{"title":"Genome comparison reveals that Halobacterium salinarum 63-R2 is the origin of the twin laboratory strains NRC-1 and R1","authors":"Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Mike Dyall-Smith","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1365","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1365","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The genome of <i>Halobacterium</i> strain 63-R2 was recently reported and provides the opportunity to resolve long-standing issues regarding the source of two widely used model strains of <i>Halobacterium salinarum</i>, NRC-1 and R1. Strain 63-R2 was isolated in 1934 from a salted buffalo hide (epithet “cutirubra”), along with another strain from a salted cow hide (91-R6<sup>T</sup>, epithet “salinaria,” the type strain of <i>Hbt. salinarum</i>). Both strains belong to the same species according to genome-based taxonomy analysis (TYGS), with chromosome sequences showing 99.64% identity over 1.85 Mb. The chromosome of strain 63-R2 is 99.99% identical to the two laboratory strains NRC-1 and R1, with only five indels, excluding the mobilome. The two reported plasmids of strain 63-R2 share their architecture with plasmids of strain R1 (pHcu43/pHS4, 99.89% identity; pHcu235/pHS3, 100.0% identity). We detected and assembled additional plasmids using PacBio reads deposited at the SRA database, further corroborating that strain differences are minimal. One plasmid, pHcu190 (190,816 bp) corresponds to pHS1 (strain R1) but is even more similar in architecture to pNRC100 (strain NRC-1). Another plasmid, pHcu229, assembled partially and completed in silico (229,124 bp), shares most of its architecture with pHS2 (strain R1). In deviating regions, it corresponds to pNRC200 (strain NRC-1). Further architectural differences between the laboratory strain plasmids are not unique, but are present in strain 63-R2, which contains characteristics from both of them. Based on these observations, it is proposed that the early twentieth-century isolate 63-R2 is the immediate ancestor of the twin laboratory strains NRC-1 and R1.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9728776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Priscilla S. Seabourn, Danya E. Weber, Helen Spafford, Matthew C. I. Medeiros
{"title":"Aedes albopictus microbiome derives from environmental sources and partitions across distinct host tissues","authors":"Priscilla S. Seabourn, Danya E. Weber, Helen Spafford, Matthew C. I. Medeiros","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1364","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1364","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mosquito microbiome consists of a consortium of interacting microorganisms that reside on and within culicid hosts. Mosquitoes acquire most of their microbial diversity from the environment over their life cycle. Once present within the mosquito host, the microbes colonize distinct tissues, and these symbiotic relationships are maintained by immune-related mechanisms, environmental filtering, and trait selection. The processes that govern how environmental microbes assemble across the tissues within mosquitoes remain poorly resolved. We use ecological network analyses to examine how environmental bacteria assemble to form bacteriomes among <i>Aedes albopictus</i> host tissues. Mosquitoes, water, soil, and plant nectar were collected from 20 sites in the Mānoa Valley, Oahu. DNA was extracted and associated bacteriomes were inventoried using Earth Microbiome Project protocols. We find that the bacteriomes of <i>A. albopictus</i> tissues were compositional taxonomic subsets of environmental bacteriomes and suggest that the environmental microbiome serves as a source pool that supports mosquito microbiome diversity. Within the mosquito, the microbiomes of the crop, midgut, Malpighian tubules, and ovaries differed in composition. This microbial diversity partitioned among host tissues formed two specialized modules: one in the crop and midgut, and another in the Malpighian tubules and ovaries. The specialized modules may form based on microbe niche preferences and/or selection of mosquito tissues for specific microbes that aid unique biological functions of the tissue types. A strong niche-driven assembly of tissue-specific microbiotas from the environmental species pool suggests that each tissue has specialized associations with microbes, which derive from host-mediated microbe selection.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9726450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colleen M. McMaken, Derek A. Burkholder, Rosanna J. Milligan, Jose V. Lopez
{"title":"Potential impacts of environmental bacteria on the microbiota of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtle eggs and their hatching success","authors":"Colleen M. McMaken, Derek A. Burkholder, Rosanna J. Milligan, Jose V. Lopez","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1363","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sea turtle hatching success can be affected by many variables, including pathogenic microbes, but it is unclear which microbes are most impactful and how they are transmitted into the eggs. This study characterized and compared the bacterial communities from the (i) cloaca of nesting sea turtles (ii) sand within and surrounding the nests; and (iii) hatched and unhatched eggshells from loggerhead (<i>Caretta caretta</i>) and green (<i>Chelonia mydas</i>) turtles. High throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene V4 region amplicons was performed on samples collected from 27 total nests in Fort Lauderdale and Hillsboro beaches in southeast