Homologous Recombination in Clostridioides difficile Mediates Diversification of Cell Surface Features and Transport Systems.

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Hannah D Steinberg, Evan S Snitkin

Abstract

Illness caused by the pathogen Clostridioides difficile is widespread and can range in severity from mild diarrhea to sepsis and death. Strains of C. difficile isolated from human infections exhibit great genetic diversity, leading to the hypothesis that the genetic background of the infecting strain at least partially determines a patient's clinical course. However, although certain strains of C. difficile have been suggested to be associated with increased severity, strain typing alone has proved insufficient to explain infection severity. The limited explanatory power of strain typing has been hypothesized to be due to genetic variation within strain types, as well as genetic elements shared between strain types. Homologous recombination is an evolutionary mechanism that can result in large genetic differences between two otherwise clonal isolates, and also lead to convergent genotypes in distantly related strains. More than 400 C. difficile genomes were analyzed here to assess the effect of homologous recombination within and between C. difficile clades. Almost three-quarters of single nucleotide variants in the C. difficile phylogeny are predicted to be due to homologous recombination events. Furthermore, recombination eve...Continue Reading

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