First Report of blaCTX–M–167, blaSHV–1, and blaTEM–1B Carrying Klebsiella pneumonia Showing High-Level Resistance to Carbapenems

The prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is increasing. Although carbapenemase production is the main resistance mechanism of K. pneumonia to carbapenems, there are still some reports of non-carbapenemase-producing K.pneumoniae showing high-level resistance to carbapenems. In this study, we had also isolated a carbapenemase-negative carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae L204 from a patient with an asymptomatic urinary tract infection. Species identification was performed using MALDI-TOF MS, and carbapenemase-encoding genes were detected using both NG-test carba-5 and whole-genome sequencing. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed by the broth microdilution method according to CLSI guidance. The results of antimicrobial susceptibility testing indicated that K. pneumoniae L204 was resistant to meropenem (MIC = 16 mg/L) and imipenem (MIC = 4 mg/L), but susceptible to ceftazidime-avibactam (MIC = 8 mg/L). Through whole-genome sequencing, several resistance genes had been identified, including bla_TEM–1B, bla_{CTX–M–167}, bla_SHV–1, aac(6’)-1b-cr, qnrS, aadA16, tet(A), fosA, sul1, and mph(A). The efflux pump inhibition testing showed that the efflux pump was not involved in the resistance mechanism to carbapenems. The result of the conjugation experiment indicated that the plasmid with bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1 was transferrable. The sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) demonstrated that K. pneumoniae L204 only contained outer membrane porin OmpK35.

Introduction

Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most common clinical opportunistic pathogens. It can be colonized in the respiratory and intestine tract of the human body (Chen et al., 2014; Hu et al., 2020), causing infection in the respiratory tract, urinary tract, and blood flow system (Amit et al., 2015; Lambelet et al., 2017). Immunosuppressive patients or those who use antibiotics for a long time are easy to be affected (Pantelidou et al., 2015; Xu et al., 2017; Arato et al., 2021). To control the infection caused by carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP), a lot of new antimicrobial agents have appeared in recent years, bringing hope to patients with CRKP infection (Logan and Weinstein, 2017). Carbapenems have always been the first choice for clinicians to deal with carbapenem-sensitive K. pneumoniae infections due to their wide antibacterial spectrum and high stability (David et al., 2019). However, with the increase of CRKP, medical expenses and the mortality of patients are also increasing year by year (Shields et al., 2017), a systematic study on its resistance mechanism is helpful for clinicians to use antibiotics effectively. Although carbapenemase production is the main resistance mechanism of K. pneumoniae to carbapenems, numerous reports also have described non-carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae with high carbapenem levels. In this study, we found a common carbapenemase-negative (including bla_KPC, bla_NDM, bla_IMP, bla_VIM, and bla_OXA–48) CRKP during routine antimicrobial susceptibility testing and carbapenemase testing (by NG-test Carba-5 kit). To clarify the resistance mechanism of CRKP to carbapenem including the existing of other carbapenemase genes or the new carbapenemase gene, we use various methods to study the mechanism that may mediate carbapenem resistance among this CRKP, and we reported a carbapenemase-negative CRKP clinical isolate bearing bla_{CTX–M–167} among K. pneumoniae coupled with the inactivation of OmpK36 from a patient. To our best knowledge, this is the first time to identify a bla_{CTX–M–167}-positive K. pneumoniae strain in China.

Materials and Methods

Strains

A carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae L204 clinical strain was isolated from a urine sample of a patient with a urinary tract infection in Huashan Hospital, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Species identification was performed using MALDI-TOF MS (bioMeìrieux, France). Escherichia coli ATCC25922 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 were used as controls for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing. K. pneumoniae ATCC 35657 that contains intact OmpK35 and OmpK36 used as a control for sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE).

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Efflux Pump Inhibition Testing

The minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined by the broth microdilution method recommended by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI), and the results were interpreted according to CLSI M100-31th breakpoints for all agents except tigecycline, polymyxin, and cefepime–tazobactam (Yang et al., 2020; Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, 2021). Cefepime–tazobactam referred to the standards of cefepime in CLSI. Tigecycline MICs were interpreted using US FDA MIC breakpoints for Enterobacterales and polymyxin MICs were interpreted using the European Committee for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) MIC breakpoints for Enterobacterales. Efflux pump inhibition testing (Sanchez-Carbonel et al., 2021) using Carbonyl cyanide 3-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP, 25 mg/L) as an inhibitor was conducted to determine whether the efflux pump takes a role in the resistance of K. pneumoniae L204 to imipenem and meropenem.

