[Differentiation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing family strains from the Russian Federation by the VNTR-typing].
Recent phylogenetic studies allowed the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to be divided into a number of the strain families. The W-Beijing family is one of most widespread M. tuberculosis variants frequently causing epidemic outbreaks. This family is genetically homogenous and conserved so that ETR A, B, C, D, E - typing is insufficient for the W-Beijing differentiation. All W-Beijing isolates have common profile (42435). This led to the false clustering in the molecular epidemiology study, especially in the region of predominance of the W-Beijing family. In this investigation we searched for the VNTR loci with high evolution rate, which were polymorphic in the W-Beijing genome. Eleven VNTR-loci were assayed in the DNA panel of 99 M. tuberculosis isolates from the tuberculosis patients in North-West and West-Siberian regions of Russia during the period from 2000 to 2001. Ninety nine strains of M. tuberculosis were divided into 74 VNTR-types, 51 isolates of the W-Beijing family were subdivided into 30 VNTR-types. The Hunter-Gudson index (HGDI) for all studied loci (ETR-A, ETR-C, ETR-E, V, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6, V10, V11) was close to one of the IS6110 RFLP indices being "the gold standard" of the M. tuberculosis complex genotyping. The V2, V3 loci located in the sequences of the PPE gene family, were highly polymorphic and more discriminative then others (HGDI is about 0.8). The congruence between the IS6110 RFLP-typing and 11 loci VNTR-typing was measured during genotyping for 23 isolates of the W-Beijing family. The isolates were divided into 9 genotypes by the IS6110 RFLP and into 13 variants by the VNTR-typing. The profiles correlation coefficient was 0.767689 that reflected the differences in the rate and type of the given genome target evolution.
Surikova
O V
OV
Voĭtykh
D V
DV
Kuz'micheva
G A
GA
Tat'kov
S I
SI
Mokrousov
I V
IV
Narvskaia
O V
OV
Filippenko
M L
ML
D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats / Q000235:genetics*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010802:Phylogeny; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D012426:Russia; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000382:microbiology*