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In silico evolution of diauxic growth
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Chu DF
BMC Evol Biol
2015[Sep]; 15
(ä): 211
PMID26416609
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BACKGROUND: The glucose effect is a well known phenomenon whereby cells, when
presented with two different nutrients, show a diauxic growth pattern, i.e. an
episode of exponential growth followed by a lag phase of reduced growth followed
by a second phase of exponential growth. Diauxic growth is usually thought of as
a an adaptation to maximise biomass production in an environment offering two or
more carbon sources. While diauxic growth has been studied widely both
experimentally and theoretically, the hypothesis that diauxic growth is a
strategy to increase overall growth has remained an unconfirmed conjecture.
METHODS: Here, we present a minimal mathematical model of a bacterial nutrient
uptake system and metabolism. We subject this model to artificial evolution to
test under which conditions diauxic growth evolves. RESULTS: As a result, we find
that, indeed, sequential uptake of nutrients emerges if there is competition for
nutrients and the metabolism/uptake system is capacity limited. DISCUSSION:
However, we also find that diauxic growth is a secondary effect of this system
and that the speed-up of nutrient uptake is a much larger effect. Notably, this
speed-up of nutrient uptake coincides with an overall reduction of efficiency.
CONCLUSIONS: Our two main conclusions are: (i) Cells competing for the same
nutrients evolve rapid but inefficient growth dynamics. (ii) In the deterministic
models we use here no substantial lag-phase evolves. This suggests that the
lag-phase is a consequence of stochastic gene expression.