Analysis of the allelic diversity of the mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units in Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing family: Practical implications and evolutionary considerations

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2438-2444

  Mokrousov, Igor ^a   Narvskaya, Olga ^a   Limeschenko, Elena ^a   Vyazovaya, Anna ^a   Otten, Tatiana ^b   Vyshnevskiy, Boris ^b  

^a ST PETERSBURG PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b ST PETERSBURG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PHTHISIOPULMONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EVOLUTION; GENOTYPE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALLELES; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 2942557037     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.6.2438-2444.2004     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Alland, D., T. S. Whittam, M. B. Murray, M. D. Cave, M. H. Hazbon, K. Dix, M. Kokoris, A. Duesterhoeft, J. A. Eisen, C. M. Fraser, and R. D. Fleischmann. 2003. Modeling bacterial evolution with comparative-genome-based marker systems: application to Mycobacterium tuberculosis evolution and pathogenesis. J. Bacteriol. 185:3392-3399.
2. Bifani, P. J., B. Mathema, N. E. Kurepina, and B. N. Kreiswirth. 2002. Global dissemination of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing family strains. Trends Microbiol. 10:45-52.
3. Cowan, L. S., L. Mosher, L. Diem, J. Massey, and J. T. Crawford. 2002. Variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with low copy numbers of IS6110 by using mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:1592-1602.
4. Dye, C., S. Scheele, P. Dolin, V. Pathania, M. C. Raviglione, et al. 1999. Consensus statement: global burden of tuberculosis: estimated incidence, prevalence, and mortality by country. JAMA 282:677-686.
5. Glynn, J. R., J. Whiteley, P. J. Bifani, K. Kremer, and D. van Soolingen. 2002. Worldwide occurrence of Beijing/W strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a systematic review. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 8:843-849.
6. Grimont, P. A. D. 2000. Taxotron package. Taxolab, lnstitut Pasteur, Paris, France.
7. Kamerbeek, J., L. Schouls, A. Kolk, M. van Agterveld, D. van Soolingen, S. Kuijper, A. Bunschoten, H. Molhuizen, R. Shaw, M. Goyal, and J. D. A. van Embden. 1997. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35:907-914.
8. Kwara, A., R. Schiro, L. S. Cowan, N. E. Hyslop, M. F. Wiser, S. R. Harrison, P. Kissinger, L. Diem, and J. T. Crawford. 2003. Evaluation of the epidemiologic utility of secondary typing methods for differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:2683-2685.
9. Le Fleche, P., M. Fabre, F. Denoeud, J. L. Koeck, and G. Vergnaud. 2002. High resolution, on-line identification of strains from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on tandem repeat typing. BMC Microbiol. 2:37.
10. Lopez, B., D. Aguilar, H. Orozco, M. Burger, C. Espitia, V. Ritacco, L. Barrera, K. Kremer, R. Hernandez-Pando, K. Huygen, and D. van Soolin-gen. 2003. A marked difference in pathogenesis and immune response induced by different Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes. Clin. Exp. Immunol. 133:30-37.
11. Mazars, E., S. Lesjean, A.-L. Banuls, M. Gilbert, V. Vincent, B. Gicquel, M. Tibayrenc, C. Locht, and P. Supply. 2001. High-resolution minisatellite-based typing as a portable approach to global analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98:1901-1906.
12. Mokrousov, I., O. Narvskaya, E. Limeschenko, T. Otten, and B. Vyshnevskyi. 2002. Novel IS6110 insertion sites in the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains from the St. Petersburg area of Russia, and evolutionary and epidemiological considerations. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:1504-1507.
13. Mokrousov, I., O. Narvskaya, T. Otten, A. Vyazovaya, E. Limeschenko, L. Steldova, and B. Vyshnevskyi. 2002. Phylogenetic reconstruction within Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype in northwestern Russia. Res. Microbiol. 153:629-637.
14. Mokrousov, I., O. Narvskaya, T. Otten, E. Limeschenko, L. Steldova, and B. Vyshnevskyi. 2002. High prevalence of KatG Ser315Thr substitution among isoniazid-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates from northwestern Russia, 1996 to 2001. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 46:1417-1424.
15. Mokrousov, I., T. Otten, A. Vyazovaya, E. Limeschenko, M. L. Filipenko, C. Sola, N. Rastogi, L. Steklova, B. Vyshnevskiy, and O. Narvskaya. 2003. PCR-based methodology for detecting multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing family circulating in Russia. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 22:342-348.
16. Musser, J. M., A. Amin, and S. Ramaswamy. 2000. Negligible genetic diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis host immune system protein targets: evidence of limited selective pressure. Genetics 155:7-16.
