Phylogenetic analysis of human Chlamydia pneumoniae strains reveals a distinct Australian indigenous clade that predates European exploration of the continent
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01/12/2015
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Background The obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen, which has been found in a range of hosts including humans, marsupials and amphibians. Whole genome comparisons of human C. pneumoniae have previously highlighted a highly conserved nucleotide sequence, with minor but key polymorphisms and additional coding capacity when human and animal strains are compared. Results In this study, we sequenced three Australian human C. pneumoniae strains, two of which were isolated from patients in remote indigenous communities, and compared them to all available C. pneumoniae genomes. Our study demonstrated a phylogenetically distinct human C. pneumoniae clade containing the two indigenous Australian strains, with estimates that the most recent common ancestor of these strains predates the arrival of European settlers to Australia. We describe several polymorphisms characteristic to these strains, some of which are similar in sequence to animal C. pneumoniae strains, as well as evidence to suggest that several recombination events have shaped these distinct strains. Conclusions Our study reveals a greater sequence diversity amongst both human and animal C. pneumoniae strains, and suggests that a wider range of strains may be circulating in the human population than current sampling indicates. |
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BioMed Central Ltd |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/93567/1/Roulis-2015-BMCGenomics.pdf DOI:10.1186/s12864-015-2281-y Roulis, Eileen, Bachmann, Nathan, Humphrys, Michael, Myers, Garry, Huston, Wilhelmina, Polkinghorne, Adam, & Timms, Peter (2015) Phylogenetic analysis of human Chlamydia pneumoniae strains reveals a distinct Australian indigenous clade that predates European exploration of the continent. BMC Genomics, 16, Article Number:-1094. http://purl.org/au-research/grants/NHMRC/APP1004666 |
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Roulis et al. 2015 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
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School of Biomedical Sciences; Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation |
Palavras-Chave | #060100 BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY #060300 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY #060409 Molecular Evolution #060500 MICROBIOLOGY #110800 MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY #Chlamydia pneumoniae #Whole genome sequencing #phylogenomics #polymorphisms #inclusion proteins #polymorphic membrane protein #inosine-monophosphate dehydrogenase #recombination #infection |
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