Conjugation Experiment

A conjugation experiment was performed to explore the transferability of the plasmid. Briefly, the bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1 -positive isolate K. pneumoniae L204 was used as the donor, while the E. coli J53 (azide resistant) was used as the recipient strain. Conjugants were selected on Mueller–Hinton (MH) agar supplemented with ampicillin (50 mg/L) and azide (100 mg/L). The presence of the bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1 gene and other resistance genes in conjugants was confirmed by antimicrobial susceptibility, PCR, and DNA sequencing.

Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis

The cultured bacteria growing in 3ml LB broth was subjected to washing, crushed by ultrasonic, and then the membrane porin was obtained after centrifugation. Phosphate buffered saline (PBS) was used to resuspend the membrane protein. Extracted samples were separated using SDS-PAGE at a constant voltage of 130 V for about 50 min in both a 12% (w/v) polyacrylamide gel and a gradient gel (ExpressPlus™ PAGE Gel, GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, United States) as previous reported (Kurien and Scofield, 2012). The bands were detected using Coomassie brilliant blue R-250 staining.

PCR and Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis

Five common carbapenemase genes (KPC, NDM, IMP, VIM, and OXA-48) were initially detected by PCR amplification and DNA sequencing (Gülmez et al., 2008; Poirel et al., 2011; Weiß et al., 2017). To fully understand the resistance genes among K. pneumoniae L204, in particular the carbapenemase, ESBL, and AmpC, we performed whole-genome sequencing analysis for this isolate. The genomic DNA of K. pneumoniae L204 was extracted by using a commercial Qiagen Midi kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). The sequencing libraries were prepared using the Nextera XT DNA Library preparation protocol (Illumina, San Diego, CA, United States) and then the genomic DNA was subjected to Illumina (Illumina, San Diego, CA, United States) short-read sequencing (150 bp paired-end reads). Reads were trimmed with a sickle (GitHub) and were de novo assembled using SPAdes 3.12.0. Antimicrobial resistance genes analysis was performed using ResFinder 4.1¹ and further verified using NCBI BLAST and the annotation process was done using RAST version 2.0.²

Results

Overview of the bla_{CTX–M–167} Producing Clinical Strain

Klebsiella pneumoniae L204 was isolated from a urine sample of a 55-year-old male patient with hydrocephalus who underwent a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. CT showed a small amount of inflammation in the lungs and a small amount of pleural effusion on both sides. A isolate of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-negative K. pneumoniae was initially isolated from the sputum, and cefoperazone-sulbactam (3g q8h) was given anti-infective treatment. Thereafter, the infection comes under control. On the 7th postoperative day, K. pneumoniae L204 was isolated from the urine and the anti-infection regimen was switched to meropenem (2g q8h) combined with amikacin (0.8g qd). The culture of the urine sample was negative three days later, and the patient was discharged 21 days after admission and was subsequently transferred to a rehabilitation hospital for further rehabilitation.

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Efflux Pump Inhibition Testing

The antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of K.pneumoniae L204 to antimicrobial agents are presented in Table 1. The isolate was resistant to aztreonam (MIC ≥ 128 mg/L), ceftolozane-tazobactam (MIC ≥ 128 mg/L), meropenem (MIC = 16 mg/L), imipenem (MIC = 4 mg/L), levofloxacin (MIC ≥ 16mg/L), ciprofloxacin (MIC > 8mg/L), and tigecycline (MIC = 8 mg/L), but susceptible to amikacin (MIC = 2 mg/L), polymyxin B (MIC = 1 mg/L), and ceftazidime-avibactam (MIC = 8 mg/L). After adding CCCP, the MIC of meropenem and imipenem hasn’t changed indicating that the efflux pump may not play a role in the resistance mechanism of K. pneumoniae L204 to β-lactams such as ceftazidime, cefepime, piperacillin-tazobactam, aztreonam, meropenem, and imipenem.

TABLE 1

Table 1. Susceptibility of K. pneumoniae L204 clinical isolate, conjugant, and recipient to antimicrobial agents.

