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ArticleNature communications2016

Rapid construction of a whole-genome transposon insertion collection for Shewanella oneidensis by Knockout Sudoku.

Michael Baym, Lev Shaket, Isao A Anzai, Oluwakemi Adesina, Buz Barstow

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Article in Nature communications, 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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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael BaymDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1303-5598
Lev ShaketDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Isao A AnzaiDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Oluwakemi AdesinaDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Buz BarstowDepartment of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2218-6152
Princeton University · USHarvard University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whole-genome knockout collections are invaluable for connecting gene sequence to function, yet traditionally, their construction has required an extraordinary technical effort. Here we report a method for the construction and purification of a curated whole-genome collection of single-gene transposon disruption mutants termed Knockout Sudoku. Using simple combinatorial pooling, a highly oversampled collection of mutants is condensed into a next-generation sequencing library in a single day, a 30- to 100-fold improvement over prior methods. The identities of the mutants in the collection are then solved by a probabilistic algorithm that uses internal self-consistency within the sequencing data set, followed by rapid algorithmically guided condensation to a minimal representative set of mutants, validation, and curation. Starting from a progenitor collection of 39,918 mutants, we compile a quality-controlled knockout collection of the electroactive microbe Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 containing representatives for 3,667 genes that is functionally validated by high-throughput kinetic measurements of quinone reduction.

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Mutagenesis, InsertionalAlgorithmsDNA Transposable ElementsGene LibraryGenes, BacterialGenome, BacterialHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingMutationShewanellaDNA Transposable Elements

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PMID27830751
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