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. 2018 May 23;8(2):e00634. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.634

Comparative genomic analysis of Myroides odoratimimus isolates

Shaohua Hu 1, Lin Cao 2, Yiyin Wu 3, Yajun Zhou 2, Tao Jiang 2, Liqiang Wang 2, Qiujing Wang 4,✉, Desong Ming 5,✉, Shicheng Chen 6,✉, Mingxi Wang 2,✉
PMCID: PMC6391281  PMID: 29797432

Abstract

Myroides odoratimimus is an important nosocomial pathogen. Management of M. odoratimimus infection is difficult owing to the multidrug resistance and the unknown pathogenesis mechanisms. Based on our previous genomic sequencing data of M. odoratimimus PR63039 (isolated from a patient with the urinary tract infection), in this study, we further performed comparative genomic analysis for 10 selected Myroides strains. Our results showed that these Myroides genome contexts were very similar and phylogenetically related. Various prophages were identified in the four clinical isolate genomes, which possibly contributed to the genome evolution among the Myroides strains. CRISPR elements were only detected in the two clinical (PR63039 and CCUG10230) isolates and two environmental (CCUG12700 and H1bi) strains. With more stringent cutoff parameters in CARD analysis, the four clinical M. odoratimimus contained roughly equal antibiotic resistance genes, indicating their similar antibiotic resistance profiles. The three clinical (CCUG10230, CCUG12901, CIP101113) and three environmental (CCUG12700, L41, H1bi) M. odoratimimus strains were speculated to carry the indistinguishable virulent factors (VFs), which may involve in the similar pathogenesis mechanism. Moreover, some VFs might confer to the high capacity of dissemination, attacking tissue cells and induction of autoimmune complications. Our results facilitate the research of antibiotic resistance and the development of therapeutic regimens for the M. odoratimimus infections.

Keywords: antibiotic resistance genes, comparative genomics, Myroides odoratimimus, virulence factors

1. INTRODUCTION

Myroides odoratimimus is a gram‐negative and opportunistic pathogen. It causes a variety of serious infections mainly reported in China (summarized by Hu et al., 2016) and outbreak of urinary tract infection (Ktari et al., 2012). Recently, the increasing infections emerged in patients with the recurrent calcaneal ulcer (Pompilio et al., 2017), fulminant erysipelas and sepsis (Willems, Muller, Verhaegen, Saegeman, & Desmet, 2017), bacteremia (Belloir, Billy, Hentgen, Fille, & Barrans, 2016), or prosthesis joint infection (Jover‐Sáenz, Pérez‐Villar, & Barcenilla‐Gaite, 2016).

M. odoratimimus infections are life‐threatening due to its multidrug resistance and unknown pathogenicity (as summarized in Hu et al., 2016). In our previous report (Hu et al., 2017), to some extent, we correlated the phenotype in antibiotic susceptibilities and infectivity of M. odoratimimus with the genomic findings of a variety of resistance genes, virulence factor (VF) genes. To better accomplish these purposes and verify the possibility of infection source of environmental strains, here, we further performed comparative genomic analysis of 10 Myroides strains, including four clinically pathogenic (PR63039, CCUG10230, CCUG12901, CIP101113), four environmental (CCUG 3837 CCUG 12700 H1bi L41), and two human‐associated Myroides isolates (CCUG39352, Myroides sp. A21) by focusing on their antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis mechanisms.

2. MATERIALS AND METHODS

2.1. Genome sequences

In the NCBI Genome RefSeq Assembly Database, only nine genomic sequences of M. odoratimimus were found (Table 1). They included four clinically pathogenic strains, a human‐associated strain, and four environmental isolates. Only PR63039 genome (Hu et al., 2017) was complete. Strain PR63039 (Hu et al., 2017) and CCUG12901 were isolated from the urine of patients with postinjury urinary tract infection. CCUG10230 and CIP101113 were isolated from skin wounds. Human‐associated strain CCUG39352 was collected and sequenced by Shandong University. M. odoratimimus H1 bi, L41, CCUG 12700, and CCUG 3837 are environmental isolates. For the phylogenetic tree analysis of Myroides genomes, another human‐associated strain Myroides sp. A21 (CP010327) (Burghartz et al., 2015) with highly homologous 16S rRNA gene sequence to strain PR63039 (coverage 100%, identity 100%, 1,388 bp) (GenBank No. KR349266) was also included. Myroides sp. A21 was isolated from the urethral catheter of a patient without symptoms of a urinary tract infection, had extensive drug resistance; its full genomic sequence was available.

Table 1.

