Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

DOI

10.1111/evo.13586

Publication Title

Evolution

Volume

72

Issue

10

Pages

2234-2243

Abstract

Viral gain-of-function mutations frequently evolve during laboratory experiments. Whether the specific mutations that evolve in the lab also evolve in nature and whether they have the same impact on evolution in the real world is unknown. We studied a model virus, bacteriophage λ, that repeatedly evolves to exploit a new host receptor under typical laboratory conditions. Here, we demonstrate that two residues of λ’s J protein are required for the new function. In natural λ variants, these amino acid sites are highly diverse and evolve at high rates. Insertions and deletions at these locations are associated with phylogenetic patterns indicative of ecological diversification. Our results show that viral evolution in the laboratory mirrors that in nature and that laboratory experiments can be coupled with protein sequence analyses to identify the causes of viral evolution in the real world. Furthermore, our results provide evidence for widespread host-shift evolution in lambdoid viruses.

Rights

© 2018 The Authors.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

Data Availability

Article states: "Data for this project has been deposited in the Dryad Digital Repository at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cm86089"

Original Publication Citation

Maddamsetti, R., Johnson, D. T., Spielman, S. J., Petrie, K. L., Marks, D. S., & Meyer, J. R. (2018). Gain-of-function experiments with bacteriophage lambda uncover residues under diversifying selection in nature. Evolution, 72(10), 2234-2243. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13586

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