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Antibiotic Resistance in Red Sea Brine Pools The American University in Cairo School of Sciences and engineering ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN RED SEA BRINE POOLS A Thesis Submitted to The Graduate Program of Biotechnology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctoral Degree in Applied Sciences with Specialization in Biotechnology By Ali Hassan Ali Elbehery, MSc Under the supervision of Prof. Rania Siam May / 2016 The American University in Cairo School of Sciences and Engineering Antibiotic resistance in Red Sea brine pools A Thesis Submitted by Ali Hassan Ali Elbehery Submitted to the Graduate Program of biotechnology May 2016 In partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctoral Degree in Applied Sciences with Specialization in Biotechnology has been approved by Dr. Rania Siam _______________________________ Thesis Supervisor Affiliation: Professor of Microbiology and Chair of Biology Department, The American University in Cairo Date ____________________ Dr. Arthur Bos _______________________________ Thesis Committee Reader/Examiner Affiliation: Associate Professor of Marine Biology, Biology Department, The American University in Cairo. Date ____________________ Dr. Ahmed Abdellatif _______________________________ Thesis Committee Reader/Examiner Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Biology Department, The American University in Cairo. Date ____________________ Dr. Mahmoud Abdulmegead Yassien _______________________________ Thesis Committee Reader/Examiner Affiliation: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Vice Dean of Community Service and Environmental Development, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University. Date ____________________ Dr. Mohamed Zakaria Gad _______________________________ Thesis Committee Reader/Examiner Affiliation: Professor of Biochemistry and Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, German University in Cairo. Date ____________________ __________________ ____________ ____________________ ____________ Dept. Chair Date Dean Date ii DEDICATION To all members of my loving family… my parents, wife, siblings and little daughter. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS All praise is due to Allah for granting me the power to accomplish this work. Then, I would like to express my deepest gratitude and appreciation to my supervisor, Prof. Rania Siam for her encouragement and help. Her invaluable advice, guidance, suggestions, critical reading and discussions greatly helped me complete this dissertation. In addition, it is my great pleasure to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to Prof. David Leak, professor of metabolic engineering, University of Bath for hosting me in his lab in addition to his help and valuable comments throughout my research visit. Furthermore, my sincere gratitude is extended to Dr. Ramy Karam Aziz, associate professor of microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University for his help in study design, valuable comments and critical reading. I would also like to thank Dr. Susanne Gebhard, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath for providing me with pET-16b; Dr. Ahmed Mostafa, associate professor of bioinformatics and Mr. Mustafa Adel, former bioinformatics specialist, The American University in Cairo (AUC) for their help in bioinformatics and Mr. Amged Ouf, genomics specialist, AUC for his help in the lab. Additionally, I would love to extend my thanks to all members of the Biology Department, AUC and members of 1.28 and 1.33 labs, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, the University of Bath for contributing to such a cooperative, inspiring and pleasant work atmosphere. Finally, I would like to acknowledge Yousef Jameel Academic Program for funding my PhD and AUC for supporting me with a study-abroad grant. iv ABSTRACT The American University in Cairo Antibiotic resistance in Red Sea brine pools By Ali Hassan Ali Elbehery Under the supervision of Prof. Rania Siam Antibiotic resistance (AR) is a complex problem with a global clinical impact. However, did this phenomenon begin in conjunction with the medical use of antibiotics or is it older? Studying AR in pristine environments could answer this question. Being devoid of anthropogenic impact, makes Red Sea brine pools ideal targets for the study. Besides, the extremophilic nature of these pools, particularly Atlantis II Deep (ATIID) allows mining for novel thermostable AR genes, which could provide better understanding of AR evolution and enrich the thermophilic selection marker gene repertoire. Here, we initially validated commonly used AR detection methods, then analyzed antibiotic resistance in four brine pools (Atlantis II, Discovery, Kebrit and Chain Deeps) in addition to a brine- influenced site. Publicly available metagenomes with varying degrees of human impact were also included. Analysis was carried out by alignment of Roche-454 metagenomic reads using BLASTX to antibiotic resistant polypeptides contained in the Comprehensive Antibiotic Resistance Database (CARD, http://arpcard.mcmaster.ca/). Reads were assigned to the best hit with more than 90% identity over at least 25 amino acids. Reads aligning to genes, whose resistance is conferred by mutation, were screened to pinpoint these mutations. The analysis also involved determination of the abundance and diversity of three different mobile genetic elements (MGEs), namely plasmids, insertion sequences and integrons. Moreover, two open reading frames (ORFs), identified from ATIID through BLASTX alignment to CARD, were synthesized, cloned and expressed. Results showed a caveat in the current AR detection methods represented in the annotation of mutation-generated resistance genes. AR analysis in brine pools and publicly available metagenomes detected antibiotic resistance genes in 21 out 32 samples (65.6 %). Several genes were identified, conferring resistance to different classes of antibiotics, including beta-lactams, rifampin, fluoroquinolones, macrolides and aminoglycosides. Analysis of MGEs showed statistically significant correlation between AR abundance and the abundance of both plasmids and integrons. Interestingly, the abundance of MGEs, particularly insertion sequences showed strong association with extreme conditions in ATIID. On the other hand, the expression of synthesized ORFs, which putatively coded for a class A beta-lactamase (ABL) and a 3'-aminoglycoside phosphotransferase (APH(3')), confirmed the annotation of both through enzyme assays, while only (APH(3')) showed resistance in Escherichia coli. Remarkably, (APH(3')) proved to be thermostable (Tm = 61.7 °C and ~40% residual activity after 30 min at 65 °C). In contrast, ABL was not as thermostable; Tm = 43 °C. In conclusion, we rectified the current AR detection methods through accurate account for resistance-causing mutations. We also provide a new evidence that environmental microorganisms represent a reservoir for AR genes. In addition, we shed light on the role of MGEs in the spread of antibiotic resistance and highlight the potential role of insertion sequences in the evolution of extremophiles. We also discovered two novel antibiotic resistance enzymes with potential application as thermophilic selection markers. v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................. x LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................... xi LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................. xiii Chapter 1: Literature review ................................................................................... 1 1.1. Antibiotic resistance .............................................................................. 1 1.1.1. Health impact ..................................................................................... 1 1.1.2. Origin and evolution .......................................................................... 2 1.1.3. Mechanisms ....................................................................................... 3 1.1.4. Selected examples of antibiotic resistance enzymes .......................... 4 1.2. Mobile genetic elements ........................................................................ 6 1.2.1. Plasmids ............................................................................................. 7 1.2.2. Integrons ............................................................................................ 8 1.2.3. Insertion sequences ............................................................................ 9 1.3. Red Sea brine pools ............................................................................. 10 1.4. Metagenomics ..................................................................................... 11 1.4.1. Sequence-based versus functional metagenomics ........................... 11 Chapter 2: Antibiotic resistome: improving detection and quantification accuracy for comparative metagenomics ........................................................................................ 13 2.1. Abstract ............................................................................................... 13 2.2. Introduction ......................................................................................... 14 2.3. Materials and methods......................................................................... 15 2.3.1. Methodology used for AR estimation within an environment (resistome analysis): ................................................................................................. 15 2.3.2. Assessing
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