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Bustamante P, Ramos-Corominas MN, Martinez-Medina M. Contribution of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems to Adherent-Invasive E. coli Pathogenesis. Microorganisms 2024; 12:1158. [PMID: 38930540 PMCID: PMC11205521 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12061158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2024] [Revised: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/05/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024] Open
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Pathobionts have been implicated in various chronic diseases, including Crohn's disease (CD), a multifactorial chronic inflammatory condition that primarily affects the gastrointestinal tract, causing inflammation and damage to the digestive system. While the exact cause of CD remains unclear, adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) strains have emerged as key contributors to its pathogenesis. AIEC are characterized by their ability to adhere to and invade intestinal epithelial cells and survive and replicate inside macrophages. However, the mechanisms underlying the virulence and persistence of AIEC within their host remain the subject of intensive research. Toxin-antitoxin systems (TAs) play a potential role in AIEC pathogenesis and may be therapeutic targets. These systems generally consist of two components: a toxin harmful to the cell and an antitoxin that neutralizes the toxin's effects. They contribute to bacterial survival in adverse conditions and regulate bacterial growth and behavior, affecting various cellular processes in bacterial pathogens. This review focuses on the current information available to determine the roles of TAs in the pathogenicity of AIEC. Their contribution to the AIEC stress response, biofilm formation, phage inhibition, the maintenance of mobile genetic elements, and host lifestyles is discussed.
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- Paula Bustamante
- Molecular and Cellular Microbiology Laboratory, Instituto de Ciencias Biomédicas, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Santiago 8910060, Chile
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- Microbiology of Intestinal Diseases, Biology Department, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (M.N.R.-C.); (M.M.-M.)
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- Microbiology of Intestinal Diseases, Biology Department, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain; (M.N.R.-C.); (M.M.-M.)
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Gu Q, Zhu X, Yu Y, Jiang T, Pan Z, Ma J, Yao H. Type II and IV toxin-antitoxin systems coordinately stabilize the integrative and conjugative element of the ICESa2603 family conferring multiple drug resistance in Streptococcus suis. PLoS Pathog 2024; 20:e1012169. [PMID: 38640137 PMCID: PMC11062541 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 05/01/2024] [Accepted: 04/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/21/2024] Open
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Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) play a vital role in bacterial evolution by carrying essential genes that confer adaptive functions to the host. Despite their importance, the mechanism underlying the stable inheritance of ICEs, which is necessary for the acquisition of new traits in bacteria, remains poorly understood. Here, we identified SezAT, a type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) system, and AbiE, a type IV TA system encoded within the ICESsuHN105, coordinately promote ICE stabilization and mediate multidrug resistance in Streptococcus suis. Deletion of SezAT or AbiE did not affect the strain's antibiotic susceptibility, but their duple deletion increased susceptibility, mainly mediated by the antitoxins SezA and AbiEi. Further studies have revealed that SezA and AbiEi affect the genetic stability of ICESsuHN105 by moderating the excision and extrachromosomal copy number, consequently affecting the antibiotic resistance conferred by ICE. The DNA-binding proteins AbiEi and SezA, which bind palindromic sequences in the promoter, coordinately modulate ICE excision and extracellular copy number by binding to sequences in the origin-of-transfer (oriT) and the attL sites, respectively. Furthermore, AbiEi negatively regulates the transcription of SezAT by binding directly to its promoter, optimizing the coordinate network of SezAT and AbiE in maintaining ICESsuHN105 stability. Importantly, SezAT and AbiE are widespread and conserved in ICEs harbouring diverse drug-resistance genes, and their coordinated effects in promoting ICE stability and mediating drug resistance may be broadly applicable to other ICEs. Altogether, our study uncovers the TA system's role in maintaining the genetic stability of ICE and offers potential targets for overcoming the dissemination and evolution of drug resistance.
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- Qibing Gu
- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Stomatology, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Key Lab of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China
- OIE Reference Lab for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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Murányi G, Szabó M, Acsai K, Kiss J. Two birds with one stone: SGI1 can stabilize itself and expel the IncC helper by hijacking the plasmid parABS system. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:2498-2518. [PMID: 38300764 PMCID: PMC10954446 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2023] [Revised: 01/11/2024] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/03/2024] Open
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The SGI1 family integrative mobilizable elements, which are efficient agents in distribution of multidrug resistance in Gammaproteobacteria, have a complex, parasitic relationship with their IncC conjugative helper plasmids. Besides exploiting the transfer apparatus, SGI1 also hijacks IncC plasmid control mechanisms to time its own excision, replication and expression of self-encoded T4SS components, which provides advantages for SGI1 over its helpers in conjugal transfer and stable maintenance. Furthermore, SGI1 destabilizes its helpers in an unknown, replication-dependent way when they are concomitantly present in the same host. Here we report how SGI1 exploits the helper plasmid partitioning system to displace the plasmid and simultaneously increase its own stability. We show that SGI1 carries two copies of sequences mimicking the parS sites of IncC plasmids. These parS-like elements bind the ParB protein encoded by the plasmid and increase SGI1 stability by utilizing the parABS system of the plasmid for its own partitioning, through which SGI1 also destabilizes the helper plasmid. Furthermore, SGI1 expresses a small protein, Sci, which significantly strengthens this plasmid-destabilizing effect, as well as SGI1 maintenance. The plasmid-induced replication of SGI1 results in an increased copy-number of parS-like sequences and Sci expression leading to strong incompatibility with the helper plasmid.
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- Gábor Murányi
- Department of Microbiology and Applied Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, H2100 Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Applied Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, H2100 Hungary
- Agribiotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security National Laboratory, Gödöllő, H2100 Hungary
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- Ceva Animal Health, Ceva-Phylaxia, Budapest, H1107 Hungary
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- Department of Microbiology and Applied Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, H2100 Hungary
- Agribiotechnology and Precision Breeding for Food Security National Laboratory, Gödöllő, H2100 Hungary
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Singh A, Lankapalli AK, Mendem SK, Semmler T, Ahmed N. Unraveling the evolutionary dynamics of toxin-antitoxin systems in diverse genetic lineages of Escherichia coli including the high-risk clonal complexes. mBio 2024; 15:e0302323. [PMID: 38117088 PMCID: PMC10790755 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.03023-23] [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: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/15/2023] [Indexed: 12/21/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Large-scale genomic studies of E. coli provide an invaluable opportunity to understand how genomic fine-tuning contributes to the transition of bacterial lifestyle from being commensals to mutualists or pathogens. Within this context, through machine learning-based studies, it appears that TA systems play an important role in the classification of high-risk clonal lineages and could be attributed to their epidemiological success. Due to these profound indications and assumptions, we attempted to provide unique insights into the ordered world of TA systems at the population level by investigating the diversity and evolutionary patterns of TA genes across 19 different STs of E. coli. Further in-depth analysis of ST-specific TA structures and associated genetic coordinates holds the potential to elucidate the functional implications of TA systems in bacterial cell survival and persistence, by and large.
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- Anuradha Singh
- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India
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- Department of Biology and the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India
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- Pathogen Biology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India
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Kamruzzaman M. Editorial for Special Issue "Bacterial Toxin-Antitoxin Systems". Microorganisms 2024; 12:128. [PMID: 38257955 PMCID: PMC10818950 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms12010128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024] Open
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Toxin antitoxin systems (TAS) are widely distributed in bacterial chromosomes as well as on mobile genetic elements [...].
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- Muhammad Kamruzzaman
- Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia
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Guan J, Chen Y, Goh YX, Wang M, Tai C, Deng Z, Song J, Ou HY. TADB 3.0: an updated database of bacterial toxin-antitoxin loci and associated mobile genetic elements. Nucleic Acids Res 2024; 52:D784-D790. [PMID: 37897352 PMCID: PMC10767807 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2023] [Revised: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 10/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023] Open
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TADB 3.0 (https://bioinfo-mml.sjtu.edu.cn/TADB3/) is an updated database that provides comprehensive information on bacterial types I to VIII toxin-antitoxin (TA) loci. Compared with the previous version, three major improvements are introduced: First, with the aid of text mining and manual curation, it records the details of 536 TA loci with experimental support, including 102, 403, 8, 14, 1, 1, 3 and 4 TA loci of types I to VIII, respectively; Second, by leveraging the upgraded TA prediction tool TAfinder 2.0 with a stringent strategy, TADB 3.0 collects 211 697 putative types I to VIII TA loci predicted in 34 789 completely sequenced prokaryotic genomes, providing researchers with a large-scale dataset for further follow-up analysis and characterization; Third, based on their genomic locations, relationships of 69 019 TA loci and 60 898 mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are visualized by interactive networks accessible through the user-friendly web page. With the recent updates, TADB 3.0 may provide improved in silico support for comprehending the biological roles of TA pairs in prokaryotes and their functional associations with MGEs.
