A decade of advances in transposon-insertion sequencing

AK Cain, L Barquist, AL Goodman, IT Paulsen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
It has been 10 years since the introduction of modern transposon-insertion sequencing (TIS)
methods, which combine genome-wide transposon mutagenesis with high-throughput …

Activity-based annotation: the emergence of systems biochemistry

KY Rhee, RS Jansen, C Grundner - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Current tools to annotate protein function have failed to keep pace with the speed of DNA
sequencing and exponentially growing number of proteins of unknown function (PUFs). A …

Loss of YhcB results in dysregulation of coordinated peptidoglycan, LPS and phospholipid synthesis during Escherichia coli cell growth

ECA Goodall, GL Isom, JL Rooke, K Pullela… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The cell envelope is essential for viability in all domains of life. It retains enzymes and
substrates within a confined space while providing a protective barrier to the external …

High-throughput interaction screens illuminate the role of c-di-AMP in cyanobacterial nighttime survival

BE Rubin, TAN Huynh, DG Welkie, S Diamond… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The broadly conserved signaling nucleotide cyclic di-adenosine monophosphate (c-di-AMP)
is essential for viability in most bacteria where it has been studied. However …

Genome‐Wide CRISPRi Screening of Key Genes for Recombinant Protein Expression in Bacillus Subtilis

X Zhu, H Luo, X Yu, H Lv, L Su, K Zhang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Bacillus subtilis is an industrially important microorganism that is often used as a microbial
cell factory for the production of recombinant proteins due to its food safety, rapid growth …

When Dicty met Myco, a (not so) romantic story about one amoeba and its intracellular pathogen

E Cardenal-Munoz, C Barisch, LH Lefrancois… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, Dictyostelium discoideum has become an important model organism to
study the cell biology of professional phagocytes. This amoeba not only shares many …

Gene fitness of Azotobacter vinelandii under diazotrophic growth

CM Knutson, MN Pieper, BM Barney - Journal of bacteriology, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Azotobacter vinelandii is a nitrogen-fixing free-living soil microbe that has been studied for
decades in relation to biological nitrogen fixation (BNF). It is highly amenable to genetic …

Transposon sequencing: A powerful tool for the functional genomic study of food-borne pathogens

X Liu, G Liu, Y Wu, X Pang, Y Wu, J Niu, Q Chen… - Trends in Food Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Genome-wide functional genetic studies of food-borne pathogens could
provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underline their survival and …

A guide to Mycobacterium mutagenesis

K Borgers, K Vandewalle, N Festjens… - The FEBS …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The genus Mycobacterium includes several pathogens that cause severe disease in
humans, like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), the infectious agent causing tuberculosis …

Multiplexed strain phenoty** defines consequences of genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis for infection and vaccination outcomes

AF Carey, X Wang, N Cicchetti, CN Spaulding, Q Liu… - Msystems, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is growing evidence that genetic diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the
causative agent of tuberculosis, contributes to the outcomes of infection and public health …