Globally distributed mining-impacted environments are underexplored hotspots of multidrug resistance genes

Author:

Yi Xinzhu,Liang Jie-Liang,Su Jian-QiangORCID,Jia Pu,Lu Jing-li,Zheng Jin,Wang ZhangORCID,Feng Shi-wei,Luo Zhen-hao,Ai Hong-xia,Liao Bin,Shu Wen-shengORCID,Li Jin-tianORCID,Zhu Yong-GuanORCID

Abstract

AbstractMining is among the human activities with widest environmental impacts, and mining-impacted environments are characterized by high levels of metals that can co-select for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in microorganisms. However, ARGs in mining-impacted environments are still poorly understood. Here, we conducted a comprehensive study of ARGs in such environments worldwide, taking advantage of 272 metagenomes generated from a global-scale data collection and two national sampling efforts in China. The average total abundance of the ARGs in globally distributed studied mine sites was 1572 times per gigabase, being rivaling that of urban sewage but much higher than that of freshwater sediments. Multidrug resistance genes accounted for 40% of the total ARG abundance, tended to co-occur with multimetal resistance genes, and were highly mobile (e.g. on average 16% occurring on plasmids). Among the 1848 high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs), 85% carried at least one multidrug resistance gene plus one multimetal resistance gene. These high-quality ARG-carrying MAGs considerably expanded the phylogenetic diversity of ARG hosts, providing the first representatives of ARG-carrying MAGs for the Archaea domain and three bacterial phyla. Moreover, 54 high-quality ARG-carrying MAGs were identified as potential pathogens. Our findings suggest that mining-impacted environments worldwide are underexplored hotspots of multidrug resistance genes.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Subject

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology

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