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- Jiahao Guan
- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
- Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Laboratory on Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Lin JD, Stogios PJ, Abe KT, Wang A, MacPherson J, Skarina T, Gingras AC, Savchenko A, Ensminger AW. Functional diversification despite structural congruence in the HipBST toxin-antitoxin system of Legionella pneumophila. mBio 2023; 14:e0151023. [PMID: 37819088 PMCID: PMC10653801 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.01510-23] [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: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/13/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are parasitic genetic elements found in almost all bacterial genomes. They are exchanged horizontally between cells and are typically poorly conserved across closely related strains and species. Here, we report the characterization of a tripartite TA system in the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila that is highly conserved across Legionella species genomes. This system (denoted HipBSTLp) is a distant homolog of the recently discovered split-HipA system in Escherichia coli (HipBSTEc). We present bioinformatic, molecular, and structural analyses of the divergence between these two systems and the functionality of this newly described TA system family. Furthermore, we provide evidence to refute previous claims that the toxin in this system (HipTLp) possesses bifunctionality as an L. pneumophila virulence protein. Overall, this work expands our understanding of the split-HipA system architecture and illustrates the potential for undiscovered biology in these abundant genetic elements.
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- Jordan D. Lin
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases (CSGID), University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Ambrose SJ, Hall RM. Effect of the S008-sgaCD operon on IncC plasmid stability in the presence of SGI1-K or absence of an SGI1 variant. Plasmid 2023; 127:102698. [PMID: 37516393 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2023.102698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2023] [Revised: 07/24/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 07/31/2023]
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An IncC or IncA plasmid is needed to enable transfer of SGI1 type integrative mobilisable elements but an IncC plasmid does not stably co-exist with SGI1. However, the plasmid is stably maintained with SGI1-K, a natural SGI1 deletion variant that lacks the sgaDC genes (S007 and S006) and the upstream open reading frame (S008) found in the SGI1 backbone. Here, the effect of the sgaDC genes and S008 on the stability of an IncC plasmid in an Escherichia coli strain with or without SGI1-K was examined. Co-transcription of the S008 open reading frame with the downstream sgaDC genes was established. When a strain containing SGI1-K complemented with a pK18 plasmid that included S008-sgaDC or sgaDC expressed from the constitutive pUC promoter was grown without antibiotic selection, the resident IncC plasmid was rapidly lost but loss was slower when S008 was present. In contrast, SGI1-K and the S008-sgaDC or sgaDC plasmid were quite stably maintained for >100 generations. However, the high copy number plasmids carrying the SGI1-derived S008-sgaDC or sgaDC genes constitutively expressed could not be introduced into an E. coli strain carrying the IncC plasmid but without SGI1-K. Using equivalent plasmids with S008-sgaDC or sgaDC genes controlled by an arabinose-inducible promoter, under inducing conditions the IncC plasmid was stable but the plasmid containing the SGI1-derived genes was rapidly lost. This unexpected observation indicates that there are multiple interactions between the IncC plasmid and SGI1 in which the transcriptional activator genes sgaDC play a role. These interactions will require further investigation.
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- Stephanie J Ambrose
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Xu J, Wang Y, Liu F, Duan G, Yang H. Genome mining reveals the prevalence and extensive diversity of toxin-antitoxin systems in Staphylococcus aureus. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1165981. [PMID: 37293231 PMCID: PMC10244574 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1165981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/10/2023] Open
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Introduction Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a highly pathogenic and adaptable Gram-positive bacterium that exhibits persistence in various environments. The toxin-antitoxin (TA) system plays a crucial role in the defense mechanism of bacterial pathogens, allowing them to survive in stressful conditions. While TA systems in clinical pathogens have been extensively studied, there is limited knowledge regarding the diversity and evolutionary complexities of TA systems in S. aureus. Methods We conducted a comprehensive in silico survey using 621 publicly available S. aureus isolates. We employed bioinformatic search and prediction tools, including SLING, TADB2.0, and TASmania, to identify TA systems within the genomes of S. aureus. Results Our analysis revealed a median of seven TA systems per genome, with three type II TA groups (HD, HD_3, and YoeB) being present in over 80% of the strains. Additionally, we observed that TA genes were predominantly encoded in the chromosomal DNA, with some TA systems also found within the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosomal mec (SCCmec) genomic islands. Discussion This study provides a comprehensive overview of the diversity and prevalence of TA systems in S. aureus. The findings enhance our understanding of these putative TA genes and their potential implications in S. aureus ecology and disease management. Moreover, this knowledge could guide the development of novel antimicrobial strategies.
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Pons MC, Praud K, Da Re S, Cloeckaert A, Doublet B. Conjugative IncC Plasmid Entry Triggers the SOS Response and Promotes Effective Transfer of the Integrative Antibiotic Resistance Element SGI1. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0220122. [PMID: 36472437 PMCID: PMC9927553 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02201-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The broad-host-range IncC plasmid family and the integrative mobilizable Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) and its derivatives enable the spread of medically important antibiotic resistance genes among Gram-negative pathogens. Although several aspects of the complex functional interactions between IncC plasmids and SGI1 have been recently deciphered regarding their conjugative transfer and incompatibility, the biological signal resulting in the hijacking of the conjugative plasmid by the integrative mobilizable element remains unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the conjugative entry of IncC/IncA plasmids is detected at an early stage by SGI1 through the transient activation of the SOS response, which induces the expression of the SGI1 master activators SgaDC, shown to play a crucial role in the complex biology between SGI1 and IncC plasmids. Besides, we developed an original tripartite conjugation approach to directly monitor SGI1 mobilization in a time-dependent manner following conjugative entry of IncC plasmids. Finally, we propose an updated biological model of the conjugative mobilization of the chromosomal resistance element SGI1 by IncC plasmids. IMPORTANCE Antimicrobial resistance has become a major public health issue, particularly with the increase of multidrug resistance (MDR) in both animal and human pathogenic bacteria and with the emergence of resistance to medically important antibiotics. The spread between bacteria of successful mobile genetic elements, such as conjugative plasmids and integrative elements conferring multidrug resistance, is the main driving force in the dissemination of acquired antibiotic resistances among Gram-negative bacteria. Broad-host-range IncC plasmids and their integrative mobilizable SGI1 counterparts contribute to the spread of critically important resistance genes (e.g., extended-spectrum β-lactamases [ESBLs] and carbapenemases). A better knowledge of the complex biology of these broad-host-range mobile elements will help us to understand the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes that occurred across Gammaproteobacteria borders.
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- INRAE, Université de Tours, ISP, Nouzilly, France
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- INSERM, Université de Limoges, CHU de Limoges, RESINFIT, Limoges, France
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Qiu J, Zhai Y, Wei M, Zheng C, Jiao X. Toxin–antitoxin systems: Classification, biological roles, and applications. Microbiol Res 2022; 264:127159. [DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2022.127159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2022] [Revised: 08/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Guan J, Bao C, Wang P, Jing Y, Wang L, Li X, Mu X, Li B, Zhou D, Guo X, Yin Z. Genetic Characterization of Four Groups of Chromosome-Borne Accessory Genetic Elements Carrying Drug Resistance Genes in Providencia. Infect Drug Resist 2022; 15:2253-2270. [PMID: 35510160 PMCID: PMC9058013 DOI: 10.2147/idr.s354934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Purpose The aim of this study was to gain a deeper genomics and bioinformatics understanding of diversification of accessory genetic elements (AGEs) in Providencia. Methods Herein, the complete genome sequences of five Providencia isolates from China were determined, and seven AGEs were identified from the chromosomes. Detailed genetic dissection and sequence comparison were applied to these seven AGEs, together with additional 10 chromosomal ones from GenBank (nine of them came from Providencia). Results These 17 AGEs were divided into four groups: Tn6512 and its six derivatives, Tn6872 and its two derivatives, Tn6875 and its one derivative, and Tn7 and its four derivatives. These AGEs display high-level diversification in modular structures that had complex mosaic natures, and particularly different multidrug resistance (MDR) regions were presented in these AGEs. At least 52 drug resistance genes, involved in resistance to 15 different categories of antimicrobials and heavy metal, were found in 15 of these 17 AGEs. Conclusion Integration of these AGEs into the Providencia chromosomes would contribute to the accumulation and distribution of drug resistance genes and enhance the ability of Providencia isolates to survive under drug selection pressure.
