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Piskovsky V, Oliveira NM. Bacterial motility can govern the dynamics of antibiotic resistance evolution. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5584. [PMID: 37696800 PMCID: PMC10495427 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41196-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2023] [Indexed: 09/13/2023] Open
Abstract
Spatial heterogeneity in antibiotic concentrations is thought to accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance, but current theory and experiments have overlooked the effect of cell motility on bacterial adaptation. Here, we study bacterial evolution in antibiotic landscapes with a quantitative model where bacteria evolve under the stochastic processes of proliferation, death, mutation and migration. Numerical and analytical results show that cell motility can both accelerate and decelerate bacterial adaptation by affecting the degree of genotypic mixing and ecological competition. Moreover, we find that for sufficiently high rates, cell motility can limit bacterial survival, and we derive conditions for all these regimes. Similar patterns are observed in more complex scenarios, namely where bacteria can bias their motion in chemical gradients (chemotaxis) or switch between motility phenotypes either stochastically or in a density-dependent manner. Overall, our work reveals limits to bacterial adaptation in antibiotic landscapes that are set by cell motility.
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Affiliation(s)
- Vit Piskovsky
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK
- Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG, UK
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- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA, UK.
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ES, UK.
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Nande A, Hill AL. The risk of drug resistance during long-acting antimicrobial therapy. Proc Biol Sci 2022; 289:20221444. [PMID: 36350211 PMCID: PMC9653236 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The emergence of drug resistance during antimicrobial therapy is a major global health problem, especially for chronic infections like human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis. Sub-optimal adherence to long-term treatment is an important contributor to resistance risk. New long-acting drugs are being developed for weekly, monthly or less frequent dosing to improve adherence, but may lead to long-term exposure to intermediate drug levels. In this study, we analyse the effect of dosing frequency on the risk of resistance evolving during time-varying drug levels. We find that long-acting therapies can increase, decrease or have little effect on resistance, depending on the source (pre-existing or de novo) and degree of resistance, and rates of drug absorption and clearance. Long-acting therapies with rapid drug absorption, slow clearance and strong wild-type inhibition tend to reduce resistance caused by partially resistant strains in the early stages of treatment even if they do not improve adherence. However, if subpopulations of microbes persist and can reactivate during sub-optimal treatment, longer-acting therapies may substantially increase the resistance risk. Our results show that drug kinetics affect selection for resistance in a complicated manner, and that pathogen-specific models are needed to evaluate the benefits of new long-acting therapies.
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- Anjalika Nande
- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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- Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Institute for Computational Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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Labavić D, Loverdo C, Bitbol AF. Hydrodynamic flow and concentration gradients in the gut enhance neutral bacterial diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2108671119. [PMID: 34969835 PMCID: PMC8740595 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2108671119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The gut microbiota features important genetic diversity, and the specific spatial features of the gut may shape evolution within this environment. We investigate the fixation probability of neutral bacterial mutants within a minimal model of the gut that includes hydrodynamic flow and resulting gradients of food and bacterial concentrations. We find that this fixation probability is substantially increased, compared with an equivalent well-mixed system, in the regime where the profiles of food and bacterial concentration are strongly spatially dependent. Fixation probability then becomes independent of total population size. We show that our results can be rationalized by introducing an active population, which consists of those bacteria that are actively consuming food and dividing. The active population size yields an effective population size for neutral mutant fixation probability in the gut.
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- Darka Labavić
- CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Laboratoire Jean Perrin (UMR 8237), Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France
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- CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine, Laboratoire Jean Perrin (UMR 8237), Sorbonne Université, F-75005 Paris, France;
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- Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland;
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Feder AF, Harper KN, Brumme CJ, Pennings PS. Understanding patterns of HIV multi-drug resistance through models of temporal and spatial drug heterogeneity. eLife 2021; 10:e69032. [PMID: 34473060 PMCID: PMC8412921 DOI: 10.7554/elife.69032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Accepted: 08/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Triple-drug therapies have transformed HIV from a fatal condition to a chronic one. These therapies should prevent HIV drug resistance evolution, because one or more drugs suppress any partially resistant viruses. In practice, such therapies drastically reduced, but did not eliminate, resistance evolution. In this article, we reanalyze published data from an evolutionary perspective and demonstrate several intriguing patterns about HIV resistance evolution - resistance evolves (1) even after years on successful therapy, (2) sequentially, often via one mutation at a time and (3) in a partially predictable order. We describe how these observations might emerge under two models of HIV drugs varying in space or time. Despite decades of work in this area, much opportunity remains to create models with realistic parameters for three drugs, and to match model outcomes to resistance rates and genetic patterns from individuals on triple-drug therapy. Further, lessons from HIV may inform other systems.
