title: Evolutionary potential, cross-stress behavior and the genetic basis of acquired stress resistance in Escherichia coli.
abstract: Bacterial populations have a remarkable capacity to cope with extreme environmental fluctuations in their natural environments. In certain cases, adaptation to one stressful environment provides a fitness advantage when cells are exposed to a second stressor, a phenomenon that has been coined as cross-stress protection. A tantalizing question in bacterial physiology is how the cross-stress behavior emerges during evolutionary adaptation and what the genetic basis of acquired stress resistance is. To address these questions, we evolved Escherichia coli cells over 500 generations in five environments that include four abiotic stressors. Through growth profiling and competition assays, we identified several cases of positive and negative cross-stress behavior that span all strain-stress combinations. Resequencing the genomes of the evolved strains resulted in the identification of several mutations and gene amplifications, whose fitness effect was further assessed by mutation reversal and competition assays. Transcriptional profiling of all strains under a specific stress, NaCl-induced osmotic stress, and integration with resequencing data further elucidated the regulatory responses and genes that are involved in this phenomenon. Our results suggest that cross-stress dependencies are ubiquitous, highly interconnected, and can emerge within short timeframes. The high adaptive potential that we observed argues that bacterial populations occupy a genotypic space that enables a high phenotypic plasticity during adaptation in fluctuating environments.
authors: UC Davis Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
authors: Martin
authors: M
authors: Dragosits
authors: Vadim
authors: V
authors: Mozhayskiy
authors: Semarhy
authors: S
authors: Quinones-Soto
authors: Jiyeon
authors: J
authors: Park
authors: Ilias
authors: I
authors: Tagkopoulos
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004777:Environment; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D009154:Mutation; D009997:Osmotic Pressure
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