Liang Junrong, Kou Zengqiang, Qin Shuai, Chen Yuhuang, Li Zhenpeng, Li Chuchu, Duan Ran, Hao Huijing, Zha Tao, Gu Wenpeng, Huang Yuanming, Xiao Meng, Jing Huaiqi, Wang Xin
State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases - Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Shandong Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China.
Front Microbiol. 2019 May 29;10:1184. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01184. eCollection 2019.
is a major agent of foodborne diseases worldwide. Prophage plays an important role in the genetic evolution of the bacterial genome. Little is known about the genetic information about prophages in the genome of , and no pathogenic prophages have been described. In this study, we induced and described the genomes of six prophages from pathogenic for the first time. Phylogenetic analysis based on whole genome sequencing revealed that these novel phages are genetically distinct from the previously reported phages, showing considerable genetic diversity. Interestingly, the prophages induced from O:3 and O:9 showed different genomic sequences and morphology but highly conserved among the same serotype strains, which classified into two diverse clusters. The three long-tailed prophages induced from serotype O:3 were highly conserved, shared ≥99.99% identity and forming genotypic cluster A; the three prophages induced from the serotype O:9 strains formed cluster B, also shared more than 99.90% identity with one another. Cluster A was most closely related to O:5 non-pathogenic prophage PY54 (61.72% identity). The genetic polymorphism of these two kinds of prophages and highly conserved among the same serotype strains, suggested a possible shared evolutionary past for these phages: originated from distinct ancestors, and entered pathogenic as extrachromosomal genetic components during evolution when facing selective pressure. These results are critically important for further understanding of phage roles in host physiology and the pathology of disease.
是全球食源性疾病的主要病原体。前噬菌体在细菌基因组的遗传进化中起重要作用。关于其基因组中前噬菌体的遗传信息知之甚少,且尚未描述过致病前噬菌体。在本研究中,我们首次诱导并描述了来自致病性的六种前噬菌体的基因组。基于全基因组测序的系统发育分析表明,这些新型噬菌体在遗传上与先前报道的噬菌体不同,显示出相当大的遗传多样性。有趣的是,从O:3和O:9诱导的前噬菌体显示出不同的基因组序列和形态,但在同一血清型菌株中高度保守,分为两个不同的簇。从血清型O:3诱导的三种长尾前噬菌体高度保守,同一性≥99.99%,形成基因型簇A;从血清型O:9菌株诱导的三种前噬菌体形成簇B,彼此之间的同一性也超过99.90%。簇A与O:5非致病性前噬菌体PY54关系最密切(同一性为61.72%)。这两种前噬菌体的遗传多态性以及在同一血清型菌株中的高度保守性,表明这些噬菌体可能有共同的进化历史:起源于不同的祖先,并在进化过程中面对选择压力时作为染色体外遗传成分进入致病性。这些结果对于进一步了解噬菌体在宿主生理学和疾病病理学中的作用至关重要。