I型BREX系统可以抵抗大肠杆菌中的抗生素耐药性等离子体
Xiaoying Jiang1,2, Dan Li1, Zhewei Sun1
1Institute of Antibiotics, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology of Antibiotics, National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, Shanghai, China.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
|January 30, 2024
概括
大肠杆菌中的菌体排除 (BREX) 系统抑制了抗生素耐药的等离子体,如blaKPC和blaNDM. 这种防御机制对于打击抗菌素耐药性的传播至关重要.
科学领域:
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 遗传学 遗传学 是一个
- 分子生物学分子生物学
背景情况:
- 细菌排除系统 (BREX) 是一种最近发现的抗菌防御机制,在Bacillus cereus中发现.
- 抗生素耐药性等离子体对公众健康构成重大威胁,需要新的防御策略.
研究的目的:
- 调查BREX系统在大肠杆菌中对抗生素耐药性等离子体,特别是blaKPC和blaNDM的存在和有效性.
- 为了确定 E. coli 临床分离物中 BREX 系统存在与对卡巴胺的敏感性之间的相关性.
主要方法:
- 在大肠杆菌临床分离物和公共基因组数据库中对BREX系统的流行查.
- 在BREX阳性与BREX阴性大肠杆菌菌株中对等离子体载体 (blaKPC,blaNDM) 的比较分析.
- 使用PacBio测序的功能测试来识别PGLX识别点,并评估带有和没有BREX系统干扰的等离子体转化效率.
- 结合频率实验以评估在BREX系统存在或不存在的情况下的等离子体传输速率.
主要成果:
- 在5.4%的大肠杆菌临床分离物和6.5%的测序大肠杆菌菌株中检测到BREX系统.
- 所有BREX阳性临床分离物仍然对碳烯胺敏感,而携带blaKPC或blaNDM的菌株主要是BREX阴性.
- 在存在其识别点时,BREX系统显著降低了100%的等离子体转化效率.
- 与野生型菌株相比,BREX缺乏的大肠杆菌菌株中KPC-2和NDM-5等离子体的结合频率明显高.
结论:
- 类型I的BREX系统有效地防范大肠杆菌中抗生素耐药性等离子体的入侵和传播.
- 布雷克斯系统的存在与卡巴胺敏感性相关,这表明它在限制耐药基因传播方面的作用.
- 针对BREX系统或加强其活动可能是打击抗菌素耐药性的潜在策略.
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