General genomic characteristics of 10 Myroides strains

Sources Strain Site of isolation Type Assembly No. Level Scaffold Size (Mb) GC (%) Gene Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Pseudo gene
Clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus PR63039 Urine GCA_001481655.1 2 4.46 34.14 4,084 3,840 27 105 4 108
Chr NZ_CP013690.1 Complete 4.37 34.20 3,988 3,745 27 105 4 107
Plsm NZ_CP013691.1 0.09 31.30 96 95 ‐ ‐ ‐ 1
CCUG 10230 Skin wound Chr GCA_000242075.2 Scaffold 7 4.03 34.10 3,610 3,458 5 76 4 67
CCUG 12901 Urogenital tract Chr GCA_000242095.1 Scaffold 3 4.07 34.20 3,653 3,505 9 75 4 60
CIP 101113 Skin wound Chr GCA_000242135.1 Scaffold 3 4.14 34.10 3,673 3,516 8 71 4 74
Environmental M. odoratimimus CCUG 3837 N/A Chr GCA_000297855.1 Scaffold 4 4.14 34.40 3,611 3,459 11 72 4 65
CCUG 12700 N/A Chr GCA_000413415.1 Scaffold 7 4.04 34.30 3,581 3,423 7 87 4 60
H1bi Carnivorous plant Phytotelma Chr GCA_000633375.1 Contig 183 3.88 34.00 3,549 3,260 4 85 4 196
L41 Lake water Chr GCA_000812825.1 Contig 168 4.16 33.60 3,802 3,599 82 4 114
Human‐associated Myroides CCUG 39352 Wound Chr GCA_001485415.1 Contig 65 4.24 33.90 3,789 3,650 74 ‐ ‐
Myroides sp. A21 Urethral catheter Chr GCA_000807225.1 Complete 1 4.16 34.10 3,750 3,554 24 101 4 67
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Chr, chromosome; Plsm, plasmid; N/A, not available.

2.2. Softwares and databases used for comparative genomics analysis

The analyses of whole‐genome phylogenetic tree, circular genome mapping, insertion sequence elements (IS), multiple genome alignment, prophage, CRISPR, antibiotic resistance genes, and VF genes in the M. odoratimimus genomes were performed with the softwares and databases listed in Table 2.

Table 2.

The softwares and databases used for comparative analysis

Analysis Software/database References Clinically pathogenic strains Environmental strains Human‐associated strains
PR63039 CCUG 10230 CCUG 12901 CIP 101113 CCUG 12700 L41 H1bi CCUG 3837 CCUG 39352 Myroides sp. A21
Sequence level Complete Scaffold Scaffold Scaffold Scaffold Contig Contig Scaffold Contig Complete
Phylogenetic tree REALPHY Bertels, Silander, Pachkov, Rainey, & van Nimwegen, 2014; Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CG CG viewer Grant & Stothard, 2008; Yes Yes Yes Yes
ISs IS Finder Siguier, Perochon, Lestrade, Mahillon, & Chandler, 2006; Yes (43) Yes (169) Yes (117) Yes (104)
Synteny Progressive mauve Darling et al., 2010; Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Prophage PHAST Zhou, Liang, Lynch, Dennis, & Wishart, 2011; Yes (2 incomplete) Yes (2) Yes (5) Yes (1)
CRISPR CRISPR Finder Bland et al., 2007; Yes (3) Yes (4) Yes (ND) Yes (ND) Yes (1) Yes (ND) Yes (1)
Antibiotic resistance genes CARD Resistance Gene identifier Mcarthur et al., 2013; Jia et al., 2017; Yes Yes Yes Yes
Virulence factors VFDB protein Set B database Chen et al., 2012, 2016 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
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CG, Circular genome maps (Genomic variants); ISs, insertion sequence elements; Yes, analyzed; (): number of the predicted; ND, not detected.

We should mention that, for identifying the resistance genes using CARD Resistance Gene Identifier (RGI) software (Jia et al., 2017; Mcarthur et al., 2013), we performed BLASTp search (collaborated with Beijing Novogene Bioinformatics Technology Co., Ltd, BNNT) of the protein sequences of M. odoratimimus (downloaded from RefSeq assembly) against the CARD reference sequences, and more stringent parameters were set up [Query ID, Chromosome, Gene start, Gene end, Direction, ARO ID, ARO name, Category, Query length, Query start, Query end, Subject length, Subject start, Subject end, Gap, Mismatch length, Match length, Bit score, E value ≤ 1e‐30, Identity (%), Query coverage, Subject coverage]. The stringency of extracting antibiotic resistance genes from the primary output was improved by setting the cutoff parameters (Protein identity [>50%], Query coverage [>50%], and Subject coverage [>50%]).

The genes coding for the virulence factors was predicted by performing BLAST search (collaborated with Beijing Novogene Bioinformatics Technology Co., Ltd) of the protein sequences of M. odoratimimus against the VFDB protein Set B database (Chen, Xiong, Sun, Yang, & Jin, 2012; Chen, Zheng, Liu, Yang, & Jin, 2016). The stringent parameters were set up (Gene ID, VFDB internal ID, VF ID, VF name, Genes, Characteristics, Structure features, Functions, Mechanisms, Descriptions, Query length, Query start, Query end, Subject length, Subject start, Subject end, Match length, Mismatch length, Gap, Identity, E value, Bit score, Query coverage, Subject coverage). The cutoff parameters for extracting VF genes from the primary outputs were same as the extracting resistance genes as the above.

