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Isolates of the human pathogen  Mycobacterium tuberculosis  recovered from clinical samples exhibit genetic heterogeneity. Such variation may result from the stressful environment encountered by the pathogen inside the macrophage, which is the host cell tubercle bacilli parasitize. To study the evolution of the  M .  tuberculosis  genome during growth inside macrophages, we developed a model of intracellular culture in which bacteria were serially passaged in macrophage-like THP-1 cells for about 80 bacterial generations. Genome sequencing of single bacterial colonies isolated before and after the infection cycles revealed that  M .  tuberculosis  developed mutations at a rate of about 5.7 × 10 −9  / bp/ generation, consistent with mutation rates calculated during  in vivo  infection. Analysis of mutant growth in macrophages and in mice showed that the mutations identified after the cyclic infection conferred no advantage to the mutants relative to wild-type. Furthermore, activity testing of the recombinant protein harboring one of these mutations showed that the presence of the mutation did not affect the enzymatic activity. The serial infection protocol developed in this work to study  M .  tuberculosis  genome microevolution can be applied to exposure to stressors to determine their effect on genome remodeling during intra-macrophage growth.

Experimental Evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Human Macrophages Results in Low-Frequency Mutations Not Associated with Selective Advantage