Florida, United States. Significant differences were identified between hatched and unhatched egg microbiota with the differences caused predominately by <i>Pseudomona</i>s spp., found in higher abundances in unhatched eggs (19.29% relative abundance) than hatched eggs (1.10% relative abundance). Microbiota similarities indicate that the nest sand environment, particularly nest distance from dunes, played a larger role than the nesting mother's cloaca in influencing hatched and unhatched egg microbiota. Pathogenic bacteria potentially derive from mixed-mode transmission or additional sources not included in this study as suggested by the high proportion (24%–48%) of unhatched egg microbiota derived from unknown sources. Nonetheless, the results suggest <i>Pseudomonas</i> as a candidate pathogen or opportunistic colonizer associated with sea turtle egg-hatching failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9731855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amber J. Bernauw, Vincent Crabbe, Fraukje Ryssegem, Ronnie Willaert, Indra Bervoets, Eveline Peeters
{"title":"Molecular mechanisms of regulation by a β-alanine-responsive Lrp-type transcription factor from Acidianus hospitalis","authors":"Amber J. Bernauw, Vincent Crabbe, Fraukje Ryssegem, Ronnie Willaert, Indra Bervoets, Eveline Peeters","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1356","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1356","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The leucine-responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) family of transcriptional regulators is widespread among prokaryotes and especially well-represented in archaea. It harbors members with diverse functional mechanisms and physiological roles, often linked to the regulation of amino acid metabolism. BarR is an Lrp-type regulator that is conserved in thermoacidophilic Thermoprotei belonging to the order Sulfolobales and is responsive to the non-proteinogenic amino acid β-alanine. In this work, we unravel molecular mechanisms of the <i>Acidianus hospitalis</i> BarR homolog, Ah-BarR. Using a heterologous reporter gene system in <i>Escherichia coli</i>, we demonstrate that Ah-BarR is a dual-function transcription regulator that is capable of repressing transcription of its own gene and activating transcription of an aminotransferase gene, which is divergently transcribed from a common intergenic region. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) visualization reveals a conformation in which the intergenic region appears wrapped around an octameric Ah-BarR protein. β-alanine causes small conformational changes without affecting the oligomeric state of the protein, resulting in a relief of regulation while the regulator remains bound to the DNA. This regulatory and ligand response is different from the orthologous regulators in <i>Sulfolobus acidocaldarius</i> and <i>Sulfurisphaera tokodaii</i>, which is possibly explained by a distinct binding site organization and/or by the presence of an additional C-terminal tail in Ah-BarR. By performing site-directed mutagenesis, this tail is shown to be involved in ligand-binding response.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9726452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simone Scherrer, Sarah Schmitt, Fenja Rademacher, Peter Kuhnert, Giovanni Ghielmetti, Sophie Peterhans, Roger Stephan
{"title":"Development of a new multiplex quantitative PCR for the detection of Glaesserella parasuis, Mycoplasma hyorhinis, and Mycoplasma hyosynoviae","authors":"Simone Scherrer, Sarah Schmitt, Fenja Rademacher, Peter Kuhnert, Giovanni Ghielmetti, Sophie Peterhans, Roger Stephan","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1353","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Glaesserella parasuis</i>, <i>Mycoplasma hyorhinis</i>, and <i>Mycoplasma hyosynoviae</i> are important porcine pathogens responsible for polyserositis, polyarthritis, meningitis, pneumonia, and septicemia causing significant economic losses in the swine industry. A new multiplex quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was designed on one hand for the detection of <i>G. parasuis</i> and the virulence marker <i>vtaA</i> to distinguish between highly virulent and non-virulent strains. On the other hand, fluorescent probes were established for the detection and identification of both <i>M. hyorhinis</i> and <i>M. hyosynoviae</i> targeting 16S ribosomal RNA genes. The development of the qPCR was based on reference strains of 15 known serovars of <i>G. parasuis</i>, as well as on the type strains <i>M. hyorhinis</i> ATCC 17981<sup>T</sup> and <i>M. hyosynoviae</i> NCTC 10167<sup>T</sup>. The new qPCR was further evaluated using 21 <i>G. parasuis</i>, 26 <i>M. hyorhinis</i>, and 3 <i>M. hyosynoviae</i> field isolates. Moreover, a pilot study including different clinical specimens of 42 diseased pigs was performed. The specificity of the assay was 100% without cross-reactivity or detection of other bacterial swine pathogens. The sensitivity of the new qPCR was demonstrated to be between 11–180 genome equivalents (GE) of DNA for <i>M. hyosynoviae</i> and <i>M. hyorhinis</i>, and 140–1200 GE for <i>G. parasuis</i> and <i>vtaA</i>. The cut-off threshold cycle was found to be at 35. The developed sensitive and specific qPCR assay has the potential to become a useful molecular tool, which could be implemented in veterinary diagnostic laboratories for the detection and identification of <i>G. parasuis</i>, its virulence marker <i>vtaA</i>, <i>M. hyorhinis</i>, and <i>M. hyosynoviae</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9726449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Guío, Maria F. Fillat, Maria L. Peleato, Emma Sevilla
