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Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance
Drug resistance is a major problem in treatment of microbial infections and cancers. There is growing evidence that a transient drug tolerant state may precede and potentiate the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms leading to tolerance is critical for combating drug...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8461305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34566920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.712631 |
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author | Nivedita, Nivedita Aitchison, John D. Baliga, Nitin S. |
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description | Drug resistance is a major problem in treatment of microbial infections and cancers. There is growing evidence that a transient drug tolerant state may precede and potentiate the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms leading to tolerance is critical for combating drug resistance and for the development of effective therapeutic strategy. Through laboratory evolution of yeast, we recently demonstrated that adaptive prediction (AP), a strategy employed by organisms to anticipate and prepare for a future stressful environment, can emerge within 100 generations by linking the response triggered by a neutral cue (caffeine) to a mechanism of protection against a lethal agent (5-fluoroorotic acid, 5-FOA). Here, we demonstrate that mutations selected across multiple laboratory-evolved lines had linked the neutral cue response to core genes of autophagy. Across these evolved lines, conditional activation of autophagy through AP conferred tolerance, and potentiated subsequent selection of mutations in genes specific to overcoming the toxicity of 5-FOA. These results offer a new perspective on how extensive genome-wide genetic interactions of autophagy could have facilitated the emergence of AP over short evolutionary timescales to potentiate selection of 5-FOA resistance-conferring mutations. |
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spelling | pubmed-84613052021-09-25 Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance Nivedita, Nivedita Aitchison, John D. Baliga, Nitin S. Front Microbiol Microbiology Drug resistance is a major problem in treatment of microbial infections and cancers. There is growing evidence that a transient drug tolerant state may precede and potentiate the emergence of drug resistance. Therefore, understanding the mechanisms leading to tolerance is critical for combating drug resistance and for the development of effective therapeutic strategy. Through laboratory evolution of yeast, we recently demonstrated that adaptive prediction (AP), a strategy employed by organisms to anticipate and prepare for a future stressful environment, can emerge within 100 generations by linking the response triggered by a neutral cue (caffeine) to a mechanism of protection against a lethal agent (5-fluoroorotic acid, 5-FOA). Here, we demonstrate that mutations selected across multiple laboratory-evolved lines had linked the neutral cue response to core genes of autophagy. Across these evolved lines, conditional activation of autophagy through AP conferred tolerance, and potentiated subsequent selection of mutations in genes specific to overcoming the toxicity of 5-FOA. These results offer a new perspective on how extensive genome-wide genetic interactions of autophagy could have facilitated the emergence of AP over short evolutionary timescales to potentiate selection of 5-FOA resistance-conferring mutations. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8461305/ /pubmed/34566920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.712631 Text en Copyright © 2021 Nivedita, Aitchison and Baliga. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Microbiology Nivedita, Nivedita Aitchison, John D. Baliga, Nitin S. Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title | Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title_full | Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title_fullStr | Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title_full_unstemmed | Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title_short | Autophagy as a Mechanism for Adaptive Prediction-Mediated Emergence of Drug Resistance |
title_sort | autophagy as a mechanism for adaptive prediction-mediated emergence of drug resistance |
topic | Microbiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8461305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34566920 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.712631 |
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