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EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF A NEW ENZYMATIC FUNCTION. II. EVOLUTION OF MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS FOR EBG ENZYME IN E. COLI
Barry G. Hall 1
1 Microbiology Section, Biological Sciences Group, University
of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268
The evolution of ebgo enzyme of Escherichia coli, an enzyme which is unable to hydrolyze lactose, lactulose, lactobionate, or galactose-arabinoside effectively, has been directed in successive steps so that the evolved enzyme is able to hydrolyze these galactosides effectively. I show that in order for a strain of E. coli with a lacZ deletion to evolve the ability to use lactobionate as a carbon source, a series of mutations must occur in the ebg genes, and that these mutations must be selected in a particular order. The ordered series of mutations constitutes an obligatory evolutionary pathway for the acquisition of a new function for ebgo enzyme. A comparison of newly evolved strains with parental strains shows that when ebg enzyme acquires a new function, its old functions often suffer; but that in several cases old functions are either unaffected or are improved. I conclude that divergence of functions catalyzed by an enzyme need not require gene duplication.
Submitted on November 13, 1977Revised on February 10, 1978
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