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- Alison F Feder
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Genome Sciences, University of WashingtonSeattleUnited States
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- Harper Health and Science Communications, LLCSeattleUnited States
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- British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDSVancouverCanada
- Department of Medicine, University of British ColumbiaVancouverCanada
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- Department of Biology, San Francisco State UniversitySan FranciscoUnited States
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Bacteria use intercellular signaling, or quorum sensing (QS), to share information and respond collectively to aspects of their surroundings. The autoinducers that carry this information are exposed to the external environment; consequently, they are affected by factors such as removal through fluid flow, a ubiquitous feature of bacterial habitats ranging from the gut and lungs to lakes and oceans. To understand how QS genetic architectures in cells promote appropriate population-level phenotypes throughout the bacterial life cycle requires knowledge of how these architectures determine the QS response in realistic spatiotemporally varying flow conditions. Here we develop and apply a general theory that identifies and quantifies the conditions required for QS activation in fluid flow by systematically linking cell- and population-level genetic and physical processes. We predict that when a subset of the population meets these conditions, cell-level positive feedback promotes a robust collective response by overcoming flow-induced autoinducer concentration gradients. By accounting for a dynamic flow in our theory, we predict that positive feedback in cells acts as a low-pass filter at the population level in oscillatory flow, allowing a population to respond only to changes in flow that occur over slow enough timescales. Our theory is readily extendable and provides a framework for assessing the functional roles of diverse QS network architectures in realistic flow conditions.
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- Mohit P Dalwadi
- Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom;
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- Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
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The effect of spatiotemporal antibiotic inhomogeneities on the evolution of resistance. J Theor Biol 2019; 486:110077. [PMID: 31715181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2019.110077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2019] [Revised: 10/31/2019] [Accepted: 11/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Combating the evolution of widespread antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing challenges facing modern medicine. Recent research has demonstrated that the evolution of pathogens with high levels of resistance can be accelerated by spatial and temporal inhomogeneities in antibiotic concentration, which frequently arise in patients and the environment. Strategies to predict and counteract the effects of such inhomogeneities will be critical in the fight against resistance. In this paper we develop a mechanistic framework for modelling the adaptive evolution of resistance in the presence of spatiotemporal antibiotic concentrations, which treats the adaptive process as an interaction between two mutually orthogonal forces; the first returns cells to their wild-type state in the absence of antibiotic selection, and the second selects for increased coping ability in the presence of an antibiotic. We apply our model to investigate laboratory adaptation experiments, and then extend it to consider the case in which multiple strategies for resistance undergo competitive evolution.
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Fuentes-Hernández A, Hernández-Koutoucheva A, Muñoz AF, Domínguez Palestino R, Peña-Miller R. Diffusion-driven enhancement of the antibiotic resistance selection window. J R Soc Interface 2019; 16:20190363. [PMID: 31506045 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The current crisis of antimicrobial resistance in clinically relevant pathogens has highlighted our limited understanding of the ecological and evolutionary forces that drive drug resistance adaptation. For instance, although human tissues are highly heterogeneous, most of our mechanistic understanding about antibiotic resistance evolution is based on constant and well-mixed environmental conditions. A consequence of considering spatial heterogeneity is that, even if antibiotics are prescribed at high dosages, the penetration of drug molecules through tissues inevitably produces antibiotic gradients, exposing bacterial populations to a range of selective pressures and generating a dynamic fitness landscape that changes in space and time. In this paper, we will use a combination of mathematical modelling and computer simulations to study the population dynamics of susceptible and resistant strains competing for resources in a network of micro-environments with varying degrees of connectivity. Our main result is that highly connected environments increase diffusion of drug molecules, enabling resistant phenotypes to colonize a larger number of spatial locations. We validated this theoretical result by culturing fluorescently labelled Escherichia coli in 3D-printed devices that allow us to control the rate of diffusion of antibiotics between neighbouring compartments and quantify the spatio-temporal distribution of resistant and susceptible bacterial cells.
