The Environment-Dependent Regulatory Landscape of the E. coli Genome

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Autori principali: Röschinger, Tom, Lee, Heun Jin, Pan, Rosalind Wenshan, Solini, Grace, Faizi, Kian, Quan, Baiyi, Chou, Tsui Fen, Mani, Madhav, Quake, Stephen, Phillips, Rob
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author Röschinger, Tom
Lee, Heun Jin
Pan, Rosalind Wenshan
Solini, Grace
Faizi, Kian
Quan, Baiyi
Chou, Tsui Fen
Mani, Madhav
Quake, Stephen
Phillips, Rob
author_facet Röschinger, Tom
Lee, Heun Jin
Pan, Rosalind Wenshan
Solini, Grace
Faizi, Kian
Quan, Baiyi
Chou, Tsui Fen
Mani, Madhav
Quake, Stephen
Phillips, Rob
contents All cells respond to changes in both their internal milieu and the environment around them through the regulation of their genes. Despite decades of effort, there remain huge gaps in our knowledge of both the function of many genes (the so-called y-ome) and how they adapt to changing environments via regulation. Here we describe a joint experimental and theoretical dissection of the regulation of a broad array of over 100 biologically interesting genes in E. coli across 39 diverse environments, permitting us to discover the binding sites and transcription factors that mediate regulatory control. Using a combination of mutagenesis, massively parallel reporter assays, mass spectrometry and tools from information theory and statistical physics, we go from complete ignorance of a promoter's environment-dependent regulatory architecture to predictive models of its behavior. As a proof of principle of the biological insights to be gained from such a study, we chose a combination of genes from the y-ome, toxin-antitoxin pairs, and genes hypothesized to be part of regulatory modules; in all cases, we discovered a host of new insights into their underlying regulatory landscape and resulting biological function.
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spellingShingle The Environment-Dependent Regulatory Landscape of the E. coli Genome
Röschinger, Tom
Lee, Heun Jin
Pan, Rosalind Wenshan
Solini, Grace
Faizi, Kian
Quan, Baiyi
Chou, Tsui Fen
Mani, Madhav
Quake, Stephen
Phillips, Rob
Genomics
Molecular Networks
All cells respond to changes in both their internal milieu and the environment around them through the regulation of their genes. Despite decades of effort, there remain huge gaps in our knowledge of both the function of many genes (the so-called y-ome) and how they adapt to changing environments via regulation. Here we describe a joint experimental and theoretical dissection of the regulation of a broad array of over 100 biologically interesting genes in E. coli across 39 diverse environments, permitting us to discover the binding sites and transcription factors that mediate regulatory control. Using a combination of mutagenesis, massively parallel reporter assays, mass spectrometry and tools from information theory and statistical physics, we go from complete ignorance of a promoter's environment-dependent regulatory architecture to predictive models of its behavior. As a proof of principle of the biological insights to be gained from such a study, we chose a combination of genes from the y-ome, toxin-antitoxin pairs, and genes hypothesized to be part of regulatory modules; in all cases, we discovered a host of new insights into their underlying regulatory landscape and resulting biological function.
title The Environment-Dependent Regulatory Landscape of the E. coli Genome
topic Genomics
Molecular Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08764