TY - JOUR
T1 - Whole genome sequence analysis of Mycobacterium suricattae
AU - Dippenaar, Anzaan
AU - Parsons, Sven David Charles
AU - Sampson, Samantha Leigh
AU - Van Der Merwe, Ruben Gerhard
AU - Drewe, Julian Ashley
AU - Abdallah, Abdallah
AU - Siame, Kabengele Keith
AU - Gey Van Pittius, Nicolaas Claudius
AU - Van Helden, Paul David
AU - Pain, Arnab
AU - Warren, Robin Mark
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This paper has relied on records of individual identities and/or life histories maintained by the Kalahari Meerkat Project, which has been supported by the European Research Council (Research Grant No. 294494 to T.H. Clutton-Brock since 1/7/2012) and the University of Zurich. This work was supported by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF), fund number 41744, South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Harry Crossley Foundation, Claude Leon Foundation, the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Stellenbosch University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). S.L. Sampson is funded by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and NRF of South Africa, award number UID 86539. Any opinion, finding and conclusion or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the author(s) and the NRF does not accept any liability in this regard.
PY - 2015/10/21
Y1 - 2015/10/21
N2 - Tuberculosis occurs in various mammalian hosts and is caused by a range of different lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). A recently described member, Mycobacterium suricattae, causes tuberculosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) in Southern Africa and preliminary genetic analysis showed this organism to be closely related to an MTBC pathogen of rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis), the dassie bacillus. Here we make use of whole genome sequencing to describe the evolution of the genome of M. suricattae, including known and novel regions of difference, SNPs and IS6110 insertion sites. We used genome-wide phylogenetic analysis to show that M. suricattae clusters with the chimpanzee bacillus, previously isolated from a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in West Africa. We propose an evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium africanum lineage 6 complex, showing the evolutionary relationship of M. africanum and chimpanzee bacillus, and the closely related members M. suricattae, dassie bacillus and Mycobacterium mungi.
AB - Tuberculosis occurs in various mammalian hosts and is caused by a range of different lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). A recently described member, Mycobacterium suricattae, causes tuberculosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) in Southern Africa and preliminary genetic analysis showed this organism to be closely related to an MTBC pathogen of rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis), the dassie bacillus. Here we make use of whole genome sequencing to describe the evolution of the genome of M. suricattae, including known and novel regions of difference, SNPs and IS6110 insertion sites. We used genome-wide phylogenetic analysis to show that M. suricattae clusters with the chimpanzee bacillus, previously isolated from a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) in West Africa. We propose an evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium africanum lineage 6 complex, showing the evolutionary relationship of M. africanum and chimpanzee bacillus, and the closely related members M. suricattae, dassie bacillus and Mycobacterium mungi.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622349
UR - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1472979215301712
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tube.2015.10.001
DO - 10.1016/j.tube.2015.10.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 26542221
SN - 1472-9792
VL - 95
SP - 682
EP - 688
JO - Tuberculosis
JF - Tuberculosis
IS - 6
ER -