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. 2014 Feb 11;111(6):2056-7.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323189111. Epub 2014 Jan 23.

Refining a key metabolic innovation in Escherichia coli

Sergey Kryazhimskiy  1 , Michael M Desai
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Refining a key metabolic innovation in Escherichia coli

Sergey Kryazhimskiy et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
(A) One or more mutations (yellow) that potentiated the evolution of citrate utilization arose by generation 20,000 of the LTEE. This was followed by the rnk-citG actualizing mutation (orange) that conferred a weak Cit+ phenotype, which was later refined (blue) into the strong Cit++ phenotype. More than 70 other mutations (gray) also accumulated during this time. Backcrossing, selection, and sequencing allowed Quandt et al. to isolate mutations necessary for the Cit++ phenotype; this did not include the original potentiating mutation(s). (B) A possible fitness landscape for the evolution of Cit++ phenotype. Thick and thin arrows show confirmed and hypothesized fitness effects of potentiating (P), actualizing (A), and refinement (R) mutations; orange arrows show the actual path taken by the evolving population.
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