3. RESULTS

3.1. The basic genome statistics of 10 Myroides genomes

The general features of 10 Myroides genomes, including four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus (PR63039, CCUG12901, CCUG10230, CIP101113), four environmental (CCUG 12700, L41, H1bi, CCUG 3837), and two human‐associated Myroides strains (CCUG 39352, Myroides sp. A21) were similar (summarized in Table 1). Their GC contents were approximately 34%. The sizes of the genomes varied from 3.88 to 4.46 Mb. The numbers of genes, proteins, and tRNAs in PR63039 genome were larger than that of the other nine genomes. We should mention that eight Myroides genomes were incomplete, and the sequencing of the plasmids in PR63039 strains were not completed even its chromosome was fully sequenced (Figure 1 in Hu et al., 2016, 2017).

3.2. Phylogenetic analysis of 10 Myroides genomes

Whole‐genome phylogenetic tree of the 10 Myroides genomes was created (Figure 1). It showed that PR63039 formed a different clade from Myroides sp. A21 even although they had highly homologous 16S rRNA gene sequence (100% identity). The clinically pathogenic strain CCUG 10230 and the environmental strain CCUG 39352 were closest. Strain CCUG3837, CIP101113, and CCUG12700 formed a clade, while strain H1bi was located alone. It seemed that strain CCUG3837, CIP101113, and CCUG12700 were phylogenetically closer and H1bi might have a different origin compared to the above three strains.

Figure 1.

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Whole‐genome phylogenetic tree of 10 Myroides isolates. This Whole‐genome phylogenetic tree was produced by REALPHY with the default parameters. Strain L41 was used as the root

Collectively, these 10 Myroides strains were related phylogenetically, indicating that there might similarly evolve to some pathogenesis traits. However, further study to illuminate the evolution pathway is warranted.

3.3. Genomic variants among four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains

We compared the genomes of three clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains (CCUG12901, CCUG10230, CIP101113) with the clinically pathogenic PR63039 genome as the reference (Table 2). Many highly variable regions were found (Figure 2). Specifically, the following regions on the above three genomes were absent or had low identity with our strain PR63039: from 150 to 250 kb, 700 to 780 kb, 1,650 to 1,700 kb, 2,300 to 2,450 kb, 2,680 to 2,720 kb, 3,370 to 3,530 kb, 3,720 to 3,800 kb, 4,110 to 4,200 kb, 4,250 to 4,270 kb, and 4,350 to 4,560 kb. Interestingly, the region from 1,650 to 1,700 kb was predicted to be located in one prophage locus of CCUG‐12901 genome. Circular map of the genome comparisons indicated that there were a number of conserved or diverged genome segments among the genomes of these four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus.

Figure 2.

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Genomic comparisons in four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains. Blast 1: CCUG10230. Blast 2: M. CCUG12901. Blast 3: CIP101113. The contents of the feature rings (starting with the outermost ring) are as follows: Ring 1: forward strand features the read from the primary sequence of PR63039. Rings 2: forward strand ORFs from the primary sequence of PR63039. Rings 3: reverse strand ORFs from the primary sequence of PR63039. Ring 4: reverse strand features read from the primary sequence of PR63039. Ring 5 (vermilion): blast 1. Ring 6 (green): blast 2. Ring 7 (blue): blast 3. Ring 8 (black): the G + C content. Ring 9 (green and purple): the GC skew value

In addition, the abovementioned variable regions were partially accompanied by several insertion elements, which might assist the integration of resistance‐ and pathogenesis‐related genes and facilitate the transfer of drug resistance and pathogenic genes among M. odoratimimus strains. Furthermore, IS elements may enhance drug resistance and virulence by promoting gene expression (Heritier, Poirel, & Nordmann, 2006; Higgins, Dammhayn, Hackel, & Seifert, 2010).

3.4. Synteny analysis among four clinically pathogenic and three environmental M. odoratimimus strains

Genome alignments can identify evolutionary traits. To study the genome synteny and rearrangements in four clinically pathogenic (PR63039, CCUG10230, CCUG12901, and CIP101113) and three environmental (CCUG12700, L41, and H1bi) M. odoratimimus bacteria (Table 2), the genome alignment software progressive MAUVE (Darling, Mau, & Perna, 2010) was used Figure (S1). The synteny between the PR63039 genome and Myroides sp. A21 was approximately 83.7% (Hu et al., 2017). The genome arrangement of these four clinically pathogenic isolates mimics each other. Similarly, the genome context and arrangement in the three environmental strains exhibited great similarity. However, the genome synteny between the clinically pathogenic and environmental isolates was relatively low.

