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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
Research

High Prevalence of atpE Mutations in Bedaquiline-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates, Russia

Danila ZimenkovComments to Author , Anastasia Ushtanit, Elizaveta Gordeeva, Elena Guselnikova, Yakov Schwartz, and Natalia Stavitskaya
Author affiliation: Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (D. Zimenkov, A. Ushtanit); Federal State Budgetary Institution Novosibirsk TB Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Novosibirsk, Russia (E. Gordeeva, E. Guselnikova, Y. Schwartz, N. Stavitskaya)

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Table 1

Clinical characteristics of TB cases and resistance to bedaquiline and linezolid determined by phenotypic and genotypic methods in study of high prevalence of atpE mutations in bedaquiline-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, Russia*

Category Isolate identification
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9c
Year of TB diagnosis
2017
2006
2015
2010
2018
2017
2017
2012
2007
HIV status
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Source of the culture
Sputum
Surgery
Sputum
Wound exudate
Sputum
Sputum
Wound exudate
Sputum
Sputum
No. days from treatment start
92
718
196
1,045
206
558
866
609
1,154
Treatment outcome
Treatment failed
Not evaluated
Treatment failed
Death from TB
Death from TB
Treatment failed
Treatment failed
Treatment failed
Treatment failed
Sublineage
B0
B0
B0
CA/R
B0
B0
B0
B0
B0
Bedaquiline phenotype
R
R
R
S
R
R
R
R
R
AtpE Glu61Asp, g>t 100%
AtpE Glu61Asp, g>c 59%
AtpE Ile66Met




100%


100%

MmpR5 Cys46fs 21%
MmpR5 Asp47fs 52%
MmpR5 Glu49fs 42% 97%
MmpR5 Ser63Gly 75%
MmpR5 Ile67fs 97% 96%
MmpR5 Gln76stop 28%
MmpR5 Leu143_ Glu147dup





22%



MmpL4 Leu130fs†

91%







MmpL5 Asn772Thr†








37%
AtpB Val165Leu†



100%





Linezolid phenotype
S
S
S
R
S
S
S
R
R
RplC Cys154Arg 100% 100% 100%

*Percentages indicate relative number of reads with mutations. ID, identification; R, resistant; S, susceptible; TB, tuberculosis. †Mutations in candidate genes associated with resistance to bedaquiline.

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