Pulsed antibiotic treatments of gnotobiotic mice manifest in complex bacterial community dynamics and resistance effects

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Bacteria can evolve to withstand a wide range of antibiotics (ABs) by using various resistance mechanisms. How ABs affect the ecology of the gut microbiome is still poorly understood. We investigated strain-specific responses and evolution during repeated AB perturbations by three clinically relevant ABs, using gnotobiotic mice colonized with a synthetic bacterial community (oligo-mouse-microbiota). Over 80 days, we observed resilience effects at the strain and community levels, and we found that they were correlated with modulations of the estimated growth rate and levels of prophage induction as determined from metagenomics data. Moreover, we tracked mutational changes in the bacterial populations, and this uncovered clonal expansion and contraction of haplotypes and selection of putative AB resistance-conferring SNPs. We functionally verified these mutations via reisolation of clones with increased minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of ciprofloxacin and tetracycline from evolved communities. This demonstrates that host-associated microbial communities employ various mechanisms to respond to selective pressures that maintain community stability.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Cell host & microbe - 31(2023), 6 vom: 14. Juni, Seite 1007-1020.e4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Münch, Philipp C [VerfasserIn]
Eberl, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Woelfel, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Ring, Diana [VerfasserIn]
Fritz, Adrian [VerfasserIn]
Herp, Simone [VerfasserIn]
Lade, Iris [VerfasserIn]
Geffers, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Franzosa, Eric A [VerfasserIn]
Huttenhower, Curtis [VerfasserIn]
McHardy, Alice C [VerfasserIn]
Stecher, Bärbel [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial growth
Clostridium innocuum
Enterococcus faecalis
Gnotobiotic mouse model
Gut virome
Journal Article
Lysogenic phage
Metabolic network
Minimal bacterial community
OMM12
Synthetic community
Within-host evolution

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Date Completed 19.06.2023

Date Revised 21.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.chom.2023.05.013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357816307