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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

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

Nathan M Belliveau, Stephanie L Barnes, William T Ireland, Daniel L Jones, Michael J Sweredoski, Annie Moradian, Sonja Hess, Justin B Kinney, Rob Phillips

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69citing papers in PubMed
13.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Nathan M BelliveauDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-1536-1963
Stephanie L BarnesDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
William T IrelandDepartment of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Daniel L JonesDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden.
Michael J SweredoskiProteome Exploration Laboratory, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Annie MoradianProteome Exploration Laboratory, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Sonja HessProteome Exploration Laboratory, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Justin B KinneySimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724.
Rob PhillipsDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; phillips@pboc.caltech.edu.
California Institute of Technology · USCold Spring Harbor Laboratory · USUppsala University · SE

Funding

The Principles of Regulatory, Conformational and Evolutionary AdaptationR35GM118043 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ROB PHILLIPS · 2016 to 2026
$7.9M
NIH Director's Pioneer Award (RMI)DP1OD000217 · OD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI PHILLIPS, ROB · 2004 to 2008
$4.0M
Single-Molecule and Single-Cell Analysis of Transcription Factor-DNA ComplexesR01GM085286 · NIGMS · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI PHILLIPS, ROB · 2009 to 2015
$2.8M
Purchase of a Liquid Chromatograph-Orbitrap VELOS mass spectrometerS10RR029594 · NCRR · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI HESS, SONJA · 2011 to 2011
$600k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCRR NIH HHS S10 RR029594NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM085286NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118043NIH HHS DP1 OD000217
6 · The paper itself

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

Indexed as

Gene Expression Regulation, BacterialGenome, BacterialPromoter Regions, GeneticEscherichia coliEscherichia coli ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsTranscriptional ActivationEscherichia coli ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsDNA affinity chromatographygene regulationmassively parallel reporter assaymass spectrometryquantitative models

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PMID29728462
PMCPMC6003448
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