Escaping the fate of Sisyphus: assessing resistome hybridization baits for antimicrobial resistance gene capture

Megan S. Beaudry, Jesse C. Thomas, Rodrigo P. Baptista, Amanda H. Sullivan, William Norfolk, Alison Devault, Jacob Enk, Troy J. Kieran, Olin E. Rhodes, K. Allison Perry-Dow, Laura J. Rose, Natalia J. Bayona-Vásquez, Adelumola Oladeinde, Erin K. Lipp, Susan Sanchez, Travis C. Glenn

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    Abstract

    Finding, characterizing and monitoring reservoirs for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is vital to protecting public health. Hybridization capture baits are an accurate, sensitive and cost-effective technique used to enrich and characterize DNA sequences of interest, including antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), in complex environmental samples. We demonstrate the continued utility of a set of 19 933 hybridization capture baits designed from the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD)v1.1.2 and Pathogenicity Island Database (PAIDB)v2.0, targeting 3565 unique nucleotide sequences that confer resistance. We demonstrate the efficiency of our bait set on a custom-made resistance mock community and complex environmental samples to increase the proportion of on-target reads as much as >200-fold. However, keeping pace with newly discovered ARGs poses a challenge when studying AMR, because novel ARGs are continually being identified and would not be included in bait sets designed prior to discovery. We provide imperative information on how our bait set performs against CARDv3.3.1, as well as a generalizable approach for deciding when and how to update hybridization capture bait sets. This research encapsulates the full life cycle of baits for hybridization capture of the resistome from design and validation (both in silico and in vitro) to utilization and forecasting updates and retirement.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)7523-7537
    Number of pages15
    JournalEnvironmental Microbiology
    Volume23
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Dec 2021

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Microbiology
    • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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