The alignment of the four genomes of clinically pathogenic isolates showed that their genome rearrangements were similar although there were inversions in some regions. Moreover, the chromosomal alignments of CCUG12901 and CIP101113 were nearly identical with large segments of high similarity. There were some white areas not aligned well because they might contain elements specific to a particular genome.

Overall, the four clinically pathogenic strain genomes were similar although the genome synteny in the latter three (CCUG10230, CCUG12901, and CIP101113) was more related than that in PR63039.

3.5. Prophages in four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains

All the four clinically pathogenic isolates genomes contained incomplete prophage elements (Figure 3). In our strain PR 63039, two incomplete prophages were identified (Hu et al., 2017). CIP101113 contained one prophage with 54 CDs extending from 985,588 bp to 1,032,415 bp (46.8 kb). CCUG10230 was predicted to carry two prophages (9 CDs, 9.2 kb and 12 CDs, respectively). CCUG12901 had five prophages. The region length was 9.2, 9.7, 9.9, 10.1, and 9 kb, respectively, and the number of CDs was 9, 8, 7, 6, 6, respectively. CIP101113 contained only one prophage, but it was larger and more complete than any other prophages. It consisted of hypothetical proteins, phage‐like proteins, attachment sites, tail shafts, and proteases. Among these predicted prophages, attachment sites and proteases only existed in CIP101113 prophage. In bacterial genomes, integrases are useful markers for mobile DNA elements, such as prophages, integrative plasmids, and pathogenicity islands (Liu et al., 2015). However, no integrase was identified in these predicted prophages.

Figure 3.

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Prophage regions and predicted elements in three clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains. Different colored rectangles indicated different phage elements. Att, attachment site; Hyp, hypothetical protein; PLP, Other phage‐like protein; sha, Tail shaft; Pro, protease; Tra, transposase

3.6. CRISPR prediction in the genomes of four clinically pathogenic and three environmental M. odoratimimus strains

CRISPR is well known to contribute to the antibiotic resistance and prevent the foreign virulence genes from invading into pathogens. It may be involved in the bacterial evolution, regulation of virulence gene expression, and the enhancement of pathogenicity (Hatoum‐Aslan & Marraffini, 2014). Particularly, in the pathogen, CRISPR is able to edit genome and modulate gene functions as an adaptive immune system (Arras et al., 2016; Sontheimer & Barrangou, 2015). Comparative analysis of the seven strain genomes (PR63039, CCUG10230, CCUG12901, CIP101113, CCUG12700, L41, and H1bi) showed that PR63039 genome contained three types of CRISPRs (Table S1); CCUG10230 genome contained four types of CRISPRs. CCUG12700 and H1bi contained only one CRISPR. However, no CRISPRs were identified in the genomes of CCUG12901, CIP101113, and L41 (Table S1).

3.7. Comparative analysis of antibiotic resistance genes in the genomes of four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains

With CARD RGI software (Jia et al., 2017; Mcarthur et al., 2013), all the genomes of four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains PR63039, CCUG10230, CCUG12901, and CIP101113 were predicted to contain a number of genes related to antibiotic resistance, including the β‐lactam resistance gene, fluoroquinolone resistance gene, antibiotic target replacement protein, antibiotic inactivation enzyme, triclosan resistance gene, diaminopyrimidine resistance gene, phenicol resistance gene, elfamycin resistance gene, and efflux pumps conferring antibiotic resistance (Table 3).

Table 3.

The predicted resistance genes in the genomes of four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains

Category PR63039 CCUG12901 CCUG10230 CIP101113
Efflux pump complex or subunit conferring antibiotic resistance abeS abeS abeS abeS
KPC‐2 KPC‐2 KPC‐2 KPC‐2
‐ mefC ‐ ‐
msrB msrB msrB msrB
qacH qacH qacH qacH
rosA rosA rosA rosA
Determinant of elfamycin resistance basS basS basS basS
LpxC LpxC LpxC LpxC
SPM‐1 SPM‐1 SPM‐1 SPM‐1
Determinant of phenicol resistance catB2 ‐ ‐ ‐
catB6 ‐ ‐ ‐
catB7 ‐ ‐ catB7
catB8 ‐ ‐ ‐
catB9 ‐ ‐ ‐
catB10 ‐ ‐ ‐
‐ ‐ catII catI
‐ ‐ catIII ‐
Determinant of diaminopyrimidine resistance dfrE dfrE dfrE dfrE
Determinant of triclosan resistance MexR MexR MexR MexR
Antibiotic inactivation enzyme catB3 ‐ ‐ ‐
‐ catII catII
‐ mphD ‐ ‐
‐ mphG ‐ ‐
OXA‐78 OXA‐78 OXA‐78 OXA‐78
tetX
VIM‐2 VIM‐2 VIM‐2 VIM‐2
Antibiotic target replacement protein sul1 ‐ ‐ ‐
sul2 ‐ ‐ ‐
sul3 ‐ ‐ ‐
Determinant of fluoroquinolone resistance oqxB oqxB oqxB oqxB
rpsJ rpsJ rpsJ rpsJ
tet(35) tet(35) tet(35) tet(35)
tetB(48) tetB(48) tetB(48) tetB(48)
Determinant of beta‐lactam resistance OXA‐209 ‐ ‐ ‐
OXA‐347 ‐ ‐ ‐
TLA‐3 TLA‐3 TLA‐3 TLA‐3
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‐not predicted

