Systematic approach for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in bacteria

Belliveau, N. M., Barnes, S. L., Ireland, W. T., Jones, D. L., Sweredoski, M. J., Moradian, A., Hess, S., Kinney, J. B., Phillips, R. (May 2018) Systematic approach for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115 (21). E4796-e4805. ISSN 0027-8424

Abstract

Gene regulation is one of the most ubiquitous processes in biology. However, while the catalog of bacterial genomes continues to expand rapidly, we remain ignorant about how almost all of the genes in these genomes are regulated. At present, characterizing the molecular mechanisms by which individual regulatory sequences operate requires focused efforts using low-throughput methods. Here, we take a first step toward multipromoter dissection and show how a combination of massively parallel reporter assays, mass spectrometry, and information-theoretic modeling can be used to dissect multiple bacterial promoters in a systematic way. We show this approach on both well-studied and previously uncharacterized promoters in the enteric bacterium Escherichia coli In all cases, we recover nucleotide-resolution models of promoter mechanism. For some promoters, including previously unannotated ones, the approach allowed us to further extract quantitative biophysical models describing input-output relationships. Given the generality of the approach presented here, it opens up the possibility of quantitatively dissecting the mechanisms of promoter function in E. coli and a wide range of other bacteria.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: DNA affinity chromatography gene regulation mass spectrometry massively parallel reporter assay quantitative models
Subjects: bioinformatics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA expression
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > transcription
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification
organism description > bacteria
organism description > bacteria > escherichia coli
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > green fluorescent protein
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > DNA expression > promoter
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Kinney lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: 22 May 2018
Date Deposited: 14 Jun 2018 20:49
Last Modified: 06 Feb 2024 21:04
PMCID: PMC6003448
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/36728

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