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Evolvability and hierarchy in rewired bacterial gene networks
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Sequencing DNA from several organisms has revealed that duplication and drift of existing genes have primarily moulded the contents of a given genome. Though the effect of knocking out or overexpressing a particular gene has been studied in many organisms, no study has systematically explored the effect of adding new links in a biological network. To explore network evolvability, we constructed 598 recombinations of promoters (including regulatory regions) with different transcription or sigma-factor genes in Escherichia coli, added over a wild-type genetic background. Here we show that approximately 95% of new networks are tolerated by the bacteria, that very few alter growth, and that expression level correlates with factor position in the wild-type network hierarchy. Most importantly, we find that certain networks consistently survive over the wild type under various selection pressures. Therefore new links in the network are rarely a barrier for evolution and can even confer a fitness advantage.
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- Authors
- Isalan, M., Lemerle, C., Michalodimitrakis, K., Horn, C., Beltrao, P., Raineri, E., Garriga-Canut, M., & Serrano, L.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (ES)
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory (DE)
- Centre for Genomic Regulation (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Isalan, Mark
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 452
- Issue
- 7189
- Pages
- 840-845
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC2666274
- OpenAlex
- W2159993062
- Cited by
- 307
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (066543, WT066543)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Keywords
- gene regulatory network rewiring, Escherichia coli, transcription factors, sigma factor, network hierarchy, synthetic gene networks, genome rearrangement, bacterial fitness
- MeSH terms
- Escherichia coli, Genes, Bacterial, Genetic Engineering, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Selection, Genetic, Serial Passage, Sigma Factor, Transcription Factors, Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial, Open Reading Frames, Heat-Shock Response, Evolution, Molecular, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Escherichia coli Proteins, Gene Regulatory Networks
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