Food Science & Technology

Genetic Diversity of Siderophores in a Multi-Drug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST37 of Swine Origin

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  • School of Food Science and Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510640,Guangdong,China
闫鹤(1972-),女,博士,副研究员,主要从事食品微生物研究。

Received date: 2021-02-20

  Revised date: 2021-04-23

  Online published: 2021-04-25

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Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China in the “13th Five-Year Plan”(2016YFD0500606)

Abstract

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a opportunistic pathogen associated with acquired infections and is listed by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a drug-resistant pathogen that urgently needs to develop new antibiotics.Siderophores is an important virulence factor for K.pneumoniae to proliferate in host cells,mainly including enterobactin,yersiniabactin,aerobactin,and salmochelin.A multi-drug resistant K.pneumoniae ST37 KP200 was isolated from the liver of sick pigs.This study analyzed the evolutionary relationship and genetic diversity of si-derophores of KP200 and 160 K.pneumoniae ST37 strains from NCBI with bioinformatics software.The single-copy core genes analysis results show that KP200 and a Chinese K.pneumoniae of human origin locate in the same clade with similarity of 99.8%.Siderophores analysis shows that all ST37 strains carry enterobactin entABCEF and fepABC.KP200 and other 15 K.pneumoniae strains carry aerobactin transporter gene iutA.The nucleotide homo-logy of 16 iutA gene sequences is 73.49%~100%.Compared with the iutA nucleotide sequence carried by the hypervirulent K.pneumoniae NTUH-K2044,it finds that the iutA nucleotide carried by KP200 results in two amino acid substitutions due to two base mutations: Leu is replaced by Phe and Val is replaced by Leu.This study provides basis for studying the evolution and virulence of K.pneumoniae ST37.

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YAN He LIANG Huixian . Genetic Diversity of Siderophores in a Multi-Drug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST37 of Swine Origin[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2021 , 49(11) : 19 -26 . DOI: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.210075

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