Detection of a historic reservoir of bedaquiline/clofazimine resistance-associated variants in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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BACKGROUND: Drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB) poses a major ongoing challenge to public health. The recent inclusion of bedaquiline into TB drug regimens has improved treatment outcomes, but this advance is threatened by the emergence of strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) resistant to bedaquiline. Clinical bedaquiline resistance is most frequently conferred by off-target resistance-associated variants (RAVs) in the mmpR5 gene (Rv0678), the regulator of an efflux pump, which can also confer cross-resistance to clofazimine, another TB drug.

METHODS: We compiled a dataset of 3682 Mtb genomes, including 180 carrying variants in mmpR5, and its immediate background (i.e. mmpR5 promoter and adjacent mmpL5 gene), that have been associated to borderline (henceforth intermediate) or confirmed resistance to bedaquiline. We characterised the occurrence of all nonsynonymous mutations in mmpR5 in this dataset and estimated, using time-resolved phylogenetic methods, the age of their emergence.

RESULTS: We identified eight cases where RAVs were present in the genomes of strains collected prior to the use of bedaquiline in TB treatment regimes. Phylogenetic reconstruction points to multiple emergence events and circulation of RAVs in mmpR5, some estimated to predate the introduction of bedaquiline. However, epistatic interactions can complicate bedaquiline drug-susceptibility prediction from genetic sequence data. Indeed, in one clade, Ile67fs (a RAV when considered in isolation) was estimated to have emerged prior to the antibiotic era, together with a resistance reverting mmpL5 mutation.

CONCLUSIONS: The presence of a pre-existing reservoir of Mtb strains carrying bedaquiline RAVs prior to its clinical use augments the need for rapid drug susceptibility testing and individualised regimen selection to safeguard the use of bedaquiline in TB care and control.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Genome medicine - 16(2024), 1 vom: 19. Feb., Seite 34

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nimmo, Camus [VerfasserIn]
Ortiz, Arturo Torres [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Cedric C S [VerfasserIn]
Pang, Juanita [VerfasserIn]
Acman, Mislav [VerfasserIn]
Millard, James [VerfasserIn]
Padayatchi, Nesri [VerfasserIn]
Grant, Alison D [VerfasserIn]
O'Donnell, Max [VerfasserIn]
Pym, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Brynildsrud, Ola B [VerfasserIn]
Eldholm, Vegard [VerfasserIn]
Grandjean, Louis [VerfasserIn]
Didelot, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Balloux, François [VerfasserIn]
van Dorp, Lucy [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

78846I289Y
AMR
Antitubercular Agents
Bedaquiline
Clofazimine
D959AE5USF
Diarylquinolines
Drug resistance
Journal Article
Phylogenetics
Tuberculosis

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 21.02.2024

Date Revised 14.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s13073-024-01289-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368642100