Impact of CRISPR-associated transposons on anti-phage immunity in Vibrio cholerae

CRISPR相关转座子对霍乱弧菌抗噬菌体免疫的影响

基本信息

批准号：
10556364
负责人：
Samuel Henry Sternberg
金额：
$ 24.3万
依托单位：
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-02-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10556364
关键词：
Affect Algorithms Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria Bacteriophages Bioinformatics Biological Biological Process CRISPR-associated transposons Candidate Disease Gene Cells Cessation of life Cholera Cholera Toxin Clinical Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Communities Complement Complex DNA DNA Integration DNA Transposable Elements DNA Transposons Data Set Detection Disease Outbreaks Dysentery Ensure Epidemic Epidemiology Escherichia coli Event Evolution Excision Exhibits Future Gene Cluster Genes Genetic Genetic Recombination Genome Genome engineering Genomics Growth Guide RNA Haiti High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Horizontal Gene Transfer Human Immune system Immunity Individual Infectious Agent Innate Immune System Island Knock-in Knock-out Knowledge Laboratories Life Style Light Link Lytic Microbiology Middle East Mobile Genetic Elements Modification Molecular Monitor Natural Immunity Pathogenicity Pathway interactions Patients Plasmids Play Population Population Dynamics Predatory Behavior Prevalence Process Public Health RNA Research Role Sampling Sequence-Specific DNA Binding Protein Severities Site Specificity System Testing Therapeutic Intervention Transposase Vibrio Vibrio cholerae Vibrio cholerae infection Viral Virulence Virulence Factors Virus Vision Work biotypes cost experimental study fitness gene conservation genetic analysis genetic approach genetic payload genome-wide immunological diversity improved insertion/deletion mutation interest marine microbial microorganism novel novel strategies nuclease pathogen prevent reconstitution resistance gene tool transmission process

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of the infectious diarrheal disease, cholera, which affects several million individuals and causes ~100,000 deaths, annually. It has become increasingly clear in recent years that horizontal gene transfer events played a crucial role in the explosive diversification of a non-pathogenic strain from the Middle East into the present-day pathogenic El Tor biotype strain. Virulence and antibiotic resistance genes are broadly disseminated within marine Vibrio communities by mobile genetic elements (MGEs), including bacterial viruses, plasmids, and transposons, many of which permanently integrate their genetic payloads into the genome. Furthermore, dynamic interactions between V. cholerae and viruses directly impact the duration and severity of cholera outbreaks, and are potently influenced by the complex repertoire of antiviral defense systems spread by MGEs. Thus, viral predation and viral immunity affect V. cholerae fitness and pathogenicity, highlighting the need to better understand horizontal gene transfer processes that modulate antiviral defense. Our laboratory recently discovered a new class of transposable elements that encode nuclease-deficient CRISPR-Cas systems and spread via RNA-guided DNA integration, representing the first example of a fully programmable transposase. These CRISPR-transposon (CRISPR-Tn) systems are prevalent in Vibrio species, and our studies have thus far focused on a representative transposon derived from a clinical V. cholerae isolate sampled during the 2010 Haiti cholera epidemic. Remarkably, during our recent analyses of the genetic cargos found within a larger set of CRISPR-transposons, we uncovered a striking enrichment in antiviral defense genes, suggesting that these MGEs spread horizontally via conjugative plasmids and benefit host cells by mobilizing a rich complement of innate immune systems. Our central vision is to determine how V. cholerae immunity and pathogenicity is influenced by the acquisition of CRISPR-Tn cargo genes, while also developing RNA-guided transposases as a new tool for kilobase-scale genome engineering in V. cholerae. In Aim 1, we will employ bioinformatics, genetics, and high-throughput sequencing to comprehensively investigate the evolutionary and mechanistic diversity of CRISPR-Tn systems, and leverage the most active systems for high-efficiency genomic insertions and deletions in V. cholerae. In Aim 2, we will analyze the complete repertoire of CRISPR-Tn cargo genes and determine which gene clusters provide protection against Vibrio-specific viruses. Beyond shedding light broadly on the function of transposons in Vibrio, this proposal will expand our understanding of how MGEs promote rapid turnover of defense systems within bacterial populations as part of the pan-immune system. This topic is of increasingly critical importance, given the spread of antibiotic resistance genes and renewed interest in phage therapy for V. cholerae and numerous other pathogenic microorganisms.

项目摘要 Vibrio霍乱是感染性腹泻病霍乱的病因，影响了数百万每年的个人和造成约100,000人死亡。近年来，已经变得越来越清楚水平基因转移事件在非致病菌株的爆炸性多样化中起着至关重要的作用从中东到当今的病原体生物型菌株。毒力和抗生素抗性基因通过移动遗传因素（MGE）在海洋弧菌社区中广泛传播，包括细菌病毒，质粒和转座子，其中许多永久将其基因有效载荷整合到基因组。此外，V。Cholerae和病毒之间的动态相互作用直接影响持续时间和霍乱暴发的严重性，并受到抗病毒防御复杂曲目的有效影响系统通过MGES传播。因此，病毒捕食和病毒免疫影响V.霍乱的适应性和致病性，强调需要更好地了解调节抗病毒防御的水平基因转移过程。我们的实验室最近发现了一类新的可转座元素，这些元素编码核酸酶缺陷 CRISPR-CAS系统并通过RNA引导的DNA整合传播，代表了一个完全的例子可编程转座酶。这些CRISPR-TRANSPOSON（CRISPR-TN）系统在Vibrio物种中普遍存在，到目前在2010年海地霍乱流行期间采样。值得注意的是，在我们最近对遗传嘉戈斯的分析中在较大的CRISPR-TRANSPOSON中发现，我们发现了抗病毒防御基因的惊人富集，表明这些MGE通过共轭质粒水平扩散，并通过动员A 先天免疫系统的丰富补充。我们的中心愿景是确定V.霍乱的免疫力和致病性受到CRISPR-TN货物基因的获取的影响，同时也发展了RNA引导转座酶是V.霍乱中的千目标基因组工程的新工具。在AIM 1中，我们将雇用生物信息学，遗传学和高通量测序，以全面研究进化和 CRISPR-TN系统的机械多样性，并利用最活跃的系统用于高效基因组 V.霍乱中的插入和删除。在AIM 2中，我们将分析CRISPR-TN货物的完整曲目基因并确定哪些基因簇可保护抗颤音特异性病毒。除了脱落该提案广泛地了解了垂体中转座的功能，将扩大我们对MGE的理解作为泛免疫系统的一部分，促进细菌种群中防御系统的快速离职。这鉴于抗生素耐药性基因的传播和新的兴趣，主题越来越重要在用于霍乱的噬菌体疗法和许多其他致病微生物中。