Evolution of escherichia coli to 42 °c and subsequent genetic engineering reveals adaptive mechanisms and novel mutations

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2647-2662

  Sandberg, Troy E ^a   Pedersen, Margit ^b   Lacroix, Ryan A ^a   Ebrahim, Ali ^a   Bonde, Mads ^b   Herrgard, Markus J ^b   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a,b   Sommer, Morten ^b,c   Feist, Adam M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

adaptive laboratory evolution; Escherichia coli; MAGE; temperature stress; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LABORATORY EVOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOTYPE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ADAPTATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; TEMPERATURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84907269737     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu209     Document Type: Article

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