Marc Dumont - University of Southampton · Marc Dumont. Introduction to the enemy: microbes Or, are...
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Food Standards Agency
November 25, 2016
The evolution of antibiotics and resistance against them
Marc Dumont
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Introduction to the enemy: microbesOr, are they our friends?
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Microorganisms (Prokaryotes)
Astronomical numbers of microbes on the planet: Estimated number of stars in the universe: 1x1022
Estimated number of grains of sand on the planet: 7.5x1018
Estimated number of bacteria on the planet: 5x1030
If all bacteria were lined up end-to-end, they’d stretch 1 billion light years
As much carbon in bacteria as plants. Dry weight of bacterial cells between 350–550 x 109 tonnes
About equal number of bacterial and human cells in our bodies Human adult excrete their own weight in faecal bacteria each year Number of genes contained within this gut flora outnumbers that
contained within our own genome 150-fold 1 g of dental plaque contains 1 x 1011 bacteria (roughly the same
number of humans that have ever lived) A teaspoon of soil has about 1 x 109 bacteria
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Earth is home to an estimated trillion microbial species99.999% remain undiscovered
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Killing your neighbour alleviates competition for resources
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Killing your neighbour alleviates competition for resources
fera.co.uk
Soils are largest source of microbial diversity
Highly limited resources and space leads to extreme competition
played out over billions of years of evolution
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Misconception 1AMR is “unnatural”
Many microbes in pristine environments are resistant to antibiotics Referred to as the “resistome”
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Gram-positive isolates
Gram-negative isolates
Lechuguilla cave, New Mexico
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E coli evolution of trimethoprim resistance on a large Petri dish
(Concentrations: 0, 3, 30, 300 and 3000 μg/ml)
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Questions: How long did it take E. coli to evolve resistance to 3000 μg/ml trimethoprim?
11 days
How many mutations did the resistant E. coli strains accumulate?
What were the mutations?
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“Initial adaptation to low drug concentrations facilitates later adaptation to high concentrations”
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Misconception 2Microbes are less evolved than
multicellular organisms
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http://evolution.berkeley.edu
Plasmids and Bacterial Conjugation
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Summary
1. Bacterial pathogens can be a highly adaptive enemy2. AMR can evolve in days 3. AMR genes can be transferred within minutes on plasmids4. Soil is an enormous reservoir of diversity – including “natural” AMR5. We are introducing potential pathogens, plasmids and antibiotics into
soil; what are the risks?
How long do pathogens or their genes survive in soil? Are antibiotics selecting for more resistance within soils? Are we risking creating new pathogens? Do AMR genes transfer between exogenous and native microbes? What are the risks to crops, livestock, farmers and consumers?
Professor Bill KeevilDr Marcela Hernández
Acknowledgments
NAMRIP