Title
Genetic diversity of candidate loci linked to Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to bedaquiline, delamanid and pretomanid
Date Issued
01 December 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Gómez-González P.J.
Perdigao J.
Gomes P.
Santos-Lazaro D.
Napier G.
Hibberd M.L.
Viveiros M.
Portugal I.
Campino S.
Phelan J.E.
Clark T.G.
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is one of the deadliest infectious diseases worldwide. Multidrug and extensively drug-resistant strains are making disease control difficult, and exhausting treatment options. New anti-TB drugs bedaquiline (BDQ), delamanid (DLM) and pretomanid (PTM) have been approved for the treatment of multi-drug resistant TB, but there is increasing resistance to them. Nine genetic loci strongly linked to resistance have been identified (mmpR5, atpE, and pepQ for BDQ; ddn, fgd1, fbiA, fbiB, fbiC, and fbiD for DLM/PTM). Here we investigated the genetic diversity of these loci across >33,000 M. tuberculosis isolates. In addition, epistatic mutations in mmpL5-mmpS5 as well as variants in ndh, implicated for DLM/PTM resistance in M. smegmatis, were explored. Our analysis revealed 1,227 variants across the nine genes, with the majority (78%) present in isolates collected prior to the roll-out of BDQ and DLM/PTM. We identified phylogenetically-related mutations, which are unlikely to be resistance associated, but also high-impact variants such as frameshifts (e.g. in mmpR5, ddn) with likely functional effects, as well as non-synonymous mutations predominantly in MDR-/XDR-TB strains with predicted protein destabilising effects. Overall, our work provides a comprehensive mutational catalogue for BDQ and DLM/PTM associated genes, which will assist with establishing associations with phenotypic resistance; thereby, improving the understanding of the causative mechanisms of resistance for these drugs, leading to better treatment outcomes.
Volume
11
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Genética, Herencia
Ciencias de la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85116334642
PubMed ID
Source
Scientific Reports
ISSN of the container
20452322
Sponsor(s)
PJG-G is funded by an MRC-LID PhD studentship. JEP is funded by a Newton Institutional Links Grant (British Council, no. 261868591). TGC is funded by the Medical Research Council UK (Grant no. MR/M01360X/1, MR/ N010469/1, MR/R025576/1, and MR/R020973/1) and BBSRC (Grant no. BB/R013063/1). SC is funded by Medical Research Council UK grants (ref. MR/M01360X/1, MR/R025576/1, and MR/R020973/1). JP is supported by the Portuguese FCT (ref. CEECIND/00394/2017). PG is the recipient of a PhD studentship from the Portuguese FCT (ref. 2020.05942.BD). The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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