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Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence
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dc.contributor.author | Laabei, Maisem | |
dc.contributor.author | Recker, Mario | |
dc.contributor.author | Rudkin, Justine K | |
dc.contributor.author | Aldeljawi, Mona | |
dc.contributor.author | Gulay, Zeynep | |
dc.contributor.author | Sloan, Tim J | |
dc.contributor.author | Williams, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Endres, Jennifer L | |
dc.contributor.author | Bayles, Kenneth W | |
dc.contributor.author | Fey, Paul D | |
dc.contributor.author | Yajjala, Vijaya Kumar | |
dc.contributor.author | Widhelm, Todd | |
dc.contributor.author | Hawkins, Erica | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Katie | |
dc.contributor.author | Parfett, Sara | |
dc.contributor.author | Scowen, Lucy | |
dc.contributor.author | Peacock, Sharon J | |
dc.contributor.author | Holden, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Read, Timothy D | |
dc.contributor.author | van den Elsen, Jean | |
dc.contributor.author | Priest, Nicholas K | |
dc.contributor.author | Feil, Edward J | |
dc.contributor.author | Hurst, Laurence D | |
dc.contributor.author | Josefsson, Elisabet | |
dc.contributor.author | Massey, Ruth C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-10T16:01:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-10T16:01:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04-09 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Laabei , M , Recker , M , Rudkin , J K , Aldeljawi , M , Gulay , Z , Sloan , T J , Williams , P , Endres , J L , Bayles , K W , Fey , P D , Yajjala , V K , Widhelm , T , Hawkins , E , Lewis , K , Parfett , S , Scowen , L , Peacock , S J , Holden , M , Wilson , D , Read , T D , van den Elsen , J , Priest , N K , Feil , E J , Hurst , L D , Josefsson , E & Massey , R C 2014 , ' Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence ' , Genome Research , vol. 24 , pp. 839-849 . https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.165415.113 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1088-9051 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 110563418 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: a22c02a2-c268-4f73-ba80-573c1d2af3d3 | |
dc.identifier.other | PubMed: 24717264 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84899830343 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-4958-2166/work/60196371 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5014 | |
dc.description | This work is supported by the EC-FP7 program no. 245500 and the BBSRC | en |
dc.description.abstract | Microbial virulence is a complex and often multifactorial phenotype, intricately linked to a pathogen's evolutionary trajectory. Toxicity, the ability to destroy host cell membranes, and adhesion, the ability to adhere to human tissues, are the major virulence factors of many bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus. Here, we assayed the toxicity and adhesiveness of 90 MRSA (methicillin resistant S. aureus) isolates and found that while there was remarkably little variation in adhesion, toxicity varied by over an order of magnitude between isolates, suggesting different evolutionary selection pressures acting on these two traits. We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and identified a large number of loci, as well as a putative network of epistatically interacting loci, that significantly associated with toxicity. Despite this apparent complexity in toxicity regulation, a predictive model based on a set of significant single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and insertion and deletions events (indels) showed a high degree of accuracy in predicting an isolate's toxicity solely from the genetic signature at these sites. Our results thus highlight the potential of using sequence data to determine clinically relevant parameters and have further implications for understanding the microbial virulence of this opportunistic pathogen. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Genome Research | en |
dc.rights | 2014 Laabei et al. This article, published in Genome Research, is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. | en |
dc.subject | QR Microbiology | en |
dc.subject | QH426 Genetics | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QR | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH426 | en |
dc.title | Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Medicine | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Infection Group | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Biomedical Sciences Research Complex | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.165415.113 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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