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- Jiayao Guan
- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130122, People’s Republic of China
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- Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100039, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130122, People’s Republic of China
- Xuejun Guo, Key Laboratory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Changchun Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changchun, Jilin, 130122, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-431-86985931, Email
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- State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China
- Correspondence: Zhe Yin, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, 100071, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-10-66948557, Email
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Algarni S, Ricke SC, Foley SL, Han J. The Dynamics of the Antimicrobial Resistance Mobilome of Salmonella enterica and Related Enteric Bacteria. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:859854. [PMID: 35432284 PMCID: PMC9008345 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.859854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
The foodborne pathogen Salmonella enterica is considered a global public health risk. Salmonella enterica isolates can develop resistance to several antimicrobial drugs due to the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes, thus increasing the impact on hospitalization and treatment costs, as well as the healthcare system. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play key roles in the dissemination of AMR genes in S. enterica isolates. Multiple phenotypic and molecular techniques have been utilized to better understand the biology and epidemiology of plasmids including DNA sequence analyses, whole genome sequencing (WGS), incompatibility typing, and conjugation studies of plasmids from S. enterica and related species. Focusing on the dynamics of AMR genes is critical for identification and verification of emerging multidrug resistance. The aim of this review is to highlight the updated knowledge of AMR genes in the mobilome of Salmonella and related enteric bacteria. The mobilome is a term defined as all MGEs, including plasmids, transposons, insertion sequences (ISs), gene cassettes, integrons, and resistance islands, that contribute to the potential spread of genes in an organism, including S. enterica isolates and related species, which are the focus of this review.
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- Suad Algarni
- Division of Microbiology, FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR, United States
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery Program, Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
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- Division of Microbiology, FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR, United States
- Cellular and Molecular Biology Graduate Program, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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- Division of Microbiology, FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR, United States
- *Correspondence: Jing Han,
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Choi E, Huh A, Oh C, Oh JI, Kang HY, Hwang J. Functional characterization of HigBA toxin-antitoxin system in an Arctic bacterium, Bosea sp. PAMC 26642. J Microbiol 2022; 60:192-206. [PMID: 35102526 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-022-1619-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 12/15/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are growth-controlling genetic elements consisting of an intracellular toxin protein and its cognate antitoxin. TA systems have been spread among microbial genomes through horizontal gene transfer and are now prevalent in most bacterial and archaeal genomes. Under normal growth conditions, antitoxins tightly counteract the activity of the toxins. Upon stresses, antitoxins are inactivated, releasing activated toxins, which induce growth arrest or cell death. In this study, among nine functional TA modules in Bosea sp. PAMC 26642 living in Arctic lichen, we investigated the functionality of BoHigBA2. BohigBA2 is located close to a genomic island and adjacent to flagellar gene clusters. The expression of BohigB2 induced the inhibition of E. coli growth at 37°C, which was more manifest at 18°C, and this growth defect was reversed when BohigA2 was co-expressed, suggesting that this BoHigBA2 module might be an active TA module in Bosea sp. PAMC 26642. Live/dead staining and viable count analyses revealed that the BoHigB2 toxin had a bactericidal effect, causing cell death. Furthermore, we demonstrated that BoHigB2 possessed mRNA-specific ribonuclease activity on various mRNAs and cleaved only mRNAs being translated, which might impede overall translation and consequently lead to cell death. Our study provides the insight to understand the cold adaptation of Bosea sp. PAMC 26642 living in the Arctic.
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- Eunsil Choi
- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea.,Microbiological Resource Research Institute, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea.,Microbiological Resource Research Institute, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea.,Microbiological Resource Research Institute, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea. .,Microbiological Resource Research Institute, Pusan National University, Busan, 46241, Republic of Korea.
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Nagy I, Szabó M, Hegyi A, Kiss J. Salmonella Genomic Island 1 requires a self-encoded small RNA for mobilization. Mol Microbiol 2021; 116:1533-1551. [PMID: 34784078 PMCID: PMC9299015 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14846] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The SGI1-family elements that are specifically mobilized by the IncA- and IncC-family plasmids are important vehicles of antibiotic resistance among enteric bacteria. Although SGI1 exploits many plasmid-derived conjugation and regulatory functions, the basic mobilization module of the island is unrelated to that of IncC plasmids. This module contains the oriT and encodes the mobilization proteins MpsA and MpsB, which belong to the tyrosine recombinases and not to relaxases. Here we report an additional, essential transfer factor of SGI1. This is a small RNA deriving from the 3'-end of a primary RNA that can also serve as mRNA of ORF S022. The functional domain of this sRNA named sgm-sRNA is encoded between the mpsA gene and the oriT of SGI1. Terminator-like sequence near the promoter of the primary transcript possibly has a regulatory function in controlling the amount of full-length primary RNA, which is converted to the active sgm-sRNA through consecutive maturation steps influenced by the 5'-end of the primary RNA. The mobilization module of SGI1 seems unique due to its atypical relaxase and the newly identified sgm-sRNA, which is required for the horizontal transfer of the island but appears to act differently from classical regulatory sRNAs.
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- István Nagy
- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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- Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő, Hungary
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Identification of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Loci in Levilactobacillus brevis. Interdiscip Sci 2021; 14:80-88. [PMID: 34664198 DOI: 10.1007/s12539-021-00486-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Revised: 09/30/2021] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Levilactobacillus brevis are present in various environments, such as beer, fermented foods, silage, and animal host. Like other lactic acid bacteria, L. brevis might adopt the viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state under unfavorable conditions. The toxin-antitoxin (TA) system, known to regulate cell growth in response to environmental stresses, is found to control the dynamic of the VBNC state. Here, we investigate the type II TA locus prevalence and compare the TA diversity in L. brevis genomes. Using the TAfinder software, we identified a total of 273 putative type II TA loci in 110 replicons of 21 completely sequenced genomes. Genome size does not appear to correlate with the amount of putative type II TA in L. brevis. Besides, type II TA loci are distributed differently among the chromosomes and plasmids. The most prevalent toxin domain is MazF-like in the chromosomes, and RelE/RelE-like in the plasmids; while for antitoxin, Xre-like and Phd-like domains are the most common in the chromosomes and plasmids, respectively. We also observed a unique GNAT-like/ArsR-like TA pair that presents only in the L. brevis chromosome. Detection of 273 putative type II TA loci in 21 complete genomes of Levilactobacillus brevis.
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Gu Q, He P, Wang D, Ma J, Zhong X, Zhu Y, Zhang Y, Bai Q, Pan Z, Yao H. An Auto-Regulating Type II Toxin-Antitoxin System Modulates Drug Resistance and Virulence in Streptococcus suis. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:671706. [PMID: 34475853 PMCID: PMC8406773 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.671706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are ubiquitous genetic elements that play an essential role in multidrug tolerance and virulence of bacteria. So far, little is known about the TA systems in Streptococcus suis. In this study, the Xress-MNTss TA system, composed of the MNTss toxin in the periplasmic space and its interacting Xress antitoxin, was identified in S. suis. β-galactosidase activity and electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA) revealed that Xress and the Xress-MNTss complex could bind directly to the Xress-MNTss promoter as well as downregulate streptomycin adenylyltransferase ZY05719_RS04610. Interestingly, the Xress deletion mutant was less pathogenic in vivo following a challenge in mice. Transmission electron microscopy and adhesion assays pointed to a significantly thinner capsule but greater biofilm-formation capacity in ΔXress than in the wild-type strain. These results indicate that Xress-MNTss, a new type II TA system, plays an important role in antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity in S. suis.
