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New eight genes identified at the clinical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii DMS06669 strain in a Vietnam hospital

Abstract

Background

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important nosocomial pathogen that can develop multidrug resistance. In this study, we characterized the genome of the A. baumannii strain DMS06669 (isolated from the sputum of a male patient with hospital-acquired pneumonia) and focused on identification of genes relevant to antibiotic resistance.

Methods

Whole genome analysis of A. baumannii DMS06669 from hospital-acquired pneumonia patients included de novo assembly; gene prediction; functional annotation to public databases; phylogenetics tree construction and antibiotics genes identification.

Results

After sequencing the A. baumannii DMS06669 genome and performing quality control, de novo genome assembly was carried out, producing 24 scaffolds. Public databases were used for gene prediction and functional annotation to construct a phylogenetic tree of the DMS06669 strain with 21 other A. baumannii strains. A total of 18 possible antibiotic resistance genes, conferring resistance to eight distinct classes of antibiotics, were identified. Eight of these genes have not previously been reported to occur in A. baumannii.

Conclusions

Our results provide important information regarding mechanisms that may contribute to antibiotic resistance in the DMS06669 strain, and have implications for treatment of patients infected with A. baumannii.

Background

The nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii has become a serious world-wide health concern, as it has in recent decades acquired resistance to an array of antibiotics [1,2,3]. The development of resistance to carbapenem is of particular concern [4, 5]. A. baumannii is responsible for 2–10% of all Gram-negative bacterial infections in intensive care units, and causes significant mortality in infected patients [6, 7]. Infection with multidrug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter strains is associated both with elevated mortality rates and longer hospital treatment times [8].

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing have facilitated the rapid characterization of whole-genome sequences from microbial species [9]. In this study, we used the Illumina HiSeq® platform to carry out de novo assembly of the genome of the A. baumannii strain DMS06669 to identify genes related to antibiotic resistance. DNA samples were obtained from the sputum of a male patient with hospital-acquired pneumonia. Gene prediction and functional annotation were carried out using public databases, followed by construction of a phylogenetic tree and whole-genome comparison. Antibiotic resistance of DMS06669 to multiple antibiotics was characterized using an antibiotic susceptibility assay test, and potential antibiotic resistance genes in DMS06669 were predicted from functional annotation analysis. Identification of these genes is an important step in elucidating mechanisms underlying antibiotic resistance in A. baumannii.

Methods

Isolation and identification of A. baumannii strain DMS06669

The A. baumannii strain DMS06669 was isolated from a sputum specimen obtained from a 49-year-old male patient with hospital-acquired pneumonia at Thong Nhat Dong Nai General Hospital in Dong Nai, Vietnam. This isolate was cultured at 37 °C on blood agar and MacConkey agar. The presence of the blaOXA-51 gene was used to confirm that the isolate was a strain of A. baumannii [10].

Antibiotic susceptibility assay test

Microbiological isolation and identification of the A. baumannii strain DMS06669 was performed using classic methods and verified by the Phoenix system (BD Diagnostics, Sparks, MD, USA). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) breakpoint method according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. Antimicrobials tested included amikacin, aztreonam, ampicillin/sulbactam, ciprofloxacin, ceftazidime, ceftriaxone, colistin, cefepime, cefoxitin, ceftazolin, gentamicin, imipenem, meropenem, levofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, ticarcillin/clavulanic acid, tigecycline, and piperacillin/tazobactam.

DNA preparation and sequencing

Genomic DNA of A. baumannii DMS06669 was extracted using the Wizard DNA extraction kit (Promega, USA), and then sequenced (1st BASE, Singapore) on an Illumina HiSeq 2000, resulting in 150 base pair (bp) paired-end reads and an average coverage of 120-fold.

Data preprocessing and de novo genome assembly

Raw paired-end reads were assessed and quality control was carried out using FastQC (http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/) and Trimmomatic [11] (parameters: ILLUMINACLIP:2:30:10 LEADING:3 TRAILING:3 SLIDINGWINDOW:10:30 MINLEN:100) to obtain a set of clean paired-end reads. After preprocessing, FastQC was again used to report features of the preprocessing libraries and to verify the effectiveness of read trimming. After filtering, short reads were assembled using the SPAdes Genome Assembler [12] and contigs longer than 300 bp were retained. Then, those contigs were launched in a multi-draft based analysis to reorder through MeDuSa software [13], using A. baumannii ATCC 17978 as a reference.

Genome annotation

Prodigal (version 2.6.2) [14] was used for gene prediction in the A. baumannii DMS06669 draft genome, while tRNAscan-SE [15] and RNAmmer [16] were used for tRNA and rRNA (5S, 16S, and 23S) identification. Tandem Repeat Finder (http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html) [17] and CRISPR Finder (http://crispr.u-psud.fr/Server/) [18] were used to find tandem repeat sequences and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs). Insertion sequences (ISs) were identified using ISfinder (https://www-is.biotoul.fr//). For functional classification of the predicted genes, BLASTp [19] was used to align amino acids of predicted genes against the Clusters of Orthologous Groups (COG) database [20] with an expected value threshold of 10e−3 using the Conserved Domains Database (CDD) batch server [21] (https://0-www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.brum.beds.ac.uk/Structure/bwrpsb/bwrpsb.cgi). Amino acid sequences were aligned using default parameters, and the description of the best hit (highest alignment length percentage and match identity) was assigned as the predicted gene. All annotated genes were then categorized based on their COG classification. ResFinder (version 2.1; https://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ResFinder/) was used to identify potential antibiotic resistance genes, using recommended similarity thresholds [22].

