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes and in the acquisition of novel genes during intra-specific bacterial competition. The characteristics of transduction and lysogenic conversion complement those of other mechanisms of transfer, and could play a key role in the spread of adaptive genes between communities.
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- Marie Touchon
- Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue Dr Roux, Paris, 75015, France; CNRS, UMR3525, 25-28 rue Dr. Roux, Paris, 75015, France
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- Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue Dr Roux, Paris, 75015, France; CNRS, UMR3525, 25-28 rue Dr. Roux, Paris, 75015, France
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- Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, Institut Pasteur, 25-28 rue Dr Roux, Paris, 75015, France; CNRS, UMR3525, 25-28 rue Dr. Roux, Paris, 75015, France.
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Cairns J, Frickel J, Jalasvuori M, Hiltunen T, Becks L. Genomic evolution of bacterial populations under coselection by antibiotics and phage. Mol Ecol 2017; 26:1848-1859. [DOI: 10.1111/mec.13950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2016] [Revised: 10/06/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Johannes Cairns
- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences / Microbiology and Biotechnology; University of Helsinki; P.O. Box 65 00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology / Community Dynamics Group; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology; August Thienemann Street 2 24306 Plön Germany
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science / Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions; University of Jyväskylä; P.O. Box 35 Jyväskylä 40014 Finland
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- Department of Food and Environmental Sciences / Microbiology and Biotechnology; University of Helsinki; P.O. Box 65 00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Evolutionary Ecology / Community Dynamics Group; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology; August Thienemann Street 2 24306 Plön Germany
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Scanlan PD, Bischofberger AM, Hall AR. Modification of Escherichia coli-bacteriophage interactions by surfactants and antibiotics in vitro. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2016; 93:fiw211. [PMID: 27737900 PMCID: PMC5091284 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiw211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Although experiments indicate that the abiotic environment plays an important role in bacterial interactions with their parasitic viruses (bacteriophages or phages), it is not yet clear how exposure to compounds present in nature alters the impact of phages on bacterial growth and evolution. To address this question, we exposed Escherichia coli K12 MG1655, in combination with three lytic phages, to various substances that natural and clinical microbial populations are likely to encounter: bile salts (present in mammalian gastrointestinal tracts), sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS, a common surfactant in cleaning and hygiene products) and four antibiotics (present at variable concentrations in natural and clinical environments). Our results show that bile salts and SDS can reduce the detrimental effect of phages on bacterial growth. In some cases these compounds completely mitigated any negative effects of phages on bacterial growth and consequently bacteria did not evolve resistance to phages in these conditions. The proportional effects of phages were unaffected by antibiotics in most combinations, excepting three cases of phage-drug synergy. These results suggest that accounting for interactions between phages and environmental factors such as surfactants and antibiotics will improve understanding of both bacterial growth and resistance evolution to phages in vivo and in nature.
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- Pauline D Scanlan
- APC Microbiome Institute, Bioscience Building, University College Cork, Ireland
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Chan BK, Sistrom M, Wertz JE, Kortright KE, Narayan D, Turner PE. Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Sci Rep 2016; 6:26717. [PMID: 27225966 PMCID: PMC4880932 DOI: 10.1038/srep26717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 375] [Impact Index Per Article: 46.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pathogens while exerting selection for reduced pathogenesis when these bacteria inevitably evolve resistance to therapeutic intervention. As an example of such a management strategy, we isolated a lytic bacteriophage, OMKO1, (family Myoviridae) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that utilizes the outer membrane porin M (OprM) of the multidrug efflux systems MexAB and MexXY as a receptor-binding site. Results show that phage selection produces an evolutionary trade-off in MDR P. aeruginosa, whereby the evolution of bacterial resistance to phage attack changes the efflux pump mechanism, causing increased sensitivity to drugs from several antibiotic classes. Although modern phage therapy is still in its infancy, we conclude that phages, such as OMKO1, represent a new approach to phage therapy where bacteriophages exert selection for MDR bacteria to become increasingly sensitive to traditional antibiotics. This approach, using phages as targeted antibacterials, could extend the lifetime of our current antibiotics and potentially reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistant infections.
