A rapid typing method for Listeria monocytogenes based on high-throughput multilocus sequence typing (Hi-MLST). 2017

Hajime Takahashi, and Ai Iwakawa, and Chihiro Ohshima, and Daisuke Kyoui, and Shiori Kumano, and Takashi Kuda, and Bon Kimura
Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Marine Science, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo 108-8477, Japan. Electronic address: hajime@kaiyodai.ac.jp.

Listeria monocytogenes infects humans via food products, causing listeriosis. Consequently, food companies pay meticulous attention to the risk of contamination of their products by this bacterium. While fragment analysis methods such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) are used to trace the sources of contamination for this bacterium, some drawbacks have been identified, namely the complexity of the methods and the difficulty of making data comparisons. As an alternative, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is now seeing widespread use; however, owing to its cost, time, and labor requirements, its diffusion into the food industry has been slow. Thus, in the present study, a High-throughput MLST (Hi-MLST) method, which can rapidly, simply, and cheaply perform MLST analyses using a next-generation sequencer (NGS) that can analyze a large volume of base sequences at once was developed. Firstly, a multiplex PCR method designed to amplify seven genes for use in MLST was developed. The discriminatory potential of the developed method was confirmed in silico, and was verified that it has the same discriminatory potential as conventional methods. Next, MLST analysis using multiplex PCR and NGS was performed for 48 strains of L. monocytogenes. The sequences obtained from this analysis have sufficiently reliable quality for all of the genes from of all the strains. Thus, this method could classify the 48 strains into 39 sequence types (ST) with a Diversity index (DI) of 0.989. In summary, using the Hi-MLST method developed in the present study, which combined multiplex PCR and NGS, cut the costs to 1/6th and the time to 1/20th that of conventional MLST methods.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008088 Listeriosis Infections with bacteria of the genus LISTERIA. Listeria Infections,Infections, Listeria,Infection, Listeria,Listeria Infection,Listerioses
D008089 Listeria monocytogenes A species of gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria widely distributed in nature. It has been isolated from sewage, soil, silage, and from feces of healthy animals and man. Infection with this bacterium leads to encephalitis, meningitis, endocarditis, and abortion.
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016521 Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Gel electrophoresis in which the direction of the electric field is changed periodically. This technique is similar to other electrophoretic methods normally used to separate double-stranded DNA molecules ranging in size up to tens of thousands of base-pairs. However, by alternating the electric field direction one is able to separate DNA molecules up to several million base-pairs in length. Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field Gradient,Gel Electrophoresis, Pulsed-Field,Contour-Clamped Homogeneous-Field Gel Electrophoresis,Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed Field,Electrophoresis, Pulsed Field Gel,Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis,Orthogonal Field Alternation Gel Electrophoresis,Orthogonal-Field Alternation-Gel Electrophoresis,Pulsed Field Gradient Gel Electrophoresis,Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis,Pulsed-Field Gradient Gel Electrophoresis,Alternation-Gel Electrophoresis, Orthogonal-Field,Contour Clamped Homogeneous Field Gel Electrophoresis,Electrophoresis, Orthogonal-Field Alternation-Gel,Electrophoresis, Pulsed-Field Gel,Gel Electrophoresis, Pulsed Field,Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis
D057166 High-Throughput Screening Assays Rapid methods of measuring the effects of an agent in a biological or chemical assay. The assay usually involves some form of automation or a way to conduct multiple assays at the same time using sample arrays. High-Throughput Screening,High-Throughput Biological Assays,High-Throughput Chemical Assays,High-Throughput Screening Methods,Assay, High-Throughput Biological,Assay, High-Throughput Chemical,Assay, High-Throughput Screening,Biological Assay, High-Throughput,Chemical Assay, High-Throughput,High Throughput Biological Assays,High Throughput Chemical Assays,High Throughput Screening,High Throughput Screening Assays,High Throughput Screening Methods,High-Throughput Biological Assay,High-Throughput Chemical Assay,High-Throughput Screening Assay,High-Throughput Screening Method,High-Throughput Screenings,Screening Assay, High-Throughput,Screening Method, High-Throughput,Screening, High-Throughput
D058885 Multilocus Sequence Typing Direct nucleotide sequencing of gene fragments from multiple housekeeping genes for the purpose of phylogenetic analysis, organism identification, and typing of species, strain, serovar, or other distinguishable phylogenetic level. Multilocus Sequence Analysis,Analyses, Multilocus Sequence,Analysis, Multilocus Sequence,Multilocus Sequence Analyses,Sequence Analyses, Multilocus,Sequence Analysis, Multilocus,Sequence Typing, Multilocus,Typing, Multilocus Sequence
D059014 High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Techniques of nucleotide sequence analysis that increase the range, complexity, sensitivity, and accuracy of results by greatly increasing the scale of operations and thus the number of nucleotides, and the number of copies of each nucleotide sequenced. The sequencing may be done by analysis of the synthesis or ligation products, hybridization to preexisting sequences, etc. High-Throughput Sequencing,Illumina Sequencing,Ion Proton Sequencing,Ion Torrent Sequencing,Next-Generation Sequencing,Deep Sequencing,High-Throughput DNA Sequencing,High-Throughput RNA Sequencing,Massively-Parallel Sequencing,Pyrosequencing,DNA Sequencing, High-Throughput,High Throughput DNA Sequencing,High Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing,High Throughput RNA Sequencing,High Throughput Sequencing,Massively Parallel Sequencing,Next Generation Sequencing,Nucleotide Sequencing, High-Throughput,RNA Sequencing, High-Throughput,Sequencing, Deep,Sequencing, High-Throughput,Sequencing, High-Throughput DNA,Sequencing, High-Throughput Nucleotide,Sequencing, High-Throughput RNA,Sequencing, Illumina,Sequencing, Ion Proton,Sequencing, Ion Torrent,Sequencing, Massively-Parallel,Sequencing, Next-Generation
D060885 Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Methods for using more than one primer set in a polymerase chain reaction to amplify more than one segment of the target DNA sequence in a single reaction. Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification,Multiplex PCR,Triplex PCR,Triplex Polymerase Chain Reaction,Multiplex Ligation Dependent Probe Amplification,PCR, Multiplex,PCR, Triplex
D020043 Genes, Essential Those genes found in an organism which are necessary for its viability and normal function. Genes, House-keeping,Genes, Housekeeping,Essential Gene,Essential Genes,Gene, Essential,Gene, House-keeping,Gene, Housekeeping,Genes, House keeping,House-keeping Gene,House-keeping Genes,Housekeeping Gene,Housekeeping Genes

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