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1. MDR M. tuberculosis outbreak clone in Eswatini missed by Xpert has elevated bedaquiline resistance dated to the pre-treatment era

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Elisabeth Sanchez-Padilla, Nazir Ahmed Ismail, Thomas Kohl, Christian Utpatel, Patrick Beckert, Stefan Niemann, Claudio U. Köser, Harald Hoffmann, Sönke Andres, Robin M. Warren, Bouke C. de Jong, Marisa Klopper, Matthias Merker, Florian P. Maurer, Shaheed V. Omar, Katharina Kranzer, Maryline Bonnet, Bernhard Kerschberger, Viola Dreyer, Ivan Barilar, Elisa Ardizzoni, Birgit Schramm, Gugu Maphalala, Forschungszentrum Borstel - Research Center Borstel, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Heidelberg University, Epicentre [Paris] [Médecins Sans Frontières], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), National Institute for Communicable Diseases [Johannesburg] (NICD), University of Pretoria [South Africa], University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg] (WITS), Stellenbosch University, Institute of Tropical Medicine [Antwerp] (ITM), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf = University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf [Hamburg] (UKE), Recherches Translationnelles sur le VIH et les maladies infectieuses endémiques et émergentes (TransVIHMI), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Yaoundé I-Université Cheikh Anta Diop [Dakar, Sénégal] (UCAD)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department [Montpellier], Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier] (CHRU Montpellier)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Namibia (UNAM), Parts of this work have been supported by the European Union TB-PAN-NET (FP7-223681) project, by Médecins Sans Frontières-Switzerland, and by German Center for Infection Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germanys Excellence Strategy – EXC 2167, and Leibniz Science Campus Evolutionary Medicine of the LUNG (EvoLUNG). The funders had no role in the study design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data, in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the paper for publication., European Project: 223681,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2007-B,TB PAN-NET(2009), Niemann, Stefan [0000-0002-6604-0684], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

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0301 basic medicine, MESH: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Antitubercular Agents, Drug resistance, Multidrug resistance, Disease Outbreaks, Clofazimine, chemistry.chemical_compound, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant, MESH: Disease Outbreaks, Diarylquinolines, MESH: Bacterial Proteins, Genetics (clinical), MESH: Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Resistance mutation, MESH: Diarylquinolines, Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, Molecular Medicine, medicine.drug, MESH: Mutation, Tuberculosis, 030106 microbiology, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Biology, 03 medical and health sciences, Bacterial Proteins, MESH: Eswatini, Genetics, medicine, Humans, Molecular Biology, MESH: Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant, [SDV.GEN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Genetics, MESH: Humans, Diagnostice escape, Research, MESH: Clone Cells, Resistance evolution, Treatment escape, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, rpoB, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, MESH: Antitubercular Agents, Virology, Clone Cells, Multiple drug resistance, MDR outbreak strains, 030104 developmental biology, chemistry, Treatment failure, Mutation, Bedaquiline, Eswatini
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Background Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains not detected by commercial molecular drug susceptibility testing (mDST) assays due to the RpoB I491F resistance mutation are threatening the control of MDR tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Eswatini. Methods We investigate the evolution and spread of MDR strains in Eswatini with a focus on bedaquiline (BDQ) and clofazimine (CFZ) resistance using whole-genome sequencing in two collections ((1) national drug resistance survey, 2009–2010; (2) MDR strains from the Nhlangano region, 2014–2017). Results MDR strains in collection 1 had a high cluster rate (95%, 117/123 MDR strains) with 55% grouped into the two largest clusters (gCL3, n = 28; gCL10, n = 40). All gCL10 isolates, which likely emerged around 1993 (95% highest posterior density 1987–1998), carried the mutation RpoB I491F that is missed by commercial mDST assays. In addition, 21 (53%) gCL10 isolates shared a Rv0678 M146T mutation that correlated with elevated minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to BDQ and CFZ compared to wild type isolates. gCL10 isolates with the Rv0678 M146T mutation were also detected in collection 2. Conclusion The high clustering rate suggests that transmission has been driving the MDR-TB epidemic in Eswatini for three decades. The presence of MDR strains in Eswatini that are not detected by commercial mDST assays and have elevated MICs to BDQ and CFZ potentially jeopardizes the successful implementation of new MDR-TB treatment guidelines. Measures to limit the spread of these outbreak isolates need to be implemented urgently.

