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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2015

Experimental evolution of enhanced growth by Bacillus subtilis at low atmospheric pressure: genomic changes revealed by whole-genome sequencing.

Samantha M Waters, Daniel R Zeigler, Wayne L Nicholson

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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  4. Environmental Dependence of Competitive Fitness in Rifampin-ResistantApplied and environmental microbiology · 2022
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Samantha M WatersDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Merritt Island, Florida, USA.
Daniel R ZeiglerDepartment of Microbiology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Wayne L NicholsonDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Merritt Island, Florida, USA WLN@ufl.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Knowledge of how microorganisms respond and adapt to low-pressure (LP) environments is limited. Previously, Bacillus subtilis strain WN624 was grown at the near-inhibitory LP of 5 kPa for 1,000 generations and strain WN1106, which exhibited increased relative fitness at 5 kPa, was isolated. Genomic sequence differences between ancestral strain WN624 and LP-evolved strain WN1106 were identified using whole-genome sequencing. LP-evolved strain WN1106 carried amino acid-altering mutations in the coding sequences of only seven genes (fliI, parC, ytoI, bacD, resD, walK, and yvlD) and a single 9-nucleotide in-frame deletion in the rnjB gene that encodes RNase J2, a component of the RNA degradosome. By using a collection of frozen stocks of the LP-evolved culture taken at 50-generation intervals, it was determined that (i) the fitness increase at LP occurred rapidly, while (ii) mutation acquisition exhibited complex kinetics. A knockout mutant of rnjB was shown to increase the competitive fitness of B. subtilis at both LP and standard atmospheric pressure.

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Adaptation, BiologicalAtmospheric PressureBacillus subtilisDNA Mutational AnalysisEvolution, MolecularGenes, BacterialGenome, BacterialMutation, MissensePoint MutationSequence Analysis, DNASequence Deletion

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PMID26296725
PMCPMC4592849

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