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- Ayari Fuentes-Hernández
- Laboratorio de Biología Sintética y de Sistemas, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biología Sintética y de Sistemas, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biología Sintética y de Sistemas, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biología Sintética y de Sistemas, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Biología Sintética y de Sistemas, Centro de Ciencias Genómicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 62210 Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Sinclair P, Carballo-Pacheco M, Allen RJ. Growth-dependent drug susceptibility can prevent or enhance spatial expansion of a bacterial population. Phys Biol 2019; 16:046001. [PMID: 30909169 DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/ab131e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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As a population wave expands, organisms at the tip typically experience plentiful nutrients while those behind the front become nutrient-depleted. If the environment also contains a gradient of some inhibitor (e.g. a toxic drug), a tradeoff exists: the nutrient-rich tip is more exposed to the inhibitor, while the nutrient-starved region behind the front is less exposed. Here we show that this can lead to complex dynamics when the organism's response to the inhibitory substance is coupled to nutrient availability. We model a bacterial population which expands in a spatial gradient of antibiotic, under conditions where either fast-growing bacteria at the wave's tip, or slow-growing, resource-limited bacteria behind the front are more susceptible to the antibiotic. We find that growth-rate dependent susceptibility can have strong effects on the dynamics of the expanding population. If slow-growing bacteria are more susceptible, the population wave advances far into the inhibitory zone, leaving a trail of dead bacteria in its wake. In contrast, if fast-growing bacteria are more susceptible, the wave is blocked at a much lower concentration of antibiotic, but a large population of live bacteria remains behind the front. Our results may contribute to understanding the efficacy of different antimicrobials for spatially structured microbial populations such as biofilms, as well as the dynamics of ecological population expansions more generally.
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- Patrick Sinclair
- School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
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Gralka M, Hallatschek O. Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions. eLife 2019; 8:e44359. [PMID: 30977724 PMCID: PMC6513619 DOI: 10.7554/elife.44359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2018] [Accepted: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The population genetics of most range expansions is thought to be shaped by the competition between Darwinian selection and random genetic drift at the range margins. Here, we show that the evolutionary dynamics during range expansions is highly sensitive to additional fluctuations induced by environmental heterogeneities. Tracking mutant clones with a tunable fitness effect in bacterial colonies grown on randomly patterned surfaces we found that environmental heterogeneity can dramatically reduce the efficacy of selection. Time-lapse microscopy and computer simulations suggest that this effect arises generically from a local 'pinning' of the expansion front, whereby stretches of the front are slowed down on a length scale that depends on the structure of the environmental heterogeneity. This pinning focuses the range expansion into a small number of 'lucky' individuals with access to expansion paths, altering the neutral evolutionary dynamics and increasing the importance of chance relative to selection.
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- Matti Gralka
- Department of PhysicsUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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- Department of PhysicsUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
- Department of Integrative BiologyUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeleyUnited States
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De Jong MG, Wood KB. Tuning Spatial Profiles of Selection Pressure to Modulate the Evolution of Drug Resistance. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:238102. [PMID: 29932692 PMCID: PMC6029889 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.238102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Spatial heterogeneity plays an important role in the evolution of drug resistance. While recent studies have indicated that spatial gradients of selection pressure can accelerate resistance evolution, much less is known about evolution in more complex spatial profiles. Here we use a stochastic toy model of drug resistance to investigate how different spatial profiles of selection pressure impact the time to fixation of a resistant allele. Using mean first passage time calculations, we show that spatial heterogeneity accelerates resistance evolution when the rate of spatial migration is sufficiently large relative to mutation but slows fixation for small migration rates. Interestingly, there exists an intermediate regime-characterized by comparable rates of migration and mutation-in which the rate of fixation can be either accelerated or decelerated depending on the spatial profile, even when spatially averaged selection pressure remains constant. Finally, we demonstrate that optimal tuning of the spatial profile can dramatically slow the spread and fixation of resistant subpopulations, even in the absence of a fitness cost for resistance. Our results may lay the groundwork for optimized, spatially resolved drug dosing strategies for mitigating the effects of drug resistance.
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- Maxwell G. De Jong
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
48109, USA
- Department of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan 48109, USA
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