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text: The emergence of drug resistant pathogens is a serious public health problem.
It is a long-standing goal to predict rates of resistance evolution and design
optimal treatment strategies accordingly. To this end, it is crucial to reveal
the underlying causes of drug-specific differences in the evolutionary dynamics
leading to resistance. However, it remains largely unknown why the rates of resistance
evolution via spontaneous mutations and the diversity of mutational paths vary
substantially between drugs. Here we comprehensively quantify the distribution
of fitness effects (DFE) of mutations, a key determinant of evolutionary dynamics,
in the presence of eight antibiotics representing the main modes of action. Using
precise high-throughput fitness measurements for genome-wide Escherichia coli
gene deletion strains, we find that the width of the DFE varies dramatically between
antibiotics and, contrary to conventional wisdom, for some drugs the DFE width
is lower than in the absence of stress. We show that this previously underappreciated
divergence in DFE width among antibiotics is largely caused by their distinct
drug-specific dose-response characteristics. Unlike the DFE, the magnitude of
the changes in tolerated drug concentration resulting from genome-wide mutations
is similar for most drugs but exceptionally small for the antibiotic nitrofurantoin,
i.e., mutations generally have considerably smaller resistance effects for nitrofurantoin
than for other drugs. A population genetics model predicts that resistance evolution
for drugs with this property is severely limited and confined to reproducible
mutational paths. We tested this prediction in laboratory evolution experiments
using the “morbidostat”, a device for evolving bacteria in well-controlled drug
environments. Nitrofurantoin resistance indeed evolved extremely slowly via reproducible
mutations—an almost paradoxical behavior since this drug causes DNA damage and
increases the mutation rate. Overall, we identified novel quantitative characteristics
of the evolutionary landscape that provide the conceptual foundation for predicting
the dynamics of drug resistance evolution.
article_number: e1002299
author:
- first_name: Guillaume
full_name: Chevereau, Guillaume
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last_name: Chevereau
- first_name: Marta
full_name: Dravecka, Marta
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last_name: Dravecka
orcid: 0000-0002-2519-8004
- first_name: Tugce
full_name: Batur, Tugce
last_name: Batur
- first_name: Aysegul
full_name: Guvenek, Aysegul
last_name: Guvenek
- first_name: Dilay
full_name: Ayhan, Dilay
last_name: Ayhan
- first_name: Erdal
full_name: Toprak, Erdal
last_name: Toprak
- first_name: Mark Tobias
full_name: Bollenbach, Mark Tobias
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last_name: Bollenbach
orcid: 0000-0003-4398-476X
citation:
ama: Chevereau G, Lukacisinova M, Batur T, et al. Quantifying the determinants of
evolutionary dynamics leading to drug resistance. PLoS Biology. 2015;13(11).
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299
apa: Chevereau, G., Lukacisinova, M., Batur, T., Guvenek, A., Ayhan, D., Toprak,
E., & Bollenbach, M. T. (2015). Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary
dynamics leading to drug resistance. PLoS Biology. Public Library of Science.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299
chicago: Chevereau, Guillaume, Marta Lukacisinova, Tugce Batur, Aysegul Guvenek,
Dilay Ayhan, Erdal Toprak, and Mark Tobias Bollenbach. “Quantifying the Determinants
of Evolutionary Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance.” PLoS Biology. Public
Library of Science, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299.
ieee: G. Chevereau et al., “Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary
dynamics leading to drug resistance,” PLoS Biology, vol. 13, no. 11. Public
Library of Science, 2015.
ista: Chevereau G, Lukacisinova M, Batur T, Guvenek A, Ayhan D, Toprak E, Bollenbach
MT. 2015. Quantifying the determinants of evolutionary dynamics leading to drug
resistance. PLoS Biology. 13(11), e1002299.
mla: Chevereau, Guillaume, et al. “Quantifying the Determinants of Evolutionary
Dynamics Leading to Drug Resistance.” PLoS Biology, vol. 13, no. 11, e1002299,
Public Library of Science, 2015, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299.
short: G. Chevereau, M. Lukacisinova, T. Batur, A. Guvenek, D. Ayhan, E. Toprak,
M.T. Bollenbach, PLoS Biology 13 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:04Z
date_published: 2015-11-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-03-27T23:30:28Z
day: '18'
ddc:
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department:
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doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002299
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