17. Narvskaya, O., I. Mokrousov, T. Otten, and B. Vyshnevskiy. 1999. Genetic marking of polyresistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated in the North-West of Russia. Probl. Tuberk. N3:39-41. (In Russian.)
18. Narvskaya, O., T. Otten, E. Limeschenko, N. Sapozhnikova, O. Graschenkova, L. Steklova, A. Nikonova, M. L. Filipenko, I. Mokrousov, and B. Vyshnevskiy. 2002. Nosocomial outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis caused by a strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing family in St. Petersburg, Russia. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 21:596-602.
19. Rad, M. E., P. Bifani, C. Martin, K. Kremer, S. Samper, J. Rauzier, B. Kreiswirth, J. Blazquez, M. Jouan, D. van Soolingen, and B. Gicquel. 2003. Mutations in putative mutator genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the W-Beijing family. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 9:838-845.
20. Roring, S., A. Scott, D. Brittain, I. Walker, G. Hewinson, S. Neill, and R. Scuce. 2002. Development of variable-number tandem repeat typing of Mycobacterium bovis: comparison of results with those obtained by using existing exact tandem repeats and spoligotyping. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:2126-2133.
21. Skuce, R. A., T. P. McCorry, J. F. McCarrol, S. M. M. Roring, A. N. Scott, D. Brittain, S. L. Hughes, R. G. Hewinson, and S. D. Neill. 2002. Discrimination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria using novel VNTR-PCR targets. Microbiology 148:519-528.
22. Smittipat, N., and P. Pallittapongarnpim. 2000. Identification of possible loci of variable number of tandem repeats in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberc. Lung Dis. 80:69-74.
23. Sola, C., I. Filliol, E. Legrand, I. Mokrousov, and N. Rastogi. 2001. Mycobacterium tuberculosis phylogeny reconstruction based on combined numerical analysis with IS1081, IS6110, VNTR, and DR-based spoligotyping suggests the existence of two new phylogeographical clades. J. Mol. Evol. 53:680-689.
24. Sola, C., I. Filliol, E. Legrand, S. Lesjean, C. Locht, P. Supply, and N. Rastogi. 2003. Genotyping of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex using MIRUS: association with VNTR and spoligotyping for molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics. Infect. Genet. Evol. 3:125-133.
25. Sreevatsan, S., X. Pan, K. Stockbauer, N. Connell, B. Kreiswirth, T. Whittam, and J. M. Musser. 1997. Restricted structural gene polymorphism in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex indicates evolutionary recent global dissemination. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97:9869-9874.
26. Supply, P., E. Mazars, S. Lesjean, V. Vincent, B. Gicquel, and C. Locht. 2000. Variable human minisatellite-like regions in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. Mol. Microbiol. 36:762-771.
27. Supply, P., J. Magdalena, S. Himpens, and C. Locht. 1997. Identification of novel intergenic repetitive units in a mycobacterial two-component system operon. Mol. Microbiol. 26:991-1003.
28. Supply, P., R. M. Warren, A.-L. Banuls, S. Lesjean, G. D. van der Spuy, L.-A. Lewis, M. Tibayrenc, P. D. van Helden, and C. Locht. 2003. Linkage disequilibrium between minisatellite loci supports clonal evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a high tuberculosis incidence area. Mol. Microbiol. 47:529-538.
29. Supply, P., S. Lesjean, E. Savine, K. Kremer, D. van Soolingen, and C. Locht. 2001. Automated high-throughput genotyping for study of global epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis based on mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:3563-3571.
30. Toungoussova, O. S., P. Sandven, A. O. Mariandyshev, N. I. Nizovtseva, G. Bjune, and D. A. Caugant. 2002. Spread of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains of the Beijing genotype in the Archangel Oblast, Russia. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:1930-1937.
31. van Crevel, R., R. H. Nelwan, W. de Lenne, Y. Veeraragu, A. G. van der Zanden, Z. Amin, J. W. van der Meer, and D. van Soolingen. 2001. Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing genotype strains associated with febrile response to treatment. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 7:880-883.
32. van Embden, J. D. A., M. D. Cave, J. T. Crawford, J. W. Dale, K. D. Eisenach, B. Gicquel, P. Hermans, C. Martin, R. McAdam, T. M. Shinnik, et al. 1993. Strain identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by DNA fingerprinting: recommendations for a standardized methodology. J. Clin. Microbiol. 31:406-409.
33. van Soolingen, D., L. Qian, P. E. W. de Haas, J. T. Douglas, H. Traore, F. Portaels, Z. Quing, D. Enkhasaikan, P. Nymadawa, and J. D. A. van Embden. 1995. Predominance of a single genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in countries of East Asia. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:3234-3238.
34. Zhang, M., J. Cong, Z. Yang, B. Samten, and P. F. Barnes. 1999. Enhanced capacity of a widespread strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to grow in human macrophages. J. Infect. Dis. 179:1213-1217.