11:00–11:20 (in-person) .


Title: The paradoxes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular evolution and consequences for the inference of past molecular diversity

Authors: Adrien Le Meur1, Rima Zein Eddine2, Christophe Guyeux3, Gaëtan Senelle3, Christophe Sola4,5, Fiona Hak1, Charlotte Genestet6,7, Oana Dumitrescu6,7, Noémie Bozier1, Amaury Pierrard1, Stéphane Skouloubris2, Hannu Myllykallio2, Guislaine Refrégier1,5

Affiliations: 1Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, IDEEV, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; 2Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale : U1182, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7645, France; 3DISC Computer Science Department, FEMTO-ST Institute, UMR 6174 CNRS, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), 16 Route de Gray, 25000 Besançon, France; 4Université de Paris, IAME, UMR1137, INSERM, Paris, France and 6AP-HP, GHU Nord, service de mycobactériologie spécialisée et de référence, Laboratoire associé du Centre National de Référence des mycobactéries et résistance des mycobactéries aux antituberculeux (CNR-MyRMA), Paris, France; 5Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France; 6Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie (CIRI), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon-1, Inserm, Lyon, France; 7Hospices Civils de Lyon, Institut des Agents Infectieux, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Lyon, France

Abstract: M. tuberculosis (Mtb) mutation rate is one of the lowest among pathogenic bacteria (less than 0,5 SNP per genome per year). Still, antibiotic multiresistance recurrently emerges in clinical samples. In addition, whereas bacterial population was long thought to be homogeneous, intrahost diversity begins to be unveiled.

I will present different intriguing data about genomic evolution of M. tuberculosis regarding mutation rate at different time scales, diversity at genes involved in DNA repair, the existence of reversions, of duplications. I will then discuss the questions it raises regarding the inference of the genomic composition of its ancestors.