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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2016

Candidate Essential Genes in Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 Identified by Genome-Wide TraDIS.

Yee-Chin Wong, Moataz Abd El Ghany, Raeece Naeem, Kok-Wei Lee, Yung-Chie Tan, Arnab Pain, Sheila Nathan

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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35 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Yee-Chin WongFaculty of Science and Technology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Malaysia.
Moataz Abd El GhanyChemical and Life Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwal, Saudi Arabia; The Westmead Institute for Medical Research and The Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, SydneyNSW, Australia.
Raeece NaeemChemical and Life Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Kok-Wei LeeCodon Genomics SB Selangor, Malaysia.
Yung-Chie TanCodon Genomics SB Selangor, Malaysia.
Arnab PainChemical and Life Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Sheila NathanFaculty of Science and Technology, School of Biosciences and Biotechnology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Bangi, Malaysia.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · SANational University of Malaysia · MYWestmead Institute for Medical Research · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Burkholderia cenocepacia infection often leads to fatal cepacia syndrome in cystic fibrosis patients. However, antibiotic therapy rarely results in complete eradication of the pathogen due to its intrinsic resistance to many clinically available antibiotics. Recent attention has turned to the identification of essential genes as the proteins encoded by these genes may serve as potential targets for development of novel antimicrobials. In this study, we utilized TraDIS (Transposon Directed Insertion-site Sequencing) as a genome-wide screening tool to facilitate the identification of B. cenocepacia genes essential for its growth and viability. A transposon mutant pool consisting of approximately 500,000 mutants was successfully constructed, with more than 400,000 unique transposon insertion sites identified by computational analysis of TraDIS datasets. The saturated library allowed for the identification of 383 genes that were predicted to be essential in B. cenocepacia. We extended the application of TraDIS to identify conditionally essential genes required for in vitro growth and revealed an additional repertoire of 439 genes to be crucial for B. cenocepacia growth under nutrient-depleted conditions. The library of B. cenocepacia mutants can subsequently be subjected to various biologically related conditions to facilitate the discovery of genes involved in niche adaptation as well as pathogenicity and virulence.

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Burkholderia cenocepaciaessential genesmutagenesisTraDIStransposon

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PMID27597847
PMCPMC4993015
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