Hazardous risk of antibiotic resistance genes: Host occurrence, distribution, mobility and vertical transmission from different environments to corn silage

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Xu, Dongmei

作者： Xu, Dongmei;Guo, Xusheng;Zhang, Xingguo;Yuan, Xianjun;Han, Hongyan;Xue, Yanlin

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关键词： Metagenomics; Corn silage; Resistome; Micrbiome; Biosafety

期刊名称：ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION （ 影响因子：8.9； 五年影响因子：9.5 ）

ISSN： 0269-7491

年卷期： 2023 年 338 卷

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are one of the emerging contaminants posing a great deal of hazardous risk to public health. This study employed metagenomics and deciphered the potential risk of the antibiotic resistome and their vertical transfer to ensiled whole-crop corn silage harvested from six climate zones: 1. Warm temperatefully humid-hot summer (Cfa), 2. Arid-desert-cold arid (BWk), 3. Snow-desert-cold summer (Dwc), 4. Snowdesert-hot summer (Dwa), 5. Arid-steppe-cold arid (BSk), and 6. Equatorial-desert (Aw) based on the Ko center dot ppenGeiger climate classification in China. The findings demonstrate a high diversity of ARGs, which is related to the drug classes of tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, lincosamide, fosfomycin, and beta lactam. Resistome variations are mostly related to variations in microbial composition and fermentation characteristics of the silages from different climate zones, which are indirectly influenced by environmental conditions. The most dominating ARGs in corn silage were tetM, acrA, H-NS, lnuA, emrR, and KpnG, which is primarily hosted by Klebsiella and Lactobacilli. There were 5 high-risk ARGs (tetM, bacA, SHV-1, dfrA17, and QnrS1) in silage from different climate zones, and the tetM was the most prevalent high-risk ARG. However, throughout the ensiling process, the abundance of ARGs, and mobile ARGs were reduced. The resistome contamination in silage from Tibet (Dwc) with high altitude and harsh environment was relatively low due to the low variety and abundance of ARGs, the low abundance of mobile ARGs and high-risk ARGs. In addition, most of the bacteria responsible for the silage fermentation were also found to be the hosts to the ARGs, although their abundance decreased after 90 d of silage fermentation. Hence, we alert the existence of ARGs-related biosafety risk in silages and call for more attention to the silage ARGs, their hosts, and mobile genetic elements in order to curtail their possible risk to public health.

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