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Nonconservative integration and diversity of a new family of integrative and conjugative elements associated with antibiotic resistance in zoonotic pathogen Streptococcus suis

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VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 254, Issue -, Pages -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2021.109009

Keywords

Streptococcus suis; ICESa2603; Antimicrobial resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; Evolution

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [31702292, 31872517, 32072915]
  2. National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD0500300]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [KJQN201827]
  4. Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD)

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Resistance to macrolide and tetracycline in streptococci is primarily caused by the acquisition of specific gene elements. A new ICE was identified in this study which may contribute to bacterial resistance, and this resistance could persist within the bacterial chromosome at multiple attachment sites.
Macrolide and tetracycline resistance in streptococci is mainly caused by acquisition of integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) of the ICESa2603 family carrying erm(B) and tet(O). But the characteristics about the transferability and physiological consequences of ICEs with triplet serine integrases are still rare. This study tested the transferability of ICESsuYZDH1_SSU0877, a novel erm(B)-and tet(O)-carrying ICESa2603 family-like ICE with triplet serine integrases, and evaluated the physiological consequences after ICE transferred and integrated into recipient. The prevalence of ICESsuYZDH1-like ICEs in S. suis was analyzed based on 1334 genomic sequences available in GenBank and examined in 330 clinical isolates in China. Nonconservative transfer was observed by integrating of ICESsuYZDH1 into SSU1797 gene besides the primary SSU0877 site. Imperfect direct repeats of 2-/4-nt (5'-TC-3'/5'-TCCC-3?) and (5'-GC-3'/5'-TCCC-3') were observed at SSU0877 and SSU1797 sites, respectively. The transconjugant suffered a weak fitness cost with stunted growth and less competition with recipient strain. Successive passages indicate the ICESsuYZDH1 could be persist and endued stable resistant phenotype. Comprehensive analysis of the ICESsuYZDH1-like ICEs from both public genome database and our clinical isolates revealed the widespread and diversity of the ICEs by integration at the sites of SSU0877, SSU0468, SSU1262, and SSU1797. The ICESsuYZDH1-like ICEs could stably co-exist within the host chromosome at more than one attachment sites, which is probably mediated by the triplet serine integrases. Nonconservative integration and diversity of the ICESsuYZDH1 family of ICEs might have contributed to the evolution of ICEs and the dissemination of macrolide and tetracycline resistance in S. suis.

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