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- Qibing Gu
- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China.,College of Animal Science and Technology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China.,Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sciences, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China.,College of Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China.,Key Laboratory of Animal Bacteriology, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing, China.,OIE Reference Laboratory for Swine Streptococcosis, Nanjing, China
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Durand R, Deschênes F, Burrus V. Genomic islands targeting dusA in Vibrio species are distantly related to Salmonella Genomic Island 1 and mobilizable by IncC conjugative plasmids. PLoS Genet 2021; 17:e1009669. [PMID: 34415925 PMCID: PMC8409611 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1009669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Revised: 09/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) and its variants are significant contributors to the spread of antibiotic resistance among Gammaproteobacteria. All known SGI1 variants integrate at the 3’ end of trmE, a gene coding for a tRNA modification enzyme. SGI1 variants are mobilized specifically by conjugative plasmids of the incompatibility groups A and C (IncA and IncC). Using a comparative genomics approach based on genes conserved among members of the SGI1 group, we identified diverse integrative elements distantly related to SGI1 in several species of Vibrio, Aeromonas, Salmonella, Pokkaliibacter, and Escherichia. Unlike SGI1, these elements target two alternative chromosomal loci, the 5’ end of dusA and the 3’ end of yicC. Although they share many features with SGI1, they lack antibiotic resistance genes and carry alternative integration/excision modules. Functional characterization of IMEVchUSA3, a dusA-specific integrative element, revealed promoters that respond to AcaCD, the master activator of IncC plasmid transfer genes. Quantitative PCR and mating assays confirmed that IMEVchUSA3 excises from the chromosome and is mobilized by an IncC helper plasmid from Vibrio cholerae to Escherichia coli. IMEVchUSA3 encodes the AcaC homolog SgaC that associates with AcaD to form a hybrid activator complex AcaD/SgaC essential for its excision and mobilization. We identified the dusA-specific recombination directionality factor RdfN required for the integrase-mediated excision of dusA-specific elements from the chromosome. Like xis in SGI1, rdfN is under the control of an AcaCD-responsive promoter. Although the integration of IMEVchUSA3 disrupts dusA, it provides a new promoter sequence and restores the reading frame of dusA for proper expression of the tRNA-dihydrouridine synthase A. Phylogenetic analysis of the conserved proteins encoded by SGI1-like elements targeting dusA, yicC, and trmE gives a fresh perspective on the possible origin of SGI1 and its variants. We identified integrative elements distantly related to Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1), a key vector of antibiotic resistance genes in Gammaproteobacteria. SGI1 and its variants reside at the 3’ end of trmE, share a large, highly conserved core of genes, and carry a complex integron that confers multidrug resistance phenotypes to their hosts. Unlike members of the SGI1 group, these novel genomic islands target the 5’ end dusA or the 3’ end of yicC, lack multidrug resistance genes, and seem much more diverse. We showed here that, like SGI1, these elements are mobilized by conjugative plasmids of the IncC group. Based on comparative genomics and functional analyses, we propose a hypothetical model of the evolution of SGI1 and its siblings from the progenitor of IncA and IncC conjugative plasmids via an intermediate dusA-specific integrative element through gene losses and gain of alternative integration/excision modules.
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- Romain Durand
- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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Durand R, Huguet KT, Rivard N, Carraro N, Rodrigue S, Burrus V. Crucial role of Salmonella genomic island 1 master activator in the parasitism of IncC plasmids. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:7807-7824. [PMID: 33834206 PMCID: PMC8373056 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Revised: 03/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
Abstract
IncC conjugative plasmids and the multiple variants of Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) are two functionally interacting families of mobile genetic elements commonly associated with multidrug resistance in the Gammaproteobacteria. SGI1 and its siblings are specifically mobilised in trans by IncC conjugative plasmids. Conjugative transfer of IncC plasmids is activated by the plasmid-encoded master activator AcaCD. SGI1 carries five AcaCD-responsive promoters that drive the expression of genes involved in its excision, replication, and mobilisation. SGI1 encodes an AcaCD homologue, the transcriptional activator complex SgaCD (also known as FlhDCSGI1) that seems to recognise and activate the same SGI1 promoters. Here, we investigated the relevance of SgaCD in SGI1's lifecycle. Mating assays revealed the requirement for SgaCD and its IncC-encoded counterpart AcaCD in the mobilisation of SGI1. An integrative approach combining ChIP-exo, Cappable-seq, and RNA-seq confirmed that SgaCD activates each of the 18 AcaCD-responsive promoters driving the expression of the plasmid transfer functions. A comprehensive analysis of the activity of the complete set of AcaCD-responsive promoters of SGI1 and the helper IncC plasmid was performed through reporter assays. qPCR and flow cytometry assays revealed that SgaCD is essential to elicit the excision and replication of SGI1 and destabilise the helper IncC plasmid.
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- Romain Durand
- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Faculté des sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
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Vaid RK, Thakur Z, Anand T, Kumar S, Tripathi BN. Comparative genome analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum biovars Pullorum and Gallinarum decodes strain specific genes. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0255612. [PMID: 34411120 PMCID: PMC8375982 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Accepted: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum biovar Pullorum (bvP) and biovar Gallinarum (bvG) are the etiological agents of pullorum disease (PD) and fowl typhoid (FT) respectively, which cause huge economic losses to poultry industry especially in developing countries including India. Vaccination and biosecurity measures are currently being employed to control and reduce the S. Gallinarum infections. High endemicity, poor implementation of hygiene and lack of effective vaccines pose challenges in prevention and control of disease in intensively maintained poultry flocks. Comparative genome analysis unravels similarities and dissimilarities thus facilitating identification of genomic features that aids in pathogenesis, niche adaptation and in tracing of evolutionary history. The present investigation was carried out to assess the genotypic differences amongst S.enterica serovar Gallinarum strains including Indian strain S. Gallinarum Sal40 VTCCBAA614. The comparative genome analysis revealed an open pan-genome consisting of 5091 coding sequence (CDS) with 3270 CDS belonging to core-genome, 1254 CDS to dispensable genome and strain specific genes i.e. singletons ranging from 3 to 102 amongst the analyzed strains. Moreover, the investigated strains exhibited diversity in genomic features such as virulence factors, genomic islands, prophage regions, toxin-antitoxin cassettes, and acquired antimicrobial resistance genes. Core genome identified in the study can give important leads in the direction of design of rapid and reliable diagnostics, and vaccine design for effective infection control as well as eradication. Additionally, the identified genetic differences among the S. enterica serovar Gallinarum strains could be used for bacterial typing, structure based inhibitor development by future experimental investigations on the data generated.
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- Rajesh Kumar Vaid
- Bacteriology Laboratory, National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, Haryana, India
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- Bacteriology Laboratory, National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, Haryana, India
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- Bacteriology Laboratory, National Centre for Veterinary Type Cultures, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, Haryana, India
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- Bacteriology Laboratory, ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar, Haryana, India
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Kamruzzaman M, Wu AY, Iredell JR. Biological Functions of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Bacteria. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9061276. [PMID: 34208120 PMCID: PMC8230891 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9061276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 06/04/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
After the first discovery in the 1980s in F-plasmids as a plasmid maintenance system, a myriad of toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems has been identified in bacterial chromosomes and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), including plasmids and bacteriophages. TA systems are small genetic modules that encode a toxin and its antidote and can be divided into seven types based on the nature of the antitoxin molecules and their mechanism of action to neutralise toxins. Among them, type II TA systems are widely distributed in chromosomes and plasmids and the best studied so far. Maintaining genetic material may be the major function of type II TA systems associated with MGEs, but the chromosomal TA systems contribute largely to functions associated with bacterial physiology, including the management of different stresses, virulence and pathogenesis. Due to growing interest in TA research, extensive work has been conducted in recent decades to better understand the physiological roles of these chromosomally encoded modules. However, there are still controversies about some of the functions associated with different TA systems. This review will discuss the most current findings and the bona fide functions of bacterial type II TA systems.
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- Muhammad Kamruzzaman
- Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia;
- Correspondence: (M.K.); (J.R.I.)
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- Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia;
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- Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia;
- Westmead Hospital, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
- Correspondence: (M.K.); (J.R.I.)