Overall, more resistance genes were predicted in the fully sequenced clinically pathogenic PR63039 genome than in the other three partially sequenced strains, such as, cat gene variant catB2, catB3, catB6, catB7, catB8, catB9, and catB10, tetracycline resistance gene tetX, sulfonamide resistance gene sul1, sul2, and sul3, and β‐lactam resistance gene OXA‐209, OXA‐347. Moreover, in PR63039 genome, the resistance genes tetX, cat, OXA‐347, and OXA‐209 were clustered in an approximately 6 kb region, called MY63039‐RR (Hu et al., 2017). No similar resistance gene cluster could be identified in the genomes of other three clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains.

Among CCUG12901, CIP101113, and CCUG10230, the identified resistance genes were almost similar. By comparing with PR63039 genome, CCUG12901 genome contained mefC (efflux pump conferring antibiotic resistance) and antibiotic inactivation enzyme (mphD and mphG), but lacked the resistance gene cat. The gene catII, catIII in CCUG10230, and catI in CIP101113 were also not predicted in PR63039 genome.

3.8. Virulence factors in the genomes of three clinically pathogenic and three environmental M. odoratimimus strains

With the help of VFDB protein Set B database (Chen et al., 2012, 2016) and more stringent cutoff parameters, we obtained the VF genes in the genome of three clinically pathogenic (CCUG.12901, CCUG.10230, CIP.101113) and three environmental (H1bi, L41, CCUG.12700) M. odoratimimus isolates (Table 4).

Table 4.

The VFs predicted in three clinically pathogenic and three environmental M. odoratimimus genomes

Classification Definition Genes coding for virulence factors
Clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus Environmental M. odoratimimus
CCUG. 12901 CCUG. 10230 CIP. 101113 H1bi L41 CCUG. 12700
Capsular polysaccharide UDP‐N‐acetyl‐D‐galactosamine 6‐dehydrogenase capL (hasB2) capL ‐ capL ‐ capL
UDP‐glucose 4‐epimerase galE galE galE galE galE galE
Bifunctional UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine pyrophosphorylase/glucosamine‐1‐phosphate N‐acetyltransferase glmU glmU glmU glmU glmU ‐
UDP‐glucose 6‐dehydrogenase ugd ugd ugd ‐ ugd ‐
Capsule sialic acid UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 2‐epimerase wbjD/wecB wbjD/wecB wbjD/wecB wbjD/wecB ‐ wbjD/wecB
Cell wall Peptidoglycan Undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase uppS uppS uppS uppS uppS uppS
Glucose‐1‐phosphate thymidylytransferase rmlA rmlA rmlA rmlA rmlA rmlA
dTDP‐glucose 4,6‐dehydratase rmlB rmlB rmlB rmlB ‐ ‐
UDP‐N‐acetyl‐D‐mannosaminuronic acid dehydrogenase wecC wecC wecC ‐ ‐ wecC
Intracellular survival factors Catalase katA katA katA katA katA katA katA
ATP‐dependent Clp protease proteolytic subunit clpP clpP clpP clpP clpP clpP
Elongation factor Tu EF‐Tu EF‐Tu EF‐Tu EF‐Tu EF‐Tu EF‐Tu
Superoxide dismutase sodB SodB sodB sodB sodB sodB
Molecular chaperones CT396 molecular chaperone DnaK DnaK DnaK DnaK DnaK DnaK DnaK
60k heat‐shock protein HtpB Hsp60 Hsp60 Hsp60 Hsp60 Hsp60 Hsp60
Urease Urease ureA ureA ureA ureA ureA ureA
Urease ureB ureB ureB ureB ureB ureB
Urease/hydrogenase‐associated predicted GTPase ureG ureG ureG ureG ureG ureG
Acinetobactin ABC‐type enterochelin transport system, ATPase component bauE bauE bauE bauE ‐ bauE
Streptococcal enolase Streptococcal enolase eno eno eno eno eno eno
Pantothenate synthesis Aspartate 1‐decarboxylase panD panD panD panD panD panD
Heme biosynthesis Porphobilinogen synthase hemB hemB hemB hemB hemB hemB
glutamate‐1‐semialdehyde aminotransferase hemL hemL hemL hemL hemL hemL
Acyl carrier protein acpXL acpXL acpXL acpXL acpXL acpXL
T4SS effectors Trans‐2‐enoyl‐CoA reductase (no unique name) + + + + + +
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‐not predicted; +,predicted; bold/italic, were discussed.

