Antimicrobial resistance in the environment

H Waseem, MR Williams, RD Stedtfeld… - Water Environment …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes selected publications of 2016 with emphasis on occurrence and
treatment of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria in the aquatic environment and …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a quantitative understanding of antibiotic resistance evolution

M Lukačišinová, T Bollenbach - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Antibiotic resistance depends on general cell physiology and can vary even
among clonal cells.•New techniques enable investigating resistance evolution in temporal or …

CRISPR/Cas9 recombineering‐mediated deep mutational scanning of essential genes in Escherichia coli

A Choudhury, JA Fenster, RG Fankhauser… - Molecular Systems …, 2020 - embopress.org
Deep mutational scanning can provide significant insights into the function of essential
genes in bacteria. Here, we developed a high‐throughput method for mutating essential …

Chemogenomic model identifies synergistic drug combinations robust to the pathogen microenvironment

M Cokol, C Li, S Chandrasekaran - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotics need to be effective in diverse environments in vivo. However, the pathogen
microenvironment can have a significant impact on antibiotic potency. Further, antibiotics are …

Deep mutational scanning reveals the molecular determinants of RNA polymerase-mediated adaptation and tradeoffs

A Choudhury, B Gachet, Z Dixit, R Faure, RT Gill… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
RNA polymerase (RNAP) is emblematic of complex biological systems that control multiple
traits involving trade-offs such as growth versus maintenance. Laboratory evolution has …

Synthetic genome defenses against selfish DNA elements stabilize engineered bacteria against evolutionary failure

P Geng, SP Leonard, DM Mishler… - ACS Synthetic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Mobile genetic elements drive evolution by disrupting genes and rearranging genomes.
Eukaryotes have evolved epigenetic mechanisms, including DNA methylation and RNA …

Refactoring the genetic code for increased evolvability

G Pines, JD Winkler, A Pines, RT Gill - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The standard genetic code is robust to mutations during transcription and translation. Point
mutations are likely to be synonymous or to preserve the chemical properties of the original …

Improving the success and impact of the metabolic engineering design, build, test, learn cycle by addressing proteins of unknown function

LR Jarboe - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Incomplete protein annotation limits our ability to design and engineer
organisms.•Expression libraries, omics data and evolved strain data suggest interesting …

Integrating CRISPR-enabled trackable genome engineering and transcriptomic analysis of global regulators for antibiotic resistance selection and identification in …

C Chen, A Choudhury, S Zhang, AD Garst, X Song… - Msystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
It is important to expedite our understanding of antibiotic resistance to address the
increasing numbers of fatalities and environmental pollution due to the emergence of …

Insights on Osmotic Tolerance Mechanisms in Escherichia coli Gained from an rpoC Mutation

Y Guo, J Winkler, KC Kao - Bioengineering, 2017 - mdpi.com
An 84 bp in-frame duplication (K370_A396dup) within the rpoC subunit of RNA polymerase
was found in two independent mutants selected during an adaptive laboratory evolution …