Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples

Xiaole Yin; Xi Chen; Xiao-Tao Jiang; Ying Yang; Bing Li; Marcus Ho-Hin Shum; Tommy T. Y. Lam; Gabriel M. Leung; Joan Rose; Concepcion Sanchez-Cid; Timothy M. Vogel; Fiona Walsh; Thomas U. Berendonk; Janet Midega; Chibuzor Uchea; Dominic Frigon; Gerard D. Wright; Carlos Bezuidenhout; Renata C. Picão; Shaikh Z. Ahammad; Per Halkjær Nielsen; Philip Hugenholtz; Nicholas J. Ashbolt; Gianluca Corno; Despo Fatta-Kassinos; Helmut Bürgmann; Heike Schmitt; Chang-Jun Cha; Amy Pruden; Kornelia Smalla; Eddie Cytryn; Yu Zhang; Min Yang; Yong-Guan Zhu; Arnaud Dechesne; Barth F. Smets; David W. Graham; Michael R. Gillings; William H. Gaze; Célia M. Manaia; Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht; Pedro J. J. Alvarez; Martin J. Blaser; James M. Tiedje; Edward Topp; Tong Zhang

doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c00159

Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples

Xiaole Yin, Xi Chen, Xiao-Tao Jiang, Ying Yang, Bing Li, Marcus Ho-Hin Shum, Tommy T. Y. Lam, Gabriel M. Leung, Joan Rose, Concepcion Sanchez-Cid, Timothy M. Vogel, Fiona Walsh, Thomas U. Berendonk, Janet Midega, Chibuzor Uchea, Dominic Frigon, Gerard D. Wright, Carlos Bezuidenhout, Renata C. Picão, Shaikh Z. AhammadPer Halkjær Nielsen, Philip Hugenholtz, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Gianluca Corno, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Helmut Bürgmann, Heike Schmitt, Chang-Jun Cha, Amy Pruden, Kornelia Smalla, Eddie Cytryn, Yu Zhang, Min Yang, Yong-Guan Zhu, Arnaud Dechesne, Barth F. Smets, David W. Graham, Michael R. Gillings, William H. Gaze, Célia M. Manaia, Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht, Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Martin J. Blaser, James M. Tiedje, Edward Topp, Tong Zhang^*

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Abstract

Surveillance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has been increasingly conducted in environmental sectors to complement the surveys in human and animal sectors under the "One-Health" framework. However, there are substantial challenges in comparing and synthesizing the results of multiple studies that employ different test methods and approaches in bioinformatic analysis. In this article, we consider the commonly used quantification units (ARG copy per cell, ARG copy per genome, ARG density, ARG copy per 16S rRNA gene, RPKM, coverage, PPM, etc.) for profiling ARGs and suggest a universal unit (ARG copy per cell) for reporting such biological measurements of samples and improving the comparability of different surveillance efforts.

Original language	English
Journal	Environmental Science and Technology
Volume	57
Issue number	26
Pages (from-to)	9713-9721
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0013-936X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00159
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

One-health
Metagenomics
Long-read sequencing
ARG copy per cell
Standardization

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Yin, X., Chen, X., Jiang, X-T., Yang, Y., Li, B., Shum, M. H-H., Lam, T. T. Y., Leung, G. M., Rose, J., Sanchez-Cid, C., Vogel, T. M., Walsh, F., Berendonk, T. U., Midega, J., Uchea, C., Frigon, D., Wright, G. D., Bezuidenhout, C., Picão, R. C., ... Zhang, T. (2023). Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples. Environmental Science and Technology, 57(26), 9713-9721. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00159

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Toward a Universal Unit for Quantification of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Environmental Samples

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