Prophage-encoded antibiotic resistance genes are enriched in human-impacted environments.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
27 Sep 2024
Historique:
received: 24 10 2023
accepted: 07 09 2024
medline: 28 9 2024
pubmed: 28 9 2024
entrez: 27 9 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) poses a substantial threat to human health. Phage-mediated transduction could exacerbate ARG transmission. While several case studies exist, it is yet unclear to what extent phages encode and mobilize ARGs at the global scale and whether human impacts play a role in this across different habitats. Here, we combine 38,605 bacterial genomes, 1432 metagenomes, and 1186 metatranscriptomes across 12 contrasting habitats to explore the distribution of prophages and their cargo ARGs in natural and human-impacted environments. Worldwide, we observe a significant increase in the abundance, diversity, and activity of prophage-encoded ARGs in human-impacted habitats linked with relatively higher risk of past antibiotic exposure. This effect was driven by phage-encoded cargo ARGs that could be mobilized to provide increased resistance in heterologous E. coli host for a subset of analyzed strains. Our findings suggest that human activities have altered bacteria-phage interactions, enriching ARGs in prophages and making ARGs more mobile across habitats globally.

Identifiants

pubmed: 39333115
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52450-y
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-52450-y
doi:

Substances chimiques

Anti-Bacterial Agents 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

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8315

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Hanpeng Liao (H)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Chen Liu (C)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Shungui Zhou (S)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China. sgzhou@fafu.edu.cn.

Chunqin Liu (C)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

David J Eldridge (DJ)

Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Chaofan Ai (C)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Steven W Wilhelm (SW)

Department of Microbiology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.

Brajesh K Singh (BK)

Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia.

Xiaolong Liang (X)

Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China.

Mark Radosevich (M)

Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.

Qiu-E Yang (QE)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Xiang Tang (X)

Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Soil Environmental Health and Regulation, College of Resources and Environment, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

Zhong Wei (Z)

Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab of Solid Organic Waste Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Ville-Petri Friman (VP)

Department of Microbiology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Michael Gillings (M)

ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo (M)

Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Seville, Spain. m.delgado.baquerizo@csic.es.

Yong-Guan Zhu (YG)

State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. ygzhu@iue.ac.cn.

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