Whole genome, whole population sequencing reveals that loss of signaling networks is the major adaptive strategy in a constant environment.
Whole genome, whole population sequencing reveals that loss of signaling networks is the major adaptive strategy in a constant environment.
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DOI:
10.1371/journal.pgen.1003972
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发表时间:
2013-11
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影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Sherlock G
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作者:
Kvitek DJ;Sherlock G
Molecular signaling networks are ubiquitous across life and likely evolved to allow organisms to sense and respond to environmental change in dynamic environments. Few examples exist regarding the dispensability of signaling networks, and it remains unclear whether they are an essential feature of a highly adapted biological system. Here, we show that signaling network function carries a fitness cost in yeast evolving in a constant environment. We performed whole-genome, whole-population Illumina sequencing on replicate evolution experiments and find the major theme of adaptive evolution in a constant environment is the disruption of signaling networks responsible for regulating the response to environmental perturbations. Over half of all identified mutations occurred in three major signaling networks that regulate growth control: glucose signaling, Ras/cAMP/PKA and HOG. This results in a loss of environmental sensitivity that is reproducible across experiments. However, adaptive clones show reduced viability under starvation conditions, demonstrating an evolutionary tradeoff. These mutations are beneficial in an environment with a constant and predictable nutrient supply, likely because they result in constitutive growth, but reduce fitness in an environment where nutrient supply is not constant. Our results are a clear example of the myopic nature of evolution: a loss of environmental sensitivity in a constant environment is adaptive in the short term, but maladaptive should the environment change. When a population of organisms is faced with a selective pressure, such as a limiting nutrient, mutations that arise randomly may confer a fitness benefit on the individual carrying that mutation. If that individual reproduces before it is lost from the population, the frequency of that mutation may increase. Over time, many beneficial mutations will arise in a large population, but there are few high resolution experiments tracking the frequency of such mutations in an evolving population. We evolved populations of the baker's yeast in a constant environment in the presence of limiting amounts of sugar, and then used DNA sequencing to identify mutations that reached at least a 1% frequency in the population, and tracked them over time. We identified 120 mutations over three experiments, and determined that the genes and pathways that had gained beneficial mutations were largely reproducible across experiments, and that many of the mutations led to the loss of signaling pathways that usually sense a changing environment, allowing the cell to respond appropriately. When these mutant cells were faced with uncertain environments, the mutations proved to be deleterious. Environmental sensing must carry a fitness cost in a constant environment, but is essential in a changing one.
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影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Greaves, Mel;Maley, Carlo C.
通讯作者:
Maley, Carlo C.
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Hall, David W.;Joseph, Sarah B.
通讯作者:
Joseph, Sarah B.
影响因子:
64.8
作者:
Cooper, VS;Lenski, RE
通讯作者:
Lenski, RE
影响因子:
30.8
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DOI:
10.1111/j.2517-6161.1995.tb02031.x
发表时间:
1995-01-01
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
BENJAMINI, Y;HOCHBERG, Y
通讯作者:
HOCHBERG, Y