Evolutionary epidemiology of Streptococcus iniae: Linking mutation rate dynamics with adaptation to novel immunological landscapes.

Autor: Rudenko O; The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia., Engelstädter J; The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia., Barnes AC; The University of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St Lucia Campus, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. Electronic address: a.barnes@uq.edu.au.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases [Infect Genet Evol] 2020 Nov; Vol. 85, pp. 104435. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2020.104435
Abstrakt: Pathogens continuously adapt to changing host environments where variation in their virulence and antigenicity is critical to their long-term evolutionary success. The emergence of novel variants is accelerated in microbial mutator strains (mutators) deficient in DNA repair genes, most often from mismatch repair and oxidized-guanine repair systems (MMR and OG respectively). Bacterial MMR/OG mutants are abundant in clinical samples and show increased adaptive potential in experimental infection models, yet the role of mutators in the epidemiology and evolution of infectious disease is not well understood. Here we investigated the role of mutation rate dynamics in the evolution of a broad host range pathogen, Streptococcus iniae, using a set of 80 strains isolated globally over 40 years. We have resolved phylogenetic relationships using non-recombinant core genome variants, measured in vivo mutation rates by fluctuation analysis, identified variation in major MMR/OG genes and their regulatory regions, and phenotyped the major traits determining virulence in streptococci. We found that both mutation rate and MMR/OG genotype are remarkably conserved within phylogenetic clades but significantly differ between major phylogenetic lineages. Further, variation in MMR/OG loci correlates with occurrence of atypical virulence-associated phenotypes, infection in atypical hosts (mammals), and atypical (osseous) tissue of a vaccinated primary host. These findings suggest that mutators are likely to facilitate adaptations preceding major diversification events and may promote emergence of variation permitting colonization of a novel host tissue, novel host taxa (host jumps), and immune-escape in the vaccinated host.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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