Conjugation Experiment and SDS-PAGE

The bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1-carrying plasmid was successfully transferred from K. pneumoniae L204 to E. coli J53, PCR-based sequencing demonstrated the presence of bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1 in the conjugant E. coli L204-C. Compared with the recipient E. coli J53, the MICs of ceftazidime, cefepime, and aztreonam increased four times (from 0.5 to 2 mg/L), ≥512 times (from ≤0.06to 32 mg/L), and ≥16 times (from ≤1to 16 mg/L), respectively; while meropenem, imipenem, ceftazidime-avibactam, piperacillin-tazobactam, and cefepime-tazobactam make no difference for MIC between recipient and conjugant.

Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis and SDS-PAGE

The results of whole genome sequencing indicated that none of carbapenemase gene was detected in K. pneumoniae L204. However, a lot of resistance genes had been identified according to the whole genome sequencing, including the β-lactamase genes bla_TEM–1B, bla_{CTX–M–167}, and bla_SHV–1, the fluoroquinolone resistance gene qnrS1, and the aminoglycoside resistance genes aac(6’)-1b-cr and aadA16, the tetracycline resistance gene tet(A), the fosfomycin resistance gene fosA, the sulfonamide resistance gene sul1, and the macrolide resistance gene mph(A). Compared with bla_CTX–M–15, bla_{CTX–M–167} has two amino acid substitutions: G at position 241 and 242 are replaced by C,D, respectively. Compared with bla_CTX–M–1, except that the GG at 241-242 was replaced by CD, there was also a single base replacement, but it did not cause changes at the amino acid level. The genetic platform analysis revealed that the bla_CTX–M–67 gene was flanked by ISEcp1 and Tn2-like transposase downstream and upstream, respectively. The full genetic environment surrounding bla_CTX–M–67 is: Tn2-like transposase–bla_TEM–1B–bla_CTX–M–67–ISEcp1 (Figure 1). K. pneumoniae L204 has a complete ompk35, while Ompk36 has many mutations at many sites such as P.n218H and P.n217H were also reflected in whole gene sequencing. The result of multilocus sequence typing of K. pneumonia L204 indicated that the strain belonged to ST893. The results of SDS-PAGE of outer membrane protein showed that membrane porins Ompk35 (40 kDa) was complete while Ompk36 (37 kDa) in K. pneumonia L204 was not detected (Figure 2).

FIGURE 1

Figure 1. Multidrug resistance region (MRR) of bla_{CTX–M–167} in K. pneumoniaeL204 and bla_CTX–M–3 in HKU49. Resistance genes are indicated by yellow symbols. Transposon-related genes and insertion sequences are indicated by green symbols. Light gray shading indicated homologous regions (>99% DNA identity).

FIGURE 2

Figure 2. OMP analysis by SDS-PAGE. 1, K. pneumoniae ATCC35657; 2, K. pneumoniae L204; M, Marker.

Discussion

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase(ESBLs) are plasmid-mediated β-lactamases produced by gram-negative bacteria that are capable of conferring resistance to the penicillins, cephalosporins, and aztreonam by hydrolysis of these antibiotics, but usually have no activity against cephamycins or carbapenems (Paterson and Bonomo, 2005). According to the China Antimicrobial Surveillance Network, the detection rates of ESBL-producing strains in E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and Proteus mirabilis were 52.4, 41.5, and 38.2%, respectively, and P. mirabilis showed an increasing trend year by year.³ According to the Ambler classification, ESBLs are mostly from the class A TEM, SHV, and CTX-M families (Denkel et al., 2020; Verschuuren et al., 2021). CTX-M type ESBLs have surpassed TEM type and SHV type, and become the most widespread extended-spectrum β-lactamase in Gram-negative bacilli. Carrying CTX-M ESBLs with high hydrolysis activity to cephalosporin antibiotics is one of the main resistance mechanisms of K. pneumonia to antimicrobial agents, and their characteristics are carried by plasmids, which is also conducive to the generation, dissemination, and prevalence of new CTX-M ESBLs (Zhao and Hu, 2013). Although Enterobacterales from Asia, Europe, and America generally carry CTX-M ESBLs, and CTX-M-1 and CTX-M-9 are the main types, in different regions, the detection rate of the CTX-M is different (Daoud et al., 2015).

In this study, a multi-drug resistant K. pneumoniae L204 clinical strain with three β-Lactamase genes including bla_{CTX–M–167}, bla_TEM–1B, and bla_SHV–1, only showed sensitivity to ceftazidime-avibactam, amikacin, and polymyxin B was isolated from a urine sample from a 55-year-old male patient with hydrocephalus who underwent a ventriculoperitoneal shunt. The result of the conjugation experiment showed that the plasmid containing bla_{CTX–M–167} and bla_SHV–1 was successfully transferred from the donor to the recipient, and made the conjugant resistant to cefepime, and aztreonam while still susceptible to ceftazidime, meropenem, and imipenem.

