生物技术通报 ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (9): 17-27.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2022-0537

• 细菌耐药性专题(专题主编: 刘雅红 教授 孙坚 教授) • 上一篇    下一篇

基于功能宏基因组学挖掘抗生素耐药基因研究进展

鲁兆祥1,2,3(), 王夕冉1,2,3, 连新磊1,2,3, 廖晓萍1,2,3, 刘雅红1,2,3, 孙坚1,2,3()   

  1. 1.华南农业大学兽医学院,广州 510000
    2.国家兽医微生物耐药性风险评估实验室,广州 510000
    3.岭南现代农业科学与技术广东省实验室,广州 510000
  • 收稿日期:2022-04-30 出版日期:2022-09-26 发布日期:2022-10-11
  • 作者简介:鲁兆祥,男,硕士研究生,研究方向:细菌耐药性;E-mail: 695438544@qq.com
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金重点项目(31730097);广东省普通高校创新团队项目(2019KCXTD001);国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目(32102720)

Advances in the Discovery of Novel Antibiotic-resistant Genes Based on Functional Metagenomics

LU Zhao-xiang1,2,3(), WANG Xi-ran1,2,3, LIAN Xin-lei1,2,3, LIAO Xiao-ping1,2,3, LIU Ya-hong1,2,3, SUN Jian1,2,3()   

  1. 1. Department of Veterinary Medicine, South China Agriculture University, Guangzhou 510000
    2. National Risk Assessment Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance of Animal Original Bacteria, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510000
    3. Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Guangzhou 510000
  • Received:2022-04-30 Published:2022-09-26 Online:2022-10-11

摘要:

随着各类抗生素被广泛用于治疗细菌感染以及抗生素在临床上的大量使用,驱动了各类抗生素耐药基因的不断进化,导致了耐药问题日趋严重。耐药基因与耐药细菌的广泛传播与普遍流行严重威胁公共卫生体系并引起了巨大的经济损失。值得注意的是,抗生素的广泛施用不仅造成了动物体内耐药细菌的产生,还提高了对环境中微生物的选择压力,间接推动了耐药基因的发展与进化,使环境微生物成为耐药基因新的储库。因此对耐药细菌的广泛监测与新型耐药基因的提前发掘具有重要的临床意义与研究价值。但是传统的耐药性调查手段过度依赖对耐药细菌的培养,难以全面的展现固定生态位中微生物耐药性的全貌。而功能宏基因组学技术利用其表型筛选和高通量测序相结合的优势,不依赖于对携带目标基因的特定细菌的培养,因此在发掘新型功能基因方面有着巨大的优势。本文综述了功能宏基因组在抗生素耐药方面的研究进展,讨论了功能宏基因组学方法在检测新型基因研究中的意义及存在的问题,为后续深入开展对抗生素耐药机制的探究提供了坚实的理论基础。

关键词: 功能宏基因组学, 环境微生物, 新型耐药基因, 抗生素

Abstract:

The widespread use of various antibiotics in the treatment of bacterial infections and the widespread clinical use of antibiotics drives the continuous evolution of various antibiotic resistance genes(ARGs), leading to the increasing problem of drug resistance. The global spread of antibiotic-resistant genes and bacteria severely threatens the public health and results in tremendous economic losses in recent decades. Of note, the excessive usage of antibiotics not only led to the occurrence of antibiotics-resistant bacteria, but also constitutively elevated the selection pressure of environmental microbiome, indirectly accelerated the development and evolution of antibiotics-resistant genes, making environmental microbiome as the storage reservoir of antibiotics-resistant genes. Therefore, the extensive monitoring of antibiotics-resistant bacteria and the early exploration of new antibiotics-resistant genes are of great clinical significance and research value. However, traditional methodologies for ARGs identification and profiling largely depend on the molecular characterization of cultivable bacteria, hardly providing a comprehensive landscape of the resistome in a given ecological niche. To cope with the increasing necessity to uncover the ARGs in uncultivable bacteria, the functional metagenomics emerged as a promising toolkit that combines the phenotypic profiling with next high-throughput sequencing, it does not depend on the culture of specific bacteria with target genes, and thus it is deemed as a powerful alternative to reveal all novel functional genes. In the present review, we systematically summarized the latest advances in the field of functional metagenomics and dated their recent applications in unveiling the unknown ARGs from environments. This review offers a solid theoretical foundation for in-depth understanding the resistant mechanism of antibiotics.

Key words: functional metagenomics, environmental microbiome, novel resistance genes, antibiotic