Experimental Evolution of the TolC-Receptor Phage U136B Functionally Identifies a Tail Fiber Protein Involved in Adsorption through Strong Parallel Adaptation
Burmeister A, Tzintzun-Tapia E, Roush C, Mangal I, Barahman R, Bjornson R, Turner P. Experimental Evolution of the TolC-Receptor Phage U136B Functionally Identifies a Tail Fiber Protein Involved in Adsorption through Strong Parallel Adaptation. Applied And Environmental Microbiology 2023, 89: e00079-23. PMID: 37191555, PMCID: PMC10304864, DOI: 10.1128/aem.00079-23.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsExperimental evolutionPhage populationsParallel molecular evolutionWhole-population sequencingAntibiotic resistance proteinsTail fiber proteinE. coli hostPhage evolutionEvolutionary potentialMolecular evolutionPhage genotypesTolC proteinParallel adaptationProtein geneAntibiotic resistanceExperimental populationsBacterial diversitySelection pressureBacterial hostsColi hostFiber proteinBacterial populationsBacterial cellsPhage resistancePhage dynamics