To further explore the mechanism of resistance to carbapenems in K. pneumonia L204, we analyzed the efflux pump and outer membrane porins. The efflux pump inhibition testing indicated that the efflux pump does not play a role in the resistance of K. pneumoniae L204 to carbapenems. Combined with the previous study, Ompk36 loss may be one of the factors contributing to the resistance among ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae, and OmpK36 may play an essential role in the resistance or reduced susceptibility of K. pneumoniae to carbapenems coupled with ESBL and/or AmpC (Doménech-Sánchez et al., 2003; Tsai et al., 2011). In our study, The results of SDS-PAGE showed that OmpK36 was not detected in K. pneumonia L204, and whole-genome sequencing showed that it has many mutations at many sites such as P.n218H and P.n217H. we speculate that it was inactivated after genetic mutation and the loss of outer membrane porins may take the lead for the resistance of K. pneumoniae L204 to carbapenems, or other temporarily unknown mechanisms play an important role.

OmpK35 and OmpK36 belong to the Porin_1 (PF00267) group of bacterial outer membrane proteins. Both OmpK35 and OmpK36 form trimers composed of 16-stranded β-barrels integrated into the outer membrane, and the crystal structures of two of these proteins showed polar residues lining the internal porespolar molecules of less than 600 Da in size would permeate the channels formed by OmpK35 and OmpK36 (Dutzler et al., 1999; Acosta-Gutiérrez et al., 2018). Current knowledge on the regulation of porin gene expression in K. pneumoniae is limited, a study of Klebsiella aerogenes shows that overexpression of the small RNAs MicF and MicC can suppress the expression of omp35 and omp36, respectively (Hao et al., 2018).

Based on PLACNETw, the bla_{CTX–M–167} genes were located in contigs with homology to the plasmid that belonged to IncFII (K) type. The plasmid location of bla_CTX–M genes has already been reported, namely, compared with the chromosomal location of the resistance genes that can benefit the stable propagation of resistance, the plasmid location of the resistance genes can make the horizontal transmission easier (Zhang et al., 2017, 2022; Yang et al., 2021). BLAST comparison disclosed that the bla_{CTX–M–167} gene-environment of K. pneumoniae L204 shared >99% similarity with bla_CTX–M–3-carrying plasmid pHKU49_CIP (GenBank accession number: MN543570) with 99% nucleotide identity and 100% query coverage, which was isolated in a K.pneumonia strain HKU49 from Hong Kong, China. The genetic platform analysis revealed that the bla_CTX–M gene was flanked by Tn2-like transposase and ISEcp1 downstream and upstream in both genetic environments, respectively. ISEcp1, belonging to the IS1380 family, is one of the most important insertion sequences associated with bla_CTX–M genes (Zhao and Hu, 2013; Leão et al., 2021). Tn3 transposon, which is conjugative, was also detected. These mobile genetic elements found in the plasmids may help promote excision and reintegration or transfer to other plasmids by horizontal propagation (Naseer and Sundsfjord, 2011; Cantón et al., 2012).

In summary, this is the first report of K. pneumoniae carrying bla_{CTX–M–167} globally, indicating a new evolutionary starting point for CTX-M ESBLs. Our study suggested that the monitoring and prevention of novel ESBLs should be strengthened to prevent the spread of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli in healthcare facilities.

Data Availability Statement

The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found in the article/supplementary material.

Ethics Statement

The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University (Number: 2018-408).

Author Contributions

FH and MG designed the study. SL, SS, LD, RH, DY, and YG collected clinical samples and performed the experiments. SL, SS, FH, and MG analyzed the data. SS and SL wrote the manuscript. FH and MG reviewed the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2021YFC2701800 and 2021YFC2701803); National Natural Science Foundation of China (81872311 and 81861138052); Shanghai Public Health System Construction Three-Year Action Plan (2020–2022) Key Disciplines (GWV-10.1-XK04) and the China Antimicrobial Surveillance Network (2020QD049). The funders had no role in study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation.

Conflict of Interest

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Footnotes

1. ^ http://cge.cbs.dtu.dk/services/ResFinder/
2. ^ https://rast.nmpdr.org
3. ^ http://www.chinets.com/Data/GermYear

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