A Novel, Drug Resistance-Independent, Fluorescence-Based Approach To Measure Mutation Rates in Microbial Pathogens

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Erika ShorDavid S Perlin

Abstract

All evolutionary processes are underpinned by a cellular capacity to mutate DNA. To identify factors affecting mutagenesis, it is necessary to compare mutation rates between different strains and conditions. Drug resistance-based mutation reporters are used extensively to measure mutation rates, but they are suitable only when the compared strains have identical drug tolerance levels-a condition that is not satisfied under many "real-world" circumstances, e.g., when comparing mutation rates among a series of environmental or clinical isolates. Candida glabrata is a fungal pathogen that shows a high degree of genetic diversity and fast emergence of antifungal drug resistance. To enable meaningful comparisons of mutation rates among C. glabrata clinical isolates, we developed a novel fluorescence-activated cell sorting-based approach to measure the mutation rate of a chromosomally integrated GFP gene. We found that in Saccharomyces cerevisiae this approach recapitulated the reported mutation rate of a wild-type strain and the mutator phenotype of a shu1Δ mutant. In C. glabrata, the GFP reporter captured the mutation rate increases caused either by a genotoxic agent or by deletion of DNA mismatch repair gene MSH2, as well as the s...Continue Reading

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