{"title":"Responses of Anabaena sp. PCC7120 to lindane: Physiological effects and differential expression of potential lin genes","authors":"Jorge Guío, Maria F. Fillat, Maria L. Peleato, Emma Sevilla","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1355","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lindane (γ-HCH) is an organochlorine pesticide that causes huge environmental concerns worldwide due to its recalcitrance and toxicity. The use of the cyanobacterium <i>Anabaena</i> sp. PCC 7120 in aquatic lindane bioremediation has been suggested but information relative to this process is scarce. In the present work, data relative to the growth, pigment composition, photosynthetic/respiration rate, and oxidative stress response of <i>Anabaena</i> sp. PCC 7120 in the presence of lindane at its solubility limit in water are shown. In addition, lindane degradation experiments revealed almost a total disappearance of lindane in the supernatants of <i>Anabaena</i> sp. PCC 7120 culture after 6 days of incubation. The diminishing in lindane concentration was in concordance with an increase in the levels of trichlorobenzene inside the cells. Furthermore, to identify potential orthologs of the <i>linA, linB, linC, linD, linE</i>, and <i>linR</i> genes from <i>Sphingomonas paucimobilis</i> B90A in <i>Anabaena</i> sp. PCC 7120, a whole genome screening was performed allowing the identification of five putative <i>lin</i> orthologs (<i>all1353</i> and <i>all0193</i> putative orthologs of <i>linB, all3836</i> putative orthologs of <i>linC</i>, and <i>all0352</i> and <i>alr0353</i> putative orthologs of <i>linE</i> and <i>linR</i>, respectively) which could be involved in the lindane degradation pathway. Differential expression analysis of these genes in the presence of lindane revealed strong upregulation of one of the potential <i>lin</i> genes of <i>Anabaena</i> sp. PCC 7120.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9726451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of sponge-to-sponge contact on the microbiomes of three spatially competing Caribbean coral reef species","authors":"Shelby E. Gantt, Patrick M. Erwin","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1354","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1354","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sponges perform important ecosystem functions, host diverse microbial symbiont communities (microbiomes), and have been increasing in density on Caribbean coral reefs over the last decade. Sponges compete for space in coral reef communities through both morphological and allelopathic strategies, but no studies of microbiome impacts during these interactions have been conducted. Microbiome alterations mediate spatial competition in other coral reef invertebrates and may similarly impact competitive outcomes for sponges. In this study, we characterized the microbiomes of three common Caribbean sponges (<i>Agelas tubulata</i>, <i>Iotrochota birotulata</i>, and <i>Xestospongia muta</i>) observed to naturally interact spatially in Key Largo, Florida (USA). For each species, replicate samples were collected from sponges in contact with neighbors at the site of contact (contact) and distant from the site of contact (no contact), and from sponges spatially isolated from neighbors (control). Next-generation amplicon sequencing (V4 region of 16S rRNA) revealed significant differences in microbial community structure and diversity among sponge species, but no significant effects were observed within sponge species across all contact states and competitor pairings, indicating no large community shifts in response to direct contact. At a finer scale, particular symbiont taxa (operational taxonomic units at 97% sequence identity, OTUs) were shown to decrease significantly in some interaction pairings, suggesting localized effects for specific sponge competitors. Overall, these results revealed that direct contact during spatial competition does not significantly alter microbial community composition or structure of interacting sponges, suggesting that allelopathic interactions and competitive outcomes are not mediated by microbiome damage or destabilization.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9731860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nemanja Kuzmanović, George C. diCenzo, Boyke Bunk, Cathrin Spröer, Anja Frühling, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Jörg Overmann, Kornelia Smalla
{"title":"Genomics of the “tumorigenes” clade of the family Rhizobiaceae and description of Rhizobium rhododendri sp. nov.","authors":"Nemanja Kuzmanović, George C. diCenzo, Boyke Bunk, Cathrin Spröer, Anja Frühling, Meina Neumann-Schaal, Jörg Overmann, Kornelia Smalla","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1352","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1352","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tumorigenic members of the family <i>Rhizobiaceae</i>, known as agrobacteria, are responsible for crown and cane gall diseases of various crops worldwide. Tumorigenic agrobacteria are commonly found in the genera <i>Agrobacterium</i>, <i>Allorhizobium</i>, and <i>Rhizobium</i>. In this study, we analyzed a distinct “tumorigenes” clade of the genus <i>Rhizobium</i>, which includes the tumorigenic species <i>Rhizobium tumorigenes</i>, as well as strains causing crown gall disease on rhododendron. Here, high-quality, closed genomes of representatives of the “tumorigenes” clade were generated, followed by comparative genomic and phylogenomic analyses. Additionally, the phenotypic characteristics of representatives of the “tumorigenes” clade were analyzed. Our results showed that the tumorigenic strains isolated from rhododendron represent a novel species of the genus <i>Rhizobium</i> for which the name <i>Rhizobium rhododendri</i> sp. nov. is proposed. This species also includes additional strains originating from blueberry and Himalayan blackberry in the United States, whose genome sequences were retrieved from GenBank. Both <i>R. tumorigenes</i> and <i>R. rhododendri</i> contain multipartite genomes, including a chromosome, putative chromids, and megaplasmids. Synteny and phylogenetic analyses indicated that a large putative chromid of <i>R. rhododendri</i> resulted from the cointegration of an ancestral megaplasmid and two putative chromids, following its divergence from <i>R. tumorigenes</i>. Moreover, gene clusters specific for both species of the “tumorigenes” clade were identified, and their biological functions and roles in the ecological diversification of <i>R. rhododendri</i> and <i>R. tumorigenes</i> were predicted and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9475355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High prevalence of blaCTX-M-15 type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Gambian hooded vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus): A threatened species with substantial human interaction","authors":"Hanna Woksepp, Fagimba Camara, Jonas Bonnedahl","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.1349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One hundred fecal samples from hooded vultures in the Gambia (Banjul area) were investigated for the presence of bacteria with extended-spectrum cephalosporin- (ESBL/AmpC), carbapenemases, and colistin resistance. No Enterobacteriales carrying carbapenemases or resistance against colistin were detected. Fifty-four ESBL-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> and five ESBL-producing <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> isolates were identified in 52 of the samples, of which 52 <i>E. coli</i> and 4 <i>K. pneumoniae</i> yielded passed sequencing results. Fifty of the <i>E. coli</i> had ESBL phenotype and genotype harboring <i>bla</i><sub>CTX-M</sub> genes, of which 88.5% (<i>n</i> = 46) were the <i>bla</i><sub>CTX-M-15</sub> gene, commonly found on the African continent. Furthermore, the genetic context around <i>bla</i><sub>CTX-M-15</sub> was similar between isolates, being colocalized with IS<i>Kpn19</i>. In contrast, cgMLST analysis of the <i>E. coli</i> harboring ESBL genes revealed a genetic distribution over a large fraction of the currently known existing <i>E. coli</i> populations in the Gambia. Hooded vultures in the Gambia thus have a high ESBL <i>E. coli</i>-prevalence (>50%) with low diversity regarding key resistance genes. Furthermore, given the urban presence and frequent interactions between hooded vultures and humans, data from this study implies hooded vultures as potential vectors contributing to the further dissemination of antibiotic-resistance genes.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50142216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie P. Gill, William J. Snelling, James S. G. Dooley, Nigel G. Ternan, Ibrahim M. Banat, Joerg Arnscheidt, William R. Hunter
{"title":"Biological and synthetic surfactant exposure increases antimicrobial gene occurrence in a freshwater mixed microbial biofilm environment","authors":"Stephanie P. Gill, William J. Snelling, James S. G. Dooley, Nigel G. Ternan, Ibrahim M. Banat, Joerg Arnscheidt, William R. Hunter","doi":"10.1002/mbo3.1351","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mbo3.1351","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aquatic habitats are particularly susceptible to chemical pollution, such as antimicrobials, from domestic, agricultural, and industrial sources. This has led to the rapid increase of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene prevalence. Alternate approaches to counteract pathogenic bacteria are in development including synthetic and biological surfactants such as sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and rhamnolipids. In the aquatic environment, these surfactants may be present as pollutants with the potential to affect biofilm formation and AMR gene occurrence. We tested the effects of rhamnolipid and SDS on aquatic biofilms in a freshwater stream in Northern Ireland. We grew biofilms on contaminant exposure substrates deployed within the stream over 4 weeks. We then extracted DNA and carried out shotgun sequencing using a MinION portable sequencer to determine microbial community composition, with 16S rRNA analyses (64,678 classifiable reads identified), and AMR gene occurrence (81 instances of AMR genes over 9 AMR gene classes) through a metagenomic analysis. There were no significant changes in community composition within all systems; however, biofilm exposed to rhamnolipid had a greater number of unique taxa as compared to SDS treatments and controls. AMR gene prevalence was higher in surfactant-treated biofilms, although not significant, with biofilm exposed to rhamnolipids having the highest presence of AMR genes and classes compared to the control or SDS treatments. Our results suggest that the presence of rhamnolipid encourages an increase in the prevalence of AMR genes in biofilms produced in mixed-use water bodies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18573,"journal":{"name":"MicrobiologyOpen","volume":"12 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mbo3.1351","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9475357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}