Overall, all these M. odoratimimus genomes had similar VF profiles with a little difference. The VFs included capsule/capsular polysaccharide (GalE, GlmU, wbjD/wecB, ugd, uppS, RmlA, RmlB, capL, wecC), intracellular survival and invasion factors (katA, clpP, EF‐Tu, sodB), molecular chaperone (hsp60, DnaK), urease (ureA, ureB, ureG), acinetobactin (bauE), Streptococcal enolase (eno), heme biosynthesis (hemB, hemL), acyl carrier protein (acpXL), and T4SS effectors (Trans‐2‐enoyl‐CoA reductase).

4. DISCUSSION

4.1. Genomic evolution, variants, synteny of M. odoratimimus

To some contents, the 10 Myroides genomes had similar general features. However, the genomes of four clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains (PR63039, CCUG12901, CCUG10230, and CIP101113) contained highly variable regions. The genome arrangement, rearrangements of the four clinically pathogenic isolates, and the three environmental strains were similar, respectively. These data implied that they might be evolutionarily related. All four clinically pathogenic isolate genomes contained prophage elements. CRISPRs were not always identified in all the genomes of four clinically pathogenic and three environmental M. odoratimimus strains. Complete genomic sequencing of these M. odoratimimus strains and their plasmids are indispensable for confirming these analyses.

4.2. Resistance genes in clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus

All these four clinically pathogenic strains (PR63039, CCUG12901, CCUG10230, CIP101113) contained a number of antibiotic resistance genes. PR63039 genome might have several possibly unique resistance genes, including catB2, catB3, catB6, catB7, catB8, catB9, catB10, tetX, OXA‐209, OXA‐347, sul1, sul2, and sul3. Some were already discussed to be involved in drug resistance in our previous report (Hu et al., 2017). Here, we mainly discuss mph and cat genes (catB2, catB3, catB6, catB8) with clear functions in antibiotic resistance described by literatures.

The mphD and mphG genes provide a high level of resistance to 14‐ and 15‐membered‐ring macrolides via coding for a macrolide 2′‐phosphotransferase (https://card.mcmaster.ca/). Cat (chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene) has many variants in a variety of bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Enterococcus faecium, and Bacillus clausii (Bruckner & Matzura, 1985; Galopin, Cattoir, & Leclercq, 2009; Grady & Hayes, 2003; Schwarz & Cardoso, 1991). All the above identified catB genes (as well catI, catII, catIII) are plasmid, chromosome, or integron‐mediated cat variants (https://card.mcmaster.ca/). The cat variants usually participate in the composition of gene cassette or integron, and confer to the ability of antibiotic resistance. For instance, catB2, aacC4, and aadA1 form the gene cassettes aacC4‐aadA1‐catB2, which confers multidrug and broad‐spectrum cephalosporin resistance in Salmonella clinical isolates (Villa et al., 2002). CatB3, one member of gene cassette aacA7‐catB3‐aadB‐oxa2‐orfD, can be mobilized by the integron‐encoded DNA integrase and plays a role in chloramphenicol resistance of plasmid pBWH301 (Bunny, Hall, & Stokes, 1995; Houang, Chu, Lo, Chu, & Cheng, 2003). CatB6, a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase‐encoding allele of the catB family inserted in integron In31, functions to decrease the in vitro antibiotic susceptibilities of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains (Laraki et al., 1999). CatB8 consists of a resistance gene cassette aacA4‐catB8‐aadA1 which is prevalent in many clinical antibiotic‐resistant bacteria, such as carbapenem‐resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (Ou, Li, Li, & Yu, 2017) and carbapenem‐resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (Farshadzadeh et al., 2015; Lin, Liou, Tu, Yeh, & Lan, 2013).

We could not further correlate these predicted antibiotic resistance gene profiles to the antibiotic susceptibility of the other three clinically pathogenic strains (CCUG12901, CCUG10230, CIP101113) due to the lack of these related data. However, the conservation of the antibiotic resistance genes among the clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus strains indicated that these predicted antibiotic resistance gene profiles potentially provide the guidance for treating M. odoratimimus infections later.

4.3. Pathogenicity of clinically pathogenic and environmental M. odoratimimus indicated by the predicted virulence factors

The VFs in M. odoratimimus were identified using VFDB protein Set B database which curates the experiment‐verified and predicted virulence factor genes (Table 4). The finding of similar VFs in both clinically pathogenic and environmental M. odoratimimus genomes might explain the pathogenicity of the three clinically pathogenic M. odoratimimus isolates and indicate that the three environmental M. odoratimimus isolates are also potentially pathogenic. We only discuss the experimentally verified VF genes (in bold/italic, Table 4).

bauE encodes the ferric siderophore ABC transporter/ATP‐binding protein BauE with a high‐affinity iron‐chelating capacity, belonging to acinetobactin. In a mouse sepsis model, the expression of a fully active acinetobactin‐mediated iron uptake apparatus by Acinetobacter baumannii was verified to be vital for the bacteria to establish infection and kill mouse, by competing with host cells for iron (Gaddy et al., 2012). Thus, bauE should be a survival factor of M. odoratimimus during infection.