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de Curraize C, Siebor E, Neuwirth C. Genomic islands related to Salmonella genomic island 1; integrative mobilisable elements in trmE mobilised in trans by A/C plasmids. Plasmid 2021; 114:102565. [PMID: 33582118 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2021.102565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1), an integrative mobilisable element (IME), was first reported 20 years ago, in the multidrug resistant Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 clone. Since this first report, many variants and relatives have been found in Salmonella enterica and Proteus mirabilis. Thanks to whole genome sequencing, more and more complete sequences of SGI1-related elements (SGI1-REs) have been reported in these last few years among Gammaproteobacteria. Here, the genetic organisation and main features common to SGI1-REs are summarised to help to classify them. Their integrases belong to the tyrosine-recombinase family and target the 3'-end of the trmE gene. They share the same genetic organisation (integrase and excisionase genes, replicase module, SgaCD-like transcriptional activator genes, traN, traG, mpsB/mpsA genes) and they harbour AcaCD binding sites promoting their excision, replication and mobilisation in presence of A/C plasmid. SGI1-REs are mosaic structures suggesting that recombination events occurred between them. Most of them harbour a multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) region and the plasticity of their MAR region show that SGI1-REs play a key role in antibiotic resistance and might help multiple antibiotic resistant bacteria to adapt to their environment. This might explain the emergence of clones with SGI1-REs.
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- Claire de Curraize
- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France.
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- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France.
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- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PBHU, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon Cedex, France.
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Szabó M, Murányi G, Kiss J. IncC helper dependent plasmid-like replication of Salmonella Genomic Island 1. Nucleic Acids Res 2021; 49:832-846. [PMID: 33406256 PMCID: PMC7826253 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
The Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) and its variants are mobilized by IncA and IncC conjugative plasmids. SGI1-family elements and their helper plasmids are effective transporters of multidrug resistance determinants. SGI1 exploits the transfer apparatus of the helper plasmid and hijacks its activator complex, AcaCD, to trigger the expression of several SGI1 genes. In this way, SGI1 times its excision from the chromosome to the helper entry and expresses mating pore components that enhance SGI1 transfer. The SGI1-encoded T4SS components and the FlhDC-family activator proved to be interchangeable with their IncC-encoded homologs, indicating multiple interactions between SGI1 and its helpers. As a new aspect of this crosstalk, we report here the helper-induced replication of SGI1, which requires both activators, AcaCD and FlhDCSGI1, and significantly increases the stability of SGI1 when coexists with the helper plasmid. We have identified the oriVSGI1 and shown that S004-repA operon encodes for a translationally coupled leader protein and an IncN2/N3-related RepA that are expressed under the control of the AcaCD-responsive promoter PS004. This replicon transiently maintains SGI1 as a 4–8-copy plasmid, not only stabilizing the island but also contributing to the fast displacement of the helper plasmid.
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- Mónika Szabó
- Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Gödöllő H2100, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Gödöllő H2100, Hungary
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Gödöllő H2100, Hungary
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Rapid growth inhibitory activity of a YafQ-family endonuclease toxin of the Helicobacter pylori tfs4 integrative and conjugative element. Sci Rep 2020; 10:18171. [PMID: 33097748 PMCID: PMC7584586 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72063-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Prokaryotic and archaeal chromosomes encode a diversity of toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems that contribute to a variety of stress-induced cellular processes in addition to stability and maintenance of mobile elements. Here, we find DinJ-YafQ family TA systems to be broadly distributed amongst diverse phyla, consistent with other ParE/RelE superfamily TAs, but more unusually occurring as a multiplicity of species-specific subtypes. In the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori we identify six distinct subtypes, of which three are predominantly associated with the mobilome, including the disease-associated integrative and conjugative element (ICE), tfs4. Whereas, the ICE-encoded proteins have characteristic features of DinJ-YafQ family Type II TA systems in general, the toxin component is distinguished by a broad metal-ion-dependent endonuclease activity with specificity for both RNA and DNA. We show that the remarkably rapid growth inhibitory activity of the ICE toxin is a correlate of a C-terminal lysine doublet which likely augments catalytic activity by increasing the positive electrostatic potential in the vicinity of the conserved active site. Our collective results reveal a structural feature of an ICE TA toxin that influences substrate catalysis and toxin function which may be relevant to specific TA-mediated responses in diverse genera of bacteria.
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Libante V, Sarica N, Mohamad Ali A, Gapp C, Oussalah A, Guédon G, Leblond-Bourget N, Payot S. Mobilization of IMEs Integrated in the oriT of ICEs Involves Their Own Relaxase Belonging to the Rep-Trans Family of Proteins. Genes (Basel) 2020; 11:genes11091004. [PMID: 32859088 PMCID: PMC7563843 DOI: 10.3390/genes11091004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2020] [Revised: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Integrative mobilizable elements (IMEs) are widespread but very poorly studied integrated elements that can excise and hijack the transfer apparatus of co-resident conjugative elements to promote their own spreading. Sixty-four putative IMEs, harboring closely related mobilization and recombination modules, were found in 14 Streptococcus species and in Staphylococcus aureus. Fifty-three are integrated into the origin of transfer (oriT) of a host integrative conjugative element (ICE), encoding a MobT relaxase and belonging to three distant families: ICESt3, Tn916, and ICE6013. The others are integrated into an unrelated IME or in chromosomal sites. After labeling by an antibiotic resistance gene, the conjugative transfer of one of these IMEs (named IME_oriTs) and its host ICE was measured. Although the IME is integrated in an ICE, it does not transfer as a part of the host ICE (no cis-mobilization). The IME excises and transfers separately from the ICE (without impacting its transfer rate) using its own relaxase, distantly related to all known MobT relaxases, and integrates in the oriT of the ICE after transfer. Overall, IME_oriTs use MobT-encoding ICEs both as hosts and as helpers for conjugative transfer. As half of them carry lsa(C), they actively participate in the dissemination of lincosamide–streptogramin A–pleuromutilin resistance among Firmicutes.
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Huguet KT, Rivard N, Garneau D, Palanee J, Burrus V. Replication of the Salmonella Genomic Island 1 (SGI1) triggered by helper IncC conjugative plasmids promotes incompatibility and plasmid loss. PLoS Genet 2020; 16:e1008965. [PMID: 32760058 PMCID: PMC7433901 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2020] [Revised: 08/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The mobilizable resistance island Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) is specifically mobilized by IncA and IncC conjugative plasmids. SGI1, its variants and IncC plasmids propagate multidrug resistance in pathogenic enterobacteria such as Salmonella enterica serovars and Proteus mirabilis. SGI1 modifies and uses the conjugation apparatus encoded by the helper IncC plasmid, thus enhancing its own propagation. Remarkably, although SGI1 needs a coresident IncC plasmid to excise from the chromosome and transfer to a new host, these elements have been reported to be incompatible. Here, the stability of SGI1 and its helper IncC plasmid, each expressing a different fluorescent reporter protein, was monitored using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). Without selective pressure, 95% of the cells segregated into two subpopulations containing either SGI1 or the helper plasmid. Furthermore, FACS analysis revealed a high level of SGI1-specific fluorescence in IncC+ cells, suggesting that SGI1 undergoes active replication in the presence of the helper plasmid. SGI1 replication was confirmed by quantitative PCR assays, and extraction and restriction of its plasmid form. Deletion of genes involved in SGI1 excision from the chromosome allowed a stable coexistence of SGI1 with its helper plasmid without selective pressure. In addition, deletion of S003 (rep) or of a downstream putative iteron-based origin of replication, while allowing SGI1 excision, abolished its replication, alleviated the incompatibility with the helper plasmid and enabled its cotransfer to a new host. Like SGI1 excision functions, rep expression was found to be controlled by AcaCD, the master activator of IncC plasmid transfer. Transient SGI1 replication seems to be a key feature of the life cycle of this family of genomic islands. Sequence database analysis revealed that SGI1 variants encode either a replication initiator protein with a RepA_C domain, or an alternative replication protein with N-terminal replicase and primase C terminal 1 domains. The Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) and its variants propagate multidrug resistance in several species of human and animal pathogens with the help of IncA and IncC conjugative plasmids that are absolutely required for SGI1 dissemination. These helper plasmids are known to trigger the excision of SGI1 from the chromosome. Here, we found that IncC plasmids also trigger the replication of the excised, circular form of SGI1 by enabling the expression of an SGI1-borne replication initiator gene. In return, high-copy replication of SGI1 interferes with the persistence of the IncC plasmid and prevents its cotransfer into a recipient cell, thereby allowing integration and stabilization of SGI1 into the chromosome of the new host. This finding is important to better understand the complex interactions between SGI1-like elements and their helper plasmids that lead to widespread and highly efficient propagation of multidrug resistance genes to a broad range of human and animal pathogens.
