Rodrigues Diego Lucas Neres, Morais-Rodrigues Francielly, Hurtado Raquel, Dos Santos Roselane Gonçalves, Costa Daniela Camargos, Barh Debmalya, Ghosh Preetam, Alzahrani Khalid J, Soares Siomar Castro, Ramos Rommel, Góes-Neto Aristóteles, Azevedo Vasco, Aburjaile Flávia Figueira
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Genetics, Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBelo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte 31270-901, MG, Brazil.
FAMINAS-BH, Belo Horizonte 31744-007, MG, Brazil.
Antibiotics (Basel). 2021 May 18;10(5):596. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics10050596.
is an important Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that is responsible for many nosocomial infections. This etiologic agent has acquired, over the years, multiple mechanisms of resistance to a wide range of antimicrobials and the ability to survive in different environments. In this context, our study aims to elucidate the resistome from the strains based on phylogenetic, phylogenomic, and comparative genomics analyses. In silico analysis of the complete genomes of strains was carried out to identify genes involved in the resistance mechanisms and the phylogenetic relationships and grouping of the strains based on the sequence type. The presence of genomic islands containing most of the resistance gene repertoire indicated high genomic plasticity, which probably enabled the acquisition of resistance genes and the formation of a robust resistome. displayed an open pan-genome and revealed a still constant genetic permutation among their strains. Furthermore, the resistance genes suggest a specific profile within the species throughout its evolutionary history. Moreover, the current study performed screening and characterization of the main genes present in the resistome, which can be used in applied research to develop new therapeutic methods to control this important bacterial pathogen.
是一种重要的革兰氏阴性机会致病菌,可导致许多医院感染。多年来,这种病原体已获得多种对多种抗菌药物的耐药机制以及在不同环境中生存的能力。在此背景下,我们的研究旨在通过系统发育、系统基因组学和比较基因组学分析阐明这些菌株的耐药基因组。对这些菌株的全基因组进行了计算机分析,以鉴定参与耐药机制的基因以及基于序列类型的菌株的系统发育关系和分组。含有大部分耐药基因库的基因组岛的存在表明基因组具有高度可塑性,这可能使耐药基因得以获得并形成强大的耐药基因组。显示出开放的泛基因组,并揭示了其菌株之间仍在不断的基因排列。此外,耐药基因在整个进化历史中表明了该物种内的特定特征。此外,当前的研究对耐药基因组中存在的主要基因进行了筛选和表征,可用于应用研究以开发控制这种重要细菌病原体的新治疗方法。