Capsular LPS is the predominant virulence determinant in many gram‐negative and ‐positive bacteria (García & López, 1997). It inhibits complement‐mediated lysis, phagocytosis, and immune recognition in host (Rowe & Huntley, 2015). Several genes involved in capsular LPS biosynthesis pathway were found in the M. odoratimimus genomes, such as GalE, GlmU, ugd, wbjD/wecB, uppS, RmlA, RmlB. UDP‐sugar 4‐epimerase (GalE) plays an essential role in LPS synthesis (Beerens, Soetaert, & Desmet, 2015; Fry et al., 2000) by catalyzing the interconversion of UDP‐galactose and UDP‐glucose (Fry et al., 2000), is a critical virulence factor in many gram‐negative bacteria (Beerens et al., 2015; Fry et al., 2000). N‐acetylglucosamine‐1‐phosphateuridyltransferase/glucosamine‐1‐phosphate‐acetyltransferase (GlmU) is involved in the synthesis of peptidoglycan and LPS in Gram‐negative and ‐positive bacteria (Sharma & Khan, 2017). The bifunctional enzyme UDP‐N‐acetylglucosamine 2‐epimerase/ManNAc kinase (encoded by wbjD/wecB, also known as siaA or neuC) catalyzes biosynthesis of Escherichia coli K1 capsule, an alpha‐2,8‐linked polymer of sialic acid, and is a vital meningitis virulence factor for this pathogen (Vann et al., 2004). Both mammals (Chou, Hinderlich, Reutter, & Tanner, 2003) and bacteria (Murkin, Chou, Wakarchuk, & Tanner, 2004) produce this bifunctional enzyme. Both source of this enzyme can catalyze the conversion of UDP‐GlcNAc into ManNAc and UDP, the first two steps in the sialic acid biosynthesis in mammals (Chou et al., 2003) and the first step of sialic acid (N‐acetylneuraminic acid) biosynthesis in bacteria (Murkin et al., 2004). UDP‐glucose 6‐dehydrogenase (UGD) has an indispensable role in hyaluronic acid capsule production and pathogenicity in Group A Streptococcus (Cole et al., 2012), is required for bacterial growth inside macrophages (Mouslim & Groisman, 2003). Undecaprenyl diphosphate synthase (UPPS) is involved in cell wall biosynthesis (peptidoglycan and wall teichoic acid synthesis) by catalyzing the synthesis of a polyisoprenoid, becoming an attractive antibacterial drug target (Farha et al., 2015). Glucose‐1‐phosphate thymidylyltransferase (RmlA) is vital for bacteria survival (Mansuri et al., 2016). It participates in L‐rhamnose synthesis (Alphey et al., 2013; Mansuri et al., 2016), a critical linker of peptidoglycan and arabinogalacton in bacterial cell wall (Mansuri et al., 2016), by catalyzing the generation of dTDP‐D‐glucose and pyrophosphate (PPi) (Alphey et al., 2013; Mansuri et al., 2016). dTDP‐D‐glucose 4,6‐dehydratase (RmlB) is also involved in L‐rhamnose biosynthesis, by catalyzing the conversion of dTDP‐D‐glucose into dTDP‐4‐keto‐6‐deoxy‐D‐glucose in cell wall (Allard et al., 2002). Bacteria with truncated LPS molecules due to the L‐rhamnose synthesis failure could not prevent clearance by the host cells and become avirulent (Allard et al., 2002). The presence of capsular LPS biosynthesis genes in six M. odoratimimus indicates their infectivity. The presence of these LPS biosynthesis genes in both the three clinically pathogenic and the three environmental M. odoratimimus isolates is in concert with the fact that M. odoratimimus is gram‐negative and confer it this bacterium with in infectivity.

