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Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous environmental opportunistic pathogens that can cause chronic lung disease. Within the United States, Hawai’i has the highest incidence of NTM lung disease, though the precise reasons are yet to be fully elucidated. One possibility is the high prevalen...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37703253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291072 |
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author | Hendrix, Jo Epperson, L. Elaine Tong, Eric I. Chan, Yvonne L. Hasan, Nabeeh A. Dawrs, Stephanie N. Norton, Grant J. Virdi, Ravleen Crooks, James L. Chan, Edward D. Honda, Jennifer R. Strong, Michael |
author_facet | Hendrix, Jo Epperson, L. Elaine Tong, Eric I. Chan, Yvonne L. Hasan, Nabeeh A. Dawrs, Stephanie N. Norton, Grant J. Virdi, Ravleen Crooks, James L. Chan, Edward D. Honda, Jennifer R. Strong, Michael |
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description | Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous environmental opportunistic pathogens that can cause chronic lung disease. Within the United States, Hawai’i has the highest incidence of NTM lung disease, though the precise reasons are yet to be fully elucidated. One possibility is the high prevalence of NTM in the Hawai’i environment acting as a potential reservoir for opportunistic NTM infections. Through our previous initiatives to collect and characterize NTM in Hawai’i, community scientists of Hawai’i have collected thousands of environmental samples for sequencing. Here, these community scientists were invited for the first time into a high school lab in O’ahu for a genomic sequencing workshop, where participants sequenced four of the collected isolate genomic samples using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION sequencer. Participants generated high quality long read data that when combined with short read Illumina data yielded complete bacterial genomic assemblies suitable for in-depth analysis. The gene annotation analysis identified a suite of genes that might help NTM thrive in the Hawai’i environment. Further, we found evidence of co-occurring methylobacteria, revealed from the sequencing data, suggesting that in some cases methylobacteria and NTM may coexist in the same niche, challenging previously accepted paradigms. The sequencing efforts presented here generated novel insights regarding the potential survival strategies and microbial interactions of NTM in the geographic hot spot of Hawai’i. We highlight the contributions of community scientists and present an activity that can be reimplemented as a workshop or classroom activity by other research groups to engage their local communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-104992282023-09-14 Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria Hendrix, Jo Epperson, L. Elaine Tong, Eric I. Chan, Yvonne L. Hasan, Nabeeh A. Dawrs, Stephanie N. Norton, Grant J. Virdi, Ravleen Crooks, James L. Chan, Edward D. Honda, Jennifer R. Strong, Michael PLoS One Research Article Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous environmental opportunistic pathogens that can cause chronic lung disease. Within the United States, Hawai’i has the highest incidence of NTM lung disease, though the precise reasons are yet to be fully elucidated. One possibility is the high prevalence of NTM in the Hawai’i environment acting as a potential reservoir for opportunistic NTM infections. Through our previous initiatives to collect and characterize NTM in Hawai’i, community scientists of Hawai’i have collected thousands of environmental samples for sequencing. Here, these community scientists were invited for the first time into a high school lab in O’ahu for a genomic sequencing workshop, where participants sequenced four of the collected isolate genomic samples using the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION sequencer. Participants generated high quality long read data that when combined with short read Illumina data yielded complete bacterial genomic assemblies suitable for in-depth analysis. The gene annotation analysis identified a suite of genes that might help NTM thrive in the Hawai’i environment. Further, we found evidence of co-occurring methylobacteria, revealed from the sequencing data, suggesting that in some cases methylobacteria and NTM may coexist in the same niche, challenging previously accepted paradigms. The sequencing efforts presented here generated novel insights regarding the potential survival strategies and microbial interactions of NTM in the geographic hot spot of Hawai’i. We highlight the contributions of community scientists and present an activity that can be reimplemented as a workshop or classroom activity by other research groups to engage their local communities. Public Library of Science 2023-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10499228/ /pubmed/37703253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291072 Text en © 2023 Hendrix et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hendrix, Jo Epperson, L. Elaine Tong, Eric I. Chan, Yvonne L. Hasan, Nabeeh A. Dawrs, Stephanie N. Norton, Grant J. Virdi, Ravleen Crooks, James L. Chan, Edward D. Honda, Jennifer R. Strong, Michael Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title | Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title_full | Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title_fullStr | Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title_full_unstemmed | Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title_short | Complete genome assembly of Hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
title_sort | complete genome assembly of hawai’i environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria reveals unexpected co-isolation with methylobacteria |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499228/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37703253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291072 |
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