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ArticlemBio2018

Modernized Tools for Streamlined Genetic Manipulation and Comparative Study of Wild and Diverse Proteobacterial Lineages.

Travis J Wiles, Elena S Wall, Brandon H Schlomann, Edouard A Hay, Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Karen Guillemin

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Article in mBio, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Travis J WilesInstitute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA twiles@uoregon.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-5336-7565
Elena S WallInstitute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Brandon H SchlomannInstitute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Edouard A HayDepartment of Physics and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Raghuveer ParthasarathyInstitute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Karen GuilleminInstitute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Funding

Research Area IIIP50GM098911 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI PARTHASARATHY, RAGHUVEER · 2012 to 2016
$9.8M
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICST32GM007759 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI NOLEN, BRADLEY J · 1985 to 2021
$8.5M
Live Imaging CoreP01GM125576 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI BOHANNAN, BRENDAN, EISEN, JUDITH S · 2018 to 2022
$7.8M
A Zebrafish Model to Study the Role of the Microbiota in the Etiology of IntestinR01CA176579 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI GUILLEMIN, KAREN J · 2014 to 2018
$1.5M
Elucidation of Host and Bacterial Factors that Influence Resilience and RobustnesF32AI112094 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI WILES, TRAVIS J · 2014 to 2016
$164k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA176579NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI112094NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM125576NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM098911NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007759
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Correlating the presence of bacteria and the genes they carry with aspects of plant and animal biology is rapidly outpacing the functional characterization of naturally occurring symbioses. A major barrier to mechanistic studies is the lack of tools for the efficient genetic manipulation of wild and diverse bacterial isolates. To address the need for improved molecular tools, we used a collection of proteobacterial isolates native to the zebrafish intestinal microbiota as a testbed to construct a series of modernized vectors that expedite genetic knock-in and knockout procedures across lineages. The innovations that we introduce enhance the flexibility of conventional genetic techniques, making it easier to manipulate many different bacterial isolates with a single set of tools. We developed alternative strategies for domestication-free conjugation, designed plasmids with customizable features, and streamlined allelic exchange using visual markers of homologous recombination. We demonstrate the potential of these tools through a comparative study of bacterial behavior within the zebrafish intestine. Live imaging of fluorescently tagged isolates revealed a spectrum of distinct population structures that differ in their biogeography and dominant growth mode (i.e., planktonic versus aggregated). Most striking, we observed divergent genotype-phenotype relationships: several isolates that are predicted by genomic analysis and

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Genetic TechniquesGenome, BacterialMicrobiotaAnimalsGene Knock-In TechniquesGene Knockout TechniquesIntestinesPhenotypePlasmidsProteobacteriaSequence Analysis, DNASymbiosisZebrafishallelic exchangebacterial geneticsconjugationcounterselectiondomesticationgenetic manipulationmicrobiomemodular toolsproteobacteriasymbiosisTn7zebrafish

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PMID30301859
PMCPMC6178617

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