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Key experimental evidence of chromosomal DNA transfer among selected tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria

Identifieur interne : 003998 ( Ncbi/Merge ); précédent : 003997; suivant : 003999

Key experimental evidence of chromosomal DNA transfer among selected tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria

Auteurs : Eva C. Boritsch [France] ; Varun Khanna [France] ; Alexandre Pawlik [France] ; Nadine Honoré [France] ; Victor H. Navas [France] ; Laurence Ma [France] ; Christiane Bouchier [France] ; Torsten Seemann [Australie] ; Philip Supply [France] ; Timothy P. Stinear [Australie] ; Roland Brosch [France]

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RBID : PMC:5024641

Abstract

Significance

Whereas most of the more than 130 described mycobacterial species are harmless saprophytes, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the human tuberculosis-causing agent, represents one of the deadliest bacterial pathogens in the history of humankind. To explore the mechanisms behind this spectacular evolutionary trajectory toward pathogenicity, we have experimentally investigated the faculty of different tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria in conducting horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Our studies identified unique chromosomal DNA transfer between strains of the Mycobacterium canettii clade, which resemble most closely the putative common ancestor of the M. tuberculosis complex. This outstanding feature suggests that during the evolution of M. tuberculosis, HGT might have represented the major mechanism for acquisition of genes that helped these mycobacteria to increasingly resist host defenses and become major pathogens.


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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1604921113
PubMed: 27528665
PubMed Central: 5024641

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, the human tuberculosis-causing agent, represents one of the deadliest bacterial pathogens in the history of humankind. To explore the mechanisms behind this spectacular evolutionary trajectory toward pathogenicity, we have experimentally investigated the faculty of different tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria in conducting horizontal gene transfer (HGT). Our studies identified unique chromosomal DNA transfer between strains of the
<italic>Mycobacterium canettii</italic>
clade, which resemble most closely the putative common ancestor of the
<italic>M. tuberculosis</italic>
complex. This outstanding feature suggests that during the evolution of
<italic>M. tuberculosis</italic>
, HGT might have represented the major mechanism for acquisition of genes that helped these mycobacteria to increasingly resist host defenses and become major pathogens.</p>
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<div type="abstract" xml:lang="en">Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major driving force of bacterial diversification and evolution. For tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria, the impact of HGT in the emergence and distribution of dominant lineages remains a matter of debate. Here, by using fluorescence-assisted mating assays and whole genome sequencing, we present unique experimental evidence of chromosomal DNA transfer between tubercle bacilli of the early-branching Mycobacterium canettii clade. We found that the obtained recombinants had received multiple donor-derived DNA fragments in the size range of 100 bp to 118 kbp, fragments large enough to contain whole operons. Although the transfer frequency between M. canettii strains was low and no transfer could be observed among classical Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains, our study provides the proof of concept for genetic exchange in tubercle bacilli. This outstanding, now experimentally validated phenomenon presumably played a key role in the early evolution of the MTBC toward pathogenicity. Moreover, our findings also provide important information for the risk evaluation of potential transfer of drug resistance and fitness mutations among clinically relevant mycobacterial strains.</div>
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       | HfdSelect -Kh $EXPLOR_AREA/Data/Ncbi/Merge/biblio.hfd   \
       | NlmPubMed2Wicri -a AustralieFrV1 

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