Scalable method to determine mutations that occur during adaptive evolution of Escherichia coli

  • Anuradha Raghunathan
  • , Bernhard Palsson

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Abstract

Denaturing HPLC was used to determine mutations occurring during the adaptive evolution of Escherichia coli K-12. The strains were evolved over 700 generations on glycerol as the sole carbon source from a sub-optimal to an optimal growth rate. The mutations detected by direct sequencing of amplicons of the glycerol-phosphate regulon repressor (glpR) gene were a synonymous substitution Val20Val in two separately evolved strains. Nonsynonymous substitutions, Val119Gly and Gly179Trp, were also observed in each of the two strains. This procedure can be scaled to determine genome-scale sequence variations that have occurred during adaptive evolution.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)435-441
Number of pages7
JournalBiotechnology Letters
Volume25
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2003

Other keywords

  • Adaptive evolution
  • Denaturing HPLC
  • Escherichia coli
  • Mutation sequence variation
  • Phenotype

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