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- Kévin T. Huguet
- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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- Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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Evaluating the Potential for Cross-Interactions of Antitoxins in Type II TA Systems. Toxins (Basel) 2020; 12:toxins12060422. [PMID: 32604745 PMCID: PMC7354431 DOI: 10.3390/toxins12060422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Revised: 06/18/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The diversity of Type-II toxin–antitoxin (TA) systems in bacterial genomes requires tightly controlled interaction specificity to ensure protection of the cell, and potentially to limit cross-talk between toxin–antitoxin pairs of the same family of TA systems. Further, there is a redundant use of toxin folds for different cellular targets and complexation with different classes of antitoxins, increasing the apparent requirement for the insulation of interactions. The presence of Type II TA systems has remained enigmatic with respect to potential benefits imparted to the host cells. In some cases, they play clear roles in survival associated with unfavorable growth conditions. More generally, they can also serve as a “cure” against acquisition of highly similar TA systems such as those found on plasmids or invading genetic elements that frequently carry virulence and resistance genes. The latter model is predicated on the ability of these highly specific cognate antitoxin–toxin interactions to form cross-reactions between chromosomal antitoxins and invading toxins. This review summarizes advances in the Type II TA system models with an emphasis on antitoxin cross-reactivity, including with invading genetic elements and cases where toxin proteins share a common fold yet interact with different families of antitoxins.
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Jurėnas D, Van Melderen L. The Variety in the Common Theme of Translation Inhibition by Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems. Front Genet 2020; 11:262. [PMID: 32362907 PMCID: PMC7180214 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2020.00262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 03/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Type II Toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules are bacterial operons that encode a toxic protein and its antidote, which form a self-regulating genetic system. Antitoxins put a halter on toxins in many ways that distinguish different types of TA modules. In type II TA modules, toxin and antitoxin are proteins that form a complex which physically sequesters the toxin, thereby preventing its toxic activity. Type II toxins inhibit various cellular processes, however, the translation process appears to be their favorite target and nearly every step of this complex process is inhibited by type II toxins. The structural features, enzymatic activities and target specificities of the different toxin families are discussed. Finally, this review emphasizes that the structural folds presented by these toxins are not restricted to type II TA toxins or to one particular cellular target, and discusses why so many of them evolved to target translation as well as the recent developments regarding the role(s) of these systems in bacterial physiology and evolution.
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- Dukas Jurėnas
- Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Systèmes Macromoléculaires, Institut de Microbiologie de la Méditerranée, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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- Cellular and Molecular Microbiology, Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium
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de Curraize C, Siebor E, Neuwirth C, Hall RM. SGI0, a relative of Salmonella genomic islands SGI1 and SGI2, lacking a class 1 integron, found in Proteus mirabilis. Plasmid 2019; 107:102453. [PMID: 31705941 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2019.102453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2019] [Revised: 10/16/2019] [Accepted: 10/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Several groups of integrative mobilizable elements (IMEs) that harbour a class 1 integron carrying antibiotic resistance genes have been found at the 3'-end of the chromosomal trmE gene. Here, a new IME, designated SGI0, was found in trmE in the sequenced and assembled genome of a French clinical, multiply antibiotic resistant Proteus mirabilis strain, Pm1LENAR. SGI0 shares the same gene content as the backbones of SGI1 and SGI2 (overall 97.6% and 97.7% nucleotide identity, respectively) but it lacks a class 1 integron. However, SGI0 is a mosaic made up of segments with >98.5% identity to SGI1 and SGI2 interspersed with segments sharing 74-95% identity indicating that further diverged backbone types exist and that recombination between them is occurring. The structure of SGI1-V, here re-named SGI-V, which lacks two SGI1 (S023 and S024) backbone genes and includes a group of additional genes in the backbone, was re-examined. In regions shared with SGI1, the backbones shared 97.3% overall identity with the differences distributed in patches with various levels of identity. The class 1 integron is also in a slightly different position with the target site duplication AAATT instead of ACTTG for SGI1 and variants, indicating that it was acquired independently. The Pm1LENAR resistance genes are in the chromosome, in Tn7 and an ISEcp1-mobilised segment.
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- Claire de Curraize
- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PTB, BP, 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PTB, BP 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France; School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PTB, BP, 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PTB, BP 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France
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- Bacteriology Department, University Hospital Dijon, PTB, BP, 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France; UMR 6249, Chrono-Environnement, PTB, BP 37013, 21070, Dijon Cedex, France
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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de Curraize C, Neuwirth C, Bador J, Chapuis A, Amoureux L, Siebor E. Two new Salmonella genomic islands 1 from Proteus mirabilis and description of blaCTX-M-15 on a variant (SGI1-K7). J Antimicrob Chemother 2019; 73:1804-1807. [PMID: 29659873 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dky108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Objectives To characterize the structure of Salmonella genomic islands 1 (SGI1s) from two clinical Proteus mirabilis isolates: one producing an ESBL and the other a penicillinase. Methods WGS completed by PCR and Sanger sequencing was performed to determine sequences of SGI1s from Pm2CHAMA and Pm37THOMI strains. Results Two new variants of SGI1 named SGI1-Pm2CHAMA (53.6 kb) and SGI1-K7 (55.1 kb) were identified. The backbone of SGI1-Pm2CHAMA shared 99.9% identity with that of SGI1. Its MDR region (26.3 kb) harboured two class 1 integrons (an In2-type integron and an In4-type integron) containing in particular a qacH cassette (encoding a quaternary ammonium compound efflux pump). These two integrons framed a complex region (harbouring among others blaCARB-4) resulting from transposon insertions mediated by IS26 and successive transposition events of ISs (ISAba14 isoform and the new ISPmi2). The second variant (SGI1-K7) had the same backbone as SGI1-K. Its MDR region (29.7 kb) was derived from that of SGI1-K and was generated by three events. The two main events were mediated by IS26: inversion of a large portion of the MDR region of SGI1-K and insertion of a structure previously reported on plasmids carried by prevalent and successful MDR clones of Enterobacteriaceae. This last event led to the insertion of the blaCTX-M-15 gene into SGI1-K7. Conclusions This study confirmed the great plasticity of the MDR region of SGI1 and its potential key role for the dissemination of clinically significant antibiotic resistance among Enterobacteriaceae.
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- Claire de Curraize
- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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- Laboratory of Bacteriology, Dijon University Hospital, Plateau technique de Biologie, BP 37013, 21070 Dijon cedex, France.,UMR 6249 CNRS Chrono-environnement, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 25000 Besançon, France
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A ParDE-family toxin antitoxin system in major resistance plasmids of Enterobacteriaceae confers antibiotic and heat tolerance. Sci Rep 2019; 9:9872. [PMID: 31285520 PMCID: PMC6614396 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46318-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Accepted: 06/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems were initially discovered as plasmid addiction systems on low-copy-number plasmids. Thousands of TA loci have since been identified on chromosomes, plasmids and mobile elements in bacteria and archaea with diverse roles in bacterial physiology and in maintenance of genetic elements. Here, we identified and characterised a plasmid mediated type II TA system in Enterobacteriaceae as a member of the ParDE super family. This system (hereafter, ParDEI) is distributed among IncI and IncF-type antibiotic resistance and virulence plasmids found in avian and human-source Escherichia coli and Salmonella. It is found that ParDEI is a plasmid stability and stress response module that increases tolerance of aminoglycoside, quinolone and β-lactam antibiotics in E. coli by ~100–1,000-fold, and thus to levels beyond those achievable in the course of antibiotic therapy for human infections. ParDEI also confers a clear survival advantage at 42 °C and expression of the ParEI toxin in trans induces the SOS response, inhibits cell division and promotes biofilm formation. This transmissible high-level antibiotic tolerance is likely to be an important factor in the success of the IncI and IncF plasmids which carry it and the important pathogens in which these are resident.