Construction of phylogenetic tree

16S rRNA sequences were extracted from the draft genome of DMS06669, and 16S rRNA sequences of 21 A. baumannii strains (including 1656-2, AB0057, AB030, AB031, AB307-0294, AC29, ACICU, ATCC17978, AYE, AbH12O-A2, BJAB07104, BJAB0715, BJAB0868, D1279779, LAC-4, MDR-TJ, MDR-ZJ06, SDF, TCDC-AB0715, TYTH-1, and ZW85-1) were downloaded using the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database [23]. Evolutionary analyses of 16S rRNA sequences were carried out using ClustalW (version 2.1) to multiple aligned sequences. The maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree was then constructed using PHYLIP (version 3.695) [24] with the bootstrap algorithm set to 500, and the phylogenetic tree was visualized using FigTree (version 1.4.3) (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/fgtree/).

Results and discussion

Antibiotic resistance of A. baumannii DMS06669

The antibiotic susceptibility profile for the DMS06669 strain is shown in Table 1. The A. baumannii DMS06669 strain was resistant to all antibiotics tested with high level of MIC values except colistin and tigecycline.

Table 1 Susceptibility profile of A. baumannii strain DMS06669

Assembly and annotation of the genomic sequence

Raw reads from the Illumina HiSeq mahcine were assessed with FastQC and filtered using Trimmomatic to produce a clean set of reads. These whole genome DNA samples yielded 4,750,865 raw paired-end reads with lengths of 150 bp. After removal of adapters and low-quality data (quality scores ≤ 30), 3,768,594 clean reads (79.3% of the initial total) remained (Table 2).

Table 2 Results of genome assembly and annotation of A. baumannii strain DMS06669

The clean paired-end read dataset was used for de novo genome assembly using the SPAdes Genome Assembler and reordering by MeDuSa, and resulted in 24 scaffolds, with a total draft genome length of 4,369,281 bp (N50 of 4,207,939 bp and GC content of 38.9%). From genome annotation analysis, we detected 4101 coding sequences, 63 tRNA sequences, 3 rRNA sequences, 2 CRISPR sequences, 6 tandem repeat sequences, and 62 predicted ISs (Table 2).

Functional annotation of the genomic sequence of A. baumannii strain DMS06669

The COG database phylogenetically classifies proteins encoded by completely sequenced genomes. Of the 4101 coding sequences identified in the DMS06669 genome, 3066 sequences (74.8%) were annotated and classified into 25 functional categories (Fig. 1). The identity ratio in this study was similar to those obtained in studies of A. baumannii strains MDR-TJ, MDR-SHH02, and XH386 (ST208) [22, 25, 26]. Among the aligned COG classifications, the “transcription” category comprised the largest group (268 coding sequences, 8.7% of the total number), followed by “amino acid transport and metabolism” (263 coding sequences, 8.6%), “general function prediction only” (211 coding sequences, 6.9%), and “translation” (210 coding sequences, 6.8%). In addition, 193 coding sequences were classified as having “unknown function”. No coding sequences were assigned to functional categories of “chromatin structure and dynamics”, “nuclear structure”, or “cytoskeleton” (Fig. 1).

Fig. 1
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COG functional classification of coding sequences. A total of 3066 coding sequences were annotated and assigned to 25 functional categories

Based on genomes from published A. baumannii strains on the KEGG database, we performed phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA to identify genetic relatedness of strains. Figure 2 shows that DMS06669 is most closely related to the ZW-85 and AbH120-A2 strains.

Fig. 2
figure 2

16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis showing the evolutionary relationship between A. baumannii strains. The tree was generated with PHYLIP (version 3.695) with the bootstrap algorithm set to 500 and standard settings. The scale bar represents the branch lengths

Identification of antibiotic resistance genes

To identify A. baumannii DMS06669 genes related to antibiotic resistance, coding sequences were submitted to ResFinder [22]. Table 3 lists genes that may contribute to A. baumannii DMS06669 resistance to aminoglycosides, beta-lactams, macrolides, lincosamide streptogramin B, phenicols, rifampicin, sulphonamides, tetracyclines, and trimethoprim.

Table 3 Resistance-associated genes identified in A. baumannii strain DMS06669

Among 22 A. baumannii strains, the DMS06669 strain had resistance to the highest number of types of antibiotics (including eightHo Chi Minh City of nine antibiotic classes, with susceptibility only to fluoroquinolones; Fig. 3). DMS06669 was followed by AYE, BJAB0868, MDR-ZJ06, MDR-TJ, and BJAB07104 strains, all of which have been reported to be MDR strains. The absence of resistance to fluoroquinolones in the DMS06669 strain was consistent with MIC analysis (Table 1) when the antibiotic susceptibility profile shows that MIC values of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin was at intermediate level (4 µg/ml for each antibiotic). Detailed results of all antibiotic resistance genes in each class of antibiotics are included in Additional file 1: Table S1.

