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Research Article | Host-Microbe Biology

Highly Reduced Genome of the New Species Mycobacterium uberis, the Causative Agent of Nodular Thelitis and Tuberculoid Scrotitis in Livestock and a Close Relative of the Leprosy Bacilli

Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Yvonne Benito, Franck Breysse, Christophe Chartier, Maria-Laura Boschiroli, Christine Fourichon, Lorraine Michelet, Didier Pin, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Pierre Bruyere, Oana Dumitrescu, Stewart T. Cole, Gerard Lina
Christina L. Stallings, Editor
Andrej Benjak
aGlobal Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Charlotte Avanzi
aGlobal Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Yvonne Benito
bInstitut des Agent infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
cCIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5308, Lyon, France
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Franck Breysse
dLaboratoire d’Immunologie, Centre de Biologie Sud, Lyon, France
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Christophe Chartier
eBIOEPAR, INRA, Oniris, La Chantrerie, Nantes, France
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Maria-Laura Boschiroli
fANSES Laboratory Affairs Department, Maisons-Alfort, France
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Christine Fourichon
eBIOEPAR, INRA, Oniris, La Chantrerie, Nantes, France
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Lorraine Michelet
fANSES Laboratory Affairs Department, Maisons-Alfort, France
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Didier Pin
gUniversité de Lyon, VetAgro Sup, UPSP 2016.A104, Interactions Cellules Environnement, Marcy l’Etoile, France
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Jean-Pierre Flandrois
hUniversité Lyon1, LBBE-CNRS UMR5558, Villeurbanne, France
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Pierre Bruyere
gUniversité de Lyon, VetAgro Sup, UPSP 2016.A104, Interactions Cellules Environnement, Marcy l’Etoile, France
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Oana Dumitrescu
bInstitut des Agent infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
cCIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5308, Lyon, France
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Stewart T. Cole
aGlobal Health Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
iInstitut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Gerard Lina
bInstitut des Agent infectieux, Hôpital de la Croix Rousse, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
cCIRI, Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie, Inserm U1111, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS UMR 5308, Lyon, France
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DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00405-18
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    Phylogenetic tree of Mycobacterium uberis and selected mycobacterial species. The tree was created in MEGA7 from concatenated amino acid sequences (3,696 positions) of 10 proteins (DnaN, RplI, GrpE, MetG, RplY, PheT, FtsQ, HolA, MiaA, and FtsY) (18) and inferred by using the maximum likelihood method based on the JTT matrix-based model. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured at the number of substitutions per site. Bootstrap support values, estimated from 500 replicates, are given below each branch. Mycobacteroides abscessus (previously Mycobacterium abscessus) was used as the outgroup.

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    Genomic features of M. uberis and close relatives M. leprae, M. lepromatosis, and M. haemophilum

    FeatureValue
    M. uberisM. lepraeM. lepromatosisM. haemophilum
    Genome size (bp)3,122,7213,268,2123,206,7414,235,765
    No. of protein-coding genes1,7591,6091,4773,749
    No. of pseudogenes1,0811,3091,334225
    % GC content (genome)57.4957.8057.8963.95
    % GC content (CDS)a59.5860.1160.1664.35
    % GC content (pseudogenes)55.6056.4556.5964.84
    % GC content (intergenic)53.0854.1754.6160.37
    • ↵a CDS, coding DNA sequence.

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    Samples used for the PCR detection of M. uberisa

    Sample IDAnimalDiagnosisTissueHerdAnimal IDReference
    or source
    13Z000257GoatNTMammary glandAgoat 15
    13Z002358GoatNTInguinal lymph nodeAgoat 15
    14Z002623GoatNTUnspecified tissueAgoat 25
    14Z002624GoatNTMammary glandAgoat 25
    15Z001519GoatNTMammary glandBgoat 3This study
    15Z001520GoatNTMammary glandBgoat 4This study
    NACowNTMammary glandCcow 14
    NACowNTMammary glandCcow 24
    NACowNTMammary glandDcow 4This study
    NABullTSScrotumEtaurus 1This study
    NABullTSScrotumEtaurus 2This study
    NABullTSScrotumEtaurus 3This study
    • ↵a ID, identifier; NT, nodular thelitis; TS, tuberculoid scrotitis; NA, not available.

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    Genetic organization of the ESX-1 locus and the functionally associated espACD operon in M. uberis and comparison with M. tuberculosis, M. haemophilum, M. leprae, and M. lepromatosis. Colored arrows represent the various ESX genes encoding proteins belonging to different protein families (after Simeone et al.) (19). Empty arrows represent pseudogenes. Slashes separate distant genomic regions. Download FIG S1, EPS file, 0.1 MB.

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    Maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of Mycobacterium uberis and selected mycobacterial species. The tree was created in MEGA7 based on the Tamura-Nei model from 372 nucleotide positions of the groEL2 (hsp65) gene. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured in the number of substitutions per site. Bootstrap support values, estimated from 500 replicates, are given below each branch. Download FIG S2, EPS file, 0.1 MB.

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Highly Reduced Genome of the New Species Mycobacterium uberis, the Causative Agent of Nodular Thelitis and Tuberculoid Scrotitis in Livestock and a Close Relative of the Leprosy Bacilli
Andrej Benjak, Charlotte Avanzi, Yvonne Benito, Franck Breysse, Christophe Chartier, Maria-Laura Boschiroli, Christine Fourichon, Lorraine Michelet, Didier Pin, Jean-Pierre Flandrois, Pierre Bruyere, Oana Dumitrescu, Stewart T. Cole, Gerard Lina
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