The adaptive landscape of a metallo-enzyme is shaped by environment-dependent epistasis.

ABSTRACT: Enzymes can evolve new catalytic activity when environmental changes present them with novel substrates. Despite this seemingly straightforward relationship, factors other than the direct catalytic target can also impact adaptation. Here, we characterize the catalytic activity of a recently evolved bacterial methyl-parathion hydrolase for all possible combinations of the five functionally relevant mutations under eight different laboratory conditions (in which an alternative divalent metal is supplemented). The resultant adaptive landscapes across this historical evolutionary transition vary in terms of both the number of "fitness peaks" as well as the genotype(s) at which they are found as a result of genotype-by-environment interactions and environment-dependent epistasis. This suggests

SUBMITTER: Anderson DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8222346 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature