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MBIO
卷 7, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01023-16
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- Potts Memorial Foundation
- HHS | National Institutes of Health [AI26170]
- HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) [U19AI111276, 1R01AI114900-01, R01 AI09898]
- Stony Wold-Herbert Fund (Stony Wold-Herbert Fund, Inc.)
- CFAR grant [P30AI051519]
- Clinical Scientist Development Award from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Persisters are the minor subpopulation of bacterial cells that lack alleles conferring resistance to a specific bactericidal antibiotic but can survive otherwise lethal concentrations of that antibiotic. In infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, such persisters underlie the need for long-term antibiotic therapy and contribute to treatment failure in tuberculosis cases. Here, we demonstrate the value of dual-reporter mycobacteriophages (Phi(DRMs)-D-2) for characterizing M. tuberculosis persisters. The addition of isoniazid (INH) to exponentially growing M. tuberculosis cells consistently resulted in a 2- to 3-log decrease in CFU within 4 days, and the remaining <= 1% of cells, which survived despite being INH sensitive, were INH-tolerant persisters with a distinct transcriptional profile. We fused the promoters of several genes upregulated in persisters to the red fluorescent protein tdTomato gene in Phi(2)GFP10, a mycobacteriophage constitutively expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP), thus generating Phi(DRMs)-D-2. A population enriched in INH persisters exhibited strong red fluorescence, by microscopy and flow cytometry, using a Phi(DRM)-D-2 with tdTomato controlled from the dnaK promoter. Interestingly, we demonstrated that, prior to INH exposure, a population primed for persistence existed in M. tuberculosis cells from both cultures and human sputa and that this population was highly enriched following INH exposure. We conclude that Phi(DRMs)-D-2 provide a new tool to identify and quantitate M. tuberculosis persister cells. IMPORTANCE Tuberculosis (TB) is again the leading cause of death from a single infectious disease, having surpassed HIV. The recalcitrance of the TB pandemic is largely due to the ability of the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis to enter a persistent state in which it is less susceptible to antibiotics and immune effectors, necessitating lengthy treatment. It has been difficult to study persister cells, as we have lacked tools to isolate these rare cells. In this article, we describe the development of dual reporter mycobacteriophages that encode a green fluorescent marker of viability and in which the promoters of genes we have identified as induced in the persister state are fused to a gene encoding a red fluorescent protein. We show that these tools can identify heterogeneity in a cell population that correlates with propensity to survive antibiotic treatment and that the proportions of these subpopulations change in M. tuberculosis cells within human sputum during the course of treatment.
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