Fig. 3
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Antibiotic resistance in A. baumannii strain DMS06669 and 21 other A. baumannii strains

Genes related to gentamicin (aadB [27]) and amikacin (rmtB [28]) resistance were found in the DMS06669 strain. MIC values for DMS06669 susceptibility to gentamicin and amikacin were high, measured at 16 and 64 µg/ml, respectively (Table 1). The rmtB aminoglycoside resistance gene has not previously been reported to occur in A. baumannii. Additionally, we found the aadA1 gene [29], involved in streptomycin resistance, and the aadA16 gene (not reported in A. baumannii before) [30], involved in spectinomycin resistance, in the DMS06669 genome.

Two genes related to macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin B resistance were found in the DMS06669 strain: mphE [31], associated with resistance to erythromycin (a macrolide antibiotic), and msrE [32], associated with streptogramin resistance. The presence of these genes in other MDR strains, including BJAB0868, BJAB07104, TYTH-1, MDR-ZJ06, AC29, and MDR-TJ, has previously been reported (Additional file 1: Table S1).

We found genes associated with resistance to phenicol, rifapicin, and sulphonamide antibiotics, including two genes already known to occur in A. baumannii: cmlA1, associated with chloramphenicol resistance [33], and sul1, associated with sulfamethoxazole resistance [34]. We identified two additional genes in this category that occur only in the DMS06669 strain: floR, associated with chloramphenicol and florfenicol resistance [35]; and arr-3, associated with rifampin (also known as rifampicin), rifaximin, rifabutin, and rifapentine antibiotic resistant groups [36].

Two predicted DMS06669 genes were similar to the tet(39) and dfrA27 genes, which are associated with resistance to tetracycline and trimethoprim, respectively. The presence of homologs to these genes in A. baumannii has not previously been reported. The tet(39) gene has been reported to confer resistance to tetracycline [37], which has a structure similar to that of tigecycline [38]. However, according to our analysis (Table 1), DMS06669 was weakly resistant to tigecycline (MIC value of 1 µg/ml), suggesting that tet(39) is not associated with tigecycline resistance. It has been reported that the dfrA27 gene confers trimethoprim resistance, and the complex of dfrA27 and aadA16 genes have been reported in the MDR E. coli strain 1387 [30]. We found that this complex was also present in the DMS06669 strain.

Interestingly, DMS06669 contained six genes associated with resistance to beta-lactamase. The blaVEB-7 and blaADC-25 genes have been associated with resistance to cephalosporins (a group that includes cefepime, cefoxitin, cefazolin, and ceftriaxone) and aztreonam [39, 40], in agreement with MIC analysis (Table 1). DMS06669 also contained the genes blaOXA-10 [41], blaOXA-58 [42], blaOXA-64 [43], and blaNDM-1 [44], which are thought to confer resistance to carbapenems (a group that includes meropenem and imipenem). Among these genes, blaOXA-64 and blaVEB-7 genes have not previously been reported to occur in A. baumannii strains. Moreover, both blaNDM-1 and blaOXA-58 genes that are found in the DMS06669 strain have not previously been reported to occur in the same strain.

Conclusions

In this study, the genome of the A. baumannii strain DMS06669 was sequenced and de novo genome assembly was carried out, yielding 24 scaffolds. Phylogeny analysis was conducted from 16S rRNA extracted from the assembled genome. A total of 4101 coding sequences were predicted and annotated, leading to identification of 18 predicted genes associated with resistance to eight classes of antibiotics. Eight of these genes have not previously been reported to occur in A. baumannii. Furthermore, there were two antibiotic resistance genes (blaNDM-1 and blaOXA-58 genes) found in the DMS06669 strain that have not been reported together in any A. baumannii strain. Our analysis significantly expands understanding of the A. baumannii genome, and represents an important step in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance in this species.

Abbreviations

MDR:

multidrug resistant

MIC:

minimum inhibitory concentration

CLSI:

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute

bp:

base pair

CRISPRs:

clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

IS:

insertion sequences

COG:

Clusters of Orthologous Groups

CDD:

conserved domains database

KEGG:

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

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NST and NTH were responsible for designing experiment, carrying out the experiment and writing manuscript. HMN, PTTH and PHV were responsible for carrying out the experiments. CN and NST responsible for all bioinformatics analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Additional file 1: Table S1. Detailed result of all antibiotic resistance genes in each antibiotic class of A. baumannii DMS06669 and other 21 A. baumannii strains (downloaded from KEGG database) from searching ResFinder database (genes with name in red color were not reported in other A. baumanni strains before).

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Si-Tuan, N., Ngoc, H.M., Hang, P.T.T. et al. New eight genes identified at the clinical multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii DMS06669 strain in a Vietnam hospital. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 16, 74 (2017). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12941-017-0250-9

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