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2020

2. Purinergic Signaling: A Common Path in the Macrophage Response against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Toxoplasma gondii

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Laetitia Petit-Jentreau, Ludovic Tailleux, Janine L. Coombes, University of Liverpool, Pathogénomique mycobactérienne intégrée, Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Génétique mycobactérienne - Mycobacterial genetics, The present work was supported by the University of Liverpool. JLC is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK, LT is a researcher at Institut Pasteur, France, and LP-J is a postdoctoral researcher on the JLC's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant (BB/M023540/1) at the University of Liverpool, UK., LP-J wrote the paper with input from LT and JLC. All authors revised the manuscript, and approved it for publication., and Institut Pasteur [Paris]

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0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), Immunology, lcsh:QR1-502, Toxoplasma gondii, Microbiology, lcsh:Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Immune system, Purinergic Agents, Macrophage, innate immunity, Innate immune system, biology, Intracellular parasite, Purinergic receptor, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, biology.organism_classification, purinergic agents, nucleotides, 3. Good health, macrophages, ATP, 030104 developmental biology, Infectious Diseases, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, [SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology, Intracellular
Abstract

International audience; Immune responses are essential for the protection of the host against external dangers or infections and are normally efficient in the clearance of invading microbes. However, some intracellular pathogens have developed strategies to replicate and survive within host cells resulting in latent infection associated with strong inflammation. This excessive response can cause cell and tissue damage and lead to the release of the intracellular content, in particular the nucleotide pool, into the extracellular space. Over the last decade, new studies have implicated metabolites from the purinergic pathway in shaping the host immune response against intracellular pathogens and proved their importance in the outcome of the infection. This review aims to summarize how the immune system employs the purinergic system either to fight the pathogen, or to control collateral tissue damage. This will be achieved by focusing on the macrophage response against two intracellular pathogens, the human etiologic agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the protozoan parasite, Toxoplasma gondii.

Published
2017
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3. Description of compensatory gyrA mutations restoring fluoroquinolone susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Stéphanie Petrella, Alexandra Aubry, Nicolas Veziris, Hélène Ferrand, Claudine Mayer, Aurélie Bouige, Alix Pantel, Stéphanie Matrat, Wladimir Sougakoff, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Microbiologie structurale - Structural Microbiology (Microb. Struc. (UMR_3528 / U-Pasteur_5)), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Immunologie et de Maladies Infectieuses (CIMI), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Parts of this paper were presented at the ‘International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy’, USA, 2011 (C1-626), and at the EMBO Conference ‘Tuberculosis 2012’, France, 2012 (TUBERCULOSIS2012/000269)., Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance aux Antituberculeux [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre National de Référence des Mycobactéries et de la Résistance des Mycobactéries aux Antituberculeux, Bactériologie-Hygiène [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière] ], and CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [APHP]

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0301 basic medicine, MESH: Mycobacterium tuberculosis, DNA Mutational Analysis, Mutant, Antitubercular Agents, medicine.disease_cause, DNA gyrase, MESH: Recombinant Proteins, Suppression, Genetic, [SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases, Pharmacology (medical), MESH: DNA Mutational Analysis, MESH: Suppression, Genetic, MESH: Inhibitory Concentration 50, Mutation, MESH: Microbial Sensitivity Tests, biology, Chemistry, MESH: Escherichia coli, Recombinant Proteins, 3. Good health, MESH: Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, Infectious Diseases, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, DNA Gyrase, DNA supercoil, Fluoroquinolones, medicine.drug, MESH: DNA Gyrase, Microbiology (medical), 030106 microbiology, Mutation, Missense, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, Microbiology, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Inhibitory Concentration 50, 03 medical and health sciences, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, MESH: Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Escherichia coli, medicine, Humans, Pharmacology, MESH: Mutation, Missense, MESH: Humans, Mutagenesis, MESH: Fluoroquinolones, biology.organism_classification, MESH: Antitubercular Agents, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed, [SDV.SP.PHARMA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Pharmaceutical sciences/Pharmacology, Ofloxacin
Abstract

International audience; OBJECTIVES:Resistance to fluoroquinolones (FQs) in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is mainly due to mutations in DNA gyrase (GyrA2B2), with the most common substitutions located at positions 90 and 94 in GyrA. Two clinical MDR Mtb (MDR-TB) strains harbouring an A90E or D94N substitution in GyrA were found to be surprisingly susceptible to FQs (ofloxacin MIC ≤2 mg/L). We studied the impact of the additional GyrA substitutions found in these strains (T80A and T80A + A90G, respectively) on FQ susceptibility.METHODS:Mutants of interest were generated by site-specific mutagenesis of GyrA alleles. WT and mutant TB DNA gyrase subunits were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified, and the in vitro susceptibility to FQs of their DNA supercoiling reaction was studied.RESULTS:IC50s of mutant gyrase complexes bearing GyrA D94N and A90E were 3- to 36-fold higher than WT IC50s, whereas IC50s of gyrase bearing T80A + A90G + D94N and T80A + A90E were close to the WT IC50s.CONCLUSIONS:We demonstrated that substitutions T80A and A90G restore FQ susceptibility when associated with a substitution implicated in high-level FQ resistance. Line probe assay misclassification of MDR-TB strains as pre-XDR or XDR can be corrected by sequence analysis of gyrA.

Published
2016