The presence of bacterial intracellular survival factors katA, clpP, EF‐Tu, and sodB in the six M. odoratimimus genomes suggested that this bacterium might be able to survive within host cells, increase the antibiotic therapy difficulty and thus explain the reported high death rate of M. odoratimimus infections (summarized in Hu et al., 2016). Catalase katA is a critical virulence factor for Campylobacter jejuni, a facultatively intracellular microbe and the principal pathogen of human gastroenteritis. Its resistance ability to the bacteriocidal activity from host cell‐produced hydrogen peroxide and intramacrophage persistence/growth is dependent on this catalase (Day, Sajecki, Pitts, & Joens, 2000). ClpP, a highly conserved protease in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, is involved in the rapid adaption capacity during infection for Listeria monocytogenes, another facultative intracellular pathogen (Gaillot, Bregenholt, Jaubert, Di Santo, & Berche, 2001; Gaillot, Pellegrini, Bregenholt, Nair, & Berche, 2000). By interacting with host surface nucleolin, the bacterial surface EF‐Tu (elongation factor Tu), a GTP‐binding protein involved in protein translation in Francisella tularensis, a highly infectious intracellular gram‐negative bacterium, plays a crucial role in its invasion to host tissues (Barel et al., 2008). It is also an adhesion/invasion factor secreted by microbes during infection by bacteria (like Helicobacter pylori) (Chiu, Wang, Tsai, Lei, & Liao, 2017) and fungi (Marcos et al., 2016) through binding (Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis) with fibronectin on host cells (Viale et al., 2014). Superoxide dismutases (SODs) protect the bacteria from oxidative damage by converting endogenously generated superoxide radicals into hydrogen peroxide and oxygen, are indispensable for intraphagocytic viability for pathogenic bacteria (Dhar, Gupta, & Virdi, 2013), SodB is required for colonization of Helicobacter pylori in the stomach (Tsugawa et al., 2015).

The presence of bacterial DnaK (known as Hsp70 in eukaryotes) and Hsp60 in M. odoratimimus imply that the autoimmunological response might be complicated by the infection. Heat‐shock proteins are ubiquitous proteins with high homology between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Bacterial DnaK is crucial bacterial virulence factor. Both host Hsp70 and bacterial DnaK mediate bacterial attachment to host cells. After infection, bacterial DnaK switches on bacterial survival processes and arouses autoimmune sequelae (Ghazaei, 2017). Hsp60 is also involved in Clostridium difficile attachment to host cells (Hennequin et al., 2001), and the strong proinflammatory reaction (IL8) of monocytic cells induced by Helicobacter pylori (Lin et al., 2005). Chlamydia pneumonia Hsp60 can help to spread Chlamydial infection of blood monocytes to vascular wall cells (Rupp et al., 2005), and increase the pathogenesis and severity of Chlamydia infection‐correlated atherosclerosis because of sequence homology between bacterial and human Hsp60 (mitochondria in endothelial cells) and subsequent induction of a strong autologous humoral and cellular immune responses (Kalayoglu et al., 2000; Mehta et al., 2005).

The presence of ureA, ureB, ureG in M. odoratimimus implies that this bacterium might be pathogenic in human stomach. Urease is a principal virulence factor of human gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori (Stingl et al., 2008). It has oligomeric Ni2+‐containing heterodimer of UreA and UreB subunits involved in converting gastric juice urea into NH3 in bacterial periplasm which maintains an optimal pH, inner membrane potential and proton motive force, being critical for colonization within the human stomach (Sachs, Weeks, Melchers, & Scott, 2003). Urease activity needs an assembly of a lysine‐carbamate functional group with two Ni2+ ions facilitated partially by GTP hydrolysis by UreG (Martin‐Diaconescu, Bellucci, Musiani, Ciurli, & Maroney, 2012; Zambelli, Turano, Musiani, Neyroz, & Ciurli, 2009).

The surface enolase (eno) of bacteria, a glycolytic pathway enzyme, can bind human plasminogen and convert it into active plasmin (Cork et al., 2009) to facilitate bacterial adherence to host cells and destruction of host tissues through plasmin degrading intercellular junctions and extracellular matrix components (Attali, Durmort, Vernet, & Di Guilmi, 2008), like cellulitis (Bachmeyer et al., 2008), necrotizing fasciitis (Crum‐Cianflone, Matson, & Ballon‐Landa, 2014), and make the bacterial infection life‐threatening (Cork et al., 2009). The containing eno in M. odoratimimus genome might explain the high death rate of patients infected by M. odoratimimus (as summarized in Hu et al., 2016).

In brief, M. odoratimimus not only possesses common virulence factors, like using bauE gene to compete the iron with host, general LPS synthesis genes, adherence factors (DnaK, Hsp60), but also can survive intracellularly (katA, clpP, EF‐Tu, and sodB), even in human stomach (ureA, ureB, ureG), but also disseminate easily, destroy human tissues, induce autoimmune diseases. So, the M. odoratimimus is a life‐threatening pathogen as reported (summarized in Hu et al., 2016).

5. CONCLUSION

The genomic analysis demonstrated that these M. odoratimimus isolates are closely related. Our analyses provided some insights in bacterial pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance mechanisms of M. odoratimimus and contribute to future development of the therapeutic regimens in M. odoratimimus infections.

COMPLIANCE WITH ETHICAL STANDARDS

This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was supported by the Fong Shu Fook Tong and Fong Yun Wah Foundations (14X30127), the Technology Planning Projects of Quanzhou Social Development Fields (2014Z24), and the Natural Science Fund Project of Fujian Province (2015J01514).

Hu S, Cao L, Wu Y, et al. Comparative genomic analysis of Myroides odoratimimus isolates. MicrobiologyOpen. 2019;8:e634 10.1002/mbo3.634

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