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Cummins ML, Roy Chowdhury P, Marenda MS, Browning GF, Djordjevic SP. Salmonella Genomic Island 1B Variant Found in a Sequence Type 117 Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Isolate. mSphere 2019; 4:e00169-19. [PMID: 31118300 PMCID: PMC6531882 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00169-19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 05/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) is an integrative genetic island first described in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium DT104 and Agona in 2000. Variants of it have since been described in multiple serovars of S. enterica, as well as in Proteus mirabilis, Acinetobacter baumannii, Morganella morganii, and several other genera. The island typically confers resistance to older, first-generation antimicrobials; however, some variants carry blaNDM-1, blaVEB-6, and blaCTX-M15 genes that encode resistance to frontline, clinically important antibiotics, including third-generation cephalosporins. Genome sequencing studies of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) identified a sequence type 117 (ST117) isolate (AVC96) with genetic features found in SGI1. The complete genome sequence of AVC96 was assembled from a combination of Illumina and single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequence data. Analysis of the AVC96 chromosome identified a variant of SGI1-B located 18 bp from the 3' end of trmE, also known as the attB site, a known hot spot for the integration of genomic islands. This is the first report of SGI1 in wild-type E. coli The variant, here named SGI1-B-Ec1, was otherwise unremarkable, apart from the identification of ISEc43 in open reading frame (ORF) S023.IMPORTANCE SGI1 and variants of it carry a variety of antimicrobial resistance genes, including those conferring resistance to extended-spectrum β-lactams and carbapenems, and have been found in diverse S. enterica serovars, Acinetobacter baumannii, and other members of the Enterobacteriaceae SGI1 integrates into Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria by targeting a conserved site 18 bp from the 3' end of trmE For the first time, we describe a novel variant of SGI1 in an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli isolate. The presence of SGI1 in E. coli is significant because it represents yet another lateral gene transfer mechanism to enhancing the capacity of E. coli to acquire and propagate antimicrobial resistance and putative virulence genes. This finding underscores the importance of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to microbial genomic epidemiology, particularly within a One Health context. Further studies are needed to determine how widespread SGI1 and variants of it may be in Australia.
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- Max Laurence Cummins
- The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- The ithree institute, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Werribee, Victoria, Australia
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Hawkey J, Le Hello S, Doublet B, Granier SA, Hendriksen RS, Fricke WF, Ceyssens PJ, Gomart C, Billman-Jacobe H, Holt KE, Weill FX. Global phylogenomics of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky ST198. Microb Genom 2019; 5. [PMID: 31107206 PMCID: PMC6700661 DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky can be a common causative agent of salmonellosis, usually associated with consumption of contaminated poultry. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to multiple drugs, including ciprofloxacin, is an emerging problem within this serotype. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to investigate the phylogenetic structure and AMR content of 121 S.enterica serotype Kentucky sequence type 198 isolates from five continents. Population structure was inferred using phylogenomic analysis and whole genomes were compared to investigate changes in gene content, with a focus on acquired AMR genes. Our analysis showed that multidrug-resistant (MDR) S.enterica serotype Kentucky isolates belonged to a single lineage, which we estimate emerged circa 1989 following the acquisition of the AMR-associated Salmonella genomic island (SGI) 1 (variant SGI1-K) conferring resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin, gentamicin, sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline. Phylogeographical analysis indicates this clone emerged in Egypt before disseminating into Northern, Southern and Western Africa, then to the Middle East, Asia and the European Union. The MDR clone has since accumulated various substitution mutations in the quinolone-resistance-determining regions (QRDRs) of DNA gyrase (gyrA) and DNA topoisomerase IV (parC), such that most strains carry three QRDR mutations which together confer resistance to ciprofloxacin. The majority of AMR genes in the S. enterica serotype Kentucky genomes were carried either on plasmids or SGI structures. Remarkably, each genome of the MDR clone carried a different SGI1-K derivative structure; this variation could be attributed to IS26-mediated insertions and deletions, which appear to have hampered previous attempts to trace the clone’s evolution using sub-WGS resolution approaches. Several different AMR plasmids were also identified, encoding resistance to chloramphenicol, third-generation cephalosporins, carbapenems and/or azithromycin. These results indicate that most MDR S. enterica serotype Kentucky circulating globally result from the clonal expansion of a single lineage that acquired chromosomal AMR genes 30 years ago, and has continued to diversify and accumulate additional resistances to last-line oral antimicrobials. This article contains data hosted by Microreact.
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- Jane Hawkey
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella , World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for the Typing and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella , Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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- ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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- Laboratoire de sécurité des aliments, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail (ANSES), Université PARIS-EST, 94701 Maisons-Alfort, France.,Laboratoire de Fougères, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail (ANSES), 35306 Fougères, France
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- Research Group for Genomic Epidemiology, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Microbiome Research and Applied Bioinformatics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.,Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella , World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for the Typing and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella , Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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- Asia-Pacific Centre for Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK.,Department of Infectious Diseases, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella , World Health Organization Collaborative Centre for the Typing and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella , Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France
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Kiss J, Szabó M, Hegyi A, Douard G, Praud K, Nagy I, Olasz F, Cloeckaert A, Doublet B. Identification and Characterization of oriT and Two Mobilization Genes Required for Conjugative Transfer of Salmonella Genomic Island 1. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:457. [PMID: 30894848 PMCID: PMC6414798 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The integrative mobilizable elements of SGI1-family considerably contribute to the spread of resistance to critically important antibiotics among enteric bacteria. Even though many aspects of SGI1 mobilization by IncA and IncC plasmids have been explored, the basic transfer elements such as oriT and self-encoded mobilization proteins remain undiscovered. Here we describe the mobilization region of SGI1 that is well conserved throughout the family and carries the oriT SGI1 and two genes, mpsA and mpsB (originally annotated as S020 and S019, respectively) that are essential for the conjugative transfer of SGI1. OriT SGI1, which is located in the vicinity of the two mobilization genes proved to be a 125-bp GC-rich sequence with several important inverted repeat motifs. The mobilization proteins MpsA and MpsB are expressed from a bicistronic mRNA, although MpsB can be produced from its own mRNA as well. The protein structure predictions imply that MpsA belongs to the lambda tyrosine recombinase family, while MpsB resembles the N-terminal core DNA binding domains of these enzymes. The results suggest that MpsA may act as an atypical relaxase, which needs MpsB for SGI1 transfer. Although the helper plasmid-encoded relaxase proved not to be essential for SGI1 transfer, it appeared to be important to achieve the high transfer rate of the island observed with the IncA/IncC-SGI1 system.
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- János Kiss
- National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllõ, Hungary
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- National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllõ, Hungary
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- National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllõ, Hungary.,ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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- National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllõ, Hungary
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- National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, Gödöllõ, Hungary
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- ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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- ISP, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Université de Tours, UMR 1282, Nouzilly, France
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Reassessing the Role of Type II Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Formation of Escherichia coli Type II Persister Cells. mBio 2018; 9:mBio.00640-18. [PMID: 29895634 PMCID: PMC6016239 DOI: 10.1128/mbio.00640-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Persistence is a reversible and low-frequency phenomenon allowing a subpopulation of a clonal bacterial population to survive antibiotic treatments. Upon removal of the antibiotic, persister cells resume growth and give rise to viable progeny. Type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems were assumed to play a key role in the formation of persister cells in Escherichia coli based on the observation that successive deletions of TA systems decreased persistence frequency. In addition, the model proposed that stochastic fluctuations of (p)ppGpp levels are the basis for triggering activation of TA systems. Cells in which TA systems are activated are thought to enter a dormancy state and therefore survive the antibiotic treatment. Using independently constructed strains and newly designed fluorescent reporters, we reassessed the roles of TA modules in persistence both at the population and single-cell levels. Our data confirm that the deletion of 10 TA systems does not affect persistence to ofloxacin or ampicillin. Moreover, microfluidic experiments performed with a strain reporting the induction of the yefM-yoeB TA system allowed the observation of a small number of type II persister cells that resume growth after removal of ampicillin. However, we were unable to establish a correlation between high fluorescence and persistence, since the fluorescence of persister cells was comparable to that of the bulk of the population and none of the cells showing high fluorescence were able to resume growth upon removal of the antibiotic. Altogether, these data show that there is no direct link between induction of TA systems and persistence to antibiotics.IMPORTANCE Within a growing bacterial population, a small subpopulation of cells is able to survive antibiotic treatment by entering a transient state of dormancy referred to as persistence. Persistence is thought to be the cause of relapsing bacterial infections and is a major public health concern. Type II toxin-antitoxin systems are small modules composed of a toxic protein and an antitoxin protein counteracting the toxin activity. These systems were thought to be pivotal players in persistence until recent developments in the field. Our results demonstrate that previous influential reports had technical flaws and that there is no direct link between induction of TA systems and persistence to antibiotics.
