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Contributions
Prophage-AMR Co-mobilization Atlas tested associations between antimicrobial-resistance (AMR) genes and prophage markers across the GTDB pangenome 1. It identified 83,008 AMR gene clusters and 3,465,244 broad prophage marker clusters, of which 1,261,929 were strict prophage markers, and found that 14,669 of 27,702 species (52.9%) carried both 1. In the top-100 AMR-burdened species (1,953 genomes, 20 sampled per species), the project analyzed 36,041 AMR gene instances 1. It found that 20,073 (55.7%) lay on contigs carrying strict prophage markers, 3,731 (10.4%) lay within 10 genes of a marker, and the median distance among co-localized AMR genes was 34 genes 1. The project computed distances from ordinal gene positions rather than base-pair coordinates, and it identified prophage markers by keyword and Pfam matching rather than with dedicated predictors such as PHASTER or geNomad 1. The project noted that this approach may include phage-defense false positives and may miss divergent prophages 1.
The project found that AMR genes within 10 genes of a prophage marker were 67.6% accessory, compared with 65.5% for distal genes (Fisher’s exact odds ratio 1.10, one-sided p=0.005, bootstrap 95% confidence interval [1.024, 1.185]) 1. It described this effect as modest, a 2.1 percentage point difference 1. The project noted that its core and accessory labels depend on species-level pangenome calling with motupan, so the same gene can have different conservation status in different species 1. The project found that the effect depended on the distance threshold, with an odds ratio of 0.78 at 3 genes and 1.28 at 50 genes 1. Only 33 of 74 testable species had odds ratios above 1, and the median species-level odds ratio was 0.85 1.
At species level, the project found that prophage marker density was positively associated with AMR repertoire breadth across 4,770 species (Spearman rho=0.572, p<10^-300) 1. A log-log regression gave a slope of 0.823 (SE=0.018) and R²=0.30, and the partial correlation controlling for genome count was rho=0.464 (p=1.0×10^-253) 1. The project found the association significant in all five reported major phyla, with rho ranging from 0.29 in Actinomycetota to 0.59 in Bacteroidota 1. The report stated that the correlation does not establish phage-mediated AMR transfer, because species with open pangenomes may independently accumulate both prophages and AMR genes 1.
The project could not run its planned fitness-cost comparison (H3) 1. The project reported that the KBase Data Lakehouse fitness browser holds RB-TnSeq (random barcode transposon sequencing) data for only 48 model organisms, and that these overlap poorly with the GTDB pangenome species analyzed 1. Whether prophage-proximal AMR genes carry distinct fitness costs therefore remained untested 1.