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- Benjamin K Chan
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, 95343, USA
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- E. coli Genetic Stock Center, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.,Program in Microbiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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Betts A, Gifford DR, MacLean RC, King KC. Parasite diversity drives rapid host dynamics and evolution of resistance in a bacteria-phage system. Evolution 2016; 70:969-78. [PMID: 27005577 PMCID: PMC4982092 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2015] [Revised: 03/02/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Host–parasite evolutionary interactions are typically considered in a pairwise species framework. However, natural infections frequently involve multiple parasites. Altering parasite diversity alters ecological and evolutionary dynamics as parasites compete and hosts resist multiple infection. We investigated the effects of parasite diversity on host–parasite population dynamics and evolution using the pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and five lytic bacteriophage parasites. To manipulate parasite diversity, bacterial populations were exposed for 24 hours to either phage monocultures or diverse communities containing up to five phages. Phage communities suppressed host populations more rapidly but also showed reduced phage density, likely due to interphage competition. The evolution of resistance allowed rapid bacterial recovery that was greater in magnitude with increases in phage diversity. We observed no difference in the extent of resistance with increased parasite diversity, but there was a profound impact on the specificity of resistance; specialized resistance evolved to monocultures through mutations in a diverse set of genes. In summary, we demonstrate that parasite diversity has rapid effects on host–parasite population dynamics and evolution by selecting for different resistance mutations and affecting the magnitude of bacterial suppression and recovery. Finally, we discuss the implications of phage diversity for their use as biological control agents.
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- Alex Betts
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom
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Wielgoss S, Bergmiller T, Bischofberger AM, Hall AR. Adaptation to Parasites and Costs of Parasite Resistance in Mutator and Nonmutator Bacteria. Mol Biol Evol 2016; 33:770-82. [PMID: 26609077 PMCID: PMC4760081 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Parasitism creates selection for resistance mechanisms in host populations and is hypothesized to promote increased host evolvability. However, the influence of these traits on host evolution when parasites are no longer present is unclear. We used experimental evolution and whole-genome sequencing of Escherichia coli to determine the effects of past and present exposure to parasitic viruses (phages) on the spread of mutator alleles, resistance, and bacterial competitive fitness. We found that mutator alleles spread rapidly during adaptation to any of four different phage species, and this pattern was even more pronounced with multiple phages present simultaneously. However, hypermutability did not detectably accelerate adaptation in the absence of phages and recovery of fitness costs associated with resistance. Several lineages evolved phage resistance through elevated mucoidy, and during subsequent evolution in phage-free conditions they rapidly reverted to nonmucoid, phage-susceptible phenotypes. Genome sequencing revealed that this phenotypic reversion was achieved by additional genetic changes rather than by genotypic reversion of the initial resistance mutations. Insertion sequence (IS) elements played a key role in both the acquisition of resistance and adaptation in the absence of parasites; unlike single nucleotide polymorphisms, IS insertions were not more frequent in mutator lineages. Our results provide a genetic explanation for rapid reversion of mucoidy, a phenotype observed in other bacterial species including human pathogens. Moreover, this demonstrates that the types of genetic change underlying adaptation to fitness costs, and consequently the impact of evolvability mechanisms such as increased point-mutation rates, depend critically on the mechanism of resistance.
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- Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Meaden S, Paszkiewicz K, Koskella B. The cost of phage resistance in a plant pathogenic bacterium is context-dependent. Evolution 2015; 69:1321-8. [PMID: 25809535 PMCID: PMC4979666 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2015] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Parasites are ubiquitous features of living systems and many parasites severely reduce the fecundity or longevity of their hosts. This parasite-imposed selection on host populations should strongly favor the evolution of host resistance, but hosts typically face a trade-off between investment in reproductive fitness and investment in defense against parasites. The magnitude of such a trade-off is likely to be context-dependent, and accordingly costs that are key in shaping evolution in nature may not be easily observable in an artificial environment. We set out to assess the costs of phage resistance for a plant pathogenic bacterium in its natural plant host versus in a nutrient-rich, artificial medium. We demonstrate that mutants of Pseudomonas syringae that have evolved resistance via a single mutational step pay a substantial cost for this resistance when grown on their tomato plant hosts, but do not realize any measurable growth rate costs in nutrient-rich media. This work demonstrates that resistance to phage can significantly alter bacterial growth within plant hosts, and therefore that phage-mediated selection in nature is likely to be an important component of bacterial pathogenicity.
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- Sean Meaden
- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Geoffrey Pope Building, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QD, United Kingdom
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- College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, TR10 9FE, United Kingdom
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