Studies of Genetic Diversity of Yersinia pestis Strains Isolated in Central-Caucasian High-Mountain Natural Plague Focus

Y. pestis MLVA typing is used both to seek for similarities and differences between individual isolates upon conducting epidemiological investigations as well as for clonal clustering of intraspecies phylogenetic groups while analyzing microevolution and taxonomy issues. It cannot be ruled out that the most variable loci may be indicators allowing to approximate the unique strain-related properties circulating in certain natural plague foci. The Central Caucasian Highland natural plague focus distinguished by heterogeneity of the circulating strains therein, including proline pro- and auxotrophy, may represent a convenient model for testing this hypothesis. The purpose of our work was to assess the frequencies of the VNTR alleles associated with proline dependence among the Y. pestis strain VNTR loci, determined during previous MLVA-25 typing in the Central Caucasian Highland natural plague focus. The main task was to identify the most informative sets of VNTR loci suitable for predicting proline pro- and auxotrophy (pro+, pro-). It was found that the loci ms45, ms56, ms46, ms07, ms69, ms62 displayed peak variability by allele frequencies and/or exhibited significant differences of mean allele frequencies in the pro- and pro+ strains. In particular, it was showed that the alleles of the ms45 locus contained 6 tandem repeats suggesting probability for pro+ reaching 0.944, whereas the alleles of the ms45 locus contained 7 tandem repeats with expected probability for pro- reaching 0.783. Moreover, the ms56 and ms46 contained 9 and more than 18 tandem repeats, respectively, thereby pointing at probability for pro+ equal to 0.933 and 0.818, respectively. Diagnostics for pro+/pro- phenotype by using specific statistical methods demonstrated statistical error 13.33 % and 26.67 % for the pro- and pro+ strains, respectively. All pro+ strains bearing a 6 tandem repeat complex from the ms45 locus, 9 tandem repeats derived from the ms56 locus and ms46 locus-derived 29-30 tandem repeats were accurately diagnosed solely based on these 3 loci. Thus, it is possible to predict some properties of Y. pestis strains based on determining the allele frequencies. While the number of MLVA typed plaque strains isolated in such natural focus has been progressively increased, it may be expected that opportunities for prognosing their properties based on determining locus tandem repeat composition having diagnostic value would be elevated.

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VNTR loci as indicators of proline-dependent plague microbe strains (Yersinia pestis) in the central caucasian mountain natural plague focus

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Волынкина

Anisimov

2020

Russian Journal of Infection and Immunity

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Comparative analysis of the MLVA25- and MLVA7- typing according to their ability to ascertain focal affiliation of Yersinia pestis strains by the example of isolates from the central-caucasian highland natural plague focus

Evseeva¹,

Platonov²,

Govorunov³

et al. 2016

Mol. genet. mikrobiol. virusol.

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Comparative analysis of MLVA25-typing and MLVA7-typing for their ability to identify focal affiliation of Yersinia pestis strains exemplified by isolates from the Central Caucasus highland natural plague focus

Evseeva

Platonov

Govorunov

et al. 2016

Mol. Genet. Microbiol. Virol.

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Studies of Genetic Diversity of Yersinia pestis Strains Isolated in Central-Caucasian High-Mountain Natural Plague Focus

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VNTR loci as indicators of proline-dependent plague microbe strains (Yersinia pestis) in the central caucasian mountain natural plague focus

VNTR loci as indicators of proline-dependent plague microbe strains (Yersinia pestis) in the central caucasian mountain natural plague focus

Comparative analysis of the MLVA25- and MLVA7- typing according to their ability to ascertain focal affiliation of Yersinia pestis strains by the example of isolates from the central-caucasian highland natural plague focus

Comparative analysis of MLVA25-typing and MLVA7-typing for their ability to identify focal affiliation of Yersinia pestis strains exemplified by isolates from the Central Caucasus highland natural plague focus

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