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The Obscure World of Integrative and Mobilizable Elements, Highly Widespread Elements that Pirate Bacterial Conjugative Systems. Genes (Basel) 2017; 8:genes8110337. [PMID: 29165361 PMCID: PMC5704250 DOI: 10.3390/genes8110337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2017] [Revised: 11/15/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Conjugation is a key mechanism of bacterial evolution that involves mobile genetic elements. Recent findings indicated that the main actors of conjugative transfer are not the well-known conjugative or mobilizable plasmids but are the integrated elements. This paper reviews current knowledge on “integrative and mobilizable elements” (IMEs) that have recently been shown to be highly diverse and highly widespread but are still rarely described. IMEs encode their own excision and integration and use the conjugation machinery of unrelated co-resident conjugative element for their own transfer. Recent studies revealed a much more complex and much more diverse lifecycle than initially thought. Besides their main transmission as integrated elements, IMEs probably use plasmid-like strategies to ensure their maintenance after excision. Their interaction with conjugative elements reveals not only harmless hitchhikers but also hunters that use conjugative elements as target for their integration or harmful parasites that subvert the conjugative apparatus of incoming elements to invade cells that harbor them. IMEs carry genes conferring various functions, such as resistance to antibiotics, that can enhance the fitness of their hosts and that contribute to their maintenance in bacterial populations. Taken as a whole, IMEs are probably major contributors to bacterial evolution.
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Jurėnas D, Garcia-Pino A, Van Melderen L. Novel toxins from type II toxin-antitoxin systems with acetyltransferase activity. Plasmid 2017; 93:30-35. [PMID: 28941941 DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2017.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Revised: 08/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are widespread in bacterial and archeal genomes. These modules are very dynamic and participate in bacterial genome evolution through horizontal gene transfer. TA systems are commonly composed of a labile antitoxin and a stable toxin. Toxins appear to preferentially inhibit the protein synthesis process. Toxins use a variety of molecular mechanisms and target nearly every step of translation to achieve their inhibitory function. This review focuses on a recently identified TA family that includes acetyltransferase toxins. The AtaT and TacT toxins are the best-characterized to date in this family. AtaT and TacT both inhibit translation by acetylating the amino acid charged on tRNAs. However, the specificities of these 2 toxins are different as AtaT inhibits translation initiation by acetylation of the initiator tRNA whereas TacT acetylates elongator tRNAs. The molecular mechanisms of these toxins are discussed, as well as the functions and possible evolutionary origins of this diverse toxin family.
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- Dukas Jurėnas
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Vilnius University Joint Life Sciences Center, Vilnius, Lithuania; Cellular and Molecular Microbiology (CM2), Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
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- Cellular and Molecular Microbiology (CM2), Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
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- Cellular and Molecular Microbiology (CM2), Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.
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Díaz-Orejas R, Espinosa M, Yeo CC. The Importance of the Expendable: Toxin-Antitoxin Genes in Plasmids and Chromosomes. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1479. [PMID: 28824602 PMCID: PMC5543033 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2017] [Accepted: 07/24/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Toxin–antitoxin (TA) genes were first reported in plasmids and were considered expendable genetic cassettes involved in the stable maintenance of the plasmid replicon by interfering with growth and/or viability of bacteria in which the plasmid was lost. TAs were later found in bacterial chromosomes and also in integrated mobile genetic elements; they were proposed to be involved in the bacterial response to stressful situations. At present, 100s of TAs have been identified and classified in up to six families (I to VI), with those belonging to the type II (constituted by two protein components) being the most studied. Based on well-characterized examples of several type II TAs, we discuss in this review that irrespective of their locations in plasmids or chromosomes, TAs functionally overlap as indicated by: (i) in both locations they can mediate the maintenance of genetic elements to which they are physical linked, and (ii) they can induce persistence or virulence in response to stress situations. Examples of functional confluences in homologous TA systems with different locations are also given. We also consider whether the physiological role of TAs is due to their genetic organization as operons or to their inherent properties, like the short lifespan of the antitoxin component.
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- Ramón Díaz-Orejas
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Madrid, Spain
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- Faculty of Medicine, Biomedical Research Centre, Universiti Sultan Zainal AbidinKuala Terengganu, Malaysia
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Multidrug Resistance Salmonella Genomic Island 1 in a Morganella morganii subsp. morganii Human Clinical Isolate from France. mSphere 2017; 2:mSphere00118-17. [PMID: 28435889 PMCID: PMC5397566 DOI: 10.1128/msphere.00118-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 04/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Since its initial identification in epidemic multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 strains, several SGI1 variants, SGI1 lineages, and SGI1-related elements (SGI2, PGI1, and AGI1) have been described in many bacterial genera (Salmonella, Proteus, Morganella, Vibrio, Shewanella, etc.). They constitute a family of multidrug resistance site-specific integrative elements acquired by horizontal gene transfer, SGI1 being the best-characterized element. The horizontal transfer of SGI1/PGI1 elements into other genera is of public health concern, notably with regard to the spread of critically important resistance genes such as ESBL and carbapenemase genes. The identification of SGI1 in Morganella morganii raises the issue of (i) the potential for SGI1 to emerge in other human pathogens and (ii) its bacterial host range. Further surveillance and research are needed to understand the epidemiology, the spread, and the importance of the members of this SGI1 family of integrative elements in contributing to antibiotic resistance development. Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) is a multidrug resistance integrative mobilizable element that harbors a great diversity of antimicrobial resistance gene clusters described in numerous Salmonella enterica serovars and also in Proteus mirabilis. A serious threat to public health was revealed in the recent description in P. mirabilis of a SGI1-derivative multidrug resistance island named PGI1 (Proteus genomic island 1) carrying extended-spectrum-β-lactamase (ESBL) and metallo-β-lactamase resistance genes, blaVEB-6 and blaNDM-1, respectively. Here, we report the first description of Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) in a multidrug-resistant clinical Morganella morganii subsp. morganii strain isolated from a patient in France in 2013. Complete-genome sequencing of the strain revealed SGI1 variant SGI1-L carrying resistance genes dfrA15, floR, tetA(G), blaPSE-1 (now referred to as blaCARB-2), and sul1, conferring resistance to trimethoprim, phenicols, tetracyclines, amoxicillin, and sulfonamides, respectively. The SGI1-L variant was integrated into the usual chromosome-specific integration site at the 3′ end of the trmE gene. Beyond Salmonella enterica and Proteus mirabilis, the SGI1 integrative mobilizable element may thus also disseminate its multidrug resistance phenotype in another genus belonging to the Proteae tribe of the family Enterobacteriaceae. IMPORTANCE Since its initial identification in epidemic multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 strains, several SGI1 variants, SGI1 lineages, and SGI1-related elements (SGI2, PGI1, and AGI1) have been described in many bacterial genera (Salmonella, Proteus, Morganella, Vibrio, Shewanella, etc.). They constitute a family of multidrug resistance site-specific integrative elements acquired by horizontal gene transfer, SGI1 being the best-characterized element. The horizontal transfer of SGI1/PGI1 elements into other genera is of public health concern, notably with regard to the spread of critically important resistance genes such as ESBL and carbapenemase genes. The identification of SGI1 in Morganella morganii raises the issue of (i) the potential for SGI1 to emerge in other human pathogens and (ii) its bacterial host range. Further surveillance and research are needed to understand the epidemiology, the spread, and the importance of the members of this SGI1 family of integrative elements in contributing to antibiotic resistance development.
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