Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid

Kasvava antibioottiresistenssi on merkittävä ongelma, joka vaikuttaa globaalisti terveydenhoitoon, ruoantuotantoon ja taloudelliseen kasvuun. Beta-laktaamien antibioottiluokka kattaa noin kaksi kolmasosaa ihmisten käyttämistä antibiooteista. Laajan kirjon beta-laktamaasi (ESBL) -entsyymit mahdollist...

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Main Author: Mikkola, Aapo
Other Authors: Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Faculty of Sciences, Bio- ja ympäristötieteiden laitos, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, Jyväskylän yliopisto, University of Jyväskylä
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2020
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/74453
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description Kasvava antibioottiresistenssi on merkittävä ongelma, joka vaikuttaa globaalisti terveydenhoitoon, ruoantuotantoon ja taloudelliseen kasvuun. Beta-laktaamien antibioottiluokka kattaa noin kaksi kolmasosaa ihmisten käyttämistä antibiooteista. Laajan kirjon beta-laktamaasi (ESBL) -entsyymit mahdollistavat monipuolisen beta- laktaami-resistenssin useassa eri bakteerilajissa. Tässä tutkimuksessa kloonattiin konjugatiivinen CRISPR-Cas9-plasmidi, joka hyökkää pEC13 ESBL-plasmidia vastaan E. Coli-bakteerissa. Tutkimuksen CRISPR-Cas9-plasmidiin liitettiin oriT (origin of transfer) -sekvenssi, joka mahdollistaa tämän kokeellisen plasmidin konjugoimisen käyttäen toisen pLM2-plasmidin konjugaatiokoneistoa. CRISPR- Cas9-plasmidiin kohdentamiseksi pEC13-plasmidiin, siihen liitettiin myös IncFII crRNA-juoste. Tämän muokatun CRISPR-Cas9-plasmidin tulisi täten pystyä konjugoitumaan uuteen isäntäsoluun pLM2-plasmidin välityksellä, missä CRISPR- Cas9-plasmidin Cas9-endonukleaasi leikkaa pEC13-plasmidin DNA- kaksoisjuosteen sen IncFII-sekvenssin kohdalta. Leikatun pEC13-plasmidin ei tulisi enää selvitä isäntäsolussa, minkä tulisi johtaa isäntäsolun kuolemaan beta- laktaami-maljoilla. Tulokset osoittavat, että tutkimuksen CRISPR-Cas9 plasmidi konjugoituu uusiin isäntäsoluihin ja indusoitu CRISPR-Cas9-plasmidi vähentää beta-laktaamilla kasvavien isäntäbakteereiden määrää noin kahden kertaluokan verran. Kokonaisuutena, tätä tutkimusta voidaan pitää onnistuneena konseptin todistuksena, mikä näyttää, että kokeellinen CRISPR-Cas9-plasmidi on mahdollista konjugoida uuteen isäntäbakteeriin, missä sen CRISPR-Cas9-aktiivisuus huomattavasti heikentää isäntäbakteerien selviytymistä beta-laktaami-maljoilla. Emerging antibiotic resistance is one of the major threats to modern healthcare as well as to global food security and economic development. Approximately two- thirds of antibiotics administered to humans are ß-lactams. The emergence of extended-spectrum ß-lactamases (ESBLs) in a variety of bacteria confers multi- resistance to ß-lactams. In this study, an ESBL-harbouring pEC13 plasmid was targeted with a CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid that is delivered to the target E. Coli cells via conjugation machinery of the conjugative plasmid pLM2. An anti-ESBL plasmid was cloned, which carries an origin of transfer (oriT) domain for the conjugation initiation along with a gene for CRISPR-Cas9. One specific guiding RNA targeting the IncFII replication initiator gene of the pEC13 plasmid was designed and annealed to the anti-ESBL plasmid. In practice, the introduction of a modified anti- ESBL plasmid through a conjugation channel into an ESBL-harbouring bacterium leads to the expression of guiding RNAs that direct the Cas9 endonuclease to cleave the ESBL-plasmid, thus compromising its maintenance in the host. The results show that the induced anti-ESBL plasmid reduces the colony forming unit count of the ESBL-harbouring host by approximately two orders of magnitude on ß-lactam plates. The same ß-lactam concentration was tested to be lethal without the pEC13 resistance plasmid. Consequently, this is a viable proof-of-principle study, which shows that an anti-ESBL CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid can be introduced into ESBL- bacteria via conjugation, and its directed endonuclease activity can substantially hinder the survival of those ESBL-bacteria in the presence of lethal ß-lactam concentration.
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spellingShingle Mikkola, Aapo Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid ampicillin beta-lactam CRISPR-Cas9 conjugation Solu- ja molekyylibiologia Cell and molecular biology 4013 plasmidit antibiootit antibioottiresistenssi kolibakteerit molekyyligenetiikka plasmids antibiotics antibiotic resistance Escherichia coli molecular genetics
title Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
title_full Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
title_fullStr Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
title_full_unstemmed Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
title_short Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
title_sort abolishment of antibiotic resistance in escherichia coli using a conjugative crispr cas9 plasmid
title_txtP Abolishment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia Coli using a conjugative CRISPR-Cas9 plasmid
topic ampicillin beta-lactam CRISPR-Cas9 conjugation Solu- ja molekyylibiologia Cell and molecular biology 4013 plasmidit antibiootit antibioottiresistenssi kolibakteerit molekyyligenetiikka plasmids antibiotics antibiotic resistance Escherichia coli molecular genetics
topic_facet 4013 CRISPR-Cas9 Cell and molecular biology Escherichia coli Solu- ja molekyylibiologia ampicillin antibiootit antibioottiresistenssi antibiotic resistance antibiotics beta-lactam conjugation kolibakteerit molecular genetics molekyyligenetiikka plasmidit plasmids
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