Microorganisms possess the potential to adapt to fluctuations in environmental parameters, and their evolution is driven by the continuous generation of mutations. The reversion of auxotrophic mutations has been widely studied; however, little is known about the reversion of frameshift mutations resulting in amino acid auxotrophy and on the structure and functioning of the protein encoded by the revertant mutated gene. The aims of this work were to analyze the appearance of reverse mutations over time and under different selective pressures and to investigate revertant enzymes’ three-dimensional structures and their correlation with a different growth ability. Escherichia coli FB182 strain, carrying the hisF892 single nucleotide deletion resulting in histidine auxotrophy, was subjected to different selective pressures, and revertant mutants were isolated and characterized. The obtained results allowed us to identify different indels of different lengths located in different positions in the hisF gene, and relations with the incubation time and the selective pressure applied were observed. Moreover, the structure of the different mutant proteins was consistent with the respective revertant ability to grow in absence of histidine, highlighting a correlation between the mutations and the catalytic activity of the mutated HisF enzyme.

Effect of Non-Lethal Selection on Spontaneous Revertants of Frameshift Mutations: The Escherichia coli hisF Case / Del Duca, Sara; Puglia, Anna Maria; Calderone, Vito; Bazzicalupo, Marco; Fani, Renato. - In: MICROORGANISMS. - ISSN 2076-2607. - ELETTRONICO. - 10:(2022), pp. 692-710. [10.3390/microorganisms10040692]

Effect of Non-Lethal Selection on Spontaneous Revertants of Frameshift Mutations: The Escherichia coli hisF Case

Del Duca, Sara;Calderone, Vito;Bazzicalupo, Marco;Fani, Renato
2022

Abstract

Microorganisms possess the potential to adapt to fluctuations in environmental parameters, and their evolution is driven by the continuous generation of mutations. The reversion of auxotrophic mutations has been widely studied; however, little is known about the reversion of frameshift mutations resulting in amino acid auxotrophy and on the structure and functioning of the protein encoded by the revertant mutated gene. The aims of this work were to analyze the appearance of reverse mutations over time and under different selective pressures and to investigate revertant enzymes’ three-dimensional structures and their correlation with a different growth ability. Escherichia coli FB182 strain, carrying the hisF892 single nucleotide deletion resulting in histidine auxotrophy, was subjected to different selective pressures, and revertant mutants were isolated and characterized. The obtained results allowed us to identify different indels of different lengths located in different positions in the hisF gene, and relations with the incubation time and the selective pressure applied were observed. Moreover, the structure of the different mutant proteins was consistent with the respective revertant ability to grow in absence of histidine, highlighting a correlation between the mutations and the catalytic activity of the mutated HisF enzyme.
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Del Duca, Sara; Puglia, Anna Maria; Calderone, Vito; Bazzicalupo, Marco; Fani, Renato
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