Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Microb Genom. 2024 Jun;10(6). doi: 10.1099/mgen.0.001259.
is a leading cause of infections in immunocompromised individuals and in healthcare settings. This study aims to understand the relationships between phenotypic diversity and the functional metabolic landscape of clinical isolates. To better understand the metabolic repertoire of in infection, we deeply profiled a representative set from a library of 971 clinical isolates with corresponding patient metadata and bacterial phenotypes. The genotypic clustering based on whole-genome sequencing of the isolates, multilocus sequence types, and the phenotypic clustering generated from a multi-parametric analysis were compared to each other to assess the genotype-phenotype correlation. Genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions were developed for each isolate through amendments to an existing PA14 network reconstruction. These network reconstructions show diverse metabolic functionalities and enhance the collective pangenome metabolic repertoire. Characterizing this rich set of clinical isolates allows for a deeper understanding of the genotypic and metabolic diversity of the pathogen in a clinical setting and lays a foundation for further investigation of the metabolic landscape of this pathogen and host-associated metabolic differences during infection.
是免疫功能低下个体和医疗机构感染的主要原因。本研究旨在了解临床分离株表型多样性与功能代谢景观之间的关系。为了更好地了解感染中的代谢组,我们对来自 971 个临床分离株文库的一组具有相应患者元数据和细菌表型的代表性分离株进行了深入分析。基于全基因组测序的分离株的基因型聚类、多位点序列类型和来自多参数分析的表型聚类相互比较,以评估基因型-表型相关性。通过对现有 PA14 网络重建进行修正,为每个分离株开发了基因组规模的代谢网络重建。这些网络重建显示出多样化的代谢功能,并增强了集体泛基因组代谢组。对这组丰富的临床分离株进行表征,可以更深入地了解临床环境中病原体的基因型和代谢多样性,并为进一步研究该病原体的代谢景观以及感染过程中宿主相关的代谢差异奠定基础。