Cost of Altered Translation Accuracy Shapes Adaptation to Antibiotics in E. coli.

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Protein synthesis, while central to cellular function, is error-prone. The resulting mistranslation is generally costly, but we do not know how these costs compare or interact with the costs imposed by external selection pressures such as antibiotics. We also do not know whether and how these costs are compensated during evolution. It is important to answer these questions, since mistranslation is ubiquitous and...

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